I guess KFC and Popeyes chicken better be wary the next time they feature a black actor in one of their ads.
God forbid the hell to pay should some supermarket promote their watermelon sale by encouraging a purchase to a customer who happens to be black.
Or allowing for an ad to be published where a white kid is resting her elbow atop the head of a black kid. Must be due to either straight up racism or “systemic (latent) racism”.
The latest self-inflicted faux outrage from the race-fixated conspiRacists occurred over the weekend:
Soap company Dove has apologized for a racially insensitive Facebook ad it said “missed the mark in representing women of color thoughtfully.”
The advertisement, apparently for some sort of soap but which has since been deleted, showed a black woman wearing a brown shirt removing her top to reveal a white woman in a lighter top. A third image shows the white woman removing her shirt to show a woman of apparently Asian descent.
Dove’s been in hot water before. Is the ad team that was oblivious to potential problems with the ad then, the same one as the ad that was recently produced? I don’t think it was due to racist attitudes; but how on earth did someone along the way- anyone!- not take pause and let the production know, “Um…..this might not be such a great idea.”
On a Facebook news page, this was my reply to one commenter:
Dawn wrote: “Is racism so ingrained in our culture, so systemic that we cannot actually recognize it when it appears before us?”
Actually, I think the concept of racism has become “so ingrained in our culture, so systemic” that people’s perceptions of what’s going on is absolutely colored into looking at the world through a racist lens. That is, seeing racism in everything. It’s the default knee-jerk response because we’ve been conditioned to look for it; to be hypersensitive to it.
Interpreted another way, maybe Dove’s mentality operated on a post-racial modus operandi whereas the rest of us are stuck and fixated and suspicious and skeptical of any hints of racism in anything and everything. Our reading of the ad (and the selective misrepesentation of it) says as much about us and the racism within ourselves as it does about those who created the ad.
Yes, someone in the production dept. should have caught this and said, “Hey! Society’s not ready to be colorblind yet. This is a bad idea; maybe put the white woman in first transitioning into a black female and people won’t even second-guess…”
I don’t know much about the company and I’ve read other comments claiming this isn’t the first time. Yet when I looked on YouTube in search of the FULL ad, I also stumbled upon Dove ads celebrating women who happened to be black and overweight, one that’s transgendered, etc. Makes me inclined to give Dove the benefit of the doubt. Critics are exercising their own brand of stereotyping in assuming everyone on the ad board must be white and privileged.
To which some subsequent commenter took offense and wrote:
Do you realize that calling the white person an actual woman but calling the black woman a female… indicates inferiority? Using the word female is akin to indicating she’s an animal. ( female dog) you need to research current racial culture. My friends and I just discussed this. This ad is indeed racist. Asian women also are often quite discriminated against in these ads. I’ve been in a Dove ad and it was a tough process. Since you aren’t a woman, you’re perception may be off about what we struggle with regard to beauty stereotypes.
Wow.
I wonder why she didn’t pick apart my usage of the word “black” instead of “African-American”. After all, the color black is linked to “darkness” and “evil”. The opposite of “light” and “goodness”. I should check my Asian-ass privilege at the door.
I think the Dove ad can be read another way: Not having the fear of presenting the black WOMAN (happy now?) first and the white female second shows confidence in the racial equality of all races. Too bad those with an inferiority complex still choose to infer racist motives, projecting their own perceptions upon reality.
And it’s too bad that Dove saw fit to apologize instead of defend and educate the brainwashed, racially-fixated conspiRacists.
A former fetus, the “wordsmith from nantucket” was born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1968. Adopted at birth, wordsmith grew up a military brat. He achieved his B.A. in English from the University of California, Los Angeles (graduating in the top 97% of his class), where he also competed rings for the UCLA mens gymnastics team. The events of 9/11 woke him from his political slumber and malaise. Currently a personal trainer and gymnastics coach.
The wordsmith has never been to Nantucket.
@kitt: Hat jeans What the hell are you talking about?.
Which bad foot kept your guy from serving in Viet Nam?–coward.
Semper Fi
4AM gets him off the 1st tee early
@rich wheeler: Answer why your panties are in a wad, you can be in the resist movement driven by the mind controlled if you want with the fashionable pussy hats, or antifa the upper middle class brainwashed out college kids in skinny pants. They might be able to use your expertise in military for their next attack on Pro America, or freedom of speech marches.
Golf no problem, inviting Anti-American or terrorist group leaders into the white house that he hasnt done yet.
The Vietnam thing I guess if I was wealthy I would have bought a doctors excuse for my kid too, Kennedy should have never sent advisors, but hindsight…
@kitt:
He’s not Hillary. He’s not Obama. That’s it. Liberals worship personality and celebrity. They don’t waste time worrying about their capability or leadership, they just want the “cool” choice.
@rich wheeler: While I mostly wanted Hillary blocked from turning the Supreme Court into a liberal rubber stamp, I have been very pleased with Trump’s accomplishments, something I see simply ENRAGES liberals… which also pleases me immensely.
The economy is booming and all it took for that is for him to just show up; when tax reform is enacted, it will explode. He got NATO off its ass and paying its fair share. He has restored US prestige abroad. He has begun the restoration of the VA, ignored for 8 years.
He is TRYING to turn Washington into a government for the people, not just self-serving politicians. He began the restoration of the judicial system to a government branch that judges, not legislates.
Pity you would prefer to have such a self-serving, lying, bitter, corrupt, vulgar, sexual-abuse enabling incompetent as Hillary in the office. I find that absolutely incomprehensible.
What happened to the sexual abuse charges against Trump? What happened to the Russia collusion charges against Trump? What happened to the election tampering charges against Trump? Why does the left have to keep trying to convict Trump of something they have made up rather than some real infraction? If he is as bad as you have convinced yourself he is, just wait until he does something actually criticizable; that’s how conservatives treated Obama… and we didn’t have to wait very long, either.
The left better start trying to correct the sever self-inflicted problems it suffers from if you ever want to win another election. The public no longer believes it when you call yourselves “moderates” and will not accept a socialist. Trying to win the race to the furthest left is not a winning strategy for your candidates.
@kitt: When Trump said the white supremacist march had many good people I’d heard enough.
Hats? You prefer cowardly KKK hoods? You a fan of burning torches?
White House invites—Russians who were given Israeli Intelligence–that was
brilliant
Skinny pants? You prefer overalls worn by potbellied farmers? What’s your point?
Today our liar in chief said Obama didn’t call families of fallen soldiers and Marines.
37% approval rating—I can’t believe it’s that high.
@rich wheeler: Go search for a nice deprogramming site. I use citronella tikis to try to drive away mosquitoes. Old women are destroying your Party, you may have become one. There was another protest same park with torches and your Skinny jeaned Antifa missed it, nothing bad happened. No police horses stabbed.
I havent met many pot bellied farmers most work all day and are on the buff side can you be any more brainwashed.
Enjoy your cosmopolitics, looking down your nose at those that feed you. SNOB
@kitt: Today Spurs coach Pop called Trump “a soulless coward,” Nailed it.
None so blind as those who will not see–you disappoint me Kitt. I thought You had Trump right from the beginning when he degraded lyin Ted’s wife and father.
THIRTY SEVEN PER CENT—You think 2/3 of the country needs “deprogramming?”
@rich wheeler: So I turned you into a mind controlled snob, I sworry. I just cant bad mouth someone who so far in office hasnt done a bad thing. I hate bullies in the MSM and hollywood twisting everything and lying. He has always been a Democrat, I dont trust him he is brand new at the conservative side. He believed as the voters did the policies run on were a slam dunk. I am disappointed that you cannot accept the Hillary loss, hell you didnt even vote for her. Trump is quite used to be called names and twitter allows death threats but will ban a conservative for speaking for the constitution. It isnt Trump that keeps the parties in the country divided its the media, but the democrat side sure has done things that make them seem hateful, violent and mentally ill.
Is this for kids or a gay nightclub, as a grandma I wouldnt leave a toddler there, innocence only lasts a little while.
@kitt: Steve Bannon and Sebastian Gorka—-hide the kids
@rich wheeler: No need for babies to see nasty politics. Colors, numbers ABCs, animal sounds, mother goose and grimms tales.
@rich wheeler:
As you probably know, that’s not what he said. But, what’s facts when you are playing the useful idiot to liberal puppet masters?
@Deplorable Me: STEVE AND SEBASTIAN Puppet Show—which one’s the dummy?
@rich wheeler:
That’s an easy one. It’s the butt-hurt one that whines and cries about everything conservative while excusing all liberal stupidity.
@Deplorable Me: Steve and Sebastian would say you’re referencing those RINOS McConnell and Ryan–SandS plan to primary all cowardly Repubs.—–except lyin Ted.
@rich wheeler: Would they. Would they really.