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The Trouble With Coke’s Gorgeous, Subversive Ad
Townhall.com ^ | February 10, 2014 | Shawn Mitchell

Posted on 02/10/2014 9:49:13 AM PST by Kaslin

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To: Psalm 73

Switch to root beer


21 posted on 02/10/2014 10:30:41 AM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: MichaelCorleone

I have no doubt that Coke has an agenda that is antithetical to US nationalism because they are a global company. I think the thing that causes the rub is our expectation that they ( and numerous other seemingly US companies) are still chiefly a US citizen. It is our world view that has been led askew. This ad simply highlights our misunderstanding of the CocaCola’s of the world.


22 posted on 02/10/2014 10:31:56 AM PST by Raycpa
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To: p. henry

I agree. I did not like more of this goopy, cloying, cutsie-pie multiKulturalism. What ever happened to Americanism? Too much “diverse” immigration is killing it. Of cousre we have many immigrants who really get what America is about.

But for 80% of immigrants America is just an economic zone where they can live better than at home. An economic zone without enforceable borders. Their attitude is >>How dare you enforce border entry and controls!!! This is racist!!


23 posted on 02/10/2014 10:36:25 AM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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To: Kaslin

72% of the United States is white.
were 72% of the actors white? no? then i guess they don’t want their business


24 posted on 02/10/2014 10:39:16 AM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Kaslin

I don’t have a problem with Coke posting an add using foreign languages as long as they do it in the home country of the language they are using.
That said, This is America. We speak American. Everyone in our ciuntry needs to learn American or go home


25 posted on 02/10/2014 10:43:50 AM PST by South Dakota (shut up and build a bakken pipe line)
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To: Kaslin
We don't drink soda. Our "pop" of choice is this stuff.
26 posted on 02/10/2014 10:54:24 AM PST by Disambiguator
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27 posted on 02/10/2014 11:06:17 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: Kaslin

This is just the 21st century version of the huggy-wuggy I’d “I’d Like to Teach the World to Sing” ads Coke did in the ‘60s.

The last touchy-feely ad they got right was the Mean Joe Greene ad in the 70s.


28 posted on 02/10/2014 11:11:14 AM PST by Dr. Sivana ("We are not sluts."--Sandra Fluke)
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To: Kaslin

I prefer Diet A&W root beer which is among the Dr. Pepper products. I also enjoy Diet Mug root beer but that is unfortunately a Pepsi product.


29 posted on 02/10/2014 11:18:26 AM PST by ConservativeStatement ("World Peace 1.20.09.")
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To: Kaslin

No more Coca Cola products in this house, ever! Instead of Coke and Sprite it will be the Dr. Pepper/Snapple Group’s (Plano, TX) RC Cola and 7-Up.


30 posted on 02/10/2014 12:44:50 PM PST by MacNaughton
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To: Kaslin
If Coca-Cola really wanted to sell ME their products, they might think about using semi clothed, female Russian athletes and "celebrating" that kind of diversity.

As soon as I see little rug rats on my TV, singing God knows what in their gibberish - I commpletely tune out.

31 posted on 02/10/2014 12:51:22 PM PST by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever.)
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To: Kaslin
The forces arguing for deeper, more divided cultural diversity are not typically flag-waving translators of America the Beautiful into native tongues . They’re not generally the people who revere and sing about pilgrims’ stern impassioned stress, thoroughfares of freedom, and America’s liberating strife.

Yes, but there *are* people who immigrate here -- or are elsewhere but dream of immigrating here -- because of the kind of liberty and opportunity that makes the USA special. People who really see this country as a beacon. And those are the people I deem to be depicted in the ad. It's true that the America-hating types (illegal alien welfare leeches, Sharia-law fans, etc.,) wouldn't be singing that song in any tongue... which is how we know it's not about them.

32 posted on 02/10/2014 1:01:32 PM PST by Sloth (Rather than a lesser Evil, I voted for Goode.)
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To: Kaslin

Coke pretending to fight for all languages when it surrenders America... how quaint.

Pedophiles pushing children as shields speaking once ghetto ebonic pride is now the rule.


33 posted on 02/10/2014 1:37:55 PM PST by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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To: AppyPappy
It’s......a.......commercial.

No.

It ....... ISN'T ..... a ....... commercial.

It's a very slickly produced piece of propaganda, and not just propaganda for the purpose of selling a physical product for money.

More to the point:

It's NEVER just entertainment, or just music, or just a movie, or just an ad.

The propagandists WANT you to dismiss their product as mere advertising or mere entertainment. They WANT you to unconsciously wallow in their ideas and ideology ... they WANT you to turn your mind off. Only then can they warp your mind.

34 posted on 02/10/2014 1:43:21 PM PST by NorthMountain
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To: Kaslin

Maybe Coke has a problem with the very exact translation of the Bible KJV.


35 posted on 02/10/2014 1:44:48 PM PST by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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To: Kaslin
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4NAM3rIBG5k&feature=kp

How the world sees us.

36 posted on 02/10/2014 1:45:17 PM PST by right way right (America has embraced the suck of Freedumb.)
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To: p. henry
"America the Beautiful" in a dozen different languages undermines American cultural unity.

"America the Beautiful" in a dozen different forms of noticeably accented English reinforces American cultural unity.

Coca-Cola deliberately, willfully, with malice aforethought spent millions of dollars to undermine American cultural unity under the guise of selling an American product to Americans.

37 posted on 02/10/2014 1:46:46 PM PST by NorthMountain
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To: NorthMountain

Indeed. This is pimping much like a ponzy scheme. There is much more to the Drink in this, but corporate stakes and investors are also attracted. Coke is a brand, the drink is only an icon.

Basically lobbyists in DC represent corporations and foreign nations. The State base has no respect.

Coke, like most corporations, will invoke everything but the Bible.

The American English’s beauty is of having integrated Cezh words like Dollar , Greek words like OK etc... like no other language nation has done before.

Coke has invented nothing and errs.


38 posted on 02/10/2014 1:50:43 PM PST by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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To: NorthMountain

I indeed smell some gay agenda in this... this commericial is deceitful and not coming out the closet.


39 posted on 02/10/2014 1:53:23 PM PST by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall not be infringed)
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To: TheConservator
Coke’s message was e pluribus pluribus, not e pluribus unum.

Well said.

40 posted on 02/10/2014 1:55:26 PM PST by sargon (I don't like the sound of these here Boncentration Bamps!)
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