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Post by Drillbit Taylor on Jan 7, 2010 13:32:39 GMT -5
Oh and I love how their rebuttal video, has a fat guy using Aussie stereotype terms like Shrimp on the barbie
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Jan 7, 2010 14:00:58 GMT -5
I looked at it and saw a fan from one team...sitting amongst the fans of the opposing team, and feeling embarrassed as his team seems to be getting demolished. Exasperated, he starts offering his bucket o' chicken to the fans around him. I think this is the idea of the ad. What made it racist? Because the fans were black? The team is from a predominantly black country.Because the black fans were loud and rowdy? They were watching a sports game.Because the black fans ate fried chicken? The ad is for fried chicken, they want to get across the fact that people like their product!I'm all for calling out racism in the media, but this isn't racism. Either there's some sort of "lost in translation" thing going on, or these presenters are missing the point of the ad and digging too deep for controversy. I've seen this show before on youtube with a different male presenter who actually brings up good points (usually) and at least argues his side with valid points (I think these two kind of bypass what they see and try to make something out of nothing). Usually the male presenter brings up good points that the woman agrees with; here with her in the drivers seat things don't end up very good. That other male presenter is the actual host of the show. The chick is just a co-host. So this segment came from an episode where it was just two co-hosts. Thus, why the glowing ignorance.
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Post by The Line on Jan 7, 2010 15:45:11 GMT -5
If the commercial went something like this "Hey, everybody want to eat this chicken with me? I didn't pay for it, because I don't have a job, because who wants to hire an ex-con? Oh, and hurry up, I have to go make love to my overweight white girlfriend", then it would be racist.
Its gotten almost to the pint where it's racist on the complete other end of the spectrum, where now black actors can't appear in commercials like this without others screaming out racism. I guess we should whitewash all chicken commercials. No blacks allowed*.
*Before anyone tries to take this out of context, or just accidentally misunderstands me, I am not actually suggesting "white washing" television commercials. I was making a point about how its only the people who make the big deals about racism that seem to care about people's skin color.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 7, 2010 17:31:47 GMT -5
Eh I knew after 5 seconds of listening to that chick that she was gonna be some pretentious know-it-all
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Post by Drillbit Taylor on Jan 7, 2010 17:37:28 GMT -5
Eh I knew after 5 seconds of listening to that chick that she was gonna be some pretentious know-it-all Who calls the West Indie fans African American.
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Post by DamnYankee on Jan 7, 2010 17:50:44 GMT -5
Not racist. Just appetite inducing.
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Post by waratah on Jan 7, 2010 18:12:27 GMT -5
being an australian i find this to be the funniest most ignorant piece of crap in a while. the ad is an ad in a series that has been running for about three or four years, it features the fans of whatever team is playing in australia that year, a couple of years ago an english fielder was distracted by the offer of chips (fries) is that a stereotype?
'the young turks' whoever they are need a serious kick up the backside. the fans as pointed out are west indian fans, they play drums and dance at games, as an australian fan, i make noise and start chants as well, often people around me get upset by the noise the group im with makes and asks us to be quiet, the guy in the ad has brought a ticket in the wrong section and feels uncomfortable as he is seated amoungst the west indies cheersquad.
to call those people 'african american' and then to play the korean ad and again call them 'african amercian' shows just why america (like australia witht eh aboriginies) struggle with racial identity. the ad was made by australians (not kfc america, but kfc australia) for australians about a sport being played in australia to promote an australian product (even though the original kfc was american) its not made for your market. thats why its not racist, it has no african americans in it!
for two people to sit at a panel and say things about another country they really need to do research, if i dig up shitty comercials that show asians and australians in stereotype (and there is plenty) can i play them in my country and then have a cry about them.
lastly, the first video, to the white chick and black guy, the fans at the game were playing drums and dancing, they were enjoying themselves and you both called them uncivilised, if thats not racist, im not sure what is.
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Post by KStrick on Jan 7, 2010 18:26:09 GMT -5
Eh I knew after 5 seconds of listening to that chick that she was gonna be some pretentious know-it-all Who calls the West Indie fans African American. Well, The Young Turks IS supposed to be the "young left" movement. So... yeah.. this thread is kinda skimming in politics. That's all I will say, or else fear the ban-hammer... Not racist. Just appetite inducing. That, and the ESPN commercial for the new spicy grilled chicken makes me want spicy grilled chicken...
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Post by thatguybayne on Jan 7, 2010 19:03:05 GMT -5
There is over 9000 comments on thier video on Youtube. I went through about 100 and almost all of them were calling them out for thier lack of research. The few other were just as ignorant as they were.
Any reason why my last comment was deleted?
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Post by El Cokehead del Knife Fight on Jan 7, 2010 19:28:42 GMT -5
I'm personally not big on fried chicken anyways, doesn't make me feel well. I prefer the chicken from Nandos which is roasted in some kind of sauce.
Frickin tasty.
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Post by Maidpool w/ Cleaning Action on Jan 7, 2010 19:35:30 GMT -5
That's all delicious s*** though! f*** yeah, now I'm hungry. Funny story from my job a few years ago. We never had a lot of employees at once because we were a small mom & pop store and my grandfather owned the place. So working at our location (my grandfather owned two stores) was me, my grandfather, a guy named William and a always a revolving door of one more person. So William and I were friends because he was a good employee and one of the few to be a mainstay as he worked there for years. We even lived together for a year. Well, in a fact that means nothing outside of the hilarity of this story, William is black. One day I had brought in a lot of watermelon to work with me because we had some at my house and I brought in a big tupawear container full of it. I put it in the fridge in the back and snaked on it all day. When William came in for his shift I asked him if he wanted any Watermelon. He just stared at me. I was like "What man?" He just had this disgusted look on his face and was like "You know what." I looked completely dumbfounded and was like "No..... I don't." Then he was like "That's not funny." I just responded "It wasn't meant to be funny... I just wanted to know if you wanted some watermelon." So after a couple more exhanges in this manner and he put all his stuff up to get ready for work. I was like "What's wrong with you man?" and I went to the back and got me some more watermelon. He saw what I had in my hand and was like "OH YOU'RE BEING SERIOUS!?" I just looked at him like he was dumb and was like "Yeah, I was being serious. I have a lot of watermelon in the back and was just offering you some." He then kind of realized what was going on and why I was so confused as to his reaction and apologized and was like "I thought you were trying to make racist jokes!" I was like "Dude, as long as you've known me you should have known better than that. All I was trying to do was offer you some of the fruit I brought in to work." While the situation happened it was sorta tense and very confusing for me on my end, but after words is worth about a thousand laughs.
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Post by Red Impact on Jan 7, 2010 19:38:53 GMT -5
I'm assuming this is the same group of people that complain about a lack of black characters in 16th century period dramas? (Don't laugh, it happens). Can't be as bad as the people who were complaining about the lack of black main characters in Smallville, which was made even funnier with the fact that Clark's best friend in the show was played by a black actor, which they promptly responded that it either had to be Clark, Lex, or Lana, who was played by an Asian actress.
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Post by The Line on Jan 7, 2010 23:18:32 GMT -5
I wonder if anyone thinks I'm racist for haring a black woman to babysit my kid. Because I'm sure it had nothing to do with the fact that she was the most qualifed to take care of an infant, but rather because I, as a white man, inheriently needed a minority to perform a house-hold duty for me. I tell you, sometimes the hypersensitivty in this world just makes me want to move to Mars I know. Its gotten to the point where people of certain races aren't allowed to be portrayed doing small, trivial, innocent things without being labeled as racist or stereotypical(Black poeple in a chicken commercial, for one. If you showed a commercial about lawn care equipment starring a Latino man, I'm sure you'd get a lot of uproar as well, even though plenty of black people love chicken(and plenty hate chicken. A lot of white people, asian people, and every people love chicken), and Latino men care just about their lawns as anyone else does).
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Post by thesam07 on Jan 7, 2010 23:22:26 GMT -5
I'm personally not big on fried chicken anyways, doesn't make me feel well. I prefer the chicken from Nandos which is roasted in some kind of sauce. Frickin tasty. I agree, Nandos is beyond awesome.
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Post by Back to being Cenanuff on Jan 8, 2010 7:44:41 GMT -5
Bunch of reactionaries on that show. I could see how it could be offensive if it were an American commercial, because we have that stereotype here, but it was an Australian commercial, and that stereotype doesn't exist there. So, to just call it blanket racist is exercising your twittitude. Yes, I just made up a word.
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Post by G✇JI☈A on Jan 8, 2010 7:50:31 GMT -5
I'm personally not big on fried chicken anyways, doesn't make me feel well. I prefer the chicken from Nandos which is roasted in some kind of sauce. Frickin tasty. I agree, Nandos is beyond awesome. That Peri Peri sauce is a gift from heaven.
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Post by PKO on Jan 8, 2010 13:38:42 GMT -5
Ok, I'm a bit confused; what is the stereotype in the US with black people and fried chicken? They like fried chicken?
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Jan 8, 2010 13:42:53 GMT -5
Sorry, but I'm locking this ahead of time before we get into any more detail about the Young Turks, which would violate board rules.
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