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TV commercials are making me uncomfortable in my easy chair
American Thinker ^ | 2 Jun, 2025 | Ned Cosby

Posted on 06/03/2025 5:14:20 AM PDT by MtnClimber

It’s baaaaaaccccckkkkk! What am I talking about? Woke Subliminal advertising keeps trying to socially engineer the land of the free and the home of the unsuspecting (brave). What is subliminal advertising?

According to Google’s AI, subliminal advertising is a technique where marketers use visual or auditory stimuli that are below the conscious threshold of perception to influence consumer behavior. It’s designed to subtly affect attitudes and desires without the consumer being aware they’re being manipulated.

In addition to being heavier than I should be at 71, I am too cheap to pay Amazon Prime to eliminate commercials. Their commercials are annoying, and I suspect they are trying to make me feel guilty for marrying a woman of my own race.

I love my wife, and I am glad I married her. As I watch their commercials, however, nearly all families in America are mixed race. When I look at my wife and then look at the wives on TV, a dissonance develops in my brain. Questions develop in my gray matter that ask: Why doesn’t my wife look like the wives on the commercials, or why doesn’t my family look like the commercial families?

Like most law-abiding citizens, I get bothered when someone suggests I did something wrong. Like most contrarians, I grow weary of the strict demands of peer pressure.

The wokesters out there are not going away. To be sure, they took a hit with the second election of Donald Trump in 2024, but they are fighting for their vision of what this country should be as much as we are fighting to Make America Great Again. They still have major pieces on this chessboard from sea to shining sea.

Fortunately for us, they still cling to their wildly unpopular woke ideas...

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To: telescope115

Install Brave browser. It blocks the ads.


21 posted on 06/03/2025 5:44:53 AM PDT by Justa (Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people....)
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To: V_TWIN

Ever notice in security company commercials if there is a burglar lurking around a house its always a White guy?....always


Yeah....what are the REAL odds of that?


22 posted on 06/03/2025 5:45:43 AM PDT by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: MtnClimber

Yup. That’s right. I was thinking: Dorks.


23 posted on 06/03/2025 5:45:46 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (The Bible speaks truth! Don't believe it, you do so at your own peril. You'd better be right!!)
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To: fruser1
If a business advertises exclusively with white people they can find themselves in federal court facing discrimination charges.

I don’t think that’s true. In fact, I believe professional modeling is one of the only occupations where racial and gender discrimination is allowed — because it’s perfectly acceptable for advertisers to tailor their ads to specific races and ethnic groups.

24 posted on 06/03/2025 5:46:14 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("The gallows wait for martyrs whose papers are in order.")
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To: Justa

I use Brave browser and still get ads on YT vids...what few I watch.


25 posted on 06/03/2025 5:46:22 AM PDT by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: MtnClimber

Easy solution: Turn off your TV. I did that nearly 25 years ago and never turned it back on. I haven’t missed it a bit.


26 posted on 06/03/2025 5:50:07 AM PDT by KevinB (I don’t really care, Margaret.)
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To: Alberta's Child
When I watch a game on ESPN+ with my alma mater (not a powerhouse sports school), the ads tend to be about investing and such. I think the idea is that a higher percentage of the few people who watch those games are people who attended college there. Plus, it's a metro area college -- a lot of us didn't live there and have a "college life". We worked full time while going to college and chose that school for real career advancement. Thus, the ads for those games tend to be for people who have money to spend, but with a tendency to spend it for our growth (invest).

I'm not saying those games have zero woke commercials hoping to build branding to a young generation with woke values (like Subaru did with gays in ads and now the millennials love Subarus). I'm just saying that marketing strategy still has a mentality of focusing on a target market.

27 posted on 06/03/2025 5:51:40 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Hatteras

“If one of them is diverse, wouldn’t that make both of them diverse?”

Nah. “Diversity” is a liberal code word meaning “not white”.
Really. That is all it means. It is 100% about skin color.


28 posted on 06/03/2025 5:54:36 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: Hatteras
Sitcoms, too.

It seems Jim Anderson (Father Knows Best) and Ward Cleaver (Leave It To Beaver) were the last of the common-sense father figures, and that was nearly 70 years ago.

Even Andy Taylor started out as a backwoods ignoramus before evolving into the show’s smart guy.

29 posted on 06/03/2025 5:55:44 AM PDT by daler
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To: MtnClimber

Questions develop in my gray matter that ask: Why doesn’t my wife look like the wives on the commercials, or why doesn’t my family look like the commercial families?


I escaped from a family of far left marxist-democrats so I have a very strong “B***S*** detector/deflector.”


30 posted on 06/03/2025 5:58:00 AM PDT by Cold_Red_Steel
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To: MtnClimber

Haven’t watched TV in decades. Don’t miss it at all.


31 posted on 06/03/2025 5:59:23 AM PDT by SaxxonWoods (The road is a dangerous place man, you can die out here...or worse. -Johnny Paycheck, 1980, Reno, NV)
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To: Tell It Right

I was watching Lawman last night, a circa 1962 western series and those bra commercials with the fat chicks were playing. I can’t fathom why they’d buy time on such a show. Who do they think is watching?


32 posted on 06/03/2025 6:00:48 AM PDT by TalBlack (Their god is government. Prepare for a religious war.)
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To: volare737

Commercials also portray black men as moronic idiots. Like the black guy who purposely drives into and smashes his own garage door because “you gotta do what you gotta do.”


33 posted on 06/03/2025 6:02:17 AM PDT by subterfuge (I'm a pure-blood!)
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To: MtnClimber

If I made commercials for TV I would have them reflect the local demographics. I WOULD BE FIRED.


34 posted on 06/03/2025 6:04:43 AM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, oilfield roughneck, drilling fluid tech, geologist, pilot, pharmacist ,MAGA)
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To: Drawsing

You see two white, Asian, Hispanic, black boys coming toward you you are probably only uncomfortable with one pair. The problem is data. You can’t ignore data.


35 posted on 06/03/2025 6:06:25 AM PDT by alternatives?
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To: MtnClimber

Designed to subtly affect attitudes and desires without the consumer being aware they’re being manipulated.

Like burn cars if your team loses someone gives a speech you din’t like or news atory that amps you up burn something.

Yep I’d say it’s working comrades.


36 posted on 06/03/2025 6:06:30 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: MtnClimber

Well, they switched from airing attractive women in commercials to fat woke girls reflecting demographic trends.


37 posted on 06/03/2025 6:07:48 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: MayflowerMadam
I pay the 2.99 each month to avoid the ads on Prime ... I don't like this "extra" fee, but if it keeps the ads away I'll pay the damn thing.

This tactic is real revenue generator and, without providing any additional value, companies pick up a ton of "free revenue" by charging hundreds of thousands of customers with these small "extra" fees. For example, last year Astound cable started charging a dollar for "the convenience of paying your bill online". That one I don't pay! I make them go to the "extra" expense of sending me a bill each month. Have to pay postage, of course, and a take an extra minute to fill out a check, but I take a small pleasure in Astound not getting my dollar.

38 posted on 06/03/2025 6:08:05 AM PDT by glennaro (2025: The year of America's rebirth as a Great (and Free) Republic)
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To: MtnClimber

Since they have no creativity on the left, evey White man in tv commercials will be a moron those loses board games to 10 year old little girls NEVER little boys- and his name will be Hal.


39 posted on 06/03/2025 6:10:37 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Freedom is never free. It must be won rewon and jealously guarded.)
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To: MtnClimber

Or gay or a loser. The black guy however is ALWAYS the attractive one in the crowd!! In all ways...

I took a chance and started watching Grey’s Anatomy on Netflix a while back. All the white guys were dorks and on episode 3, someone had a party and in the back ground of EVERY shot at the party white girls were all close and hanging non black guys... It’s like really!!?? Fong message enough!!??

I dumped it depressed because 20 seasons would have been a nice lengthy binge watch!!


40 posted on 06/03/2025 6:13:22 AM PDT by sit-rep (START DEMANDING INDICTMENTS NOW!!!!!)
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