Republicans Offended By Pepsi Commercial

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Awww, poor little special snowflakes are offended by a beverage promoting unity! Is anything short of outright beating minorities offensive to your insecurities? Sad!



https://morningconsult.com/2017/04/11/plurality-americans-actually-like-ad-pepsi-pulled/

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http://finance.yahoo.com/news/kendall-jenner-ad-made-people-135100003.html

[RI]

Actually, it seems no group was particularly offended by the ad, except leftists online.

[JA]

It was such an incredibly tone deaf ad that coopted BLM protests by using some rich white girl to give a Pepsi to a cop and suddenly everything was peaceful. It completely ignores and dismisses the violence perpetrated by law enforcement throughout this country that has resulted in countless deaths and harassment of civilians, especially African Americans, thanks to institutional racism and the willingness of the legal arm of the elite to disproportionately target the lower classes.

[ProudModerate2]

Your thread is titled "Republicans Offended By Pepsi Commercial."
But within the guts of the story the data shows:
29% of Republicans said it gave them a less-favorable view of Pepsi compared to 23% of Democrats.
So the difference is not that large. Is it ?

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Your thread is titled "Republicans Offended By Pepsi Commercial."
But within the guts of the story the data shows:
29% of Republicans said it gave them a less-favorable view of Pepsi compared to 23% of Democrats.
So the difference is not that large. Is it ?

I thoroughly enjoyed the UKIP is 'more in favor of bestiality' polling as well based on an even smaller difference

The age and racial demographics are of course even more telling! Great evidence for Ann Coulter's thesis!

e: Evidence of the first claim:
"Out of the main UK political parties, the most UKIP voters said they thought bestiality should be legal, at 12 percent. This compares to 11 percent of Conservative voters, 10 percent of SNP and Labour voters and 8 percent of Liberal Democrats."

[dead0man]

wait wait wait...I'm going to need a cite that real people were offended by this.  It was way too tone deaf to actually offend people right?

Tobefair, this is only the third or forth time I've heard about it, the other times were just funny people doing jokes about it or friends asking if I saw the jokes about it.

[Devout Centrist]

It was tone deaf, not offensive.

[ProgressiveCanadian]

What a bunch of snowflakes.

[Beet]

It's obviously a progressive commercial once the online anti-white Armenian girl indoctrination is taken out of it. Like, I get that some black girls are hyper sensitive to everything the Jenners/Kardashians do because of the public dating choices they've made, but online hate campaigns like this are unfair and bad for society in the long run.

No need for the critics to worry though, from the 18-29 age group it looks like Generation Fascist will turn the tide back.

[OSR stands with Israel]

Anyone who changes their opinion of Pepsi cause of this ad is foolish

[SUSAN CRUSHBONE]

It's obviously a progressive commercial once the online anti-white Armenian girl indoctrination is taken out of it. Like, I get that some black girls are hyper sensitive to everything the Jenners/Kardashians do because of the public dating choices they've made, but online hate campaigns like this are unfair and bad for society in the long run.

No need for the critics to worry though, from the 18-29 age group it looks like Generation Fascist will turn the tide back.

lolno

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

I hate that we've reached a stage in our national life where companies like Pepsi can present themselves as Bold, Forward-Thinking Progressive Visionaries through their advertising choices and get taken at face value.

[Beet]

I hate that we've reached a stage in our national life where companies like Pepsi can present themselves as Bold, Forward-Thinking Progressive Visionaries through their advertising choices and get taken at face value.

Orwellian doublespeak?

[Ebowed]

Pepsi kills everyone

[Helsinkian]

It was such an incredibly tone deaf ad that coopted BLM protests by using some rich white girl to give a Pepsi to a cop and suddenly everything was peaceful.

They never specifically claimed it was BLM, did they? The ad had the protestors carrying generic signs like "Join the Conversation" and the peace symbol.

[KingSweden]

It was tone deaf, not offensive.

This. It was just a bad commercial on its own merits

[Mr. Reactionary]

It's obviously a progressive commercial once the online anti-white Armenian girl indoctrination is taken out of it. Like, I get that some black girls are hyper sensitive to everything the Jenners/Kardashians do because of the public dating choices they've made, but online hate campaigns like this are unfair and bad for society in the long run.

No need for the critics to worry though, from the 18-29 age group it looks like Generation Fascist will turn the tide back.

Just reason number 5 million why caring about "race" is stupid. I know arabs, indians, eskimos, latinos, and east asians with lighter skin than  a lot of Armenians (or italians, spaniards, and greeks), but apparently only the first group somehow has "colour". The idea that every single person who does not look northern european is part of a totally for real common identity group despite massive differences in culture, geography, and yes skin colour is stupid. This is even more evident when some "white" people have darker skin than some "colourfuls" or whatever the hell you are ordered to call members of this fake group. The only common identity belonging to Marco Rubio, Shaka Zulu, pocahontas, kristi yamahuchi, the prophet muhammad, and anoushka shankar is that they are/were living people. The fact that they have darker skin than a sami reindeer hereder is not a real identity.

[KingSweden]

It's obviously a progressive commercial once the online anti-white Armenian girl indoctrination is taken out of it. Like, I get that some black girls are hyper sensitive to everything the Jenners/Kardashians do because of the public dating choices they've made, but online hate campaigns like this are unfair and bad for society in the long run.

No need for the critics to worry though, from the 18-29 age group it looks like Generation Fascist will turn the tide back.

Just reason number 5 million why caring about "race" is stupid. I know arabs, indians, eskimos, latinos, and east asians with lighter skin than  a lot of Armenians (or italians, spaniards, and greeks), but apparently only the first group somehow has "colour". The idea that every single person who does not look northern european is part of a totally for real common identity group despite massive differences in culture, geography, and yes skin colour is stupid. This is even more evident when some "white" people have darker skin than some "colourfuls" or whatever the hell you are ordered to call members of this fake group. The only common identity belonging to Marco Rubio, Shaka Zulu, pocahontas, kristi yamahuchi, the prophet muhammad, and anoushka shankar is that they are/were living people. The fact that they have darker skin than a sami reindeer hereder is not a real identity.

So do you find it more valuable to discuss intersection of culture and gender then rather than race and gender? (I certainly would)

[Bismarck]

Perhaps I'm missing something but I don't think it says anything about being offended.

[Mr. Reactionary]

It's obviously a progressive commercial once the online anti-white Armenian girl indoctrination is taken out of it. Like, I get that some black girls are hyper sensitive to everything the Jenners/Kardashians do because of the public dating choices they've made, but online hate campaigns like this are unfair and bad for society in the long run.

No need for the critics to worry though, from the 18-29 age group it looks like Generation Fascist will turn the tide back.

Just reason number 5 million why caring about "race" is stupid. I know arabs, indians, eskimos, latinos, and east asians with lighter skin than  a lot of Armenians (or italians, spaniards, and greeks), but apparently only the first group somehow has "colour". The idea that every single person who does not look northern european is part of a totally for real common identity group despite massive differences in culture, geography, and yes skin colour is stupid. This is even more evident when some "white" people have darker skin than some "colourfuls" or whatever the hell you are ordered to call members of this fake group. The only common identity belonging to Marco Rubio, Shaka Zulu, pocahontas, kristi yamahuchi, the prophet muhammad, and anoushka shankar is that they are/were living people. The fact that they have darker skin than a sami reindeer hereder is not a real identity.

So do you find it more valuable to discuss intersection of culture and gender then rather than race and gender? (I certainly would)

Yes. Additionally, I think Marx was wrong about a lot, but I do agree that class is probably the cleavage that works the best at uniting. Even that is relative though given that poor people here are usually not at all the same as poor people in say India. But overall, I think everyone should try to find actual commonalities to unite us, as opposed to relying on NOT being a member of a different identity group. For instance, I am a lawyer. I share a loose identity with other lawyers. I do not share a common identity with plumbers as a result of us both not being doctors.

[KingSweden]

It's obviously a progressive commercial once the online anti-white Armenian girl indoctrination is taken out of it. Like, I get that some black girls are hyper sensitive to everything the Jenners/Kardashians do because of the public dating choices they've made, but online hate campaigns like this are unfair and bad for society in the long run.

No need for the critics to worry though, from the 18-29 age group it looks like Generation Fascist will turn the tide back.

Just reason number 5 million why caring about "race" is stupid. I know arabs, indians, eskimos, latinos, and east asians with lighter skin than  a lot of Armenians (or italians, spaniards, and greeks), but apparently only the first group somehow has "colour". The idea that every single person who does not look northern european is part of a totally for real common identity group despite massive differences in culture, geography, and yes skin colour is stupid. This is even more evident when some "white" people have darker skin than some "colourfuls" or whatever the hell you are ordered to call members of this fake group. The only common identity belonging to Marco Rubio, Shaka Zulu, pocahontas, kristi yamahuchi, the prophet muhammad, and anoushka shankar is that they are/were living people. The fact that they have darker skin than a sami reindeer hereder is not a real identity.

So do you find it more valuable to discuss intersection of culture and gender then rather than race and gender? (I certainly would)

Yes. Additionally, I think Marx was wrong about a lot, but I do agree that class is probably the cleavage that works the best at uniting. Even that is relative though given that poor people here are usually not at all the same as poor people in say India. But overall, I think everyone should try to find actual commonalities to unite us, as opposed to relying on NOT being a member of a different identity group. For instance, I am a lawyer. I share a loose identity with other lawyers. I do not share a common identity with plumbers as a result of us both not being doctors.

I agree. My parents are immigrants - we were very in touch with the Swedish community in Seattle growing up. I think my first generation experience sets me apart from many peers. A reductive view would be to dismiss the sum of those perspectives and experiences because I'm white, IMO

[Inmate Trump]

I don't know about this ad, but what I do know is that Republicans are less offended by somebody grabbing pussy against a woman's will than they are about two men getting married.

[Mr. Reactionary]

I don't know about this ad, but what I do know is that Republicans are less offended by somebody grabbing pussy against a woman's will than they are about two men getting married.

Which republicans? Every single one?

[dead0man]

I don't know about this ad, but what I do know is that Republicans are less offended by somebody grabbing pussy against a woman's will than they are about two men getting married.

I hate Trump as much as anybody, but you can't still think he meant grabbing the pussy of women who didn't want a rich guy grabbing their pussy can you?  He clearly was talking about gold diggers.  Gold diggers WANT rich dudes to grab 'em by the pussy.

The statement, like the man, is still classless of course (and the GOP still sucks about gay marriage), but it's nowhere near criminal.