Chip Bergh Of Levi’s Weighs In On Guns And The Boy Scouts
BY Herschel Smith
5 years, 7 months ago
But when the Parkland shooting happened in 2018, killing 17 students and teachers, Levi’s decided to go further. Bergh published a letter about the country’s epidemic of gun violence and the company set up a $1 million fund to support organizations that are working to put in place “common sense regulations or laws that would prevent guns being in the hands of people who shouldn’t own a gun,” he says.
As a father, Bergh says the situation had recently hit even closer to home for him. “My daughter goes to school in San Francisco, and they practice lockdown drills more than they do earthquake drills,” he says. “That says something about our country.” Predictably, when the company announced its support for gun control, some customers complained. But the company had taken similarly controversial stands in the past and was willing to weather any short-term impact. In 1992, for example, when it pulled its sponsorship from the Boy Scouts in response to the organization’s ban on gay troop leaders, it got more than 100,000 letters in response, most saying that they would boycott the brand.
“The company did not waver,” Bergh says. “Now, with the benefit of hindsight, you can honestly say we were on the right side of the issue . . . I really believe that 20 years from now, we’re going to look back and say this company was again on the right side of an important issue.
Chip Bergh, born in Bronxville, N.Y., and who by the way also spent four years commissioned as an officer in the U.S. Army.
It’s important to realize just how many commissioned officers in the U.S. military do not believe in their oath, similar to Pete Buttigieg, both of whom favor draconian gun control.
The left will always seek out proper credentials for their heroes and leaders, and one box that frequently gets checked is time in the military. Never assume that time in the military means what you think it should mean.
On May 19, 2019 at 10:58 pm, Stacy0311 said:
On the right side of the issue with the Boy Scouts? If their goal was to destroy the Boy Scouts as an organization, then yes, they were on the “right” side.
On May 20, 2019 at 7:40 am, Longbow said:
I always suspect that a person who leans politically left, and claims Patriotic military service, was in the military ONLY to check the block and lend credibility to his resume/CV.
A political Leftist cannot and does not take his Oath seriously. That means he is a cad and a scoundrel.
On May 20, 2019 at 7:50 am, xmaddad1 said:
I do believe that any former military member who will not maintain their oath as sworn upon enlistment or politician as sworn upon gaining office has proven that they are unfit for duty in that arena and should be arrested and tried for treason.
On May 20, 2019 at 8:06 am, John said:
I think it was in the late 80’s that Levi’s jumped on the guns bad bandwagon.
I was and still am a Jeans guy but I never bought another item it sold.
On May 20, 2019 at 9:16 am, Fred said:
Levi’s was public, it went private but recently had an IPO on the NYSE going public again. They had to virtue signal the company’s submission to the new regime in order to secure the Banksters funding. That’s what this is about, money. Every recent IPO has made a ‘social’ statement of some kind. It’s now a check box on the road to ‘growth’ by debt. And every public company has some kind of ‘social’ blather statement as submission to the new regime.
On May 20, 2019 at 3:23 pm, Sanders said:
Some of the best men I’ve ever known, I met in the military.
Some of the biggest scumsucking dirtbag pieces of crap I’ve ever known, I met in the military.
If someone throws out “I was in the military” and expects me to take that as some kind of bonafides, they are assuming wrong.
On May 20, 2019 at 4:21 pm, Heywood said:
@Stacy. The destruction of the Boy Scouts was exactly their goal!
On May 20, 2019 at 7:03 pm, Jack said:
“Never assume that time in the military means what you think it should mean.“
AMEN, the USMIL is as infiltrated with “Progressives”(Silent Communists) as society outside there little click.