Why do my students send me emails like this? What have I ever said in the classroom that would make them think I'd appreciate this drivel? I'm glad to know those critical thinking skills are sinking in. If someone says "This is TRUE!" it must be so, right?
This is TRUE!
How Budweiser handled those who laughed at those who died on the 11th of September,
2001...
Thought you might like to know what happened in a little town north of Bakersfield , California. After you finish reading this, please forward this story on to others so that our nation and people around the world will know about those who laughed when they found out about the tragic events in New York , Pennsylvania , and the Pentagon.
On September 11th, A Budweiser employee was making a delivery to a convenience store in a California town named McFarland. He knew of the tragedy that had occurred in New York when he entered the business to find the two Arabs, who owned the business, whooping and hollering to show their approval
and support of this treacherous attack.
The Budweiser employee went to his truck, called his boss and told him of the very upsetting event! He didn't feel he could be in that store with those horrible people. His boss asked him, 'Do you think you could go in there long enough to pull every Budweiser product and item our beverage company sells there? We'll never deliver to them again.'
The employee walked in, proceeded to pull every single product his beverage company provided and left with an incredible grin on his face. He told them never to bother to call for a delivery again. Budweiser happens to be the beer of choice for that community. Just letting you know how Kern County handled this situation.
And Now The Rest Of The Story:
It seems that the Bud driver and the Pepsi man are neighbors. Bud called Pepsi and told him. Pepsi called his boss who told him to pull all Pepsi products as well!!! That would include Frito Lay, etc. Furthermore, word spread and all vendors followed suit! At last report, on June 26, 2009, Fareed Katib closed the store and filed bankruptcy!
Good old American Passive-Aggressive A$$ Whoopin!
Pass this along, America needs to know that we're all working together!
If you can read this, thank a teacher. If you are reading it in English…THANK A SOLDIER!!!
Hmm...like any company could actually get away with this without some major public backlash. Like EVERY company would be that dumb. Come on, students. Put on your thinking caps. Please?
PS: The true version of the story, which took all of 5 seconds on google to find. Come on, students -- that's YOUR kind of research. Use it. http://www.snopes.com/rumors/budweiser.asp
9.02.2009
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You don't teach your students to use the card catalog do you?
Did you respond to the student with that info?
I didn't have to, Urs. I received the email and did the Google search right before I left to teach a class, and by the time class was over someone else had responded with a "myth buster" email. It wasn't from Snopes, but either way, the student got served. :)
I used to get crap like this from one of my aunts. The first time, I replied to everyone on the list and politely told them the truth of the matter (including sources so they could also check it out for themselves). I also requested not to be sent forwards or anything resembling this type of nonsense and politely suggested that my aunt research hateful and sensationalist things she receives before sending it out as fact.
The second time she sent something similar, I was not so polite. Again I sent out the facts of the matter to everyone but this time I wasn't so nice about it.
That kind of fear/hate-mongering drives me nuts! Why would anyone mass forward something clearly inflamatory without checking out the facts first??! It seriously disturbed me, especially because my aunt is supposedly an educated person. How can you have a Master's degree but not have enough sense to research something that is making wild claims before you email it to the world? I let her know that it was completely uncalled for and that it really reflectly poorly on her as a supposed Christian. Hopefully that got the message through. At the very least, I'm thankfully not on her forwarding list anymore.
I'm with you Lauren - I get/got lots of the same & sent out facts in nice & not so nice form. Various relatives still do this so I set up a folder & everything they send goes to it. Every month or so I browse & delete all as it's the same hate filled nasty crap. Ridiculous! I can't stand these kind of 'Christians.' a real Christ follower would not act like this!
No True Scotsman.
"Imagine Hamish McDonald, a Scotsman, sitting down with his Glasgow Morning Herald and seeing an article about how the "Brighton Sex Maniac Strikes Again." Hamish is shocked and declares that "No Scotsman would do such a thing." The next day he sits down to read his Glasgow Morning Herald again and this time finds an article about an Aberdeen man whose brutal actions make the Brighton sex maniac seem almost gentlemanly. This fact shows that Hamish was wrong in his opinion but is he going to admit this? Not likely. This time he says, "No true Scotsman would do such a thing."
—Antony Flew, Thinking About Thinking (1975)
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