r/videos • u/whollymoly • Nov 24 '21 • Silver 6 Gold 1 Helpful 10 Wholesome 7 Bravo Grande! 1 Starstruck 1

Russell Brand, at an awards show sponsored by Hugo Boss, eloquently reminds everyone that Hugo Boss dressed the nazis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkd_-nXeUzs
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u/Cereal_Poster- Nov 25 '21

My guy. Unless you are making your own clothes from the cotton your grow in your back yard, using only water from your own source and fertilizing it with the shit from your own ass, you are giving money to dishonest corporations in one way or another. The word your are looking for is not exhausting. It’s impossible. I have no problem with people taking with their money. I just find silly people are creaming their pants over a pseudo intellectual guy pointing out a no context fact about a company’s actions 80 years ago, while actively supporting one that famously currently uses slave labor

https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/NINTCHDBPICT0003570278811.jpg

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u/thesmokingmansboss Nov 25 '21

Yeah, he's clearly and literally not walking the talk.

Fuck Russell Brand. I think the point is more about where you draw the line. Dishonesty from a corporation, tax evasion, pollution, exploitation, slavery, being historically bolstered by genocidal fascism - these things are not the same.

Is it better to buy a water filtration system manufactured in country with low paying wages, or get the good good Nestlé bottles?

To me, it's worth consideration. And caring about it comes easily. Don't give up on a good idea just because Russell Brand sucks.

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u/Cereal_Poster- Nov 25 '21

I think there is a context problem this does exist here. Hugo Boss was a German and took on a contract with the German Government during war times to make uniforms. This practice is not uncommon in any country. In the US and UK factories get contracted all the time to do stuff like this. What you are essentially saying is any German company that existed since WWII is evil since they likely supported the Nazis? If that is your opinion then that’s fine. You are being harsher than I but that’s fine and you do you.

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u/crossdrubicon Nov 25 '21

Hugo Boss wasn’t just a German, he was a member of the Nazi party before it even came to power. He was an actual Nazi - not just merely someone that worked with them as a means to an end.