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Posted on 4/15/18 at 7:16 am to bhtigerfan
I admit its pretty strange to see all of these mixed race couples on television, but I really don't care. It's pretty transparent as to what they're trying to push.
Posted on 4/15/18 at 7:16 am to NIH
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Wrong, they're just trying to appeal to the massive market of mixed racial couples!
Marketing is not always, in fact rarely for an established company, trying to appeal to the largest demographic. Many products and services have high customer retention rates (beer and cigarettes are the two highest) so once you have a customer you tend to keep them, customers tend to be loyal. Advertising often is targeting the fast-growing demographics. Mixed race individuals is a fast-growing demographic. 40 or so years ago only 1% of babies born in the US were multi-racial, now it is over 10%. One has to keep in mind that multi-racial spreads out through the generations so the projected growth rate is significant.
Posted on 4/15/18 at 7:28 am to TbirdSpur2010
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Hilarious that idiots like OP get mad at shite like this. Why in the blue frick would you take issue with increased depictions of racial harmony such as interracial couples?
So it's just harmony, that's the key issue?
How about commercials with Russians and Americans having a great time drinking beer - would that harmony be acceptable in today's world? Or do you think liberals would be shitting their pants declaring the commercial was some Republican mind frick?
You can't ignore the fact that some topics are contentious and prone to virtue signaling and lecturing.
Our biology and our evolution has programmed us to pick up on patterns, whether we like it or not. Walk down the street and tell me how many interracial couples you see - now watch commercials and tell me how many. You may not be able to precisely quantify, but you will see patterns and you will notice they don't match.
We notice the pattern of virtue signaling and lecturing. We notice the pattern in commercials - our minds put them together and the message is received. People complain - not because of the harmony, but because of the perceived lecturing. Humans don't like to be controlled and they don't like insinuations that they are criminal, racist, lack integrity, etc. This is inescapable. You can attack it as fallacious thinking and that has merit, and would compel us to dig into the motives behind the commercials, but attacking it as some sort of racial bias emerging is foolish.
Proof of this is that people complain about the commercials and generally don't remember what the commercial was for. The patterns, the context, and the inferred message take precedence.
If we didn't have the constant drumbeat of lecturing, there would be no negative reactions to these ads. You condition people to associate negative things with certain items, then put items in their faces - take a guess at the reaction you're going to get - negative.
Posted on 4/15/18 at 7:35 am to bhtigerfan
I don't really care. But I do notice.
I guess I find it amusing for a different reason.
People think white people are the only ones supposedly bothered by mix race couples but trust me on this one.
NO ONE gets more pissed about a mixed couple than black women do when it's successful black male/hot white female.
I guess I find it amusing for a different reason.
People think white people are the only ones supposedly bothered by mix race couples but trust me on this one.
NO ONE gets more pissed about a mixed couple than black women do when it's successful black male/hot white female.
Posted on 4/15/18 at 7:36 am to bhtigerfan
A friend and I both noticed the same thing. Getting worse over the last 60 days. It's just stupid. Over-reaching by pandering PC's.
For the record, my natural, unfiltered, reptilian reaction to bi-racial couples: there's just something wrong with it. Upsets the natural order of things.
For the record, my natural, unfiltered, reptilian reaction to bi-racial couples: there's just something wrong with it. Upsets the natural order of things.
This post was edited on 4/15/18 at 7:39 am
Posted on 4/15/18 at 7:38 am to Pelican fan99
I have a little bit of black in me (9th great grandmother was an African slave from the Congo) and it bothers me how commercials are presented today.
I guess I'm just an Uncle Tom to whoever downvoted me.
I guess I'm just an Uncle Tom to whoever downvoted me.
This post was edited on 4/15/18 at 8:19 am
Posted on 4/15/18 at 7:39 am to bhtigerfan
If it’s a public traded company the advertising has to feature multiple races if more than one person appears in the ad/commercial (with a few allowable exceptions). I did a project back in 2002-3003 with one of these companies and it was a rule then...this isn’t something new. Flip through a magazine and browse the ads, turn on any tv station..nothing new here.
Posted on 4/15/18 at 7:40 am to ShortyRob
I think it's funnier how if you went by TV these days, you would assume everyone has at least one pair of close friends who were a long term gay couple.
Posted on 4/15/18 at 7:41 am to GenesChin
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Companies which sell things want to appeal to everyone.
That can't be it, it makes too much sense.
Actually it makes no sense. No one is remembering the product being advertised. They are remembering the implied lecture.
These commercials are epic failures - they leave the consumer remembering something other than the product.
Posted on 4/15/18 at 7:44 am to TimeOutdoors
quote:You're missing the point, my dear liberal in denial. It's the frequency in question. There's an agenda in play.
Flip through a magazine and browse the ads, turn on any tv station..nothing new here.
This post was edited on 4/15/18 at 9:35 am
Posted on 4/15/18 at 7:47 am to bhtigerfan
Biracial couples/kids
Homosexuals/alternative lifestyles
Are being represented in media (commercials and programming) far above what they are as a percentage of the population.
This is for any number of reasons:
They buy shite too
Guilt about previous omission
Guilt about previous mistreatment (real, or perceived)
Self esteem building
Whether the above are valid or not, they do not explain why white men are almost universally portrayed as either incompetent or evil, or both.
It's the latter that lends support to the thought this is the result of some sort of nefarious plan.
Homosexuals/alternative lifestyles
Are being represented in media (commercials and programming) far above what they are as a percentage of the population.
This is for any number of reasons:
They buy shite too
Guilt about previous omission
Guilt about previous mistreatment (real, or perceived)
Self esteem building
Whether the above are valid or not, they do not explain why white men are almost universally portrayed as either incompetent or evil, or both.
It's the latter that lends support to the thought this is the result of some sort of nefarious plan.
Posted on 4/15/18 at 7:48 am to bhtigerfan
Responsible advertising, bh. Promoting unity.
Posted on 4/15/18 at 7:49 am to bhtigerfan
These commercials are serving nicely to wake everyone up to the social engineering that’s been going on. Hopefully it’s not too late.
Posted on 4/15/18 at 7:54 am to starsandstripes
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Actually it makes no sense. No one is remembering the product being advertised. They are remembering the implied lecture.
These commercials are epic failures - they leave the consumer remembering something other than the product.
If the people who feel lectured to don't remember the product then it is a net zero negative impact for the product. The people getting the basic warm fuzzy seeing people like themselves would produce a net positive. This would make ad men very happy but it just isn't the case.
BTW you may have missed it but I posed a question to you about how you would choose the racial makeup of commercials if you were a creative or would you simply avoid using people all together?
Posted on 4/15/18 at 7:56 am to uway
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These commercials are serving nicely to wake everyone up to the social engineering that’s been going on. Hopefully it’s not too late.
Assuming there is a grand plan to socially engineer us to beige outside of the negative of being manipulated what do you see as the concern that you hope it is not too late to avoid?
Posted on 4/15/18 at 7:59 am to Muleriderhog
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Who the frick cares? My God this is the dumbest thing to bitch about, also it's not true.
It is true, 50% may be low, and it does represent an agenda. It is interesting how and why the media chooses to misrepresent society in this manner.
Posted on 4/15/18 at 8:04 am to Muleriderhog
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Who the frick cares? My God this is the dumbest thing to bitch about, also it's not true.
I care - I have been noticing this trend for some time now - and it is nothing more than a concerted effort to marginalize white families and to make them seem 'odd' to the next generations who see nothing but 'happy mixed race families' while the only representation of a white male is the bumbling idiot who cannot cope with a water hose.
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also it's not true
If you deny there is a strong over representation of non-white couples in commercials you are being willingly mendacious.
How do you explain this dissonance with the real world if not a dedicated attempt to cater to a progressive agenda?
Is it a coincidence??
Posted on 4/15/18 at 8:06 am to bhtigerfan
It'll be OK.
The white girls will be happy to comply!
The white girls will be happy to comply!
Posted on 4/15/18 at 8:08 am to GenesChin
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The only difference is the racial makeup of the actors involved.
So - you are stating that there is no agenda behind this unassailable observation of TV ads showing a rare demographic as overwhelmingly 'normal?'
Are you really saying that is it just coincidence?
If not a coincidence it is the result of a plan - In your opinion, what is the objective of this plan?
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