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
You forgot Catholic Priests and Evangelical preachers
Not to mention the fact that if the kids are staring at the screen, then their eyes would appear to be looking down since the camera is on top of the monitor. If they were looking at the camera (which they would have to in order for the image on the video to appear to be staring at you), then they would not be able to be looking at the opponent's eyes to see when he blinks.
Cute imagery for a commercial, but it wouldn't have worked.
That's because everything is political. Not what is best for the individual or the country.... Its about power.. plain and simple.
Don't forget Christian bashing. That's totally acceptable~
Oh, right! I remember now. I think they were just trying to be inclusive to all viewers. That actually confused me. I thought it would be the other way around. I always thought Francine looked more black.
The impoverished part would have to be stretching it. Garbage collectors aren't rich, but they don't make a bad salary.
In the early 90's, at some seminar or other my company used to love sending me to, I asked a twenty something black woman what 'diversity' meant.
She answered, "Getting rid of all those 50yr old white guys."
Dairy Queen has a commercial of a man with his legs spread,giving birth.
It's an emasulating portrayal of men.
I'm so fed up with the man-bashing and white-bashing in this nation.
emasculating (sp) oops
I saw this movie with Wesley Snipes and Sylvester Stallone set in the future. And Snipes was the bad guy.
Sometimes it goes way beyond that.
Like the Glad Storage Containers spot where the "stupid white man" has to have the wife (who is leaving on a business trip) leave the family's meals for the coming week in the 'fridge in color coded containers.
Some of the best times I've had as a dad is in the kitchen with my kids whipping up something fabulous.
Hey! Madison Avenue! Men Can Cook!
Good point about the "poor" garbage collectors. But they're not doing so well, financially, speaking, on the show. They're the only characters who live in an apartment, and when Francine needed a new bike, because she HAD TO BE THE FASTEST BECAUSE SHE HAD TO WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, the family simply could not afford it.
Uh, yeah. You're being oversensitive. Besides, everyone knows that Asians are renowned starers.
It would have been ok to beat an asian. They are not a preferred minority.
Yes.
Of course they let the Asian kid win.
We'll just have to content ourselves with being the folks who invented the technology to make it all possible.
Am I being too sensitive?
I will never forget the killer in the Tom Delay t-shirt on CSI. That was unspeakably over the line.
Its obvious that the major ad agencies that produce these spots have a blatant PC agenda.
This has been the norm since the '70's' when TV shows started using the white, evil, crooked, big businessman vs the black, smart, single, welfare mother who organizes the neighborhood and always wins scenario. We all know that black, welfare mothers are smarter than corporate CEOs that is why they are living in the 'hood'.
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