Lando 
Posted on 11/13/2006 7:43:05 AM PST by Mobile Vulgus
How long do you think it will be that we must stay under the thumb of the kind of PCism that posits that all white people are evil, wrong, losers, stupid or otherwise weak and bad?
Apparently Cisco Systems hasn't seen the end of it and that is why, in their TV commercial for their new TelePresence video conferencing system, the white kid loses.
The commercial starts off with a white boy in an obviously American class room staring at the camera. Then cuts to an obvious foreign class room with a little Asian boy doing the same. As the commercial rolls all the children in their two respective classes gather around their intensely staring classmate to see what will happen.
Then the white boy blinks.
The white boy's classmates erupt in a raucous yell, while the classmates of the Asian child jump up in victory because their boy won the staring contest being made possible by the video conference system that can obviously span the globe.
Why is it that the white kid had to lose?
Because Cisco didn't want to be saddled with the claims of "racism" that would be leveled had they allowed the white boy to win, beating an Asian -- a minority, at least here in the USA/West. It didn't want to be picketed and protested for saying an American, white child could win the staring contest in their commercial. We should be sad that Cisco has to be so preventative and we should also mourn for a society that cannot bring itself to say its members could be winners, allowing instead that it be beaten by other cultures at every turn even if it just be in a commercial.
It's a sad thing that we cannot truly become a colorblind society.
Am I being too sensitive?
Perhaps.
I really don't even care which kid won the silly contest in the commercial. But, the problem here is that I spy political correctness. And THAT should be avoided like the plague. Let the Asian kid win, let the white kid win... I don't care. Just don't make the white kid lose just BECAUSE he’s white!
You be the judge: Cisco TV Commercial
If we really were concerned about offending Asians, then they would get minority set asides for college admission, or at least not be discriminated against in favor of other minorities with lower test scores.
If we really were concerned about offending Asians, then they would get minority set asides for college admission, or at least not be discriminated against in favor of other minorities with lower test scores.
Warner Huston needs to get a life, all this is saying is that people are all the same, kids enjoy the same things everywhere. We are human here, their human there.
The white kid lost because the Asian kids make better cars.
This only bothers me when it's a pattern with an advertiser. A while back Federal Express had a series of humorous commercials in which the white guy was the butt of every one. (In the most memorable a white guy walked in and said he wanted to send a package to fe-HO-nix because he was too dumb to know how to pronounce Phoenix. The politically correct others had to set him straight.)
One of these days the ad agencies will figure out that the improbability of the white guy being the stupid one so consistently is making these commercials annoying and the trend may settle down. But go away completely--no way.
You ought'a hear my “ignorant black guy” voice... when I get out of the hospital...
You are right about cartoons. I can name off of the top of my head about 5 or 10 shows that feature a nerdy smart black kid: Malcolm in the Middle, Danny Phantom, Lazytown, etc.
It's not just this commercial, it's all of them. In every situation where there is mixed race or mixed sex they white person of white guy is not as smart, not as good looking, not as cool, not as successful, makes the wrong decision, says the wrong thing, is always lesser than, Always.
Start paying attention to all the ads and tell me I'm not right.
Lando
Just the other day in a conversation with a liberal about liberals "outing" gay republicans. Since I wasn't getting anywhere I posed this question: "If I call Charlie Rangel an uncle tom or throw oreos at him, what does that make me?" Her response was the obvious "racist", and she would be right. I then pointed out that democrats had done exactly that to Michael Steele. Her response: "Oh, well he's a republican." To her it was the most natural thing in the world.
I don't like to overuse the word "nazi" but when it comes to dehumanizing conservatives, some on the left have gone a long way down that road.
It's not just that commercial, it's nearly any movie you see at the theater nowadays; the white people are criminals and the minorities are victimized--still flawed--but victimized. CEOs and business people are portrayed as corrupt and murderous. Some recent examples are Inside Man, Collateral Damage, Flight Plan and the list goes on. The only place you see minorities with a negative image is on Cops--and that's real-life.
I also dig the print ads I saw for the credit card/identity theft series. I think it was in National Review. 1. A respectable, elderly black man wearing a business suit stands next to a bunch of surfboards, I think, and the ad reads something like, "Yeah, we thought it was strange, too." See? White surfer steals black man's credit card. 2. Elderly, besuited, Asian woman stands next to a monster truck... You get the message. Here's the one I'm gonna write. Dorky white guy stands next to a crack pipe, a stack of Black Male magazines, and a welfare check.
You are 100% correct
The Ford company has been doing the male basing commercials for their new line too.
Mercury is dying out and they don't know why. They traded the Mercury marauder for the Maurano and in that commercial a woman drives teh girly white man and makes reference to her female boss.
We don't even go into the divorce dad ford commercial or the woman leaving his inlaws ford escape commercial.
There is also the UPS commercial references a X number of euro wire transfer.
The attack on white people is not just universal, it is INSTITUTIONAL.
Diversity is just code for sanctioned racism.
Turn off your f'ing TV.
These ads are annoying...so what? Turn off the television. My "white kids" are going to do well in life because there is an absolute minimum to TV watching. When they watch, it's NEVER regular programming. It's Andy Griffith, Little House on the Prairie, Columbo etc. Sounds corny, but between that and my wife being a stay at home mom, I could care less what TV thinks of my "white kids".
Guess I never read that much into Arthur. Always thought the Jewish girl looked a lot more black than The Brain. I just thought of them as a bunch of talking animals. Considering that Marc Brown is white I didn't think it meant anything. BTW, my oldest son says he wants to make a fairy tale restaurant like the one in the D.W. the Picky Eater episode.
Just one very small symptom of a larger reality - the left and jihadists want to eliminate all whites (because they are largely Christian or Jewish).
A small bruise on a body that has already been beaten to a pulp by PC-hate.
I never noticed either until, no joke, the brain celebrated Kwanzaa (Crackzaa) all the while talking about his heritage, and Francine (impoverished, Jewish, female, mega-athlete) went to her relative's bar mitzvah, or bat mitzvah.
Did anyone notice the latent racism in the latest batch of Star Wars movies?
There were at least two ethnic groups that took a drubbing, in my estimate.
Asians (orientals) and blacks (mainly the Caribbean variety).
I'll leave it to y'all to figure out what I'm referring to.
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