Hispanics and Asians are not as vocal about their grievances. I always enjoy your comments, Criswell, and this may be your best yet. The remote works for us all no matter what race creed or color we are. Quit paying to go to see those movies. They dont and they shouldnt. I also strongly suspect it has something to do with the indoctrination centers we call public schools and universities churning out young people with leftist programming. As one of my readers likes to say, The End is surely near., Sure could use a vacation from this bullshit three ring circus sideshow of freaks. On YouTube Ive got the remote ready as soon as they say I can skip ads and usually have the sound down and am looking away at my laptop until its over, but still. Its because Europeans do not operate advertising agencies or movie studios. If you look at some famous movies of the 80slike Back to the Future, the big blonde man is the bad guyBiff. I also happen to feel very very bad for Asian and Hispanic people. White guys are out. There is something very disturbing about the emasculated effeminate girl men being pushed in our society. Far from being limited to advertising, it is government, healthcare, banking and finance, education (oh God, the public schools and colleges) . Good comment, ARG. B. some bigot dropping hurtful or played-out tropes on Reddit? Literally every piece of entertainment or advertisement follows the same formula. This is an expansion on the magic negro trope. Men, know that most women do not like this, especially Christian women. Whats going on with the weird representation in American advertising? People are getting tired of BLM and lgbtq. Because of course, white men are the only ones who ever mansplain. I find the media, the big corps, anti-social media, etc., quite nauseating. if anyone wants the stats on these, just ask ..I dont come here often, but will try to check it out when I can, I get what youre saying, Dan, and the stats do back you up. All of this is was clearly agenda driven coverage. And not created and shown exponentially more than they are present in the real world in order to enforce an agenda and brainwash the populace. I hope advertisers read this! Ironically I feel a little safer knowing hes a little less tolerant of bull crap than he probably should be. Levin is probably the smartest, most observant, most literate social/political commentator out there. Nothing gets a message through like a punch to the pocketbook. They are grooming young minds. Brad, thank you for your thoughtful comment. Even more than Limu Emu and Doug do. There WAS a time in the US when blacks and whites dressed the same, enjoyed much of the same music, went to the same civic celebrations, etc. Anything goes now.save for Christmas that is. I know that every generation makes the same claim, but it is only in recent times that we have reached the critical 100yr mark of the Federal Reserve Act being passed. Far from it. These points are not racist at all. I dont know how any young women these days can even be attracted to the opposite sex anymore since there seems to be nothing but a slightly more boyish version of themselves to choose from. Get the best people, dont create some arbitrary demographic mix. [Thats a clapping hands emoticon in response to Wills comment, for those who dont know. Ive been retired for 9 months now and I have been watching a lot of TV lately. He names names, gives dates, gives quotes, and gives events, laying out an ironclad argument on why we are going through what were going through. Another reader mentioned something similar. Clearly, it is very real. A bleakness akin to socialism. Ha! Based on pure US census data a commercial with 10 actors should have: 6 whites, 2 hispanics, 1 black, 1 other. Movies and tv followed the same trend. Models are, in order: Black, black, black, white, black, black, white, black, black, black. and planned cultural change. Indeed, the warped representations we see in TV commercials are simultaneously a cause and a symptom of deepening problems in our culture. The future is female, as the T-shirts say. $1000000 to the first mention of a TV commercial with a Filipino actor and no, not Bruno Mars. Another way is to ask for an opinion from someone unrelated to your campaign, but always take that input in the right proportions. Advertising isnt doing the people or themselves any favors. I am a gay man and i am SICK AND TIRED OF ALL THE LGBTQ BULLCRAP BEING SHOVED DOWN OUR THROATS!!! Black people are seeing themselves everywhere which may strike a few of them as odd, as if white corporate America is shamelessly pandering to them but any warm fuzzies this may bring are likely negated by the fact that blacks in commercials behave just like white people. Thank you for calling BS on the misrepresentation and unbalanced perspective in advertising. Maybe this is why advertisers are pushing these social agendas?? Or they have a political agenda better served by a belief there are more minorities. Tv shows would have you believe all groups of friends are made up of one person each of a different race and a LGBT, its eye rolling ridiculous. I pulled him aside and told him to wait his turn and not go down until theres no kids on it. Ive never gotten that impression. I just went to the Library of Congress to maybe read some online books..one of the sections had 3 pictures that came up one after another pictures of mostly kids, reading, etc.all 3 had a total of 15 people all black, POC except one white male. Think there would be a problem? Individuals with negative motivational values are in fact dangerous regardless of their skin color! Appreciate your thoughts, Robert. Yes, the erasure of strong male role models from American culture is absolutely intentional. One day while in line at my S&L, the old farmer in front of me asked the teller about their stability. Create A Focus Group To Help You Develop Content, Want to represent a variety of groups? Youre right. This is not realistic or representative. In major urban areas of the the United States, Canada, and possibly the UK, it is by far people of color that wreak havoc within the public sphere. If you took commercials seriously, you would think the most pressing problem in the lives of young American women is avoiding split ends and shaving their crotches, that normal people do cartwheels after getting a $5 refund on their taxes, or that married couples often give each other new cars for Christmas. Thanks Madge, you nailed it. See all Cranky ad reviews | Go back to blog home page | Subscribe for free. Oh, thank you, Anonymous. LGBQT. Every other platform there are the same commercials and they make me sick. How many movies are made now featuring men (and some women) in their 70s as the action hero lead? No masculine role models or father/son interaction in commercials. Going by the commercials, one would think that Hispanic and Asian people make up a far smaller percentage of the population than black people, when in fact their number is double. I dont think youre racist per se. Its Time to Acknowledge Anti-White Racism. I worked at DFW Airport for 30 years and I did everything in my power to keep my sexual preference hidden form all my coworkers. Hi, Jason. Use Brave browser instead of Google; get off Facebook; find an alternative to Twitter. I think the word to go warpspeed on this issue was given about five years ago, with a major increase 28 months ago. This trend is NOT about money. Good for you for boycotting some of these advertisers. If I were you, Id have put my name on that one because theres not a single thing in your comment that a fair and rational person could argue with. If so, then by golly, you should care. and so true, so true.. Tribalism isnt going anywhere ever. Infiltrated from within. Yep, that about describes our institutions today. I was astounded at what had happened to tv since my last road trip. November 2021. Fortunately, the topic had been on my list for a while and I swear it was you (or perhaps another Cranky reader) who was brave enough to broach the subject in one of the comments sections. Do the stories you read there measure up to the advertising portrayal? I would assume Deltas passenger mix is about 40% white male today. Whats ironic is that blacks are 14% of the population and are they represent the majority on tv commercials. Its getting tiring seeing everyone and everything become obsessed with skin color, gender, gender identity, etc. Its just around the corner if we dont do something now. Culture war, definitely. Ive noticed this for a long time now. The focus is all about diversity and political correctness instead of just making a great product. I dont believe they are diverse just playing the role. You should have a problem. 90% of the time its one black shooting another. To that end, Tubi is actually a pretty great (and free!) Anyone with healthy self-confidence does not require the culture to prop up their egos. (And Im just going to say it: Barack Obama, the so-called Great Uniter, did more to damage race relations in this country than any leader in my lifetime. But I hesitated because I wasnt 100% sure of Robs politics/social outlook. While we are at it the advertisers can knock off the peyone, aka crooked carrot, feminine products etc. I call it Clown World and were all living in it. Take All Black Network for instance. Of course, portraying people properly would require advertisers to have real respect for different races and cultures, and a genuine desire to give more than lip service to the prime directives of diversity and inclusivity. Theyre made to look stupid, or just plain made fun of! Its baked into our being. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aunt I do not think we will see another Anglo-Saxon actor as James Bondif we do, he will be feminized like the guy playing Spider-man (compare Holland to Nicholas Hammond and you see what we meanHammond was a boy-next-door kind of actorhe wasnt a tough guybut he was more masculine than Holland-who seems like a child or midget). I think theyre trying to sell ideas..I just dont know what ideas theyre trying to sell. . Walking into stores and walking out with shopping carts full of merchandise and doing smashing grabs at high-end jewelry stores and theyre always talking about how everybody trash talks them and they dont get any respect and they still blame Whitey for keeping them down. I remember in 1987 when Grand Metropolitan from Britain paid the astounding amount of $12 billion dollars for the Pillsbury company. I dont consider myself a racist by any means, and hinting that Im not supportive or on board with all the overnight, progressive changes and what I see as financially driven portrayals of race in commercials and ads. The overall ethnic skew of the marketing/advertising industry is more diverse than ever, at 30.8 percent, yet despite the progress, there is still work to be done. As with the Universe, there is a great mass of different forces here. And that the belief in a God or divine spark within is a total lie. Please explain what you mean by the statement the other problem is that all of these ads showing black people arent really representative of black people at all? You do know that Black people are not a monolithic group. I dont think anyone has a problem with brands catering to their customers or trying to gain traction with new demographics. Thus, transforming it into whatever ad execs need to do the tick the box for corporate. Im willing to do my part. Ladies and gentlemen, I am going to re-read this frank and insightful comment again probably a few times and I encourage you to do the same. The reason more white people dont speak up about issues like these is because they fear they will be labeled a racist!! I have no reason to protest but seeing it recognized and discussed just made my day! Ive been playing the video game Watch Dogs: Legion, an open-world adventure set in near-future London where it seems 80 percent of the pedestrian population is Muslim or black African. Representation in advertising had already started to become untethered from reality prior to August 2014, when the Ferguson, Missouri riots erupted following the fatal shooting of Michael Brown by officer Darren Wilson. And most of it is due to the monolithic multinational corporations and their greed for two synonymous and interchangeable terms money and power. (Theyre 12% of the population, remember.). My husband pointed this out to me some time ago. Wokeness is not fixing our world or ridding it of inequality; its lighting the fuse on a whole set of new problems, some of which look uncomfortably like our old ones. It should be pretty easy to find bad reviews for companies whove broken their promises. In Opinion: Survey Says: Americans Are Dumber Than a Bag of Rocks, writer Jim Thompson cites a study that shows just how out of whack peoples perceptions are regarding the size of different populations by income, race, religion, gender identity, and more all due to the agenda-driven programming we are being force-fed on TV.