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Honest question
Feb 27, 2024, 10:31 PM
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Is it racist to be offended at every commercial depicting the US as about 60% black?
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Your Mom***
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Feb 27, 2024, 10:32 PM
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Re: Your Mom***
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Feb 27, 2024, 10:35 PM
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Go home dad. You're drunk.
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Try donating Dad***
Feb 27, 2024, 10:37 PM
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Maybe not racist, but it certainly raises questions about your list of things
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Feb 27, 2024, 10:43 PM
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over which to be concerned. Then again, maybe things are going so well for you that this is genuinely high up there. I don't know your life. But this seems like a fine marketing decision and I don't get why someone would be bothered by it, even if you thought it was not truly representative.
Personally, I don't mine seeing some fine ladies of the darker complexion from time to time.
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Maybe once in a while, just occasionally
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Feb 27, 2024, 10:45 PM
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The bumbling crooks in burglar alarm ads can be something other that 40-something white guys? Feels like a fair middle ground here in the name of reconciliation.
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Re: Maybe once in a while, just occasionally
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Feb 27, 2024, 10:51 PM
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1, then 1 again, then 2***
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The only thing that bothers me with those commercials...
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Feb 28, 2024, 3:00 PM
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Is they always leave a smashed family picture on the ground.
"Like, not only am I stealing their TV, but #### this happy family!" *SMASH!*
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Yes.***
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Feb 28, 2024, 9:43 AM
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I think the real question is
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Feb 28, 2024, 9:54 AM
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why TF are you watching commercials, let alone paying attention to them and getting worked up over them?
I suppose I could ask why you give a shid about what color the actors are, but I'd be more interested in the aforementioned questions first.
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Re: I think the real question is
Feb 28, 2024, 12:43 PM
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1) With the exception of college football, I haven't watched TV in over 6 years. But heck fire, every website out there has ads all over their pages.
2) I don't really give a shid about what color actors are, but if commercials depicted Asians as being a far greater percentage of the population than they actually are, I'd point that out as well.
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but y tho***
Feb 28, 2024, 12:46 PM
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Re: but y tho***
Feb 28, 2024, 12:52 PM
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Because I happen to notice intentional distortions of truth.
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You may be the first person in the world to ever derive some sort of
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Feb 28, 2024, 12:55 PM
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genuine representation of real life from a commercial.
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Re: You may be the first person in the world to ever derive some sort of
Feb 28, 2024, 12:57 PM
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That's the point. It's an intentional MISrepresentation.
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Only 60% of the U.S. is "white."
Feb 28, 2024, 1:02 PM
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It's not that far off even if it was an intentional misrepresentation, which again is a pretty stupid assertion when referencing a marketing tactic. You would only be correct if ad were supposed to be representative of reality. But, you may be shocked to realize ads are not documentaries. They are designed to generate sales, and the marketing team decided that showing a population that is 40% minorities more representations of themselves drives sales because of the 60% that are white, there is only a very slim minority who gets their buttchapped at seeing a fictionalized world that does not exist IRL.
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Which again raises the question of what is going so well in your world that
Feb 28, 2024, 1:03 PM
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this rises to the level of something that bothers you.
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Re: I think the real question is
Feb 28, 2024, 2:09 PM
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1. So why the crying?
2. Clearly you do give a shid and you worry way too much about this. Who gives a shid? Worry about important things in life.
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Honest answer
Feb 28, 2024, 2:08 PM
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I think if a commercial offends you for any reason, you need to grow up and be a man.
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Re: Honest answer
Feb 28, 2024, 2:44 PM
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You guys keep saying I'm 'worried' about this issue. I'm not, and never said I was. I simply asked if it would be considered racist to be a bit offended by the obvious misrepresentation. And the reason I asked is that I've heard numerous people mention that they've noticed this as well.
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Whether you call it "worried" or "offended" the point still stands.
Feb 28, 2024, 2:57 PM
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The point about why anyone would be a "bit offended," and the point about why anyone would consider the content of a commercial a "representation" or reality. Do you get a little bit offended when you crack a beer and you're not immediately transported to a boat getting blowies by blondes in bikinis?
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Or the opposite if it's a Bud Light?***
Feb 28, 2024, 2:59 PM
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I've had worse.***
Feb 28, 2024, 3:01 PM
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Re: Honest answer
Feb 28, 2024, 2:58 PM
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My answer stands. If you're saying it doesn't offend you, then fine. But taking time to make a post about it sure feels that way.
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