Just saw that Paddington Bear advert as of this thread, aside from him saying "fuck you little bear" I thought it was really good. What are people mad about this time, the burglar turning into Santa good will story?
Probably running on a Pentium 4
You do know that there actually were Emperors (and other important figures) of African descent in the Roman Empire? It was a remarkably diverse place, especially in its later years, and especially in the army.
Like, if people want to bitch at stupid shit like black Vikings, be my guest, but whining about that sort of thing just shows the ignorance of the person whining.
I bet advertisers tweak these commercials just enough so that they generate some internet buzz. All those social media comments are free publicity.
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"This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can."
-- Capt. Copeland
As a white male, I'm proud to share... I don't know... skin tone? private bits? With Garrett, he's pretty cool
I feel as though I am personally responsible for his actions (good and bad) because my skin is similarly prone to long-term exposure to sunlight, and I too pee while standing up.
Racism is just so profoundly dumb sometimes I can't figure out how to interact with it - do they get that they aren't responsible for the actions of other white people, let alone fictional people?
"Anti-SJW's" are in fact the biggest SJW's out there.
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What is there to argue? Was just laughing at your self-jerking to make yourself feel better. All your post said was "blah blah buzzwords are true blah blah I think I am right everytime I post blah blah."
Next time you want to make yourself feel better save yourself a post.
Ahh I see, well with that case it's a sort of "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation for the guys making these adverts.. Stuff like this goes over my head a lot though I have to admit, I would never have picked out that reasoning for the fuss as I was too focused on the story between the Burglar and the Bear to focus on the minor details.
Probably running on a Pentium 4
Those folks who were upset that white folks were in commercials, demanding more non white folks be in commercials, are totally not racists because there are plenty white folks. Got it. Well these folks not wanting non white folks are totally not racists as well then since there are currently plenty of non white folks in commercials. Just trying to be consistent with the logic here.
"It doesn't matter if you believe me or not but common sense doesn't really work here. You're mad, I'm mad. We're all MAD here."
I think it's more the feeling that because of how regularly it occurs in adverts where they likely placed emphasis on finding a mixed race couple (which makes sense for advertising, more people involved = more people maybe associate themselves with the individual and the related product), it seems forced to the point that it becomes disproportionate to reality. That brings the argument back to the whole 'quota's' thing in the workplace. It's quite the rabbit hole.
Fortunately I don't watch tv and have adblock so I can ignore posts about adverts without agreeing or disagreeing.