Posted on 06/05/2019 2:05:33 PM PDT by OddLane
Wendy’s has a commercial where a group of stereotypical Italian Americans crowd around an idealized white person and act crudely and threateningly towards him. They eat like slobs, eating spaghetti and meatballs, acting suspiciously of him, and generally make buffoons of themselves. They wear gold chains, have a darker complexion than the white man, and have very ethnic features such as black hair and big noses. Most obviously, the premise is that they are all mobsters and that the white man is there to defeat their evil. At the end of the commercial, two very non-Italian looking federal agents are shown.
This commercial was about a parmesan Caesar salad, by the way. The commercial took Italian food, culturally appropriated it, weaponized it, and attacked Italian Americans with it. The media is not covering this outrageous commercial. In fact, there is a civil rights group on Facebook that gets attacked, both by Italians and non-Italians, in very hateful language, just for pointing these kinds of issues out to the general public. Facebook, quick to ban right-wing haters, seems to be fine with the Italophobia...
(Excerpt) Read more at smerconish.com ...
lol Hi :)
You knew I’d have a lot to say on this thread! :)
I didn’t know there was such a thing as “Italaphobia”, like they use in the article.
It’s the STUPIDEST word I ever heard :)
Which since vanished ethnicity do you think spawned all the Italian Renaissance figures in art and science? They were Italians and still are.
Were there incursions into Sicily and Italy since the Roman Empire? Yeah but they assimilated, left or were expelled.
Italy never became German, French or Muslim. The Empire is historically remote but modern Italy essentially is organized around the Etruscan and then Roman settlements.
Just saying.
In all seriousness, we should be the only people who can be called Latin or Latino. Our Sephardic Jewish friends can claim “Ladino.”
THAT is the commercial? I’ve seen that one several times and I absolutely did not recognize it from the description.
I think it’s a little silly but not anything to get all bent out of shape over.
Let us all be considered "people of color" after all none of us is transparent.
ROFL!!
As a blue eyes Sicilian I had the 23 and Me DNA test....thankfully I am 88% Sicilian....10% Sardinia and 2% Hebrew...
Where do you work-a, Wop?
On the Washington Monument top.
What do you do-a, Wop?
I push. I'm up at the top.
Fed up with people being offended. Criticism my skin or heritage or religion or gener or whatever....honey badger don’t care.
I think we should change the national motto
In God We Trust to You Owe Me an Apology.
Fuggheddaboutit
dp0622
Thanks for remembering me :)
YES, I got a NUMBER of pings and left many comments.
I actually thought the commercial was funny and since I don’t really care much what others think of Italians, as none are paying my bills :), it didn’t bother me.
It would actually have ANNOYED me if they made the FBI agents Italian.
I dont need condescension or appeasement.
It’s a commercial.
I got real problems. As we all do!
Only those living on the government dime in their younger years have the time and energy for this nonsense.
because he had some gaul.
My wife did both 23 and Me and Ancestry.com and they are both on the same page. She has a lot more North African DNA than Poco Warren has native American DNA.
I think it should depend on how much body hair they have
Dux, Rex, Lux?
Maybe you mean at the beginning of a word?
That’s rare, but it does happen.
xiphias = “swordfish.” (in Pliny).
I was being a bit facetious, referring to the tendency of some to refer to folks (folx?) as Latinx (sic) instead of Latins, Latinos or Latinas. A bunch of minxes, if you ask me.
Which vanished ethnicity did I claim did not spawn the Italian Renaissance ? You don’t know your history, regards demographics, i.e. who lived where, did what etc.
You really need to get your history straight if you think that the Italy of the Roman Empire was/is the same as current history.
Forgot to mention the sweatsuits and loafers
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.