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 hes white!
You be the judge: Cisco TV Commercial
Frankly,
That's fine by me, portray me as slow witted, dim and othewise a moron... you'll still make your rent check out to me every month... Who's the fool now?
One of the factors is purchasing. Women do the majority of purchasing in the household so the commercials are targeted to them.
I think I just lost a few brain cels reading this article and thread.
If you want to start an "action plan" to have white parents teach their kids how to stare without blinking for as long as possible, just so that they could beat some asian kid in a "no blinking" contest, feel free to do so. I'm sure the asian parents are doing just as productive, like making their kids do homework.
Demolition Man
The Haggar commercial was honestly the first commercial to make me laugh in ages...
That's why you better be doing things to change your family tree TODAY.... so your kids and grandkids will be the ones doing the hiring and firing.. not looking for jobs in the first place.
Well frankly I see that as more picking on traditional bankers more than white folks.... The purpose of the ad is we are not your old bank.. well nothing stirrs the mental picture of banker than the old Marry Poppins dad.. stodgey white guys....
Until the last one out slams the door shut and leaves the diverse - carpet bagging socialists to their own devices.
Example: Go to Grand Bahama Island and check out the local "museums". Portraits of white englishmen abound - they set up the system years ago but fled when the radicals burned down houses and took over the island.
It looks like a futurama where the whites set up a civilization and all that remains is the remnants of their efforts. Rampant unemployment of the black population is underscored by the ultra-modern port facilities and chemical processing plants in the industrial protected - fenced off zone.
Those who would employ the local population were sent packing - but the warlords after poverty set in were smart enough to court a few high paying chemical processing operations that are illegal by federal statute in the US to to provide enough bakshish to keep the cars and caviar flowing for the elites.
Jesus said that the poor will always be with us. The poor do well to get help from the not-so poor and suffer when they persecute the better off.
> Am I being too sensitive? <
In a word, YES.
Yes.
Frankly doesn't matter if the WAMU guys, white, purple, or got a tooth up his nose.
Its a commercial who give a damn what a bunch of mostly white guys, who are way too light in the loafers sitting on Madison Avenue put in their paid attempts to convince you your life is meaningless without whatever elixer they are selling?
They are meaningless in the grand scheme of any meaningful human beings life. Their job is to convince people their lives are crap, and only be better if they buy what they tell them to buy..... Who gives a damn what they think or say?
Certainly no one who's got a few brain cells that work.
Typical put down of education for black people. The nerdy black kid is nerdy because he's pursuing an education. To be cool, black kid's gotta be ghetto, yunnastan?
I notice this all of the time. However, my take on it has been that these companies are blackmailed into putting minorities on so they don't get sued.
They know white people won't complain about it so they make whites the butt of the jokes and minorities the star. Doesn't seem to work for TV shows though. However, it could explain the current fetish for reality TV.
Currently BrightHouse Networks, our local cable company, has commercials running with no whites on it. They must have really been bent over someone's knee.
Wow. Our only hope is for our children to marry someone who doesn't look European!
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