This. Is. Sparta China!
And in Beijing, unlike ancient Greece or the bedroom walls of sexually confused frat boys, a giant crowd of scantily clad beefcakes is going to cause something of a commotion.
That’s what salad delivery company (just salads?!) Sweetie’s Salads was hoping for, anyway. They hired a big group of Western (read: white) models to descend upon a busy downtown area to promote the company’s one-year anniversary.
And things were going great. Photos were being snapped by the hundreds as the crowd of spectators grew larger.
So large, in fact, that Beijing police took notice and decided to shut the whole thing down. Imagine seeing a bunch of salad-slinging half-naked Spartans being forcibly subdued — it’s like a real-life SNL skit.
Actually you don’t need to imagine it, because some good samaritans documented the marketing fail (or success, however you want to look at it):
The group was cited for disturbing the public order and blocking traffic, the latter offense being the only one that seems to be of any use to the public good.
But the company, which was planning to repeat the stunt for two more days, respectfully bowed out, issuing this statement:
“We have learned how inexperienced we are as a start-up company when it comes to organizing offline activities.
We’ll strictly comply with the police orders, keeping our brand perception while maintaining public order and good social influence.”
We don’t blame them for wanting to stay on the good side of the Beijing Police, but it was fun while it lasted.
Captain Obvious
It would be interesting to know why they fault the need to sit on them. Also not all of the models are white.
martinbakman
‘It is the high time for the Chinese authorities to put these monkeys in the place they all belong: the Beijing zoo!’ People’s Daily Mail quoted local official Jayzou Tsmedz
Billy Budd
They knew they would find opposition. It was calculated. It was a success.
JaredNorthcutt30
Oh boo hoo. For once, white males didn’t get to exercise privilege. Lets start a petition for their imagined grievances.
Cagnazzo82
@martinbakman: This is actually a hilarious quote given the context.
Ladbrook
@JaredNorthcutt30: “imagined grievances” ???
Please, do tell us more.
JessPH
Looks like the police couldn’t wait to get their hands on them.
Our Bodies, Our Confidence: For gay men.
#abprivilege
Alistair Wiseman
@JaredNorthcutt30:
“For once, white males didn’t get to exercise privilege. Lets start a petition for their imagined grievances.”
Americans must resist the pernicious efforts of the left to divide us into racial and economic factions. Storylines such as white privilege are in themselves bigoted and prejudiced.
Saint Law
@Alistair Wiseman: Um, wealth is increasingly sucked upward enriching the already wealthy, while for the middle class wages are eroded in real terms and what was the working class collapses in to insurmountable poverty.
The first is cause of the second and the third, meaning that it is the way the present economic system is skewed to prioritize the wishes of the wealthy over the wants of the middle class and the needs of the working class that divides us in to distinct and opposing factions.
It’s racism – a, by definition, rightwing ideology that factionalizes us in to groups opposed on the basis of our racial difference.
White privilege is, by every measure: job opportunities, income, social mobility, homelessness, mental and physical health, rates of judicial prosecution, conviction and imprisonment, of deaths at the hands of the police and in their custody, an objective reality in America.
Everything you post is a lie and you are very, very, very stupid.