Thread by @kegill

This chapel isn’t really “the geographic center” of the continental US, despite getting that label in 1918. It appears, as a @TripAdvisor review states, ‘conservative’.

kansastravel.org/geographicalce…

kcur.org/show/central-s…

To The ReUnited States of America was one of the most trite ads I’ve seen, @jeep. Ever.

I’m weary of rural America being singled out as the “real” America.

Just as I’m weary of news orgs sending reporters “to the middle” of the country for ‘anthropologic’ stories.

The ad starts with a weathered boot and moves on to a nondenominational chapel that seats eight and that superimposes a cross on a map of the country.

WE ARE NOT A ‘CHRISTIAN’ NATION. WE HAVE NO STATE RELIGION.

Kansas may be geographically “center” but it sure as hell isn’t ideologically centrist.

In 2019, Kansas prisons banned 7000 books and magazines, from self-help books to Margaret Attwood's "The Handmaid's Tale." Later they changed the policy.

kcur.org/government/201…

Bookending your ad with an image of a chapel in the middle of nowhere isn’t seeking reunification, @jeep.

It’s pandering to a minority of White America, to the myth of the independent cowboy who needs no community.

Stick to 2020’s humor.

Bruce is Catholic and reportedly saw this as ad a form of prayer. The Jeep, reportedly, is his.

chicagotribune.com/entertainment/…

I understand wanting to help bring the country together. Consider that it’s been torn apart based on lies. Yet this ad has as its foundation a statement that is false, something kindly framed as an inaccuracy. 🤦🏼‍♀️

This:

https://twitter.com/kristibledsoe1/status/1358616536198615043

And this:

https://twitter.com/itskennyatta/status/1358610451395973121

Missed this map error:

https://twitter.com/caylamcmullen/status/1358607908502667264