Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: Banned In Boston

Thursday, July 05, 2018

Banned In Boston

Used to be a badge of honor, if a book was banned in Boston you knew it was good. But now the LGBTQ community is facing being banned from Facebook.

See the P&G ad banned by Facebook for 'political' LGBT support and gay rights advocacy
Cincinnati Enquire
By Alexander Coolidge
July 2, 2018

Facebook halted a Procter & Gamble advertisement in support of gay rights, deeming it inadequately labeled as "political."

The social network stopped running the ad because it lacked a "paid for by" tag in violation of new rules aimed at misleading political ads, according to an Ad Age article.

P&G confirmed there was a disruption to their ad, which has yet to be reinstated. The ad was a promo for a mini-documentary, "The Words Matter: One Voice Can Make a Difference," that P&G produced with CNN.

P&G spends over $7 billion dollars on ads and they are not happy.

P&G, one of the world's largest advertiser that spends more than $7 billion marketing their brands of home and personal care brands, is not happy. The consumer giant is the titan behind Tide laundry detergent, Pampers diapers, Gillette razors and 60 consumer staples.

"It was a post in celebration of PRIDE and was not a political ad," P&G spokeswoman Tressie Rose said. "We are disappointed it was flagged as such and we're working with Facebook to understand how to navigate their new policy."

You know there is a difference between ads stirring up hate and ads demanding your human rights.

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Quotes

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

A right delayed is a right denied.Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.
Martin Luther King Jr.

No one is born hating another person… People must learn to hate and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Nelson Mandela

We can disagree and still love each other, unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist
James Baldwin

There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.
Newton Lee

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
Albert Einstein

"The point is that there are always obstacles, whether they seem insurmountable or merely bothersome. The question is not how difficult the path, but whether in your heart, you wish to undertake the journey."
Zandru's Forge

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

You've Got To Be Carefully Taught
You've got to be taught
To hate
And fear
You've got to be taught
From year
To year
Its got to
Be drummed in your dear little ear
You've got to
Be carefully
Taught
You've got to be taught
To be
Afraid
Of people
Who's eyes are oddly made
And people who's skin is a different shade

South Pacific
Songwriters: Oscar Hammerstein II / Richard Rogers

Thursday, July 05, 2018

Banned In Boston

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