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TV Commercial - White Kids Can't Win!
Publius' Forum ^ | 11/13/06 | Warner Todd Huston

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


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cisco; pcism; tv; youtube
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To: Obadiah
" b) Smart kids who easily outwit the dimwit and slobby dad."

Davy Crockett used to outwit his drunken father who chased him around with a hickory stick. He also could neither read nor write yet he made it to congress. Maybe it's not the 'white' person but the downtrodden and uneducated that we strive to lift up in our imagery... thoughout our history.
81 posted on 11/13/2006 9:32:14 AM PST by CJ Wolf
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To: Mobile Vulgus
You're right. 20 years ago it wasn't quite so prevalent and you really would have to be over-sensitive to make a fuss about it, none the less it was there.

I used to e-mail the advertisers and complain. Every time I complained to the extra-liberal companies like TIA CREF or Progressive Insurance, my mailbox would be overflowing the next day with porn spam. Yet they stereotype again in assuming what sends us into apoplectic shock.

83 posted on 11/13/2006 9:51:32 AM PST by freepy smurf (Brought to you by The Frog Council - "Frog; The Other Green Meat")
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To: sportutegrl

Demolition Man? That was a comedy. And Snipes wasn't REALLY the bad guy, but the evil white patrician who released him was.


84 posted on 11/13/2006 10:16:06 AM PST by Disambiguator (;^))
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To: Mobile Vulgus

How about the ad where they dress some white guys up like neandrathals and they make fun of them? I think it is an insurance ad. I wonder what would happen if they dressed some plack people up as gorillas and made fun of them? That ad would never see the light of day. It is still politically correct to make fun of and laugh at the white male because it is the white males of these cowardly companies who are doing it.


85 posted on 11/13/2006 10:22:25 AM PST by Buffettfan (VIVA LA MIGRA! - LONG LIVE THE MINUTEMEN!)
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To: Mobile Vulgus

People on this forum take minor things like this WAYYYYYYY to damn seriously....


86 posted on 11/13/2006 10:23:39 AM PST by MikefromOhio (Fear the SWEATERVEST!!!!)
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To: MikefromOhio

People on this forum take minor things like this WAYYYYYYY to damn seriously....



Sit tight, I will deconstruct every piece of popular culture from the last fifty years to show the slow rise of multiple distasteful agends!

The Andy Griffin Show? Sure it looks like wholesome family entertainment. But why wasn't Aunt Bee married? And what was the story with Floyd the barber? Obviously, the homosexual agenda at work!

Little House on the Prairie? Ever notice that when the ratings lagged they blinded another child? The workings of powerfyl lobbyist groups for the retrictive Ameicans with Disabilities Act!

The conspiracy is vast -- we're through the looking glass here, people!


87 posted on 11/13/2006 10:30:26 AM PST by durasell (!)
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To: Northeastern_Realist

"How is at offensive that an advertiser wants their product to appeal to a wide range of people?"

I find the casting of the characters in such a calculating fashion to be condescending. I don't see it as the advertisers wanting to appeal to a wide range of people so much as wanting to have all the boxes checked. I'm sure many will differ with me, but I feel that they are trying to maniuplate our desire for "tolerance" with formulaic "visual diversity."

That's my beef.



88 posted on 11/13/2006 11:22:20 AM PST by mrs. a (It's a short life but a merry one...)
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To: longtermmemmory
For some reason the Mercury commercials don't bother me...


90 posted on 11/13/2006 11:44:00 AM PST by GATOR NAVY
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To: dfwgator
"...I think we have much bigger fish to fry than this..."

However this little vignette is indicative of a much larger problem; one that very well may hasten the death of our entire culture. We should address it now.

91 posted on 11/13/2006 12:21:19 PM PST by -=SoylentSquirrel=- (Heston is STILL my President.)
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To: albie
"...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..."

But then they will go out into a society seething with institutional disdain and hostility towards them and they will have no forewarning. I believe it is better to prepare our youth for the racism that is directed towards them (and to know who exactly is doing the hating). Ignorance of hatred does not make the hatred disappear, FRiend.

Also, I believe it is my duty to speak out whenever I see stuff like this in my daily life. It is how we will regain our culture and our country, by speaking out when you see this nonsense.

92 posted on 11/13/2006 12:32:55 PM PST by -=SoylentSquirrel=- (Heston is STILL my President.)
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To: Mobile Vulgus

My question is, how can the two classes be meeting at the same time? If it's school time in the U.S., it's the middle of the night in East Asia...


93 posted on 11/13/2006 12:34:48 PM PST by Junior (Losing faith in humanity one person at a time.)
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To: Psychotronic Weapon
"...White flight won't last forever...."

Where would we go? The deserts and badlands of North America?

94 posted on 11/13/2006 12:42:39 PM PST by -=SoylentSquirrel=- (Heston is STILL my President.)
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To: Psychotronic Weapon; durasell
This is very serious.

No it isn't.

Here's why:

Oh boy....I can't wait to read this "logic"

Whites will soon be a minority in this country.

Bound to happen sooner or later. Not much of a cause for concern except to those who ONLY see things in terms of race.

Consider the power visual messages and themes have on people. As non-whites become the dominating powers in this nation, they'll have grown up with a constant barrage of images, memes, themes, and rhetoric about how weak, lazy and evil white males are.

You mean the same images that were prevalent throughout the South until the mid-60s??

Now -- picture yourself, a white male or female in a neighborhood where you are a speck in a sea of brown. The majority of those people despise you, have a bad opinion of you and could care less about your rights or needs. That is the future for everyone who's of European heritage in this nation.

So if you are so afraid of change, leave now and beat the rush.

That is the future.

You? Overly-Dramatic? Nah no way!!!

Need proof? Look at present day CA, Detroit, and most of America's inner cities. Would you want your wife or daughter walking the streets there? Heck no!

That's right, EVERY inner-city is like Detroit. Except it isn't.

White flight won't last forever.

What the hell is that supposed to mean? LMAO.
95 posted on 11/13/2006 1:20:03 PM PST by MikefromOhio (Fear the SWEATERVEST!!!!)
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To: mrs. a
Take a look at most commercials/TV shows/videos that have a group of kids - many times it's four kids and the ethnicity breaks down into two white children (boy and girl), an Asian child, and a black child.

I've seen plenty with one white, one black, one Asian and one Hispanic child. I'm sure people look at that and say, "That's fair." But whites make up more than 1/4 of the population! So when a white child actor is up for a role, he has a lot more competition for the same amount of slots. I live in LA and have known people who tried to put their kids in show business. For the white kids, it's always a struggle to get roles, while the minority kids get snapped right up. A black woman I know brings her son to open casting calls and the casting agents fight each other over which one will get to represent him. He's not exceptionally cute or talented, not any more than the white kids I know who go on auditions.

Anyway, not the end of the world, but just one more area where things seem to be a lot easier for nonwhites.

96 posted on 11/13/2006 1:44:02 PM PST by Nea Wood (Is cheap, illegal labor worth one life?)
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To: L98Fiero

Yup. White kid is always the dork. The husband is always goofier than the wife. It's the whole PC wave. It used to bug me, but after Tuesday I've pretty much given up. Stick a fork in us; we're done.


97 posted on 11/13/2006 1:46:59 PM PST by MayflowerMadam
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To: dogbyte12
 The Haggar brand also had those same guys ripping a stereo out of a teenagers car. The kids were white of course. Middle aged white men ripping a stereo out of a black teens car wouldn't be on tv.

no, but one commercial that bucked the trend was the VW "unpimp your ride" series.

I've noticed the behavior being discussed on this thread for years. I once did an analysis of commercials in exactly the way it was described above, with winners/losers, and the demographics of each. The results were stunning.

If one of the characters was a white male, the chances of him beng the "winner" of any particular situation was vanishingly small, somewhere in the less than 3%, and was even lower if he were not "tied" to another character.

Commercials are a really distorted lens through which to look at the world.

98 posted on 11/13/2006 1:48:22 PM PST by zeugma (I reject your reality and substitute my own in its place. (http://www.zprc.org/))
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To: dfwgator

So what would they do if they had a black kid from Africa in his school uniform stare down a wanna be punk fatherless inner city african american youth with his underwear hanging out, gold chains and his ballcap on crooked?

Honestly who cares who did what in a commercial??


99 posted on 11/13/2006 1:52:20 PM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: Mobile Vulgus

You must hate those Red Stripe commercials.

Hooray dumb honkey!!


100 posted on 11/13/2006 1:53:17 PM PST by JZelle
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