lasta@piefed.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 days agoWhat’s the most tone-deaf advertisement or marketing campaign you’ve ever seen?message-squaremessage-square157linkfedilinkarrow-up1155arrow-down14file-text
arrow-up1151arrow-down1message-squareWhat’s the most tone-deaf advertisement or marketing campaign you’ve ever seen?lasta@piefed.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 14 days agomessage-square157linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareLumidaub@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down1·14 days agoThe Secret Service is a thing and nobody bats an eye, sooo…
minus-squareSailorFuzz@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·14 days agoRight… but the Secret Sevice was established in the mid 1800s… well before the abbreviation SS had other meanings. The Scouts decided to rebrand a year ago… SA has been in use for over a decade now. Hardly the same thing.
minus-squareLumidaub@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·14 days agoNot the same thing, true, but other organisations have been asked to rename and rebrand, no? I just sometimes wonder why that particular acronym is never questioned even in passing.
minus-squareFeathercrown@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·13 days agoProbably because nobody calls it the SS
minus-squareAnivia@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up2·12 days agoI’ve definitely seen that acronym used for the secret service
The Secret Service is a thing and nobody bats an eye, sooo…
Right…
but the Secret Sevice was established in the mid 1800s… well before the abbreviation SS had other meanings.
The Scouts decided to rebrand a year ago… SA has been in use for over a decade now.
Hardly the same thing.
Not the same thing, true, but other organisations have been asked to rename and rebrand, no? I just sometimes wonder why that particular acronym is never questioned even in passing.
Probably because nobody calls it the SS
I’ve definitely seen that acronym used for the secret service