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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: MtnClimber

Subliminal??

It’s more like them constantly ypounding you with a hammer. There’s nothing subtle about it!

I stopped watching TV completely!


81 posted on 06/03/2025 7:55:59 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they. control you. )
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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?

Stop being a liberal. Only liberals cry about "ma representation".

My family does not look any commercial family and that is ok because commercial family is fake and mine is real.

So I suggest you get out of your easy chair and do something real rather then investing so much time in things that are fiction.

You will feel better mentally and physically.

Oh, and stop being a liberal.

82 posted on 06/03/2025 7:57:52 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: volare737

The disgusting thing is, the people in charge of making these anti white commercials are mostly white!


83 posted on 06/03/2025 7:59:11 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they. control you. )
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To: PfromHoGro

Hilarious and appalling, thanks.


84 posted on 06/03/2025 8:00:49 AM PDT by Orosius
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To: MtnClimber

And the dad is always stupid.


85 posted on 06/03/2025 8:02:38 AM PDT by jagusafr ( )
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To: Night Hides Not

It only gets better and better as you go fwd. We are at 56, have 4 children, 10 grands and 4 great grands and we don’t travel much but we have hobbies at home we seldom eat out because it’s expensive, and we love our yard and our neighbors. Our neighbors include grandchildren and 2 great grands!


86 posted on 06/03/2025 8:07:19 AM PDT by grame (May you know more of the love of God Almighty this day!)
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To: MtnClimber
The power switch on my TV has been very effective in avoiding any kind of programming from TV. The TV serves as a big monitor for the Bluray player. I haven't watched TV since 1999 with the exception of TVs running in restaurants where I'm eating. Even those are ignored.
87 posted on 06/03/2025 8:26:04 AM PDT by Myrddin
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To: jagusafr
"And the dad is always stupid."

There is a hierarchy of intelligence on ads (and the media in general). From dumbest to smartest:

White male dads.
White males in general.
Dads in general.
Males in general.
Conservative women.
Unattractive women.
Women in general.
Blacks in general.
Black men.
Black women.
Children in general.
Little boys.
Little girls.
Black children in general.
Little black girls.

So clearly little black girls are the smartest of all people and should be running the country.

88 posted on 06/03/2025 8:40:09 AM PDT by fidelis (👈 Under no obligation to respond to rude, ignorant, abusive, bellicose, and obnoxious posts.)
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To: FroggyTheGremlim
"The commercials I hate are:
"1-877-Kars for Kids"

I looked up that charity since they never say what they do with the money. It's for funding education for Jewish youth.
I don't think "the kids in the band" are particularly representative of the charity.

89 posted on 06/03/2025 8:52:26 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: fidelis
So clearly little black girls are the smartest of all people and should be running the country.

Keep that message away from Jasmine Crockett!

90 posted on 06/03/2025 9:18:01 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: volare737

There is absolutely no way in the world commercials would ever show the reverse!

___________________________

Actually....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9HCpX_xSCA

I still can’t believe this commercial was ever made, much less aired. As a Super Bowl commercial no less.

Typical ABF* hits a pretty white girl and runs off.

*Angry Black Female


91 posted on 06/03/2025 9:18:31 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Nobody elected Elon Musk? Well nobody elected the Deep State either.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

As Charles Barkley would say, “That’s turrible!”


92 posted on 06/03/2025 9:23:12 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: MtnClimber
And the white man is always the dunce.

And also the burglar against whom you need a security system to protect you.

93 posted on 06/03/2025 9:32:41 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Think about it: The Supreme Court is nine lawyers appointed for life by politicians. —David Horowitz)
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To: dfwgator
But I know we cannot - and should not, be culturally blind.

Correct. Color blindness will get you killed if you walk into the wrong Chuck E Cheese.

94 posted on 06/03/2025 9:40:08 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: subterfuge
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.”

I haven't seen that one. But I did see one a couple of years ago with Gordon Ramsay, the Scottish verbally abusive master chef, posing as a food-sample guy in a big box store. The black boyfriend went to pick up a food sample with his fingers, and Ramsay shouted, "Use the cocktail stick!" (apparently what we call a toothpick). Then the white girlfriend yelled the same thing in the same derisive tone at the black boyfriend, who looked shame-faced.

I thought I was "seeing things."

95 posted on 06/03/2025 9:43:18 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Think about it: The Supreme Court is nine lawyers appointed for life by politicians. —David Horowitz)
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To: dfwgator
Britain has even fewer blacks, but their commercials and shows are even worse.

There is one critical difference. Their blacks speak English clearly and distinctly.

Really puts our racialist ebonics promoters to shame. There is no biological necessity for lazy faux southern or ghetto rap speech. Take note, Hillary, Obama, Kamala and AOC.

96 posted on 06/03/2025 9:51:42 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Think about it: The Supreme Court is nine lawyers appointed for life by politicians. —David Horowitz)
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To: aquila48
Subliminal?? It’s more like them constantly pounding you with a hammer. There’s nothing subtle about it!

I think the writer misunderstood the actual meaning of "subliminal." Originally, it was developed by using images or words on the screen that would only be flashed for part of a second, literally nearly invisible. And there was no scroll-back mechanism before the digital age. So it was a form of brainwashing.

The other technique in use from the beginning was "product placement." The ad or movie scene is about, say, motor oil, but the neighbor guys leaning over the car engine are both drinking Coke, paid for by the Coca-Cola company to the advertising agency for the motor oil.

97 posted on 06/03/2025 9:59:56 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Think about it: The Supreme Court is nine lawyers appointed for life by politicians. —David Horowitz)
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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

It is part of stripping the black folks of malice or racism. Which is why we have people who demand respect in whatever they do. Who trash a Burger King because they only got 2 mayo packets.

Imagine if the media extolled the likes of Thomas Sowell, Shelby Steele, John McWhorter and Clarence Thomas.

98 posted on 06/03/2025 10:00:02 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
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To: Hatteras

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

Oh, it appears we have a “thinker” in the group.


99 posted on 06/03/2025 10:01:33 AM PDT by AppyPappy (If Hitler were alive today and criticized Trump, would he still be Hitler?)
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To: aquila48
The disgusting thing is, the people in charge of making these anti white commercials are mostly white!

An earlier post complained about the racial mixing on Grey's Anatomy, but in that case, the show's multi-award-winning creator is a black woman, Shonda Rhimes. The fact that no one automatically thinks Grey's Anatomy is a "black show" is a credit to the production.

100 posted on 06/03/2025 10:03:04 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (Think about it: The Supreme Court is nine lawyers appointed for life by politicians. —David Horowitz)
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