{"id":6001,"date":"2010-05-01T12:44:20","date_gmt":"2010-05-01T19:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=6001"},"modified":"2010-05-01T12:46:28","modified_gmt":"2010-05-01T19:46:28","slug":"why-you-should-really-go-right-on-ahead-and-boycott-arizona-iced-tea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2010\/05\/01\/why-you-should-really-go-right-on-ahead-and-boycott-arizona-iced-tea\/","title":{"rendered":"Why you should really go right on ahead and boycott Arizona Iced Tea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I see the Arizona brand Iced Tea fracus hasn&#8217;t been hashed out with venom on wikipedia.\u00c2\u00a0 But it is summarized reasonably well <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arizona_Beverage_Company#Arizona_immigration_law\">thusly<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>After the passage of <\/em><em>Arizona SB1070<\/em><em>, a controversial anti-illegal immigration measure, many businesses associated with the state of <\/em><em>Arizona<\/em><em> faced protests and boycotts. A tongue-in-cheek post to Twitter calling Arizona Iced Tea &#8220;the drink of Fascists&#8221; fueled reports of a boycott of Arizona-brand beverages.<sup id=\"cite_ref-nationalpost_4-0\"><span>[<\/span>5<span>]<\/span><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-cbsnews_5-0\"><span>[<\/span>6<span>]<\/span><\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-vanityfair_6-0\"><span>[<\/span>7<span>]<\/span><\/sup> In reaction to this, the company posted to its <\/em><em>Twitter<\/em><em> account that &#8220;AriZona is and always has been a NY based company! (BORN IN BKLYN &#8217;92)&#8221;<sup id=\"cite_ref-protests_7-0\"><span>[<\/span>8<span>]<\/span><\/sup><\/em><\/p>\n<p>All right and fantastic!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not going to say anything particularly good about a &#8220;Boycott&#8221;, but I will say this against Arizona Tea.\u00c2\u00a0 You can&#8217;t get yourself off that easily, with a &#8220;BORN IN BKLYN&#8221; tweet.\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0(Hm?\u00c2\u00a0 <em>REPRESENT!!!!<\/em> ?)<br \/>\nYou named your tea &#8220;Arizona&#8221;, because somehow or other the association would aid sales.\u00c2\u00a0 Something about a Southwestern mileu\u00c2\u00a0rolling into an image of iced\u00c2\u00a0tea.\u00c2\u00a0 But now that that&#8217;s done, you are going to have to take the bad with the good.<\/p>\n<p>You didn&#8217;t name your tea &#8220;Brooklyn Tea&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Hell.\u00c2\u00a0 Yes, horrible law and all that, but don&#8217;t Boycott the state of Arizona<em> (incidentally, you know what Mexico does to undocumenteds who come in from south of its border?)<\/em> , but do BOYCOTT ARIZONA TEA!!!!!\u00c2\u00a0 And do so until they finally relent and change their name to &#8220;Brooklyn Tea&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see the Arizona brand Iced Tea fracus hasn&#8217;t been hashed out with venom on wikipedia.\u00c2\u00a0 But it is summarized reasonably well thusly: After the passage of Arizona SB1070, a controversial anti-illegal immigration measure, many businesses associated with the state of Arizona faced protests and boycotts. A tongue-in-cheek post to Twitter calling Arizona Iced Tea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6001"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6005,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6001\/revisions\/6005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}