I debated whether to post this in the New Orleans terror attack thread, but thought it wouldn't fit into the current discussion there that deals with the investigations and technicalities.

I'm glad I dropped these fucking assholes several years ago.

https://www.foxnews.com/sports...-after-terror-attack

By Jackson Thompson | Fox News
Published January 2, 2025 8:22pm EST

Allstate CEO Tom Wilson ignited a firestorm of backlash on social media Thursday with a video statement addressing Wednesday's terror attack in New Orleans that killed more than a dozen people.

Wilson's statement came ahead of the Sugar Bowl, of which Allstate is the official corporate sponsor, after the game was postponed to Thursday due to the attack. In the video, Wilson suggested Americans have an "addiction to divisiveness" and must "accept people's imperfections and differences."

"Our prayers went to victims and their families. We also need to be stronger together by overcoming an addiction to divisiveness and negativity. Join Allstate working in local communities all across America to amplify the positive, increase trust and accept people's imperfections and differences. Together we win," Wilson says in the video.

Wilson's words sparked outrage among social media users. The suspect has been identified as 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar. The FBI is working to determine Jabbar's "potential associations and affiliations with terrorist organizations," after an ISIS flag was found affixed to the truck.

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Other smaller social media users have expressed their own grievances and intent to end their insurance plans in response to Wilson.

"What was Allstate thinking with that statement[?] I have just canceled my policy and signed up with State Farm," one user wrote.

"That limp-wristed Allstate commercial about the terrorist attack is just what I needed to know that I won’t give them my business," another wrote.

And one user even called the commercial "The worst, most ill-conceived of the college football season."

Allstate provided a statement to Fox News Digital in response to the backlash.

"To be clear, Allstate CEO Tom Wilson unequivocally condemns this heinous act of terrorism and violence in all forms. We stand with the families of the victims, their loved ones and the community of New Orleans. The reference to overcoming divisiveness and negativity reflects a broader commitment to fostering trust and positivity in communities across the nation," the statement read.

Jabbar's younger brother told the New York Times that he and his Army veteran brother were raised Christian in Beaumont, Texas, before the now-deceased attacker converted to Islam as an adult.

"What he did does not represent Islam," the younger brother said. "This is more some type of radicalization, not religion."

Retired FBI agents Scott Duffey and Chris Swecker told Fox News Digital that Wednesday's attack could embolden ISIS, other terrorist groups or individuals who have been radicalized.

"This is a time where ISIS is under extreme stress and their existence is being threatened in Syria and elsewhere. It would make sense for them to double down on their message to radicalize Americans to put them into action and activate any cells that they have in place," Swecker said.

Days before the attack, a pro-ISIS outlet called on Muslims living in the U.S., Europe and Russia to conduct attacks on New Year’s Eve.

"Oh monotheists in Europe, America, Russia and other lands of the Crusaders, we know that you are eager to join your brothers in the land of Jihad, but the paths have been cut off for you," a translated version of the post read on Sunday. "The Crusaders are among you. Their security has been prolonged, and your brothers are being killed.

"The time has come to take out the swords from their sheaths and to hamstring the horses in their places that Allah loves and is pleased with," the post continued. "They are preparing for the feast of their polytheism, so turn their feast into mourning and their joy into a calamity."

The outlet asked Muslims, or "Crusaders," if they felt safe in their homes as their brothers and sisters were in detention centers and camps before calling on them to "repeat the attack on them and repeat the days of those who preceded you on this path."

The attack in New Orleans comes nearly two weeks after a suspected terror attack on a Christmas market in Germany.

Smarmy little prick, ain't he?

Honestly, I'm not sure what point he was trying to make. Ambiguous platitudes to me. Is he suggesting that the terrorist was treated negatively and hence the act? That if he was treated in more accepting manner this wouldn't have happened? Can't be that stupid, can he?

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Can't be that stupid, can he?

His thinking has been clouded by his need to seize upon this opportunity (apparently at random) for his leftist virtue-signalling bullshit.

Methinks this shan't turn out as His Lordship thought it might, when he was practicing his little speech in front of his bathroom mirror, clothed only in a bath towel around his waist.

This little prick should be more careful. At present, people are worshipping someone who capped one of His Lordship's colleagues.

Scary what comes out of the mouths of CEO's and people in "leadership" positions. Not a very good leader if you can't articulate a vision that people want to follow.

I agree... everyone overcome by an addiction to hatred of Americans need to stop.

Unfortunately his message is directed at the victims, not the aggressors. Trying to make the victims feel bad about being angry for being attacked.

Leftists always choose the wrong side. They often even go out of their way to do it, as evidenced by His Lordship's grandstanding bullshit.

Being preached to by the head of an insurance company. Talk about tone deaf, in more ways than one.

Calling this a "tragedy" is just incredibly stupid. This was a fucking attack and murder of US citizens for a political goal ie: terrorism.

I know big corporations have a Communications Director or PR group that parses every word that comes out of corporate including the CEO. It's not like the CEO does the work of figuring out what to say.

So, it's not like he's the only one who's responsible for what he said. What the fuck is a whole group of people thinking to let this out?

Have they not been paying attention to current events in America?

Couple possibilities here:

He came up with this idea and nobody beneath him had the balls to tell him what a bad idea this was.

or,

Somebody else came up with this idea and he is too stupid to recognize how bad of an idea this was.

Either way, heads should roll.

I took one look at him and thought "clueless liberal idiot".
I wonder how many claims Allstate has denied in the last 24 hours and if that has contributed to "negativity".

It seems like a divisive way of saying we should be united.

Here’s how to overcome “ divisiveness and negativity.”

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I bet that went over real well with the families of the dead from this POS. They are grieving, a horrendous act of violence and terror and you are going to lecture folks about divisiveness and negativity? I’d say Jabbar was negative, divisive, and a murderer. These CEO’s are out of their flipping minds. Yeah let’s push DEI when 15 people are dead. Nobody wants to hear that shit.

Can someone give that Mario kid a day pass?

Allstate, the it's out of our hands people.

Ole Wilson is out of touch with the people of America.
Don't have and never have had Allstate so nothing to cancel here but I bet the results aren’t going to be what Wilson thought there were going to be.

My goodness, that almost comes off as parody.. something they would do on SNL. This scholar does not transition from discussion of the terror attack to the pleas for an end to divisiveness. He's absolutely telling the country that the terrorist is just another member of the big pot of deplorables that need to lower the temperature. It's breathtakingly myopic and ironically negative!!!

I’m so tired of hearing that these guys who run over, shoot, and blow up innocent people don’t represent Islam. They do.

As for the CEO, well, I hope you lose millions for this.

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and must "accept people's imperfections and differences."

Reminds me of one dealership I worked at. Young guy was bounced from department to department creating chaos wherever he landed. During a heated session between my manager and I that took place in the aftermath of one of the episodes created by the kid I was told that I “had to make allowances because of the way he was raised.”

I won, kid got sent off to another department.