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Y'all are the ones that got side-tracked on personal attacks and started wasting bandwidths.
This thread is waste of space but that's your MO.. Now go back and pretend you know what people are thinking yoni..
Y'all are the ones that got side-tracked on personal attacks and started wasting bandwidths.
Now, let's see if SnakeBoy cares to get it back on topic
So, it's not a stereotype; it's just the truth?
I'm confused because, gratuitously tying blacks to fried chicken and, in a manner that suggests, it's keeping them from kicking some white guy's ass, seems a bit stereotypical and racist to me.
It's as if KFC is saying, thank God that guy brought KFC or those black cricket fans would be all over his ass.
I think it's a racist add but, because it's set in what liberals considered an enlightened country, it must be something else. I also think -- aside from the peaceful religion of Islam -- most other countries are less politically-correct than we've become.
Yeah, it's racist. Not so much about the chicken but how black people take free to get them to shut up. Not cool of KFC.
jack and Yoni take a turn as defenders of racial justice against the only kind of racism that exists anymore besides the totally unjust persecution of whites as racists: liberal paternalism.
Actually, Winhole, I'm just pointing out the selective indignation of the race-baiting liberal left.
Had this commercial aired in America, it would be all we heard about for weeks until KFC were either bankrupted or forced to give a few million dollars to Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton to assuage their guilt.
I was only kidding. It's not racist. Americans thinks tons of is racist. I see cricket supporters eating KFC. That orginal recipe is the bomb. Pss, I have a secret to tell you, white people eat chicken everyday so it can't just be the black people who like it.
Who has ever considered Australia enlightened?
"It is a light-hearted reference to the West Indian cricket team . The ad was reproduced online in the US without KFC's permission, where we are told a culturally-based stereotype exists, leading to the incorrect assertion of racism."
Rep from KFC Australia
That's what I'd say...unless, apparently, I'm Dave Chappelle.
But you just said you thought it was a racist ad.
Chappelle also said the assumption was racist, so you agree with him.
If the ad was for McDonalds and the guy passed out Big Macs, nobody would be having this race conversation in America.
Americans have this racist stereotype that black people love chicken. This commericial was intended for Australians not Americans.
The point is, it's not McDonald's and if that ad had been shown in American, KFC would have been taken to the cleaners by the Reverends....regardless of whether or not KFC intended any racial undertones.
So the point is America has racial stereotypes.
Cool story.
Mick uses his chicken on the in-laws in order to watch the cricket game. There is a pattern here!
America, eatin' my lunch from a single bowl in my parents basement, where I'm livin'. Happy Birthday, I'm forty-three.
Don't want to waste those precious calories...chewin'. Jesus come move my jaw for me, help me get my sloppy food down my throat.
I know. I also noticed you had to bring it up yourself in order to pass comment on it. The indignation so far in evidence is mostly yours.
Are you disappointed over the nonparticipation of Jesse and Al in the so-called controversy?
The commercial was not intended for any US audience, but instead for semi-civilized Australians. It did not air in the US.
What do you find so captivating about the counterfactual situation? Did reality get too wearisome for you? Why should we care how things would've turned out if things had been otherwise than they are?
@Yoni: Often it seems as if your passion for argumentation not only descends upon weak reeds, but tests them in succession. In this case, it depends on your thesis that the OP surely would've raised an aggrieved and general ruckus, if things had somehow been otherwise than they are. But the case is not otherwise, and yours is one of pure speculation about counterfactual bs.
You're clearly disappointed this isn't a big deal. You're trying to make it into a really big deal, but really, it isn't.
Last edited by Winehole23; 01-11-2010 at 02:04 PM.
I would say that since KFC had to issue a statement -- and, I think we can safely assume it wasn't due to my post on SpursTalk.com -- your statement isn't exactly accurate. Apparently, there was some indignation somewhere.
About what?
Edited above, with my apologies.
Australia.
Well... Chris Rock is a comedian... and there is something called context.
No, their statement was released after the video was released in America. It was only then they felt is necessary to issue the statement.
Maybe AussieFanKurt can weigh in. Who else is an Aussie around here?
Presumably then, the ad wasn't considered offensive in Australia, but the kerfuffle arose over the posting here, and Yoni is single-handedly keeping it alive here on SpursTalk. How interesting.
Maybe they're not the politically correct pussies in Australia that we have over here.
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