Posted on 11/27/2007 5:27:15 AM PST by rwbusa50
While I was a teenager and still enthralled with my own generation, the Boomers, I truly believed that we were heralding a new and better human nature. We were going to stamp out prejudice, discrimination, and every other foul practice in the hemisphere. No more bashing folks of color. No more negative stereotyping for females. No more blonde jokes, fat jokes, handicap jokes, divorce jokes, gay jokes or Polish jokes. Human nature be damned. We could all be nice to each other if we tried hard enough, if we just had enough determination.
Here we are forty years later, and it seems to me that all we've really accomplished is an exchange of all of our old prejudices for a new one. The demographic group that now gets it full on the chin at every turn, in every public sphere, is the lone, white male. Christians, especially the Catholic Church, are also an approved target, but that topic is for another article.
So we haven't gotten any better as human beings. We simply changed targets.
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(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
We've noticed a definite heirarchy in commercials too;
1. The 'loser' is always the white male if he is anywhere in the ad.
2.If the ad features only women, the ethnic females will be smarter than the white woman.
3. If the ad features only 'people of color' the black man is the 'loser.'
This is why I will never have a "WaMu" account - and I'm a woman!
You might think I'm crazy but I'm a mother of two sons and you know us mothers are really really smart(LOL) and very protective. This thing is real and it's making me sick.
It’s certainly not news; the thing that absolutely amazes me is the extent to which (and I am one) U.S. American white males put up with this and have rolled over completely on the issue. In fact I think the biggest effect the bashing has had is the almost total withdrawl of the white male from active participation in the “commons” as it were. We don’t talk about being targets in public; I don’t joke about it with my white male friends; we don’t talk about it with our sons, though when asked why he didn’t have a date for the prom one year my son replied that “white guys aren’t very popular these days.” Part of this withdrawl from the commons is part of the bowling alone syndrome. My white male friends go hunting and fishing together, but you won’t find them at the malls or the grocery stores. And when we do go out, say to a restaurnant we’ve simply gotten used to being conspicuosly ignored by female waitstaff who regularly fawn on our wives. If forced to deal with a governmental agency, knowing full well that the desk, booth or window will be staffed by a minority, I stand back and let my wife do the talking because I’ve come to expect that I’ll be treated rudely. I expect to be eyed with suspicion and hassled by airport security; I don’t say anything when one of the government’s chosen people steps in front of me in line and when my wife and I went to a Mexican food restaurant and they essentially refused us service, we just quietly left and struck that one off the list. I guess all in all, there’s nothing we can do about it and I’ve waited for a backlash, but none has come, nor do I think one is coming. Part of the reason for that may be that being a Boomer and since most of my friends are Boomers we are all 50+. It’s too late for us; I refer to us as “Deaders”. Our futures are in the rear view mirror, the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow is a pine box and at the end of the day, death doesn’t discriminate.
WaMu?........
She once told me, "White males need to pay for their persecution of women and minorties...White Men do not "Get It".
"We don't "Get It" because we already HAVE it. Deal with it".
That was the closest I ever came to comitting murder in the workplace in my life.
At this particular time, the Boston Globe reported in glowing terms how a female Digital VP "Fired all the Men".
There was never a followup in the News about what hapened as a consequence.
“So we haven’t gotten any better as human beings. We simply changed targets.”
Yep.
” Actually I told him he was wrong, its a prison thing. I explained to him that when you go to jail they take you belt and shoe laces away from you. I also explained that while you are in prison if you walk around like that it is a sign that you are looking for gay sex. “
LOL! I gotta remember that one.
Washignton Mutual. The company has a bunch of old white guys held captive by a black guy. A bunch of very racist commercials.
Washington Mutual. They have those horrible commercials where the smart young black man is ridiculing the stupid, venal white bankers.
Freaking idiots...(excuse my anger a moment) It was the white males in America that set their sites to end all prejudice across the planet and now all that have been set free are going to turn on them. Smart...real smart!
But who ever thought humans were entirely good?
There was a Hyundai commercial recently, with the most blatant negative white-mail bashing I’ve seen in a long time.
Commercial starts with a young strong looking Asian guy leading a Christmas carol.
Then into the scene enters a singing, young strong African American guy. Then a singing, young strong African American woman. Then more.
Finally, toward the end of the commercial, this anemic looking tired old white guy who looks like he’s almost dead, is included in the shot.
It actually was offensive.
Perhaps I can sue.
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This one from Free Credit Report.com I didn't see coming
http://youtube.com/watch?v=FspHU8hOxhY
When I saw it I knew it wouldn't be long before the PC police got it, but it's the only commerical in the last 10+ years I can remember where the woman looks bad.
I guess the same would be true for all the stupid sit-com men. Really only women watch these stupid shows. Men have more important things to do. This is all really just female ego stroking.
Notice during a football game, all the commercials are for diesel pickups and beer and business/investment firms.
A useful exercise (since commercials are fantasy anyway) is to imagine if the sex roles were completely reversed in a given male-bashing example.
Usually (well, always so far) you’ll find there would be no way such a commercial would be appreciated nor “tolerated”. Try it.
BS excuse...just like replacing the word Christmas with holiday and taking all signs of Christianity out of the public square has an excuse ..if you want to call it that. There is always a "good reason" for bigotry.
I haven’t seen that one. I don’t watch much commercial television since I got DirecTV. Or maybe that company isn’t advertised in my area. Sounds like the run-of-the-mill advertising though. Copycats can’t think of something new............
How much of that is arbitrary? Notice that “people of color” is de rigeur (or was, maybe it’s not anymore?) but “colored people” has lost its’ status? One of the astonishing features of the modern soviet, er, “political correctness” laden-society is the fact that the underlying intent of action or words has no meaning or bearing. This also holds largely true in the litigation/law arena.
We are being trained..not to get along, but to fear one another on the political plane. The reality on the ground is much much different.
What happens if the American experiment of Freedom for all actually works? Who would benefit by trying to undermine it?
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