Do you intentionally promote the enemy? [View All]

[porphyrian]

Of course, most people will answer "no" to this question. Yet, we seldom go more than a few days without some fascist pundit getting half of the first page of General Discussion's posts and dominating for another week. Now, I know most people who post here are smart enough to recognize that brand names and logos on clothing serve as a form of advertising for the clothing company (that the consumer pays for to provide for free), but there's a chance that some haven't realized that the same goes for posts here at DU, especially in General Discussion.

In advertising, there is no bad way to promote a brand as long as it bores itself into the minds of consumers. Thus, no matter how bad the things are you say about O'Hannicoulter or a mass media station, you are still promoting them by strengthening the memory of their brand in the minds of consumers. The only way to hurt one of these is to allow them to fade into obscurity by refusing to promote them or even acknowledge them (or, better yet, to promote a competing alternative).

So, with this in mind, do you intentionally promote those people and companies ("brands") which you oppose?