With the rise of the LGBTQ movement, most of the world has taken a “do you, boo boo” approach to dealing with “alternative lifestyles.” However, there are some businesses that are really trying to be seen as progressive and make themselves seem super inclusive.
One such company is Royal Dutch Airlines whose pride month publicity photo might not have hit quite the right note.
For the record, if I were a liberal I’d say that this was someone encouraging people to break the law. But since I’m a conservative I realize we’re just seeing stupid groomed, petted and put on display.
https://twitter.com/KLM/status/893754468268998656
Oooooookkkkkkkk. That seems exactly as counter intuitive as ascribing to any of the LGBTQ factions. Side note; if I’m ever on an airplane and I see that some people have beautifully colored seat belts and I don’t, I’m crying discrimination, pronto.
This ad did have some supporters.
https://twitter.com/StacyWeitzner/status/893970175162232832
However, by and large, people saw the irony right away.
Apparently you don't know how biology OR seat belts work.
— Rusty (@Rusty_Weiss) August 7, 2017
Apparently not.
https://twitter.com/tharpey/status/894674204091498496
Who knows Aaron, maybe if you claim some bizarre sexual orientation you can get out of all the rules.
Thanks for demonstrating again why LGBT is absurd:
— William “Christ is Risen” Metz 🦬🏵️ (@MetzUAC1530) August 7, 2017
Amen to that.
Lol #getagrip it's the biggest marketing fail. 2 of the 3 Choices literally do not work.
— Deplorable Chug ☎️ (@Maggie_the_Chug) August 8, 2017
You guys didn't think that one through, did you. pic.twitter.com/SpM356DkkA
— MacKenzie of Mandalor ☩ ⚓️ 🏴 (@KiltedAnglican) August 7, 2017
Nope, don’t think they did.
I love it when #VirtueSignalling advertising #propaganda backfires. Lol. Thanks @klm
— Deplorable Chug ☎️ (@Maggie_the_Chug) August 8, 2017
Liberals: always good for a laugh.
https://twitter.com/joshwaulk/status/894721301675470848
Such a great question Joshua, thanks for asking.
Now just imagine for a moment that you’re flying with KLM and you’ve buckled the “heterosexual way” (formerly known just as buckling) and everyone who is homosexual has decided to just bump their belts together instead of buckling. That might be fine until the plane hits turbulence or starts to go down (which, after all, is what we’re all preparing for).
Just imagine how frustrating it would be to keep yourself safe with all those gay people flying around everywhere. That seems kind of like we’d be paying for their choices by having to deal with the repercussions of their not buckling.
My personal favorate reply to the tweet.
"Fly Royal Dutch Airlines, where your only chance of surviving a crash is buckling up the heterosexual way." #TLP https://t.co/g6eJbe0SlT
— Rick Cantón (@RickCanton) August 8, 2017
And last but not least; how all of us feel reading ads like this.
Except 2 of the 3 don't "click" pic.twitter.com/W28njJAgGj
— mikeray.algo (@michaelray82) August 7, 2017
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