TIKI Brand responds to it's product placement...

[brooklynite]

[madaboutharry]

1. It is always a pity when a business gets caught up in this kind of thing.

I hope people support their business.

[JI7]

2. Good for them for speaking out

[Coventina]

3. I can't see the image.

[drmeow]

5. Probably an ad blocker

or flash related. I usually have to load these in another browser which will I don't lock down as tightly.

[PatSeg]

14. The same thing happens to me.

[diva77]

17. I use Firefox and usually all I see is a box with a couple of sawtooth shapes within. If you right

click on that box, a menu pops up to "view image" -- just choose that. If I'm not using a mouse, command-click works for me as well. ...hope this works for you!

[Coventina]

18. Thanks!! That worked!!!

[diva77]

21. yay! glad to be of help

[Catmusicfan]

4. I mentioned how this product

Has been stained by haters actions Friday night. Glad they came out with the statement.

[icymist]

6. I wish Dodge would do the same, but after this incident they are advertising like crazy on Twitter.

Mostly about how powerful their cars and trucks are. Hell, the very day some guys murders in a Dodge the company starts a series of "road kill nights" adds:

Link to tweet

[brooklynite]

7. That time stamp was hours before anything happened in Charlottesville

[icymist]

9. Yet they are still playing them.

[flibbitygiblets]

22. Exactly. How about pulling the ads because it's the right thing to do?

BTW is there any more of an iconic racist nazi car than a dodge challenger? Made today I mean. Every time I see one I think "compensating for something".

[Initech]

8. Tiki Company - 1. Neo Nazis - 0.

[Gothmog]

10. Good

[Blue_true]

11. The company had nothing to do with clowns using it's product for evil. nt

[Blue Idaho]

12. TiKi Brand Products

Just showed more class, honor and patriotism than the president.

Sad.

[UTUSN]

13. I wish I could Rec this post.

[Blue Idaho]

16. I wish you didn't have to...

This whole mess is on Trump. He has blood on his hands.

[DemoTex]

15. Nor did any of the 60++% in the country think you were associated with those deplorables, TIKI.

The Charlottesville neo-Nazi's - nay, nazi's (no more capitals for that word) - thought torches & pitchforks. At least, some of their beta-minus leaders did. They reinacted a scene of terror from the old south (again, no caps). In the old south, torches often lead to cross burnings, home burnings, barn, crop, and cattle burnings, church burnings, and the burnings of blacks and white black-sympathizers.
Torches can be horrible. Thus Vachel Lindsey's use of "Torch-eyed and horrible,
Foam-flanked and terrible," in his racist poem, The Congo. Boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, BOOM!
So, Tiki got associated with Trump's Hitler Youth. More of a bad joke on the Trumpisters, than a product liability for Tiki.
Maybe, instead of "torches and pitchforks," we could see "Tiki Torches and Weedeaters." Or "Tike Torches and Rolling Weber Grills."
Mockery makes fascists nuts. Try it. You will like it. They will HATE it, because they cannot take it. That is because they understand nothing rational.

[SHRED]

19. Merica

[flibbitygiblets]

20. Maybe Tiki could take one step further and put a disclaimer on their products

"We do not endorse the use of our products at any type of protest or march, particularly those affiliated with hate speech"

Or maybe they could just print pro-tolerance slogans right on the products themselves, like "Coexist".

Shit, even Tic-Tacs had to come out with a statement against Trump. SAD.