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In the Golden Age of Advertising, producing commercials was easy. You could pretty much toss in any horrific stereotype you thought would help sell your product, and if any minorities complained, who cares? Minorities aren't the majority, duh. Of course, in this era of political correctness, those clumsy, cringe-worthy stereotypes are a thing of the past. Well, almost... #8.
Pond's White Beauty (2008)
When you watch this schmaltzy ad, you slowly come to the realization that the theme is, "If your epidermis isn't white enough, the man of your dreams will never love you." Oh, we're not reading too much into it--Pond's White Beauty is an Indian line of skin whitener.
So, although the ex-boyfriend in the ad eye-fucks the living shit out of his lost love, he just can't get over her icky brownness, even if she's portrayed by former Miss World Priyanka Chopra.
Over the ad's next four installments (yes, it's a five-part skin whitener epic) the girl wins her man back thanks to her brand new pallor. Well, that and his new girlfriend was a total bitch, but it's mostly the melanin thing. We'd like to think the antagonist tries to win him back by whitening her skin even more, and the two women end up bleaching back and forth until they both look like yetis.
#7.
Coloreria Italiana (2006)
Taking the above to the opposite extreme, in the world of Italian laundry products, myths about black men's ravenous libidos are still alive and banging: The ad opens with a woman doing her laundry. Her scrawny, white husband walks by and tries to seduce her.
She rejects him by shoving him into an improbably spacious washer.
After her hubby drowns in detergent, she opens the machine, only to have a buff black man emerge as hip-hop blasts from the heavens. And lest you think we're stretching things here a bit, here's the sequel. This time it's the husband who commits violent washing machine homicide...
...but his scheme to replace his wife with a nice Afro-Italian babe backfires when the same sexy black dude pops up, foreshadowing some non-consensual, man-on-man interracial ramrodding.
Stay classy, Italy! #6.
Salesgenie.com (2008)
Let's go to America now, where Salesgenie.com is a database marketing service. That ranks just above surgery-grade gynecological equipment on your average TV viewer's list of impulse buys, so Salesgenie clearly needs a whiz-bang ad to draw in new customers. Their ad starts off well. Animated pandas are trying to sell bamboo furniture. It makes perfectly tenuous sense so far...
...but then Ching-Ching and Ling-Ling start talking like goddamn Fu Manchu and we're left wondering what small-town CEO green-lit this commercial.
Did we say small-town CEO? Whoops. This ad aired during Super Bowl XLIII. This means a group of high-priced ad execs got together and decided that $2.7 million dollars worth of ad time was best spent on third-rate Charlie Chan impressions.
Shockingly, some of the 97.5 million people who saw this commercial were offended, and Salesgenie quickly yanked it. #5.
"Who Hasn't?" (2006)
The 2006 Tennessee Senate race was fought between Republican Bob Corker and Democrat Harold Ford, who was en route to become Tennessee's first black Senator.
With Ford ahead by a slim margin, the Republican Party had only one option: produce a thoughtful TV spot that rationally explained why Corker was the better candid- oh, who are we kidding? The RNC punched out an attack ad invoking the boogeyman of miscegenation. Here we see a white, helium-voiced "Playboy Bunny" insinuate that she had unnatural relations with the black Mr. Ford.
The ad was considered so sleazy that even Bob Corker asked it be pulled off the air as pundits nationwide accused him of race-baiting. It's worth noting that the whole Playboy bunny thing was a reference to the fact that Ford had attended a 2005 Playboy-sponsored Super Bowl party in Florida. He justified it with a awesomely candid quip: "I like football and I like girls. I have no apologies for that."
Tennessee voters were so outraged by the ad campaign that the white Bob Corker shot up several points in the polls and won a narrow victory. At the end of the day, everyone learned a valuable lesson about race-baiting smear tactics: they fucking work.
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...would someone mind telling me how in the HELL #5 is "racist"? It's an attack ad that makes the case that Ford doesn't share the values of his gun-toting, bible-thumping, idiot constituents (trying to meet you on your level here...), and apparently the ad makers were right! Harold Ford unapologetically hung out with the good people at Playboy, and that's something that many conservative Americans have a problem with, no matter how "badass" it may be to others. If anything, this attack ad is making the case that he's a womanizer, and therefore part of a proud tradition of womanizing in the Democratic party. HOW IN THE HELL IS THAT RACE-BAITING? Must EVERY charge leveled against a black politician be called racist, no matter how idiotic or disconnected? Oh yes, and THEN the article makes the connection between this one "racist" attack ad and Ford's narrow defeat, making that classic leap from correlation to causation. The writer then take these disparate bits of information and implies that Ford was DEFEATED BY RACISM, when there isn't even any racism to be found in the first place! This is one of the most bizarre examples of anti-logic I've seen in a long time... Come on Cracked...you're a humor website, and your writer's obvious political slant here prevented you from being funny. Isn't that, you know, your POINT? This section of an otherwise decent article was just vitrioloc and ugly. If I want half-assed, bitter politics, I'll read somewhere else. You're welcome to your bias, but could you at least stick to reasonable claims and things that are, you know, humorous? Oh, and about the cute little Obama Google thing at the end there....again, can someone PLEASE tell me how "birth certificate", "approval rating", "jokes", or "deception" are examples of RACE-BAITING?? Good lord....
Yeah, the 'Coon' cheese thing was just a comment made by a UK comedian Stephen K Amos who came to Australia :P It's actually named after American creator Edward Coon...who discovered the cooning process...I'm sorry, just saying that word continuously, despite it's harmless connotations, still makes me uncomfortable.
To the people claiming the skin bleaching commercial is not racist, because people all over the world bleach their skin: yes, it's racist. The commercial implies that if you have darker skin, your man will not love you, and you're worthless. People bleach their skin and use large umbrellas in China, because they're racists. They believe white skin is more beautiful than black skin, and have sayings about how if you're black on the outside, that also means you're "black on the inside." I live here, and I love China, but too many Chinese people are racists. They look down upon ethnic minorities and other races with darker skin, and someone who's darker will often have problems just leading a normal life without ugly remarks from strangers, being discriminated against, and so forth. Thus you get skin bleaching. You can't compair it to being skinny/ heavy, because that's usually a matter of choice and lifestyle, whereas skin colour is a matter of genes, and doesn't have anything to do with what kind of person you are.
the panda thing was painful to watch and made me feel awkward
In spite of the apparent progression of many humans of all ethnicities/hues/etc that defy stereotypes on a daily basis, some of the posters here are hell bent on holding onto all things negative about certain people. It seems to me that this is largely an ego problem (their egos needs to be "right" constantly even in the face of truth). Just look at them --they would rather throw out all sorts of biased bull$hit "statistics", isolated incidents, blanket statements, and lies rather than admit that stereotypes aren't often valid. Some people just don't know how to live other than being negative. Just give it up and admit you're wrong. xtkbilly: Enough with the ignorant blanket statements about African Americans being the most racist people you know. Really, how many blacks do you really, truly know outside your embittered observations dearheart? ;) Let's be honest, mmmkay? And, if you know anything about history and sociology, in no way can you equate racism that whites have experienced at the hands of minorities anywhere in relation to racism that minorities have experienced in past decades (and sometimes in current years) from whites. I can agree that all racism sucks and should end. But by historical comparison, the history of racism is completely unbalanced; please stop trying to make yourself seem like such a victim. It's bull$hit and so is your ego.
Some stupid people in here. There's no 'black blood' or 'white blood', we share 99.9% of the same genes with the remaining dictating skin pigmentation and individual looks etc.
Yikes. I think that the skin lightener was the most disconcerting.
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Wow this dr.satan guy is a genious, racisism and athiesm all rolled into one package, pretty smart huh, except his dumbass screen name contradicts his whole comment....try changing your name. here is a suggestion,(athiest inbred white trash) thats more suitable for you.....
Black people are Gods chosen burnt people. And thats why theyre all going to hell. Hahahahaha..................... but theres no god, so f**k it.
How does racism affect everyone? In fact more specifically, how does racism affect anyone anymore? I doubt that you specifically, xtkbilly, have encountered any form of racism in your lifetime. In fact, I'd say that your idea that "African-Americans" (we call them blacks now, because it is inaccurate to say that every person with dark brown skin is from Africa, and slightly presumptuous to think that even if they are from Africa that they identify at all with Africans) are the most racist of all just goes to show how little the term "racism" actually means. See if we're talking about institutional racism, the only form of racism that really affects ones socio-economic status, then it is obviously a wrongheaded statement to say that blacks are promoting racism, seeing as they have no power with which to promote it. They are prejudice, for sure, but it can be seen as somewhat necessary and understandable. I'd say that this preoccupation with racism is at best idiotic and at worst dangerous. It makes people lazy. It gives them a boogy-man. It's funny, because I hear all these atheists denounce the church and talk about how evil it is to use religion as an excuse to persecute others, and that's all I ever see it get used for. Disrespectful prejudice, violence against others, destroying the freedom of association, incivility, are they really symptoms of racism or are they causes of it? I don't know. But what I do know is that when you take such a strong chance against a position, you tend to misrepresent it and sound like a jackass. Oh by the way, as for the comment that you responded to, that person needs to take a course in statistics and then they need to take another course on debate. Correlation does not equal causation, and it has been shown time and time again that the causitive factors of black crime is due to the economic degredation of inner cities and then the subsequent failed attempts to fix that economic degredation... That, and anecdotal evidence is illogical and unverifiable, and may not necessarily be indicative of trends. From what I'm to understand, crime is falling in all areas for all races. This hardly paints the picture of anarchy and apeishness that you were trying to portray with your story.
@ZootSuitMcGoot: I have no idea what the FUCK happened in these comments, but I must APPLAUD your recent comment! Just because some people have a darker skin tone than someone else, DOES NOT mean that they don't know the "DAILY DEGRADATION OF RACISM" as you seem to be saying. Rascism affects ANY AND EVERYONE, not just people whose skin tone is darker. And honestly, I believe the most rascist people I have ever seen are African-Americans.
SayWhatNow: You have the incredible gall to make the following statement: "And no matter how angry it makes you, feeling like you have to "walk on eggshells" for fear of being called a racist will never ever have even one zillionth of the emotional impact of ACTUALLY ENDURING THE DAILY DEGRADATION OF RACISM AS A PERSON OF COLOR." I take it you've never heard of the kidnapping, rape, torture and murder of Channon Christian and Christoper Newsom and have no familiarity with the statistics on interracial crime, particularly the statistics on interracial rape. As someone who was attacked and beaten by a couple of drunken blacks who followed me for two blocks shouting things like "Come back here, you white motherf**ker, we gonna beat you ass!", who has had rocks and bottles thrown at him while walking through black neighborhoods, who has been passed over for promotion in favor of a black with less education, less experience and wasn't even a citizen, I don't give a rat's patoot about your "DAILY DEGRADATION." You need to get over the idea that whites should be endlessly preoccupied with your sensitive little feelings.
There was an advert in Belgium three or four years ago for something (it might have been Frosties, but I forget) which was totally normal and racially egalitarian until the last three seconds, where they say the name of the product (like they do at the end of every advert) and then an Indian guy wearing a turban and with massive horse teeth pops up from the bottom of the screen, and his head bobs about as he goes "Good for you, good for you!". I think that advert eventually got banned, but that might have been because Frosties aren't actually good for you.
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"Who hasn't" might be kind of a stretch. I mean, aren't smear campaigns a staple feature of U.S. election campaigning? What makes it racist? Because the "Bunny" lusting after Ford was a white blonde female?
Best comment of the round goes to Zootsuitmcgoot. Leftyism IS a religion, and a zealous and f**king annoying one at that
you said it right, yakasak - even if you were being sarcastic. But blacks are only too happy anyway to claim anyone of merit with 1 drop as their own. Finding a full-blooded success is slim pickings indeed.
And, I don't see what's racist with that ad. It's more racist to think that ad is racist, because you think the bad part is a white woman would have sex with a black man. That's obviously the reason for why they put that in there, instead of just the fact that he bangs floozies.
That dude's black? What do you have to have a black ancestor 8,000 years ago to be considered black? His skin is lighter than mine, and I'm f**king Irish. I guess one drop of black blood=black, because you can't be white if you're "tainted" with the Negro genes at all.
The most racist thing in #4 is the blatently fake British accent. If you don't see how this is offensive, next time you see a Chinese person, greet them with a friendly "Herroh" and see how THEY react...
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WAKE UP!!! Commercials like the "Pond's White Beauty" are all over the world, especially in Asia. Even the big names that we know in the US sell American counterparts of their products with whitening ingedients in them - Pond's, Nivea, Dove, etc., everyone's in on it... It's totally normal in societies where dark skin is associated with being working class. ( here's a very clear example: http://www.youtube.com/Benetonefilms#p/u/1/F-9tcXpW1DE ) I've met educated people in these countries who think people have darker skin because they are dirty. What are you gonna do?
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The reason Ford lost the Tennessee Senate race was not because of the commercial, it was because he is from one of the most corrupt political families in the country. Just do a Google search for Ford, Tennessee, politician, arrest, Memphis.
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Kia-ora is the Maori (native New Zealanders) word for hello. It's strange that the would have cartoon depicting African americans when the name of the drink is from a completely different race
Best part about this article: The captions.
Specifically, the fourth comment below, just so context isn't lost.
@BobDobolina: Read a couple comments below mine and see if you can find which one I was referring to. I wasn't talking about the article itself, which I enjoyed. Better luck next time.
Intentionally taking the black person out of the picture? The Mammy holding a bag of laundry on her head? Well obviously racists can't recognize other racists nodevout
im sorry but i dont see any racism except for the ponds commerical.
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the original #2 version of the ad is offensive enough as it is/ You've got some white woman empowering "her people." "Her people" being a black and an Asian guy? Maybe Poland was trying to make it appear less racist?
"Appeals to emotion don't make anyone right." Says jaf60, self-righteously appealing to emotion. Look, kiddies, if you feel attacked because somebody somewhere laughs at bigotry or racial cluelessness, that's telling you something about you, not them. The fact that you feel the need to show up in comments acting as if you've been challenged to a personal duel is about your thin skin and your insecurity, nothing else. Which does make you laughable, and people will reserve the right to laugh at your silly antics.
OK, not all of these are racist. Some are accidentally made so someone can perceive them as racist. Like the runners. Some are just slightly insensitive. The Indian skin lightening thing should really be more an issue of questioning the very product, not its advertising. But seeing how many of these are European, I find it funny how it's often suggested that America is more racist than other countries. It does seem that some other countries simply don't get what would be offensive about some of these things. The ad with the crows, though, is kind of inexcusable.
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Yeah, see, THAT'S the thing. You're not pointing out every-day racism here anymore, you're being self-righteous. Appeals to emotion don't make anyone right. But hey, what do I know? I'm just a racist white troll; I don't deserve to distract the attentions of your enlightened intellect with my Neanderthal ways. I guess I'll leave this great intellectual forum now so I can masturbate to fantasies of finally gettin' mah slaves back.
OK, I might have just put this, but I don't think it posted it. The first advert, with the Indian woman who wanted to be paler, that is just the same as white girls (and some men) wearing fake tan, but no adverts for fake tan are here...I think that is because people, and most white people, think only white people can be rascist. The black man in that Italian advert, he knew what he was doing, he wasn't captured, he obviously knew what was happening in the advert, so he obviously didn't think it was so rascist, or didn't care...
Truly funny article, although i'd just like to point out if i may what must be the most outrageous characters in the whole ad...that plimsolled duo of perfectly p.c. crows stealing someones piano.
@jacine: "it's funny how much anti-racism is prevalent on cracked.com, and yet they are supposed to be some kind of humor site... " It's funny how assume that laughing at racists isn't "humor." You're wrong, though: just look at how funny this comments section is.
@ZootSuitMcGoot: See that's the thing. Where you chose to see an innocuous comment, I see the things that collectively make my kids believe that they are stupid and ugly and not "real" people like white folks. Please remember that in my constitution-- the thing that formed the foundation for the most influential & powerful nation of our time-- people like me were legally considered 3/5ths of a person. Just please remember that when act like words and symbols don't matter. But really... most minorities will agree that when we point out every-day racism to our friends, it's the emotional equivalent of telling someone they've got a booger in their nose. I will never understand why white people crawl into the fetal position and act like I'm damning them to hell when I just point out how something they did/said was kinda racist. It's really not that deep. We're actually just trying to help. I will never know if YOU are racist deep down in your soul, nor do I care, nor do I think that doing something racist = being an evil person. White people just project all those assumptions onto minorities when they're really not there (Hm...wonder why? I think there's a phrase for that..Guilt something...) And no matter how angry it makes you, feeling like you have to "walk on eggshells" for fear of being called a racist will never ever have even one zillionth of the emotional impact of ACTUALLY ENDURING THE DAILY DEGRADATION OF RACISM AS A PERSON OF COLOR.
If you think those ads are racist, check out this MTV Adria Cribs ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ef9xhHIx2E But no, seriously, America is way too race sensitive.
If you think those ads are racist, check out this MTV Adria Cribs ad: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ef9xhHIx2E But no, seriously, America is way too race sensitive.
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#7 Was friggen awesome. #5 was a bit sad. Someone that badass that loves Titties should win everything.
"I mean, it seems pretty "whiny" to me for folks to act like someone's proposing we assassinate their grandma when we're simply asking everyone be a bit more polite." But you're not just asking people to "be more polite." You're constantly sniffing the wind for the slightest hint of racism, and you start baying whenever you find anything with even the most superficial resemblance to racism. Have you ever had to be around religious fundamentalists for an extended period of time? You very quickly get tired of the way they constantly scrutinize everything you do and say for signs of heresy, the way they turn anything into an excuse to evangelize, and the way they act shocked at even the most innocuous statements. It's like tiptoeing through a minefield. You never know when something you do or say will set somebody off, and you begin to resent the way you have to censor yourself to avoid an uncomfortable scene. And that's exactly what it's like to be around PC lefties. This endless witch hunt for racism needs to stop.
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This topic just proves one thing, and that is Americans are oversensitive about race. Admitted, the Indian people have a bit of a werid look on skin color, their ad is a perfect example of that. But what about that salesgenie.com commercial? Two panda's talking with a strange foreign accent, I don't hear anyone claiming that everyone with a strange foreign accent is a panda. Or even that all panda's have a strange foreign accent. Next is the Harold Ford-guy, he doesn't even look black to me. May have one or two black ancestors, but if you still call a guy with such a light skin black, that looks more racist to me than the commercial. The ad is way out of line, but the girl hinting at meeting him at the Playboy-party might as well be a reference to his bachelor status, doesn't it? That it appears to Americans as racist, might just be much worse than te ad itself. Apparently, in the back of your head you still link black people to certain improper sexual acts. Without that in mind, it's hard to see the commercial as being about race. The ad about Vitaminwater may seem like an example of poor judgement. The Intel ad though certainly isn't racist. It's just a sprinter, who just also happens to be black (the horror, black people in an advertisement :o), in starting position copied six times. So? The microsoft ad on the other hand is clearly a racist way to react to Polish racism. The only thing I agree might be shocking is the orange juice ad. That one just plays out all the bad stereotypes. Most ads you can't see as racist, without having a lot of prejudices in the back of your head yourself though.
#7 was f**king hilarious.
On top of which, from the moment the British arrived they tried to abolish the caste system. It got in the way of making money. They banished suttee and several other customs that India that India had retained from the distant past. The practice of suttee, widow burning or burial with the deceased husband, was likely also descended from the ancient proto-indo-european culture. It appears to be universal and was practiced throughout the indo-european sphere of influence, before dying out from the centre toward the edges. It remained in Scandinavia until the 12th century and in India until the 19th.
I have always argued with my fellow Indians that those skin fairness ads are so wrong. Not racist actually because brown and fairer one's are actually more and less tanned versions of same race but still wrong. Actually the reason this is so in India is because India being primarily an agricultural country, in olden days being dark brown meant you are heavily tanned from working in fields and you are from lower section of society and upper sections are more desirable and fairer. As India progressed to be an industrial economy this mentality somehow perpetuated and even guys wanna be fair to look more attractive. Bollywood movie songs are full of Caucasian white females dancing around to make it look more sexually provocative. You can never love your country if you can't love how nature made you and your countrymen. I'm dark brown actually and most of my female friends find me attractive telling me they like tall dark and handsome guys but the stereotype is very strong. I was made fun of my color in school often still girls just reject me outrightly cuz of my skin tone. Kinda sad actually but for a world plagued by religious idiosyncrasies this small stupidity doesn't bother me. I wouldn't anna be someone that shallow anyway.
@worlock93 actualy the "pale skin high caste" thing in India pre-dates the British involvment there by some many centuries. It may date back to the invasion of the kush by alexander the great, or more likely dates even earlier to the very earliest incursion into india by indo-european tribes. This is tens of thousands of years ago. The language surrounding the caste system is truly ancient, far older than the influences perceptible in Indian culture from the British and it was observed by the earliest British and French traders to India that high caste women were more desirable to high caste men if they were pale. Being pale meant that they were untouched by the sun, indicating they had not had to work outdoors. In other words, being pale meant they were rich. When the French arrived with all their money and weapons that merely confirmed the belief, and when the French were beaten back from India by the British (who by that point were even richer and paler) it was confirmed again. But note that: confirmed. Not propagated. It was there already as part of their belief system.
Oh...God. Coming from the UK has never been so damning (well, at least not since the whole 'India getting pissed off with oppression' thing).
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There's nothing racist about #5, it's just shameless mudslinging.
"I also agree that your every-day white liberal is just as racist as the average conservative. The only thing I don't understand is this phenomenon of the phrase "politically correct" as some sort of slur against...what? Kindness? Empathy for human beings that might be different from you? I guess I'm just a bleeding-heart p***y, but if a group of people tell me it crushes their soul and ruins their hope and sense of safety and happiness in this world when we use a certain word/stereotype...it doesn't seem like such a big deal for me to just not do that thing. I mean, it seems pretty "whiny" to me for folks to act like someone's proposing we assassinate their grandma when we're simply asking everyone be a bit more polite." QFT. The term has been changed in to a buzz-word now so people have an excuse to blurt out whatever nonsense pops up in their fairly vacant heads.
Though about the offensive. It is probably all in the head. If you are full of prejudice you see it. I now see it, but usually I don't even think in such terms that could enable me even see racism. IF you are full of racism, well then you probably see it right away and enjoy it.
What the f**k is with all this sensitivity lately? Damn, how can you be offended by everything. This is getting beyond ridiculous. Some of the adds are funny, I give em that, but if you get offended by every little bit that is around how can you live? Sue everything that moves?
That jobgenie got sued buy some offened white lady from what I had heard. FYI Kia-Ora Orange Drink is JIGGABOO GOOD! ha ha its like disney racisim.
What the f**k is up with all the essays on comment section? I swear I think someone referenced a book.
What the f**k is up with all the essays on comment section? I swear I think someone referenced a book.
Was this whole article created as a reason to present the kia-ora ad? The title's a little off "8 Racist Ads You Won't Believe Are From the Last Few Years" I don't consider 1984 one of the last few years. That's a quarter of a century ago for f**ks sake. As far as the India ad goes, yes it seems on the surface that the ad is not inherently racist. No more than white people having tanned bronze skin is supposed to be beautiful in some locales such as America. Yes it's being made by Indians and sold to Indians. But! The idea in India that the upper classes have lighter skin than the lower classes because of not having to work in the sun is a misnomer. It's actually related to the (cough cough bulls**t cough) concept of the Aryan race as promoted during the period of British Imperialism and was used by the British to graft themselves into the Indian caste system. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan_race and specifically the section entitled "British Raj." It's the basic equivalent of the slave traders claiming Africans bore the mark of Cain, therefore making it completely OK for white Europeans to enslave them.
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lol, I think it's funny how much anti-racism is prevalent on cracked.com, and yet they are supposed to be some kind of humor site... I mean don't get me wrong, I love cracked, it's just not the place I go to for informed decisions about race, and all of you taking this article and the comments that proceed it so seriously need to take a look at some of the articles on cracked and realize that it is neither infallible nor does it claim to be. What does this have to do with anything? Well my advice is that you guys stop sucking on cracked's dick, stop jumping onto every bandwagon that you can, and learn to think for yourselves. I don't find any of these commercials offensive, and I don't particularly find them racist either. I mean playing off the stereotypes of race as humor isn't really racist, it's stereotyping. Being aware of your market isn't racist, it's marketing. Not realizing that people automatically jump to slavery because they see a group of black people and one white person isn't racist. Changing the names of players so that it fits into the theme that they are from China or whatever, and so that it doesn't seem like two American teams are competing against each other in the finals isn't racist. Insinuating that your political opponent has sex with porn stars isn't racist, nor should it be seen as a smear tactic in my opinion. I don't even come close to seeing how pandas in America having Chinese accents is racist, seeing as pandas are indigenous to China. And come on, just because they mention a black person that does not automatically mean it's racist, I think we can give them the benefit of the doubt and see that it's meant in jest. As for the first one, well it's quite Americocentric to assume that whiteness is automatically associated with race in India. Overall I'd say that this article is humorous, but counterproductive if the author actually meant to cause some kind of critical thinking. If it is a joke, then I think it's funny, and I laughed. But if it is seriously trying to pose that these adverts are racist... well I have to say I think that's retarded.
the panda bear commercial have a racist line at the end saying "You want to see the grizzly bears at the zoo?" (argumentable of course) black people reference maybe?
koshermal is right. In India, and many other Asian countries, whiter skin is seen as beautiful, which is probably less about race and more to do with the fact that the peasants labouring outside in the sun are the darkest, whilst the elite/royalty remain lighter. #1 was hilarious - awful, but hilarious. Only one ad was deliberately derogative of a race to the point of using violence against them, and that was the washing powder one. Whoever was involved with the writing or production of that ad should be tortured and decapitated.
I hate advertising in general... trying to make people feel so bad about themselves that they will give you money to improve something that is wonderful to begin with...well, it's satanic, honestly. As for racism...never understood why anyone is racist...seems a lot of wasted effort.
I gotta admit, I lol'd at the last one, it was so blatantly racist, how could you not have?
In India, it doesn't appear to be a race thing, it's no more than how white people tend to want to be browned by the sun.
Holy s**t! Has anyone else noticed that there have been, like, four or so racism articles in the last month? Wow. What the f**k.
@jaf60: I know I'm going to regret responding to you with actual words and things, but just some advice: there is a thing called a search engine. Google is the name of one of them. You could use it, maybe? Like when you find that a lot of people refer to your internet comments with "OMFG! You racist troll!" You could type in trolls + racist + bulls**t and find a sane-person critique of the "argument" you just gave. Like for the WET/BET example that you find confusing: instead of asking me to clarify, just use the Google to learn more. Try typing "why would a group of individuals that suffered centuries of slavery, genocide, rape, and torture want to form their own groups and teevee channels as a source of pride & solidarity when there are plenty of other oppressor-based groups and teevee programs that feature people from the oppressed group acting out the same stereotypes that encouraged/justified/continue to perpetuate the horrific violence rape abuse genocide and psychological torture of their people for the past 500 years?" Let us know what new knowledge you find!
First, I thought the article was hilarious. Those ads were TERRIBLE. Second, I think 960018 makes a good point. The races are different from a cultural perspective. There's a sociological phenomenon knows as ethnic conditioning that is still alive and well in America. Dave Chapelle talks about it a lot on his show. He notes that he was taught from a young age to fear and distrust police, while his white friends were taught to cooperate with and trust them. Ignoring such a blatant difference in African American vs. European American culture is just as ignorant as indulging in ridiculous race-based stereotypes.
I think the "10 Most Common RaceFails" would make a very funny Cracked article. It would probably, however, lead to deaths by aneurysm for probably a third of the army of insecure Caucasian wusses who come out in their ever-wailing WAHHHHmbluances for threads like this one.
man, so glad u included the pond's ad... i was furious when i watched it... talk abt giving the kids a wrong message.
TheCarolTaylor: What? I've never heard of a hueman race. And if you meant human race, I'm sorry to say this but there is no such thing as a human race. Human is a species. And there are a lot of different races. Trying to ignore this is stupid. Being blind to the many differences between them is stupid. But attacking different races just because they are different is also stupid. I generally think people get offended too easily. But sometimes people really exaggerate with the whole racial division thing. Also, the girl from the first advertisement, the Indian one, who was "too brown": she is f**king hot.
@SayWhatNow at 05:58:11 PM: Since you are such a paragon of equality and perfectly understanding of the proper actions to take whenever people of any color are involved, what exactly makes pointing out that some cultures are okay to celebrate while others are "racist" (the BET-vs.-"WET" argument you mention) racist? Is it insisting that people of any culture should be allowed to celebrate their heritage, or what? The only thing I can see is an appeal to guilt. Also, what exactly is insensitive about skin cream made by Indians, for Indians? Fair skin is considered more attractive there; who are we to force our standards of beauty on them? Oh wait, we're Americans. Enough said, right?
"While this wasn't the best article on Cracked, it always tickles me to see the white, dominant majority that makes up the Cracked readership go apes**t with the typical "you're just looking for racism and that means these aren't valid examples or funny/ I'm not a racist so I don't care about any of this/ BLACK PEOPLE AREW TGHE REAL RASCITS, THEY HATE US LETZ JUST TRY HVING A WHITE PRIDE DAYY AND SEE HW DEY COOMPLAIN" arguments. These ads were funny, they show (supposedly) outdated ideals and stereotyping in a very clear way. Cracked isn't becoming a "wing of the ACLU", but rather pointing out in an irreverent manner that perhaps the ad-men here were being silly and offensive. As the white majority, we'll never get how it feels to be without power, second-class citizens, the clear minority with the majority of culture, education and viewpoints firmly juxtaposed to our worldview. Don't claim it doesn't exist, don't claim you aren't a racist if you were born white and don't take the f**king time out of your day to complain when someone tries to show out the hypocrisy of our culture and society with clear, valid examples. Morons with no concept of depth beyond your own experience. 11/03/2009 05:29:34 AM Bahfiddle" Quoted for those who missed it. Bahfiddle hits the nail on the head. Go read "Unpacking the Invisible Backpack," people. Christ. I really liked the article. And the expression on the face of the washer genie was hilarious.
Holy s**t, that Italian one was messed up! lols!
Is it bad that I am not really bothered by the rampant racism in the final ad, and I am instead bothered with it because crows beaks' totally aren't that color?
So they didn't have color in the 1950's? That explains so much of cartoon history.
jessethacreator, assuming you're American I think it's safe to say that most Americans are poorly educated regarding how many Americans are poorly educated.
SayWhatNow, you rule. That is all.
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Dude!! Number 1!! Seriously, what the f**k?? Jesus Christ, that was hard to watch!!
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@ImpulsiveBanana: Although what you're saying is certainly desirable in some ways, I also find it unrealistic and contributing to paralysis of meaningful conversations about issues like race, gender, faith, etc. If a white politician were to criticize the black community because of their ridiculously high legitimacy rate (the percentage of black children born without fathers is approx. 70%), he'd be dead in the water. It's nice not to offend people, but it also allows people and groups to do whatever they wish without any checks from society at large.
"non-consensual, man-on-man, interracial ramrodding." Bwahaha! That made my night!
The ONLY thing anyone should be intolerant of in this day and age as far as race, gender, orientation, or faith, is intolerance.
I think someone should set out some basic guidelines for the nutcases who willy-nilly go on line to post their comments - you know, some basic intelligent information, like: 1. Most people in this hostile-to-color country haven't been taught by our miseducation sysdumbs exactly WHO are their most distant ancestors - instead of stopping at Europe to claim ancestry - what happened BEFORE Europe? DUH! ALL huemans* are descended from the originating Black Africans in Black Africa; [ref. Dr. Spencer Wells "Journey of Man 1 800 PLAY PBS] 2. For the nutcase who prated about being '...sick of race issues...' - go turn Black - instant compassionate understanding about being of color in a hostile-to-color country like this one - AND you said '...their race...' wrong again, there's only ONE hueman race - there IS no 's' on the word 'race' 3. For a much-needed re-education, take yourselves to 'Racism/Colorism 101 at; www.caroltaylorword.blogspot.com 4. For all of our sakes: then go to www.racismtest.org [posted on www.discussrace.com] take the Test and discover how badly-damaged you've been by the schools you've attended- there's surely a whole lotta' work yet to be done socially! Thanks for alerting us to those nutsy 8 colorist ads! *I put an 'e' in hueman because all huemans have some melanin in 'em - some of us are just a lil' more or less 'rinsed out than others!' (google Dr. Peggy MacIntosh's 'Paper #189' to discover over 45 ways in which whites are 'unearnedly'-privileged)
What I find amazing about our time is that the worst mistake in human relations is to offend someone. We all need thicker skin.
The ONLY thing anyone should be intolerant of in this day and age as far as race, gender, orientation, or faith, is intolerance.
I also agree that your every-day white liberal is just as racist as the average conservative. The only thing I don't understand is this phenomenon of the phrase "politically correct" as some sort of slur against...what? Kindness? Empathy for human beings that might be different from you? I guess I'm just a bleeding-heart p***y, but if a group of people tell me it crushes their soul and ruins their hope and sense of safety and happiness in this world when we use a certain word/stereotype...it doesn't seem like such a big deal for me to just not do that thing. I mean, it seems pretty "whiny" to me for folks to act like someone's proposing we assassinate their grandma when we're simply asking everyone be a bit more polite.
Microsoft/Intel's was the msot appalling to me...I've seen them before, but its still amazing that they thought that was OK, let alone that they would get away with it. To me, that one's worse then the Orange drink commercial. Promoting and reinforcing stereotypes is bad, but pretending black people don't exist is ridiculous.
Cracked, unfortunately it seems that the majority of your readers do not have the education level to understand what racism is and that there is more to it than someone simply exclaiming that their race is better than any other. Therefore, the list of racist commercials, etc. should be removed as they appear to be over-the-head of so many of your readers. There are certain pitfalls when you talk race in America; the majority of Americans are poorly educated and therefore do not understand the history behind certain things. Just how poorly educated Americans are about their own history is demonstrated on a daily basis now that President Obama is in office. The rhetoric used by these "tea-baggers" and "birthers" is ignorant and racially motivated, yet they act like they are just giving a completely relevent opinion on the issue at-hand. Dave Chapelle basically quit his show a few years ago after coming to the realization that many of his viewers weren't educated enough and didn't have much of any understanding on the history of harmful stereotypes and race relations in this country, to truly appreciate his humor. Yes, just about everybody loved his show and thought it was hilarious; but they thought it was hilarious for the wrong reasons. The majority of sketches were over many of his viewers' head. Dave Chapelle himself felt that his sketches were working more to re-enforce harmful stereotypes than to actually start an honest dialogue about race, so he walked away mid-season. I wish articles like the ones posted on Cracked that poke fun at things that most educated people deem as racist could actually spawn honest conversation about race relations. However, the majority of people are too ignorant to understand what is racially-insensitive about the things highlighted and, therefore, aren't able to give any sort of relevent opinion.
"It's worth noting that the whole Playboy bunny thing was a reference to the fact that Ford had attended a 2005 Playboy-sponsored Super Bowl party in Florida. He justified it with a awesomely candid quip: "I like football and I like girls. I have no apologies for that."" LOL, but MENTIONING the fact that hes a self-styled whore is "racist" because, well, because Democrat pundits screamed that it was! And their evidence? Well, you cant have a white woman in an ad about a black man without it being racist ....say Democrats. The same party that says minorities cant make it on their own and need benevolent white liberals' help! No WONDER so many more Republican congressman are in interracial marriages than Democrats! (Yes its a fact, you can look it up) Democrats think color-blindness is evidence of racism!
On a serious note, I do agree w/ the "Nothing is Racist Unless I say So" Crowd about one thing: Calling folks "Uncle Toms" or any of its variants is racist and wrong and hurtful and stupid. Don't do it, liberals. Don't do it anyone.
I think Cracked does articles on racism for the sole purpose of laughing their @sses off at how soul-crushingly ignorant the internets are. It's like...these people have access to computers, the f**king INTERNET-- an unlimited fountain of information and possibility-- and STILL the average level of social & racial critique caps out at "...and if we had WHITE entertainment television everyone would call that RACIST so HA! Break through THAT logistical fortress of a counter-argument!" Seriously, maybe this is all research for their upcoming series: "The Top 10 Failingest Ways People Try to Justify Obvious Racism." Actually, please please please make that an article Cracked. Please?!!!
It's very hard photoshopping with Paint...
Wait; are you saying it was "racism" that would upset "good, upstanding" Americans when they see a woman remark that she saw a man at the Playboy mansion, and then later insinuates some sort of booty call? Because if you have ever heard of a group called "The Religious Right" which is located largely at ground zero for this ad, you'd know how they feel about any sex that wasn't done missionary style and with crippling guilt. It wasn't racist in absolutely any sense at all; in fact, it just proves the Republican point (albeit often exaggerated) that, to some Democrats, attacking their black candidates, ever, or any idea they ever have, is racist (meanwhile, calling black Republicans "Uncle Tom" for daring to be Republican is okay). The playboy thing was stupid, but the rest of the ad was actually a pretty clean ad in the political world.
I saw no racism in #5
#4 wasn't racist either..
Heck, come to think of it, that Ford fellow looks about three-quarters white. If you're going to be all Stormfronty about miscegenation, the man is a walking example of it regardless of whether he also hangs with Playboy bunnies. Actually, if you're going to be all Stormfronty, you're not going to vote for a black man regardless of advertisement gambits, unless you didn't know the guy was black to begin with - which the ad didn't actually show.
Dear Cracked Writer, I was highly offended by your comedy article which I took seriously. It was clearly unoriginal, misleading and was not absolutely accurate in the facts it depicts, as are all absolute necessities when being comical. Frankly, I have grown weary of reading articles on this website (it strains my eyes reading from up on my moral high horse) which I pay for and so am obligated to visit regularly. However, you should not take this two sentence metaphorical stabbing personally as I can confirm for you that i'm merely offering some constructive criticism. Now to conclude in a seemingly polite manner so that I can use it as a defence should anyone attack me at a later date. Kind regards, me (i'm awesome)
#4 wasn't racist either..
I saw no racism in #5
Maybe I'm just missing it, but how is #4 racist? Like the article mentioned this was around the 2008 Olympics and this ad is suppose to show an American team vs a Chinese team. If the actors playing the Chinese team players went by their real names of Bob and Howard the ad would have lost impact. How many Chinese people (that's people that are born and raised in China, not Chinese-Americans/Canadians/whatever) do you think are named Bob or Howard? Not only that but Yang and Lau are perfectly normal, respectable, Chinese names. Had they been named "Ping-Ping" or "Pooh-Pooh" or some other grade school level derogatory spoof then I'd understand, but to criticize an ad for giving a Chinese person a Chinese name not only doesn't make sense but is slightly racist.
I hope someone called Harry Connick Jnr about that last one! Why he'd be angrily covering other people material toot sweet!
puppet84, If you're sick of the race issue......WHY in the FUCK did you click and READ AN ENTIRE article on racist ads??? You f**king retard.
Man, I sure which Cracked would post some more racist articles! I would really enjoy 90% of article topics being racism instead of only 85%! Come on Cracked, step it up! Racist cereal boxes, racist car models, racist racists, the possibilities are endless! Seriously though, more please. Even though the last 12,345 articles about racist somethings in the last couple of months were not funny at all, and were overall ill-informed, I demand more!
#8 is only racist if it's also racist to make advertisements about how a brown tan will improve a white girl's looks. quit frankly i think it's more racist to assume everyone the world over has the same opinion on what is an attractive skin-tone as white americans have (or at least come up with an american advertisement in that same vein, like one of those products that helps black women get straight hair) #7 well, i know boatloads of colored young guys who do not mind all that much about the 'prejudice' of them being sexgods, and are more then eager to prove it's not just a rumor ;) #5 seems to be just the usual smear campaign, no reference to the guy's racial background at all. it should have backfired because trowing mud is maybe not the thing you want your senator to engage in, not because there was anything racist about it. the only black people who call that racist are the ones who WANT to be discriminated against (to become the underdog), and the only white people who complain just like to call other white people racist (and feel morally superior themselves) #1 bit racist perhaps, but it's obviously meant to play in an african desert (and african deserts tend to be full of black persons), and was mostly just a parade of black people, albeit with a bit to much emphasis on their 'black culture'
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I'm so sick of race issues. You can't LITERALLY say that any of these ads are racist. A true racist is someone that thinks that their race is better than any others. They have to believe that they are from a better, more pure heritage than someone from another race, and not one of these ads promotes these ideas. Be insulted if you find them insulting, but you can't call them racist - it demeans the true suffering that persecuted people go through and have been through because of their race. The words 'racist' and 'racism' are thrown about so much by people who are only insulted that it has lost all of its true and horrific meaning. Grow a skin if you honestly think that these ads are racist. If you find them insulting, then fine - be insulted. But don't p***y out and hide behind the word racist just because they hurt your feelings.
Back in 1990, when I was 11, my family visited England and the Kia-Ora ad played all the time - and I remember loving it (especially the song). I never realized how racist it was. Wow! Still, I kinda love the ad. Sorry.
"chocolate people usually associate chocolate with a brown color." Hah! Wow, I was going to type "chocolate is usually associated with the color brown", then decided to write "people usually associate chocolate with the color brown". How many of these people do you think will call me racist now for ending up with a typo that says "chocolate people"? :P
personally I reckon the el paso stand and stuff commerical has an element of racism. everytime is just strikes me that the kid who comes up with the solution comes from the most westernized looking family in the commercial. maybe it's just my imagination!
tonyro33 , how is that axe ad racist? Because they didn't make the guy white chocolate? Disturbing? Retarded? Yeah... but "racist"? Hardly. It's a guy that puts on a body spray and turns to a chocolate man (because the scent is chocolate) and has bits of him tore off by chicks 'cause they love chocolate so much. Though white chocolate does exist, chocolate people usually associate chocolate with a brown color. How is that racist? It's not like he got big lips and started chowing down on watermelons and fried chicken or something. This is why I hate these lists (like the Disney one too). Of course there ARE some things that are blatantly racist, but you can seriously find racism in anything if you look hard enough. For instance, Microsoft turning a black man white is pretty f**ked up (though they were doing it to cater to a certain culture... doesn't really make it any better), but the intel one? Yeah, I'm SURE they said "Let's make an ad where a bunch of them nigs are bowing down to a powerful white man!" I'm so sick of the PC mafia attacking anything they can find racism in after searching for it. In fact, I'd go so far to say the people finding so much racism in things are the racists themselves (why is it so often that the people screaming that something is racist generally seem to be white males?). Just like the repressed h**osexuals that think the teletubbies and spongebob are the result of a h**osexual agenda to turn our kids gay. Maybe you're just seeing what you want to see?
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@Dboz1984: You know, I was going to make a well thought out and intelligent response, but then I realized you are retarded, so it probably wouldn't make any sense to you anyway. Instead, I am going to tell you a joke. What curses allot, smells like rotten fish, and hasn't left his parents basement in 3 years? Also, he ridiculously white - he's almost invisible. Give up? Of course you do! It's you Dboz1984 - now GTFO the internet and kill yourself.
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Does anyone else not give a s**t about racial sensitivity? Because I know I don't, and it seems like it's mostly internet nerds who do... in person nobody talks much about it. Probably because everyone's tired of hearing about it.... *yawn*. The '60s are over. Get a new crusade. I hear the tuna are going extinct, so that should give you something to b***h abou for a while. Make you feel brave and important for making a stand (that only a select group of people give two s**ts about). People who spend their time getting angry about stupid s**t are ridiculous. Oh... and the article was ok, but a few of those were stretching it. You'd have to be a real sensitive little b***h ass to get truly upset over most of those. They were just stupid more than anything.
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personally I reckon the el paso stand and stuff commerical has an element of racism. everytime is just strikes me that the kid who comes up with the solution comes from the most westernized looking family in the commercial. maybe it's just my imagination!
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For anyone that doesn't want to read this article and would prefer a summary here it is. Wahhhhhh wahhh wahhha wahh wahh wahh white people wahh evil wahh dick in my puckering a*****e wahhh.
@ Uncle T... I mean, Slowmotion: Alan Keyes? Is that you?
Slowmotion- I've gotta agree. The ad was sleazy but since when was politics anything but? I don't really see anything in the ad that is racist- in fact if I didn't know the candidate they're disparaging is black then there's nothing in the ad to give me that impression... I mean- if the first thought that crosses your mind upon hearing a white woman be suggestively sexual towards a black man is "they're playing on the fear of racial miscegenation" then maybe you're the one who is overly aware of race? if the woman in the commercial were black would people say "well of course she's black, god forbid he have sexual relations with someone outside of his race"? I just think people can twist things to suit their own purpose at times. maybe I'm missing something major but I just don't see racism here at all
Also, I don't know how this hasn't been taken off the air yet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqGl5Y9DtaA
re number one, i clearly remember it being on tv when i was a kid well into the second half of the 90's. rcivit: why do you write j*panese as j*panese? (dare i ask)
Utterly brilliant. I love how commercials use all white guys and then when they do bring in a minority he is ALWAYS a stereotypical a*****e... okay everyone in a commercial is a stereotypical a*****e but no one cares if they are white.
One of the other funny things about #1is that "kia ora" is Maori for "hello". Maori, of course, are the brown indigenous people of New Zealand, so effectively they named a product with an extremely racist ad after a word used by brown-skinned people. Classy!
Byzgirl...Coon cheese was supposedly named after a guy whose last name was Coon- but there is some contention over that
This should've made the list: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YCZhJwuN-o Depicted there is a stereotypical Asian man hocking the chicken chain of restaurants "Wandos." He wears a rice paddy hat, and speaks Engrish. Later chicken chain "Nandos" claims that their "c**k is bigger than theirs". And worse of all. It's from South Africa.
Wow! You get your panties in a knot when someone says "Aunt Jemima", but its alright for people like whoopie golberg or spike lee to have all black cast in thier crappy movies. Look its Mrs black america or a jet magizine for all the brothers. Its ok for oprah to say that she loves beautiful black men, but its time to riot if a comedian uses the n word. Get a life, boy
Every one from the south is a retard. No exceptions. This may seem like trolling, but if you bother to do a little research, you'll find out it's the truth. Just a plain simple fact.
Does Cracked realize that it has to have something to do with race for it to be racist? She never insinuated Ford had sex with her. Apparently meet now means sex a la Zapp Branigan. The ad was not racist. It pointed out that Ford went to a Playboy party. Whoop dee freaking dee. Before I'm attacked as an angry white conservative. I'm an angry black conservative.
Damn... sometimes I wonder what people's threshold is for calling something racist. Like, does it literally have to be a KKK lynching in backwoods Alabama in 1956? And then everything else is just p***y librulz and n***oes wantin' rights and s**t? Oh and "just because it shows racial stereotypes doesn't mean its racist!" What does that mean? No really, what do those words mean? That is the most nonsensical grouping of morphemes I have ever seen and my brain LITERALLY cannot comprehend that a person can put that statement together and also have the ability to use a computer, read, spell, or wipe their own ass. I do not understand how so many people can be so obscenely devoid of critical thinking skills. These are blatant examples of racist stereotypes and innuendo. There is nothing ambiguous about ANY of this. If a committee were formed to pick "The Most Blatant Examples of Racism in Advertising" these would be the exact choices of that group of minimally intelligent sentient beings. My cat cannot distinguish between real animals and the reflection of himself in the mirror, nor can he understand language, and he just told me these commercials are f**king racist as hell. There is no rational, scientific reason for you all to be so woefully stupid.
antpedro...so because Australia stopped selling an offensively named product in the 1960's that means it couldn't possibly be inherently racist? way to go with the logic there.
To the person who said australia can be inherently racist, the n****r boy licorice hasn't been sold since the 1960's do i really need to go into detail about other racist event happening accross the world during that period? I think its safe to say the entire world was inherently racist around that time.
okay the last one was pretty racist, lol. BUT I cant believe they didnt add the White PSP advertisement where the white chick is next to the black dude and says "white is better"
Ha ha ha ha. The only people that use the term 'racist' are spineless americans.
If the ping pong players were called by their real names, someone who didn't do their research would point out that it was racist yet again because they'd think Vitamin Water felt that the names had to be American-ized. The ads are racist believe me, but just sayin. Also, I kinda felt like the first ad shown was probably the 2nd worst but I guess that's debatable.
I think that position #2 should be for the current ad campaign of McDonalds in Japan. It portraits us western guys as stupid, forever linguistically challenged individuals, in an ad catering to the inherent racism underlaying in Japanese society. What is terrible is that ad (or series of ads) was not made for a j*panese company but for a multinational company like McDonalds. If they had shown, let us say, racial j*panese stereotypes in a campaign in the USA, there would have been lawsuits flying all around and there would be blood. More on this on racism watchdog Arudou Debito's website : http://www.debito.org/?p=4136 In justice, I would only award it #2, because, well, the crows in this ranking's #1 spot are just way too much to top.
@Tonyro I'm pretty sure they had already used that video in another article.
I honestly cannot believe this was left out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgfzdgWgEZ4
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wow, ByzGirl, you Aussie's take the cake in racism. There aren't even words to describe that licorice at all. Well, that is, no words other than the ones they already used.
Anytime anywhere BobDobolina. Anytime anywhere.
That Harold Ford guy is whiter than I am. I'd bet people had to have been told that he was black, 'cause you wouldn't know by looking at him. He looks like my dad.
Australia can be, at times, inherently racist. We have a brand of cheddar cheese called Coon. Yeah. We used to have licorice...well, just google 'racist licorice australia' because I don't feel the need to repeat it here.
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Okay s**theads, what seems to be the problem here? Some of you goons see these commercials for the first time and are surprisingly shocked by it's content, and the overwhelming majority of you white kids just don't feel it's racist enough. There has to be a middle ground where we can all agree that the rich, white-bread, out-of-touch, suit-wearing bigots who put these commercials together are doing this sort of s**t on purpose just to get a desired effect. It gets people talking, and controversy is a better method of selling more Raisin Bran, or whatever the f**k they're advertising. It has to come to a point where......... ah, who am I kidding. As I read these comments, it was like a transcript of that scene in the Cafe 80's where Ronald Reagan and the Ayatollah Khomaini were angrily repeating themselves until Marty ordered the f**kin' Pepsi. Ya'll need to figure this s**t out for yourselves. I'm outta here.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! That Kia-Ora thing was the funniest ad I've ever seen. Holy s**t! I seriously expected one of the crows to say something along the lines of "Drink dis s**t, or we'll f**k yo' women." I fully would have endorsed Kia-ora until motorcycleboy pointed out it was British.
haha, good god. They manage to fit every black stereotype except a blackman eating some chicken into #1.
Might be for the best that I do not tell you the name of the liquorice they used to make in Australia. The factory was actually just down the road from me and is now a Jewish restaurant.
Really? That guy in #8 passed up that darker skinned chick? For that gold-digging c**t who's a 6 at best? That's the stupidest ad I've ever seen. I wouldn't believe that in a second. By the way the ad's sexist as hell too. It says, "Hey, ladies. Did your man leave you for another woman. Well, you're worthless without him. You better alter your appearance dramatically because that woman is better than you. If you don't have him, then you might as well kill yourself." Geez, I normally complain about the Axe ads being sexist towards men, but this is a hundred times worse.
Mentioning the Playboy party isn't racist. It's intended to paint Ford as sleazy, not to make a big deal about the fact that she's white. The point is that he sleeps with bimbos, not that he sleeps with white women. To try and make it racist by assuming that it's about misegration and that the audience is racist is sterotyping on you end.
@ MotorcycleBoy: Nice try. Nobody buys that you're that stupid though.
The political ad wasn't racist, just so right-wing it was offensive. Also: In the Olympics the USA doesn't go against itself (hence the Asians, who were, you know, probably chosen because the Olympics were in China that year...), and Vitamin Water is an American product to the best of my knowledge (hence it being used by Americans.) That's not racism, it's a logical setup for a commercial. Oftentimes it's overly political-correct people who end up sounding the most racist in the end.
I love the stuff on Cracked, but articles like this (funny as they are) sometimes leave me scratching my head-do you just not know what the word "racist" means?
Look, obviously everyone agrees with political party candidate Jesse Obama, silly whining insensitive bulls**t. Hispanics. Offensive garbage, white southern racist hypocrisy. Persecuted PC fearmongering idiots realize Cracked article humor proves my point.
Just because something portrays a stereotype, it doesn't make it racist. I loved that Kia-Ora ad when I was little - any UK resident aged 28-35 will have fond memories of it. It doesn't portray black people in a derogitary way - it just exaggerates some characteristics that some black people have. So what? Think I'd be upset by an ad with a white lawyer walking like a geek? why stress about some jiving faux-jamaicans? Is it racist whenever we refer to racial differences whatever the context? How absurd. The only unpleasantly racist ad on this list was the one for skin whitening in India. That was horrible.
Say what you want about the other 7, but the Kia-Ora commercial justifies this article on its own. I looked it up a while back so I could understand the reference to it on Spaced.
WTF? I only hit submit once, I swear.
Just because something portrays a stereotype, it doesn't make it racist. I loved that Kia-Ora ad when I was little - any UK resident aged 28-35 will have fond memories of it. It doesn't portray black people in a derogitary way - it just exaggerates some characteristics that some black people have. So what? Think I'd be upset by an ad with a white lawyer walking like a geek? why stress about some jiving faux-jamaicans? Is it racist whenever we refer to racial differences whatever the context? How absurd. The only unpleasantly racist ad on this list was the one for skin whitening in India. That was horrible.
@ HailAnts: Ha ha ha! You're so right! Man, nigras shore are funny to laugh at! And don't get me started on the Chinese! Ha ha ha! Check this out - a chinga chonga chong chang ching! Ha ha ha, that sounds JUST like a Chinese person, aint' that great! @ Moony: They sure are! It's because non-white people are so damn funny! Ha ha ha, like when they try to read, or say something intelligent! What's that, darkie? A booga booga booga! Ha ha ha, stereotypes are awesome, and don't reflect a stunning lack of ignorance AT ALL!
If something has more white people than black people in it, it is RACIST! If something has black people somehow portrayed as not superior to white people, it is RACIST! If anything, no matter what the context, shows something associated with whiteness better than something associated with blackness, it is RACIST! ...come on. This bulls**t has to stop. But political b***hing aside, the article was okay, not great, and too obsessed with screaming racism on everything to be funny. I've lived in America long enough to get used to guilty white liberals apologizing for everything, so I'm not complaining of oversensitivity if it's funny. Which it isn't.
@ HailAnts: Ha ha ha! You're so right! Man, nigras shore are funny to laugh at! And don't get me started on the Chinese! Ha ha ha! Check this out - a chinga chonga chong chang ching! Ha ha ha, that sounds JUST like a Chinese person, aint' that great! @ Moony: They sure are! It's because non-white people are so damn funny! Ha ha ha, like when they try to read, or say something intelligent! What's that, darkie? A booga booga booga! Ha ha ha, stereotypes are awesome, and don't reflect a stunning lack of ignorance AT ALL!
They missed the subtle reference towards (Orange Drink) ... kinda like the Dave Chappelle grape drink skit. Oh well.... we drink lot's of grape and orange "drink" in our house... :-)
Stereotypes are stereotypes for a reason.
I still don't see the Vitamin water commercial as racist, especially since the players in question were portraying Chinese players as opposed to Chinese American players so that one really doesn't belong on the list.
Yes, and so is mocking that same humor, as well as mocking that mockery of that same humor, and so forth. Oversensitivity is oversensitivity. Not being able to laugh at stuff that mocks alleged racism because it spreads "political correctness" is being an incredibly tightly wound ball of panties. It does cut both ways, like it or not.
I don't care if it's racist; I still love that Vitamin Water commercial.
You guys are so funny, but you're such politically correct pussies! Get over it. Racist humor is freakin' funny. Always will be. Lordy there be biscuits fo' dinner tongiht!!
wait.. the uk had a maori-named orange drink?
ItalianGoddess to say I am stereotyping the south is inaccurate. I didn't say that everyone in the south felt that way,what I said is that it was an issue for many, which it is. I was raised by southerners, and I have spent a lot of time in Alabama and Missouri, so for you to say no one feels that way makes me think you walk around with blinders on. I have an aunt who is married to a black man. When she goes south to visit my grandmother he stays at home, because my grandma knows her neighbors would not be very accepting of the situation. I read your comments and I realize that you don't understand how political ads work. You also are pretty much full of s**t when you talk about the Republican party and the use of race. I don't know maybe you are just one of those people who insist that your ideology is right and refuse to acknowledge the missteps, then again maybe you are just an idiot.
The Senate race between Republican Bob Corker and Democrat Harold Ford confused me for a minute. The area that I am from isn't racist and I am not that old so the insinuation that a black man was sleeping with a white woman (gasp) didn't really click at first. The link from that section syas that Bob didn't approve of the commerical so it was unexpected and the link did not say if the people who made the commerical were trying to be racist, but given how sleazy the rest of the commerical was, its not much of a stretch to say that it is racism. People will do anything to win elections.
I really like the Italian one with the hot black guy. I don't really see how that's racist, unless we're going for the 'white guys just aren't as hot' angle, which in the case of the two guys in the vid, the black guy was way hotter. I mean, come on, he was smokin!
Politics always ruins the comment section. Italiangoddess, do you think calling people retards, morons and dumbassess will get your point across? You are just an angry c**t.
Yeah, none of these except for the last one were really all that racist. But I figure the joke in this article is pointing out the humor in oversensitivity regarding race relations. Or maybe I'm thinking too much for Cracked.
OMG... that last one... perhaps the funniest of all of them, but wow... "At least the last word wasn't watermelon."
Salesgenie also had an ad for Indian people too. It ALSO featured during the Super Bowl. Seen them lately? I didn't think so.
I remember the Kia-Ora advert! And I am duly ashamed of my country...
I always hate Cracked's articles on race because they always seem to stretch their examples to a rediculous degree. I didn't really find any of these all that offensive (accept for the last one of course), but Mr. HIll seems to be the type who would look at a commercial with a black guy and a white guy riding in a car and realise that *GASP* the black guy's in the passenger seat and instantly mark it as racist. #3,#4, and #5 didn't seem racist to me at all.
@ italiangoddess,. You obviously don't understand subtlelty do you? as ThatJeff point it out , it was people from Tennesse who undestood the underlying message "black man, going out with white woman, outrage!", and of course, when your whole ad is a smear campaign that touches on people's sensibilities and paranoia suggesting for example tha tthe democratic party wants to do nothing about north Korea, the candidate is sleazy for taking money from a multibillion corporation, touching on gun control, and god knows waht else cuz I don't live in Tennesse, than you can dismiss the ad as more propaganda (regardless of waht party it comes from), or simply, sit back, let the brain washing begi. And you obviiously have been living in a cave for the past year, since the right has been, using racism from the start, like starting the rumor that Obama was not born in the Us, pretty much every other pundit calling Obama a racist, and accussin the president of being Hittler reincarnated, whose aim is to indoctriante our childrem in order to raise a Nazi army which will carry out the 2nd Holocaust through death panels, and have us all some day getting rations a-la Cold war era soviet Union.
It's too Orangey for crows.
I hit my adolescence in what might have been the apex of political correctness, when garbagemen nationwide were demanding to be called "sanitation engineers," I was "height-challenged" instead of just plain short, and the street gangs of popular media embraced all ethnicities. This list just made me laugh, except for that last one, which was horrific. And Microsoft's half-assed whitewash job is mystifying - do the Polish have a hate-on for blacks or something?
So Poland is okay with Asian dudes in ads, but not black dudes? You need to have some consistency in your racism, you stupid Pollacks.
200 years???!!!! wow, i hope he doesn't speak for that whole race bc if i had to live through the apologies for all that time i would be out of here quick
Doesnt that simian {at best} 50 cent own about half of the stock of vitamin water?
I think you are really reaching with #4 they just substituted the names Howard and Bob because Urlacher and Ortiz were playing the Chinese team and when was the last time you saw someone born and raised in China named Bob and Howard? not too often...
The people saying "That stuff is not racist, it's just you people being oversensitive" also need to chill the f**k out. Since they're majority, they find very easy to avoid thinking about why racial stereotypes are still present in the modern world. Basically, they're pointing out that, as long as there's no people in white robes hanging black guys, these ads are supposed to be just s**t jokes.
man was that last one super racist. the whole thing was over the top, and then at the end with the two black crows working their asses off carrying the piano just made it terrible
There is nothing wrong with being Politically correct since PC is about having the decency to consider that others might be offended. Anyone who complains about how PC has changed things need to get their heads out of their asses and the rest of themselves into the 21st century because we live in a society barely beginning to recuperate from the wounds of racism. Wounds that I doubt will heal for another 200 years.
@ ThatJeff, you are retarded to assume that the Republican party was using the race card in # 5! Where in the ad did they mention race moron? That is why people know that Democrats and Liberals are the ones who are really racists! They are the ones who will pull out the stupid race card saying Republicans and Conservatives are racists! If anything, it's the Democrats and Liberals who seem to be more racists. Us Republicans(ok, MOST Republicans at least) don't have a problem with black candidates, asian candidates, or hispanic candidates! What we DO have a problem with is when the black candidate, hispanic candidate, asian candidate, white candidate(yes white people too), Democratic party, or Liberal party will use race as a way to get into office. Like Obama! Remember, it was the Democrats and Liberals who kept mentioning the fact that Obama is black(technically half-black) and that it would be a historical moment for him to win! And it was the black community(NOT ALL blacks) who was AND still IS b***hing that people don't like Obama because he's black or because they don't want a black man as President! Uh hello, maybe we don't like Obama because of his Liberal views and politics dumbasses?!?! Hence, they are the ones who use racism to THEIR advantage!! I feel sorry for you ThatJeff for drinking from the Obama kool aid tank! MORON!
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Sooooo weird watching the last one as a New Zealander. Maori have their own racist stereotypes that they deal with - to then superimpose their language over another country's outdated racist stereotypes seems bad taste to a surreal degree!
Lol.....I kind of find it funny that Harold Jr is being called black. He is probably 1/4 african at the most. Lol, He could play with both sides and get a lot of votes. Most african americans have an european ancestor. # 58 percent of African Americans have at least 12.5 percent European ancestry (equivalent of one great-grandparent); # 19.6 percent of African Americans have at least 25 percent European ancestry (equivalent of one grandparent); # 1 percent of African Americans have at least 50 percent European ancestry (equivalent of one parent); and # 5 percent of African Americans have at least 12.5 percent Native American ancestry (equivalent to one great-grandparent) Now that DNA tracing and ancestry has come along, it is evident that Race is just a social construct. An effective way of reducing competition for women and resources. Pretty nice website below. You can check out the human journey till now. https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/index.html
Rivrevio, that's what happens when the refresh button is pushed! That's what happened to me. I'm not intentionally trying to have multiple posts. I just press the refresh button to see new comments made by other people! @ dmophatty, thank you for agreeing with me. People(like I said, blacks, hispanics, Liberal turds, and guilt ridden white people) need to just chill out already and stop assuming that every commercial, every song, every joke, every news station(i.e. FOX news that the Liberal retards are trying to say are racists) etc. is just being racists! @ BobDobolina, shut the hell up! I already corrected myself dumbass! I meant nobody from where I live has a problem with interracial couples! Grow up moron!
seriously you have to be looking pretty hard to even TRY to be offended at most of them, and the others really are borderline overly politically correct
A couple of these examples were grasping at straws. The politician was doing a lot of mudslinging, but I found no ethnic stereotypes. As for the Asian badminton team, I got the impression that it was the Americans playing the Chinese. After the victory, they showed the two Russians that were beaten. How was that racist?
Man, I was so hoping the Harold Ford commercial wouldn't come up, mainly because I got sick and tired of seeing it before it got yanked. As a Tennessean, yes, there are folks who would (and did) see it as a "there's a black man trying to mix with white women! How dare he!!" I was mainly irritated by it because it was showing the RNC directly meddling with state politics. Before the Republicans decided they HAD to have Corker in a Senate seat, the ads were kind of lame on both sides. Then, almost overnight, the Republican ads more or less looked like the one above. They knew they were playing the race card, but it was a "win at all costs" deal which worked for them. Made me change my party allegiance.
and i agree with the guy below me, and yeah, the multipost thing is kinda annoying.
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I find most of these ads were "racist" like Saturday morning cartoons were "violent". It depends on how overly sensitive you are and/or if you have a bug up your ass about the subject.
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Random240. I think the multiposts are an accident by people refreshing and trying to see more comments. At least it was for me. Fuck I did it a lot
@ jjsaccar, let me correct myself. I meant to say nobody where I live has a problem with interracial couples. Sorry!
LOL, I don't know what's more pathetic, people trying to have deep debates about racism on Cracked, or how many times they're hitting refresh and multiposting.
#8 is not a racist ad. It does point out a modern-day societal problem and it displays a standard that a particular society has set, but there's no "racism" involved. The same as in the West,"skinny" has been set as standard in society that equals "beautiful", in a lot of Asia, including India and China, lighter skin equals beautiful. In China, many women walk around with large umbrellas on sunny days to make sure they don't tan. They aren't being "racist" (there's only one "race" involved in these cases), its a societal standard. It may be rooted in the belief that if you're modern and of higher class, you don't need to work in the field out in the sun. Hence, you don't tan--only "peasants" tan.
I hate Vitamin Water
Awwww, I liked that vitamin water ad too. . . too bad I found out way later after it came out that those guys are actually real badminton players. Also, I agree with Italiangoddess: People need to relax. When we start worrying about being PC, we've got nothing else to worry about. We should probably realize that life is good instead of trying to find things that aren't really wrong in the world. And by "we" I mean everyone but me. I'm alright.
Whoops, pwned by jisaccar, I see.
italiangoddess: "I live in the south and NOBODY has that kind of mentality" Tell it to Keith Bardwell: http://www.hammondstar.com/articles/2009/10/15/top_stories/8847.txt
i agree with your point italiangoddess but i live in the south too and it's downright stupid to say that nobody in the south thinks that interracial couples are bad. Hell, it's presumptuous to say that about the North.
@ jjsaccar, let me correct myself. I meant to say nobody where I live has a problem with interracial couples. Sorry!
@ Tartra, I'm only pointing out the obvious! Maybe you should try it sometime! Not everything is about racism you know!
i agree with your point italiangoddess but i live in the south too and it's downright stupid to say that nobody in the south thinks that interracial couples are bad. Hell, it's presumptuous to say that about the North.
that last ad was shockingly funny
To Oserik, are you aware that you are STEREOTYPING the south? # 5 is NOT about how people are offended for seeing black people and white people together. I live in the south and NOBODY has that kind of mentality where they think a black person and a white person shouldn't be together! And before you idiots call me some kind of a southern hillbilly racist, I am NOT from the south(I was born in England) and my older sister is dating a black guy who my WHOLE family thinks is great! And if you look at the ad, people are "offended" because of what the people in the ad were saying what they would "do" if Ford was elected(like the man who said when he dies he will pay taxes)! Politicians always have ads that attack each other. There is NO racism in that ad whatsoever. People(mainly blacks, hispanics, and white people who are Liberal retards or those who are so guilt ridden for the slavery issue) who will find any excuse(like Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson) to say something is racists only PROVES that THEY themselves are ones who are racist! Like my last post said, GROW THE FUCK UP ALREADY PEOPLE!!
Not bad. I had a few chuckles and the the five-parter was extremely entertaining. Good work. @italiangoddess Dude. It's called 'breathing'. Try it sometime.
ya my bad too. i didn't know refresh did that
(sorry about double post)
People, stop hitting "refresh."
Fine, for the sake of a reasoned debate and a respected opinion i'll give it to you. That must have sucked really bad and i couldn't imagine it because i didn't come from there. But that was a day when i hope we can all agree that most white people were very racist. I would like to think we live in a new culture in which it is at least a little better. My point was that some of these were not racist at all but merely stupid mistakes or just advertising with a message that enforces a stereotype. I just hate that people are so quick to ring the racism alarm sometimes when there isn't anything there. To me this article reinforces the harmful stereotype that whites are racist and i disagree. comments? (without calling me a racist please)
Fine, for the sake of a reasoned debate and a respected opinion i'll give it to you. That must have sucked really bad and i couldn't imagine it because i didn't come from there. But that was a day when i hope we can all agree that most white people were very racist. I would like to think we live in a new culture in which it is at least a little better. My point was that some of these were not racist at all but merely stupid mistakes or just advertising with a message that enforces a stereotype. I just hate that people are so quick to ring the racism alarm sometimes when there isn't anything there. To me this article reinforces the harmful stereotype that whites are racist and i disagree. comments? (without calling me a racist please)
I'm sorry but # 5 is NOT racists at all! All the ad was talking about was what the people would be "doing" if Ford was elected! I agree with dudewhat. How the f**k is that ad racists? Politicians always have ads that attack each other! That's not race-baiting. People read way too much into commercials and what not! And I also agree with GrizzledBastard as well. Enough with this politically correct bulls**t! And there were like only a couple of ads that are considered offensive. And if you want to be politically correct, then you need to get on to all the minorities(like Al Sharpton, Jessie Jackson, Rev. Wright, Sonia Sotomayor,etc.) who ALWAYS use the race card to get their way and say that ONLY white people are racists(which is total bulls**t)! If anyone is racists(or should I say MORE racists) and uses race-baiting, it is blacks and hispanics! Now go ahead, call me a bigot and racist because I'm NOT actually being politically correct(like you Liberal retards want me to be) and not sucking up to minorities(because I'm NOT filled with white guilt like you want me to be)! Grow the f**k up already people! Not everything is about race(which is what black people and hispanic people want it to ALWAYS be about) retards! No wonder our society is so f**ked up!!! How pathetic!
Fine, for the sake of a reasoned debate and a respected opinion i'll give it to you. That must have sucked really bad and i couldn't imagine it because i didn't come from there. But that was a day when i hope we can all agree that most white people were very racist. I would like to think we live in a new culture in which it is at least a little better. My point was that some of these were not racist at all but merely stupid mistakes or just advertising with a message that enforces a stereotype. I just hate that people are so quick to ring the racism alarm sometimes when there isn't anything there. To me this article reinforces the harmful stereotype that whites are racist and i disagree. comments? (without calling me a racist please)
As for the Polish Microsoft advertisement - as someone remarked, "if you are selling Guinness in Nigeria you show happy black drinkers". Right? It's not too difficult to grasp. There's probably like 0.01% of Black people in Poland, so the original version would look a bit silly. Not because the man is black, but because it would be so obviously copy'n'pasted. Just as you wouldn't simply subtitle, or dub Irish beer commercials to air them in aforementioned Nigeria. If they didn't use Photoshop, but just took another picture, of a different bunch of employees (had they been Microsoft Poland actual employees, my money is on that ALL of them would be white) - noone would whine about it. As for Yang and Lau, I believe they starred as Chinese (Chinese Chinese, not American Chinese) players, representing the state of China. Not every country in the world names their children Bob or Joe. Hence Chinese people born in China typically don't have American names. Although it's only my hypothesis of course, it seems more plausible to me. After all, the commercial makes it quite clear that the match is taking place abroad ("Hong Kong", Asian billboards etc.). Why would "David and Bryan" play "Howard and Bob" in Asia?? The commercial tries to hit a sport-related patriotic note, which you may think is bad, but it's not racist as such. Of course, if you wish to see racism everywhere - no problem. It's so easy. There are people who choose to see Jewish conspiracy everywhere, and they don't have much difficulty with it. And it's pretty much the same mechanism of paranoia. Obviously I'm against persecutions, unfair discrimination etc., but trivialising racism is counter-productive. When everything is called racist, it doesn't really mean anything anymore. Stop word inflation.
As for the Polish Microsoft advertisement - as someone remarked, "if you are selling Guinness in Nigeria you show happy black drinkers". Right? It's not too difficult to grasp. There's probably like 0.01% of Black people in Poland, so the original version would look a bit silly. Not because the man is black, but because it would be so obviously copy'n'pasted. Just as you wouldn't simply subtitle, or dub Irish beer commercials to air them in aforementioned Nigeria. If they didn't use Photoshop, but just took another picture, of a different bunch of employees (had they been Microsoft Poland actual employees, my money is on that ALL of them would be white) - noone would whine about it. As for Yang and Lau, I believe they starred as Chinese (Chinese Chinese, not American Chinese) players, representing the state of China. Not every country in the world names their children Bob or Joe. Hence Chinese people born in China typically don't have American names. Although it's only my hypothesis of course, it seems more plausible to me. After all, the commercial makes it quite clear that the match is taking place abroad ("Hong Kong", Asian billboards etc.). Why would "David and Bryan" play "Howard and Bob" in Asia?? The commercial tries to hit a sport-related patriotic note, which you may think is bad, but it's not racist as such. Of course, if you wish to see racism everywhere - no problem. It's so easy. There are people who choose to see Jewish conspiracy everywhere, and they don't have much difficulty with it. And it's pretty much the same mechanism of paranoia. Obviously I'm against persecutions, unfair discrimination etc., but trivialising racism is counter-productive. When everything is called racist, it doesn't really mean anything anymore. Stop word inflation.
Dudewhat, it isn't about hypersensitivity. The ad was from the American south where many still view the idea of a black man and white woman being together as wrong. The ad itself isn't overtly racist, but as the article states it is race baiting. The ad plays on fears and hatreds that are deep seeded and racially based. Ford is black not part black. I agree that he doesn't look it in the pics in the article, but if you see him on MSNBC he is darker then these images make him appear.
More seriously, @dudewhat: "I've thought about it very hard, but I really don't see where the racist part is in #5." Not hard to spot, but you have to know something about American political culture first. Harold Ford is most certainly recognizable as "black" in the American Southern context. (Maybe that's not true in the Netherlands, I'm not sure.) The fear of the white race being miscegenated into nonexistence at the hands of virile bucks is a central trope of racism in the States, and especially Southern racism, going way, way back. Therefore when an ad happens to turn up targeting a candidate like Ford featuring a blonde floozy talking up his virility, it's not rocket science to connect the dots. (In fact, though attack ads are commonplace in American campaigns, the ad stood out in that one for being unusual. Nobody would think of attacking a white candidate this way.)
what, so #5 was racist because it was an attack ad against a black man? an ad that did not mention anything about race or even hint at it?
Fine, for the sake of a reasoned debate and a respected opinion i'll give it to you. That must have sucked really bad and i couldn't imagine it because i didn't come from there. But that was a day when i hope we can all agree that most white people were very racist. I would like to think we live in a new culture in which it is at least a little better. My point was that some of these were not racist at all but merely stupid mistakes or just advertising with a message that enforces a stereotype. I just hate that people are so quick to ring the racism alarm sometimes when there isn't anything there. To me this article reinforces the harmful stereotype that whites are racist and i disagree. comments? (without calling me a racist please)
Fine, for the sake of a reasoned debate and a respected opinion i'll give it to you. That must have sucked really bad and i couldn't imagine it because i didn't come from there. But that was a day when i hope we can all agree that most white people were very racist. I would like to think we live in a new culture in which it is at least a little better. My point was that some of these were not racist at all but merely stupid mistakes or just advertising with a message that enforces a stereotype. I just hate that people are so quick to ring the racism alarm sometimes when there isn't anything there. To me this article reinforces the harmful stereotype that whites are racist and i disagree. comments? (without calling me a racist please)
Fine, for the sake of a reasoned debate and a respected opinion i'll give it to you. That must have sucked really bad and i couldn't imagine it because i didn't come from there. But that was a day when i hope we can all agree that most white people were very racist. I would like to think we live in a new culture in which it is at least a little better. My point was that some of these were not racist at all but merely stupid mistakes or just advertising with a message that enforces a stereotype. I just hate that people are so quick to ring the racism alarm sometimes when there isn't anything there. To me this article reinforces the harmful stereotype that whites are racist and i disagree. comments? (without calling me a racist please)
Ah finally someone points out the ludicrousness of Indian skin lightener ads (yes, there are many of them, and some are even targetted at men! Why do men need fair skin? Its the women who need to watch out!)
I'm sorry but # 5 is NOT racists at all! All the ad was talking about was what the people would be "doing" if Ford was elected! I agree with dudewhat. How the f**k is that ad racists? Politicians always have ads that attack each other! That's not race-baiting. People read way too much into commercials and what not! And I also agree with GrizzledBastard as well. Enough with this politically correct bulls**t! And there were like only a couple of ads that are considered offensive. And if you want to be politically correct, then you need to get on to all the minorities(like Al Sharpton, Jessie Jackson, Rev. Wright, Sonia Sotomayor,etc.) who ALWAYS use the race card to get their way and say that ONLY white people are racists(which is total bulls**t)! If anyone is racists(or should I say MORE racists) and uses race-baiting, it is blacks and hispanics! Now go ahead, call me a bigot and racist because I'm NOT actually being politically correct(like you Liberal retards want me to be) and not sucking up to minorities(because I'm NOT filled with white guilt like you want me to be)! Grow the f**k up already people! Not everything is about race(which is what black people and hispanic people want it to ALWAYS be about) retards! No wonder our society is so f**ked up!!! How pathetic!
Dudewhat, it isn't about hypersensitivity. The ad was from the American south where many still view the idea of a black man and white woman being together as wrong. The ad itself isn't overtly racist, but as the article states it is race baiting. The ad plays on fears and hatreds that are deep seeded and racially based. Ford is black not part black. I agree that he doesn't look it in the pics in the article, but if you see him on MSNBC he is darker then these images make him appear.
Fine, for the sake of a reasoned debate and a respected opinion i'll give it to you. That must have sucked really bad and i couldn't imagine it because i didn't come from there. But that was a day when i hope we can all agree that most white people were very racist. I would like to think we live in a new culture in which it is at least a little better. My point was that some of these were not racist at all but merely stupid mistakes or just advertising with a message that enforces a stereotype. I just hate that people are so quick to ring the racism alarm sometimes when there isn't anything there. To me this article reinforces the harmful stereotype that whites are racist and i disagree. comments? (without calling me a racist please)
Fine, for the sake of a reasoned debate and a respected opinion i'll give it to you. That must have sucked really bad and i couldn't imagine it because i didn't come from there. But that was a day when i hope we can all agree that most white people were very racist. I would like to think we live in a new culture in which it is at least a little better. My point was that some of these were not racist at all but merely stupid mistakes or just advertising with a message that enforces a stereotype. I just hate that people are so quick to ring the racism alarm sometimes when there isn't anything there. To me this article reinforces the harmful stereotype that whites are racist and i disagree. comments? (without calling me a racist please)
As for the Polish Microsoft advertisement - as someone remarked, "if you are selling Guinness in Nigeria you show happy black drinkers". Right? It's not too difficult to grasp. There's probably like 0.01% of Black people in Poland, so the original version would look a bit silly. Not because the man is black, but because it would be so obviously copy'n'pasted. Just as you wouldn't simply subtitle, or dub Irish beer commercials to air them in aforementioned Nigeria. If they didn't use Photoshop, but just took another picture, of a different bunch of employees (had they been Microsoft Poland actual employees, my money is on that ALL of them would be white) - noone would whine about it. As for Yang and Lau, I believe they starred as Chinese (Chinese Chinese, not American Chinese) players, representing the state of China. Not every country in the world names their children Bob or Joe. Hence Chinese people born in China typically don't have American names. Although it's only my hypothesis of course, it seems more plausible to me. After all, the commercial makes it quite clear that the match is taking place abroad ("Hong Kong", Asian billboards etc.). Why would "David and Bryan" play "Howard and Bob" in Asia?? The commercial tries to hit a sport-related patriotic note, which you may think is bad, but it's not racist as such. Of course, if you wish to see racism everywhere - no problem. It's so easy. There are people who choose to see Jewish conspiracy everywhere, and they don't have much difficulty with it. And it's pretty much the same mechanism of paranoia. Obviously I'm against persecutions, unfair discrimination etc., but trivialising racism is counter-productive. When everything is called racist, it doesn't really mean anything anymore. Stop word inflation.
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"Oh i think i found that violin Bobdobolina was looking for. I've got it right here Bahfiddle" jjsaccar- Proved my point there man, believe it or not. Just wallow in that ignorance, instead of listening to reasoned debate and appeal for at least empathy if understanding is impossible.
Enough with all this politically correct crap. There were maybe 2 ads here that were offensive. The rest are just stupid mistakes that a bunch of whiney little sensitive pussies read way too much into. How stereotype jokes has freaking Cracked.com made recently and yet here they are, calling the kettle um...black.
I hate these "racist" articles. They're not only boring, but usually total reaches, like the previous article about the racist movies that had 500 comments lambasting the author. Come on Cracked, you gave us a great article yesterday on those six gawd-awful towns to live in. Well, at least there are no zombie articles today.
Oh i think i found that violin Bobdobolina was looking for. I've got it right here Bahfiddle
I've thought about it very hard, but I really don't see where the racist part is in #5. First off: is that guy in the pictures the white guy or the black guy? Second: what is racist about the video? I thought it was customary for American political candidates to fling poop at each other during elections. And yes, the video is ridiculous and I can't imagine how stupid you'd have to be to believe that, but what's racist about it? Seriously, I don't know. I'm Dutch, I don't have the American hypersensitivity to racism.
Oh i think i found that violin Bobdobolina was looking for. I've got it right here Bahfiddle
Oh i think i found that violin Bobdobolina was looking for. I've got it right here Bahfiddle
Oh i think i found that violin Bobdobolina was looking for. I've got it right here Bahfiddle
@Davita_Cutita- Very well put and agree with you that Dave Chappelle is a f**king genius. And cheers on the interracial Babies *Terrorist Fist Bump*
Why Americans insist with the one-drop rule?? That guy Ford probably had one black great-grandfather. That's it. I also fail to see the "racial" element in the ad agains him...
I want to marry Bahfiddle so we can have interracial babies and make the world a better place. Best comment ever. BobDobolina, you're a close second. Awesome. As a young Black female, I think this article is HILARIOUS. This article is about racism, not necessarily White people who are racist (notice my lack of generalizing?) so for everyone griping, lighten the f**k up. This article is not about you, your opinion or White people as a whole--it's not even about non-White people. It's about racism in ads. This article isn't as great as let's say "Chappelle Show" in getting its points across, but I can't knock anybody who tries to point obviously racist stuff like this out and try to make it funny--more power to you, Mark Hill!! *Does Black Panther salute*
"I just think many whites are sick of having to tiptoe around racism when many are really not racist. Many of these videos are hilariously racist yes but there are many other races who are highly racist but never get called out on it." Once again, it's about the responsibility of the dominant culture... We have it easy in relation to this stuff, and I can't say it any other way. You think a black person saying honky is as racist as an entire culture being different than you, and then all of their culture and media playing you off as inferior? It's getting better, for sure, you just still don't get it. Can you imagine growing up as a black child in a era where the only black people you could relate to in modern culture were the crows in Dumbo? No, you can't. Or to grow up as an Asian American in an era where there couldn't be an Asians on tv, so David Carradine (a great actor, but one with no martial arts experience) was hired to play a martial arts expert in Kung Fu over Bruce Li? You don't get the feeling, so don't complain about this by lumping it into a PC debate. Racism is wrong, and it needs to be addressed as such, not ignored because since you're not a member of the KKK you feel you don't wish to talk about it.
Haha here it is again. Im a racist now for saying i am not. Classic
1 was really, really racist
"Many of these videos are hilariously racist yes" but golly, it hurts the feelings of poor oppressed whitey to point it out? Even when one of the examples is about Indians being racist? Only holds for people who are ridiculously insecure about the racism they stridently claim not to have. Hang on, let me fish out my smallest violin.
#1 doesn't seem anymore racist than the constant redneck stereotypes we see all the time.
@ Bahfiddle: Thank you, you just saved me a lot of typing time. The only one I don't see as racist is the political one, though the ad is pretty f**king ridiculous nonetheless. @ mournblade: Please tell me you were joking about #1 not seeming racist.
Those videos were so politically correct, it makes me want to chew a grown man's s**t.
Those videos were so politically correct, it makes me want to chew a grown man's s**t.
land_squid, I disagree. Pond's is being racist because it is catering to a racist sentiment, and capitalizing off of it. I am not sure how many times you've been to India, but darker skinned girls find it hard to get married, and many people often comment on your skin tone as soon as they meet you. For instance: "You're Tamil? Are you sure? But you're not black! All Tamils are black!" I wish I was exaggerating, but I'm not. If you want examples, find any Indian matrimonial site and start searching for bride descriptions. If you want yet another example, search for Clearasil ads on youtube. Sad looking dark/black skinned girl suddenly becomes happy-looking fair-skinned girl chased by all after using said product. The implications are obvious. I'm not concerned about a person's individual preferences with respect to fairness. It's the fact that it has become acceptable "mainstream" culture to say "darker = inferior"(in India, at any rate), that bothers me.
You know what else makes me want to puke on myself and eat it? When I see a big black stud with some fat sloppy white girl, the kind that even the white boys don't want. I also see a lot of hardcore latino gangster with a platinum blonde white trash s**t on his arm. It just looks stupid when there's plenty of beautiful black and hispanic girls who would take one look at these guys and give up the poon in 10 seconds flat. Not that I'm an advocate against interracial relationships, I just hate it when they choose the ugliest white girl they can find, and act like they struck white gold. Maybe because they are so submissive to ethnic men, I'll bet the guys can c*m into their mouths on the first date. Maybe those white girls f**k so quickly because they can't get enough o that homegrown alabama black snake. Shit in a hooker's mouth and it only costs 200 dollars per poop. Fat guys get expensive pretty fast.
ok so maybe the last one is a lilttle racist, but still
I just think many whites are sick of having to tiptoe around racism when many are really not racist. Many of these videos are hilariously racist yes but there are many other races who are highly racist but never get called out on it.
I just think many whites are sick of having to tiptoe around racism when many are really not racist. Many of these videos are hilariously racist yes but there are many other races who are highly racist but never get called out on it.
I just think many whites are sick of having to tiptoe around racism when many are really not racist. Many of these videos are hilariously racist yes but there are many other races who are highly racist but never get called out on it.
Oops, sorry for triple posting, don't know what happened.
I just think many whites are sick of having to tiptoe around racism when many are really not racist. Many of these videos are hilariously racist yes but there are many other races who are highly racist but never get called out on it.
"Dudes seriously, what the f**k is next, how every person on the planet is racist whether they know it or not?" This really shows the more mature mental state of caucasians as we show such an ability to repress our inner animal nature by avoiding racist phrases, while black people go around and sprout racist terms like cracker and white devils all day.
I just think many whites are sick of having to tiptoe around racism when many are really not racist. Many of these videos are hilariously racist yes but there are many other races who are highly racist but never get called out on it.
"Dudes seriously, what the f**k is next, how every person on the planet is racist whether they know it or not?" This really shows the more mature mental state of caucasians as we show such an ability to repress our inner animal nature by avoiding racist phrases, while black people go around and sprout racist terms like cracker and white devils all day.
I dunno if anyone else realised that Pond's really ISN'T racist. I have a mate from Iran and his sister and Mum BOTH use skin whitener, and I asked him about it and it's simply that in some middle-easter cultures fairer skin is considered attractive. If it's racist to sell a product that changes skin-tone to what is culturally perceived to be attractive, then I guess we'd better stop advertising fake tan, liptstick, blusher, bronzer, eyeliner, mascara etc. Seriously Cracked, use your f**kin' brains.
"Dudes seriously, what the f**k is next, how every person on the planet is racist whether they know it or not?" This really shows the more mature mental state of caucasians as we show such an ability to repress our inner animal nature by avoiding racist phrases, while black people go around and sprout racist terms like cracker and white devils all day.
I don't see what's racist about the political one. Yea it's a smear ad, but racist? I dunno about that.
What was racist about these? I'm not sure that the definition of "racism" was clearly defined. I mean. . . I just don't get it. Oh, and @Jovian84: You're absolutely right--#1 WAS pretty trippy. . . and awesome, too. I don't get the "racist" part, if any. What, because there is a cartoon character who happens to be black, then it's racist? Does that mean that black people shouldn't be portrayed in commercials? THAT sounds racist to me. . . .
As a white male, I feel racism on my body every day. I can not yell Nigger! or say white is better without being looked down on. This racism must end!
Another knee jerk failure from cracked. Another huge stretch all the way back into hallowed antiquity (80's) or to another continent where they dont have the same issues we do so they can have "racist" commercials their people laugh at since they have a sense of humor. Dudes seriously, what the f**k is next, how every person on the planet is racist whether they know it or not? Stop looking for bad s**t about race what are you fox news? Daisyvilla is right, get over your white guilt a little and do some research instead of buslhitting thru your day with youtube clips.
@radoinc I guess it's pretty easy to troll Cracked users, eh? By the way, black people aren't the only subject of racism. Dumbass.
It's a wonder why they didn't go all the way and just call the two Chinese dudes Ping and Pong...
Another knee jerk failure from cracked. Another huge stretch all the way back into hallowed antiquity (80's) or to another continent where they dont have the same issues we do so they can have "racist" commercials their people laugh at since they have a sense of humor. Dudes seriously, what the f**k is next, how every person on the planet is racist whether they know it or not? Stop looking for bad s**t about race what are you fox news? Daisyvilla is right, get over your white guilt a little and do some research instead of buslhitting thru your day with youtube clips.
Just to reiterate the sentiment of my comments below as stated up so well by Shotgunbadger." Let me sum up all these "WHAT'S SO BAD ABOUT IT?" Comments: "As a white male in America I don't grasp what's so bad about....". Idiots, as the majority, we have it all our way. Culture, education, power- All our way. And still (jisaccar, SamLowery, DaisyVilla) some complain that we have it bad because we can't exclaim white pride, have to ignore it because it hasn't effected them and the ridicukous notion that the down-beaten minority in a country has it better than they do because we can't say the N word, and the can say Honky. Blatant Fucking ignorance
Another knee jerk failure from cracked. Another huge stretch all the way back into hallowed antiquity (80's) or to another continent where they dont have the same issues we do so they can have "racist" commercials their people laugh at since they have a sense of humor. Dudes seriously, what the f**k is next, how every person on the planet is racist whether they know it or not? Stop looking for bad s**t about race what are you fox news? Daisyvilla is right, get over your white guilt a little and do some research instead of buslhitting thru your day with youtube clips.
half of these aren't racist. the last one is more trippy than anything else.
@ zasha Sometimes merely perpetuating stereotypes is racist. I think the orange juice commercial is a perfect example. Whatchoo talkin bout jive turkey?
Ford is black? Really??? His father actually kinda looks like Gary Shandling. http://www.nndb.com/people/543/000116195/harold-ford-sr-1.jpg
These commercials were inherently stupid and very stereotypical. But racist? That's pushing it a little. With the exception of the ponds commercial. The Microsoft photoshop? It was for Poland. In marketing you target your largest consumer. Stereotyping is not the same as racism. Unless it's done to show the inferiority of the race. God damn, people now and days.
"I'm getting very close to a sort of 'f**k Cracked forever' mindset because of all these racism articles." Awwww, poor widdle delicate flower.
The article says the Kia-Ora ad is from the 80s, but I remember seeing it on TV in the early 90s as well...maybe they changed it though, I don't know.
ya gravitonx, because nobody is racist towards white people *cough*. We have to spend our lives making sure we don't even say something that could in the slightest bit be even mistaken for racism. Jesus, "colored is better". If an ad openly said "White is better" and hinted as much as that ad did people would be beating down their doors
I actually think all of these are terribly racist, as if Hitler and Jefferson Davis made the ads themselves and then jerked off to them. However, as a white American male, I am entirely oblivious to this 'racism' of which you speak and am therefore 100% unable to make any such comment. I'll just duct tape my mouth over now.
I'm getting very close to a sort of 'f**k Cracked forever' mindset because of all these racism articles. If you guys have so much guilt then kill yourselves and be done with it.
Hi I am from Tennessee. A little on the Ford vs Corker Senate Race. Mr. Ford lost the race because he had a family member under investigation for corruption. It was very unfair and unfortunate for Mr. Ford but this negative press was enough to give Mr. Corker the victory. The funny thing is when that commercial ran it was a huge boost to Ford because it made the Republicans seem out of touch with reality and made Ford look like the smooth operator he is. Oh and by the way Ford really is as awesome as this article makes him out to be. Also, Corker is not evil, he is just a Republican businesses man from Chattanooga. I don't agree with him most of the time but he is not evil. It should also be noted Tennessee is a strong Red state, the fact that Ford did as well as he did is impressive and gives me hope for democrats in Tennessee's future. Ford in 2010!!!
The Ponds one would have been really cute and romantic if it weren't for the implication that she wasn't white enough for him! I ended up watching all 4 sequels on YouTube, and it would have been such a cute story. Why did they have to ruin it by intimating that she had to whiten herself to get him back?
What about the two crows carrying the piano at the very end, that was obviously stolen.
Dur dur I don't see no racism. aint no harm in any of these ads 'ear ya'll just pc in' the left wing agenda takin' my job and mexican-mexican't dur dur get er done. P.S. If you aint white, you aint right (wing) ; D
Wow. those were pretty racist. I gotta say one thing though. In all my years of soliciting strangers for fetish sex with vomit and feces, I'v noticed that the black man's dookie doesn't smell as terrible as the Asian's or the Mexican's. Maybe it's the fact that they eat more pork ribs and barbeque chicken as opposed to domesticated pets and s**cy-ass tacos. Call me pregidous, but if I had a preference as to who I let s**t in my mouth and puke into my gaping a*****e, I'd prefer it be a man who doesn't eat some vile and disgusting foods like in the Philippines. This one time, I let one of those philppino gangbangers have their way with me, and he vomited baby duck eggs with the creatures still alive inside. I nearly threw up from how bad it was. And it takes a hell of a lot to get me sick to my stomach, but that asian guy went over the top. Never again will I accept s**t-vomit from an asian man.
Weird, I'm drinking orange soda right now. Wish it were a Kia-Ora.
Let me sum up all these "WHAT'S SO BAD ABOUT IT?" Comments: "As a white male in America I don't grasp what's so bad about...."
@tavenos : Yeah, "colored is better" is the KKK's motto, right? And I'm sure that you didn't noticed, that on the box of the detergent it says "NERO", which is Italian for black - you know, for black CLOTHES. Put your cowboy hat on and go back to the corn field!
[AyteeSicks: "If Ford was a white guy, the ad would be EXACTLY THE FUCKING SAME." Yeah, totally ridiculous to think there's any allusion to miscegenation going on in a sexualized attack ad against a guy who just "happens to be black" in a Southern state. God knows the South doesn't have any history of racism or anything. But if that happens to white candidates all the time, then it shouldn't be too hard to produce a similar attack ad from an election campaign that year about a white guy. Can you think of any? Can you point us to any?] FOR THE REST: 1) The article is on-point and funny. 2) The infantile f**king squalling in the comments thread of any post that dares mention racism is super-tiresome; some people, methinks, protest too much.
Is it just me or does Harold Ford look like derrick jeter?
A white person describing racism is usually like a man describing pregnancy. Though, these are on spot.
A white person describing racism is usually like a man describing pregnancy. Though, these are on spot.
A white person describing racism is usually like a man describing pregnancy. Though, these are on spot.
I usually hate the racism articles, but I actually liked this one. I don't think there was a major stretch made except for the political ad one and most Cracked articles have at least one reach.
That skin whiting cream is actually made by a subset of Unilever, the same lovely company with all those "love yourself" Dove campaigns. They also make Axe products, and we all know those commercials definitely promote women of all types. Sweet, sweet hypocrisy. But I guess I can't expect much from any corporation.
A white person describing racism is usually like a man describing pregnancy. Though, these are on spot.
Jesus f**ks. I remembered the panda one and the rest were just awful. I can kinda see the Intel one with the black dude(s) since everyone knows black guys are way better than whites at running/being fast. Lol, is that racist too?
Agree with AyteeSics on the Ford commercial, let's ignore EVERY OTHER "he's a liberal" soundbite in that ad and focus on the part where the girl says they met at a Playboy party. By the way, doesn't it make YOU racist if you think that the girl being white is a big deal? If they'd used a black girl, would you have thought it was ok (or would it have been racist because the actual girls at the Playboy party, you know, the actual event that the commercial is talking about, were mostly white)??
@radoinc: Hey, I'm pretty sure that you didn't even TRY to look at the product's name. Not to mention that when the guy comes out, I'm pretty sure it says "coloured is better". So how about you get off your high horse and...You know, just shut the f**k up. Either way, those two ads (mostly the second one) were hilarious.
Man, I´m sick of “the most racist something” articles. They are cheap attempts at getting views, and they are NEVER funny. They are too safe and PC, have a poor understanding of racism, and flat-out suck.
Alright, I'm sorry, you did it, AGAIN. Once again, you take something that is NOT racist and make it seem racist because the guy being talked about happens to be black. #5 is not racist, its typical political bulls**t. If Ford was a white guy, the ad would be EXACTLY THE FUCKING SAME. I mean, I consider myself leaning more toward the liberal side of things, but this is a perfect example of Politically Correct going way too damn far. Also, is the "racism" in #8 worse than the idea that woman want to whiten their skin for some a*****e?
Mr. Hill: GO AWAY. Quit polluting Cracked with your PC agenda. That is all.
Meh.
The dorky white guy meme so common in advertising isn't racist of course. Neither are the security company ads which only show white men as burglars and assailants when everyone knows the rate of violent crime is much higher for blacks and Hispanics than for whites. And that bank ad which showed a cool young black guy locking up the square old white bankers in a cage? Not racist at all, no sirree.
You disgust me, Mr. Hill! The only racist thing about these ads (except maybe #1) are the eyes you look them through. Take number 2 - funny hairy man with thick-rimmed glasses goes in and athletic, good looking and confident man comes out, and what comes to your head? "OMFG, it's friggin black dude!" After all the differences between them, the only thing you noticed was his skin color! Hey, I came from a country where you can spend an year without seeing a black man, and I still don't pay that much attention to color of people's skin! If I were you, I wold think twice before writing about racism again.
It goes again to show that Cracked, and a number of readers, have no idea what the word "racism" means (hint: It's NOT acknowledging that there are other races of humans in the world.)
The kfc grilled chicken ad recently aired was pretty bad
"Aunt Jemima sees when she drops peyote" lol she only did that one time in college. srsly
Holy crap. Kia-Ora orange drink. I mean, that's maori for god's sake.
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While this article was not really "funny", I have to agree with it's assessments. I read a few of the comments and, as I expected, saw that some people didn't see what was "racist" about some of the adds. One person couldn't see what was wrong with #1. But I guess it all comes down to life experience, knowledge of history and the ability to sympathies with others.
A few of these look like they were just innocent mistakes, even if they look pretty awful. The Intel commercial, especially, seems to fit into the "it seemed like a good idea at the time" category, and the Microsoft ad might have been an attempt to make the man in the picture look more attentive or happier (compare the more subtle smile you can see in the first picture to the huge, poorly photoshopped grin in the second that makes the guy look like he's about to dislocate his jaw). Still, some of them are pretty blatantly racist. There's no way that you can get around that if you're trying to sell 'skin bleaching' to people, because that's kind of racist in and of itself, but when you're selling orange soda, you would think that you could avoid introducing the Dumbo crows.
Once again, Cracked demonstrates its weak grasp on the meaning of the word "racist."
I have another racist commercial (more of a PSA) to submit. Anyone who lives in Cali may have seen this over the past couple of weeks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBj4DIIhHzQ&feature=related Absolutely chilling. They also have another ad that basically amounts to the guy from south park saying "They took our joooobs!"
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I have another racist commercial (more of a PSA) to submit. Anyone who lives in Cali may have seen this over the past couple of weeks. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBj4DIIhHzQ&feature=related Absolutely chilling. They also have another ad that basically amounts to the guy from south park saying "They took our joooobs!"
I'm normally pretty hesitant when I see the articles shouting racism on here because a lot of them are pretty overblown, but wow. Pretty funny stuff though.
I'm surprise there was no mention of the Crouching Tiger Hidden McDonalds commercial or the Popeye's commercial with the black woman talking about how good the chicken is. Thoses were pretty bad.
I should probably clarify, that was in response to #5.
I agree with most of this, but the Obama search? Yeah, right, it's racism. Has nothing to do with the fact he's an inept president who's managed to somehow cause more damage in one year than Bush did in eight. Yes, the birthers are kooks, but not necessarily racist. Besides, that had nothing to do with the Ford commercials, whose qualifications of being racist is specious at most. Bad taste, yes; racist, no.
...He's BLACK??
that first chick is an Indian chick priyanka chopra and i dont give a f**k abt her coplexion she hawt as hell
I laughed until I choked at #7, well, the follow up especially. But yeah, these ads are so racist they can see the forest for the trees. #8's ad isn't just racist, it comes down to the product itself. If you're trying to even out darker blotches of skin on your body, then go for it. But marketing it as "your self-worth and love life will go up in spades if you're three shades lighter" is demeaning as hell. I missed the panda one. Just plain not smart.
LOL: " Canada can take care of North Korea... they're not busy" I almost keeled over when i heard that one... hahahahahaha... too funny. But no, yeah... very racist. I guess.
i totally remember the kia-ora ad from when i was a kid, "ahl bay your dawhg", ah the memories.
Huh, I didn't get that vibe at all from the political ad. It's just, you know, implying he bangs whores. Hell, from the picture, I wouldn't have known the guy was black if you hadn't told me.
It's really irritating when self-righteous white people get offended on behalf of other races. After the centuries of persecution and slavery we've unleashed upon the world, I'm sure we're making amends by pointing out that anything that portrays black people on screen is "racist".
As someone fairly used to the insanity of Italians I have no words. None. Wow.
dead_alewives, It appeals to the fears of certain idiots in our country who think it is a threat to our society (or maybe their Freudian sense of masculinity) for black men to tap white ass.
Sweet merciful crap, we're a rotten species sometimes. Great article.
I may very well go to hell just for reading this
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The corker video is racist....how? So what if the chick was white?
I L'dOL so hard at the Italian commercial.
Number on eis even more racially insensitive when yopu take into account the name of the product. Kia-Ora is a friendly greeting used by the Maori ppl of New Zealand, an indigenous dark skinned race. It basically means "hello". So the Brits, in an obvious attempt to make "orange juice" some exotic sounding product just grabbed a word from one of "the colonies" and hoped nobody would notice or care.
After the last artical I read here that was about racism I pretty much knew this one wouldn't be funny! Seriously I read the 1st part and then said f**k it I don't wanna read anymore, just not funny sorry but thats just how I feel. I'm gonna go an watch the video with DOB and SWAIM again cause that s**t was funny.
Okay, as a white American male (and I guess therefore, an oppressor), I'll give you most of these as racially insensitive, but not the Indian skin goo or Vitaminwater. The former is just selling the customer what they want (assuming the demand exists) for the reason they want it. The 'racism' is on the part of the consumer who wants whiter skin (and the society that enforces a standard of-etc, etc. We get the point and don't care, P.C. people.) In the Vitaminwater ad (I swear it's just a coincidence I happen to be a Red Sox fan and also defending the work of David Ortiz), I would say that the badminton 'stars' were playing what they call in the entertainment industry "characters." I know their celebrity for batting around a shuttlec**k (that'll be fun with the profanity filter) might distract one from realizing they're supposed to represent just two badminton-playing dudes. And the Asian names are probably because calling them McGinty and Levinstein probably wouldn't fit because they're, y'know, Asian. (Oh wait, I'm a racist for noticing that! Shit!)
Meh, that Kia-Ora thing isn't so bad... Seriously, it's a little black cartoon boy and some cartoon crows and a funky tune. I'm pretty sensitive to racism and this commercial was more funny than offensive to me. That one about Harold Ford, now that's just offensive. Maybe not so racist, but offensive. If you want to make people vote for you, you should point out why you are good, not whine about why the other guy is supposedly "bad". That Coloreria Italiana thing makes me sick for so many reasons. The gross half-naked white guy, the gross half-naked black guy, the racism and the fact that the people involved in making that commercial didn't realize how freaking awkward and creepy these commercials would turn out. Pond's white beauty... That's just... Sad. Skin Bleaching is kinda icky. I don't get why someone would want to bleach their skin - Or why they'd spend hours in tanning booths or smearing fake sun stuff on their skin. Yuck.
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This was a great article. I just can't believe #1. It's like all the worst aspects of Disney's racism, rolled into one commercial. The panda one is even more racist than it seems when you realize that "herro prease", is a more common mistake in Japan, yet pandas and bamboo are from China.
How could you guys not include the White PSP ad? A strong white woman holding a weak and terrified black woman by the neck with the title: White is coming. I know that it was only TV-Ads here, but still, you should have mentioned that...
@Dasher and sounonfire928: I'm not really sure how what you are saying really makes it better.
race baiting and smear tactics have nothing to do with the fact that obama is a terrible f**king president.
@Nekromancer- Not so bold as that, and you miss my large point. The idiocy of a person who has never experiences racial discrimination first-handed because they are in the majority will never be able to understand fully what it's like to be in the minority based on something so dominant physically which they haven't chosen. I would never claim that all white people discount black people based on their skin, but I think that the fact that the majority of the comments below seem to support the dismissive attitude of "it hasn't affected me, so stop brining it to attention" seems to support what I'm saying. We in the majority can't understand the issue totally, even just beyond academically, so the outburst against this annoys me. Racism is harmful, and so a humour site finding humour in people exposing their prejudices in a subtle taint of a black man sleeping with a white woman or in a blatant cultural difference in attitude towards value of skin colour is a good thing, not something to wring one's hands about and complain that its being talked about.
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America is an anagram of racism. Didn't you know? Just look hard enough.
Nearly no one but American's read so much into such worthless wastes of time. Which means... Fuck. who cares. Entertaining article, good job. Boobs. Explosions. Boobsplotions.
@Bahfiddle... "Don't claim it doesn't exist, don't claim you aren't a racist if you were born white and ..." Seriously? So all white people are racist? ... Is that what you're honestly claiming?
Calling that Pond's ad racist is just complete ignorance of culture. In places where a certain skin type is rare, that type is always more desirable. You might as well call our ads for self-tanner racist -- it's literally the same thing. I'm not normally one to b***h about articles on Cracked, but this one was terrible. #1 was the only racist one, and it's not even recent.
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the photoshopped one for microsoft was the only dis**cable ad.
I've only just gotten through #8, but really? It's not racist - it just so happens that in India, fairer skin is more desired (at least in women, I'm not sure about men). Skin lightening creams, as a result, are quite common over there. Maybe check the facts before claiming something's racist.
You missed the obvious part of the Microsoft ad! The black guy has a MacBook.
@ Siza ARRRRRRG! I'M SO ANGRY AT THIS ARTICLE!! :@ No i kinda liked it, i LOL'd hard at the depressed Indian chick, and the black guy's bowing to the nerd was pretty priceless :P
i submit that cracked is racist. the political ad did not have a hint of racism. cracked points out that it is about a black guy and all of a sudden its racist? good job, hyper-sensative d bags
While this wasn't the best article on Cracked, it always tickles me to see the white, dominant majority that makes up the Cracked readership go apes**t with the typical "you're just looking for racism and that means these aren't valid examples or funny/ I'm not a racist so I don't care about any of this/ BLACK PEOPLE AREW TGHE REAL RASCITS, THEY HATE US LETZ JUST TRY HVING A WHITE PRIDE DAYY AND SEE HW DEY COOMPLAIN" arguments. These ads were funny, they show (supposedly) outdated ideals and stereotyping in a very clear way. Cracked isn't becoming a "wing of the ACLU", but rather pointing out in an irreverent manner that perhaps the ad-men here were being silly and offensive. As the white majority, we'll never get how it feels to be without power, second-class citizens, the clear minority with the majority of culture, education and viewpoints firmly juxtaposed to our worldview. Don't claim it doesn't exist, don't claim you aren't a racist if you were born white and don't take the f**king time out of your day to complain when someone tries to show out the hypocrisy of our culture and society with clear, valid examples. Morons with no concept of depth beyond your own experience.
i submit that cracked is racist. the political ad did not have a hint of racism. cracked points out that it is about a black guy and all of a sudden its racist? good job, hyper-sensative d bags
"Pale white or pinkish white, you chose." Haha. I love my pale white skin, I look like I'm on my death bed!
not one of these ads or any ads are ever "accidents". the execs that put these together are usually way above normal reality in both work and personal lives to consider what the meaning or outcome might be.
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When the f**k did cracked become a wing of ACLU? Seriously, it's supposed to be a comedy site. We don't f**king care about 'unintentional racism'.
Fuck me, I'm fed up with this sites angst over 'racism'. Get over it. It's just a bit of fun
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