Posted on 05/27/2022 7:59:26 AM PDT by SJackson
Audi wants to sell you a car, and since we live in woke clown world, Audi execs apparently decided that the best way to induce you to choose their product over all the other automobiles on the market was to put out a video celebrating diversity. Now, speaking strictly for myself, this is a real champion move. When I’m shopping for a car, absolutely tops on my list is not whether it offers a smooth ride, gets good gas mileage, is well-built, and is comfortable, but whether its automotive sponsors have put out enough videos featuring happy brown people in all manner of colorful costumes. In that department, Audi is way out front. But like so many woke Leftist corporations, in their haste to celebrate all this diversity, they’ve stepped on a rake; the ad features a symbol of radical intolerance and misogyny amid all the exotica. Nice way to spoil the party, Audi!
Audi tweeted the video with the heading: “For #EUDiversityMonth, #Audi is setting an example when it comes to #diversity. This video shows what that means and why diversity is only effective through #inclusion. #CelebrateDiversity.” It starts out in ominous black and white, as a male (sorry if I misgendered any voice actors!) voice intones dramatically, “A world devoid of different shapes. A world devoid of different designs.” Then Audi’s four-ring logo appears in brilliant rainbow colors, as the voice, a bit happier now, proclaims, “The four rings stand for being colorful.” The ominous music gives way to a pulsing, upbeat theme, as the announcer continues, “The four rings stand for being diverse. The four rings stand for individuality.” All the while, we are treated to images of wonderfully diverse, colorful people, who no doubt all think exactly the same way. “We live diversity,” says Audi’s voice. “Audi together.” The ad ends with the four rings, again in the rainbow colors, with “#WeLiveDiversity” written underneath.
How wonderful! Audi lives diversity, while all the other auto manufacturers are doubtless wearing Klan robes and trying to sign up Bull Connor as a pitchman. In reality, of course, this is just more of the dreary Leftist agitprop that we’re inundated with everywhere every day, and it should make any Americans who are tired of being relentlessly propagandized less likely, not more likely, to buy an Audi.
But there is a fly in Audi’s diversity ointment. As the announcer declares that “the four rings stand for being colorful,” a woman in a black hijab, staring straight at the camera with absolute solemnity, slowly lifts up a gay rainbow flag that she is holding in both hands. In this, we see once again that the Left’s grand coalition of allegedly marginalized communities cannot possibly hold, because it is riven with internal contradictions that are becoming increasingly obvious.
Audi is so busy celebrating diversity that it no doubt doesn’t realize precisely what kind of rake it has stepped on, so it bears explaining. The hijab is a visible sign that a woman adheres to Islamic law: the Qur’an tells women to “draw their veils close around them” so that they are “not molested” (33:59). Islamic law also mandates the death penalty for homosexual activity. Thus the possibility of a Muslim woman who wears the hijab raising the gay flag is quite small.
To be sure, many women wear the hijab not because they freely choose to do so, but because they’re forced. Untold numbers of women worldwide have been threatened, brutalized, or even killed for not wearing it, and understandably, some women who don’t like it or believe in the premises involved nonetheless wear it so as to avoid the trouble that would come to them for not wearing it. Some of these women support gay rights. Such women, however, are unlikely in the extreme to make a public show of that support, as that would constitute an offense similar to the one they would be committing if they didn’t wear the hijab.
Audi is thus giving us the fantasy Islam that so many non-Muslims in the West assume exists. The fantasy, however, is inevitably going to give way to the reality that we glimpsed recently at Western University in London, Ontario, where Muslim students were enraged that two hijab-wearing women were depicted as about to kiss on a gay pride poster. Audi’s video, if Muslim hardliners happen to see it, may end up inspiring the same rage, and instead of congratulating themselves for their marvelous celebration of diversity, stunned Audi execs will be fielding charges of “Islamophobia” and insulting Islam. That eventuality, in fact, is much more likely than the fantasy Islam they depict in their video.
I can see her face. Off with her head!
Aloha Achmed! Or something like that?
How ironic. This Muslim woman might not have personally thrown any gay people off of a rooftop. But you can bet that she supports those who do.
Fortunately, I have no plans in the immediate future to purchase an Audi.
What a brave and courageous act by that young woman. I assume by now she’s been stoned to death for her actions.
Oh well.
Yes, Audi supports diversity! Even in WW2, they supported diversity! A predecessor company, Auto Union, hired Jews during the Nazi era. Oops, I guess it used JEWISH SLAVE LABOUR, before they were exterminated!
Hey, Audi, go to hell!
I guess it would be the same if a goat was holding the Fagflag.
> stunned Audi execs will be fielding charges of “Islamophobia” and insulting Islam <
I wonder how long it will be before Audi issues a slobbering apology. And maybe that apology will involve a sizable donation to a Muslim charity.
I’m too lazy to look it up. Does Audi mean “stupid” in some other language?
Sort of a self-contradiction, insofar as being "diverse" (i.e., being a member of a wider group - generally one with "victim status" from which the members intend to profit) stands in opposition to wishing to be perceived as an individual.
Regards,
I wonder how those job interviews went.
"You can either step into the cattle car which will then whisk you away to the Work Camp - or you can get a bullet to the brain right here!"
Regards,
The German founder's name was "Horch" (= German for "Listen!"). "Audi" is the Latinized version / is Latin for "Listen!"
Play on words.
Regards,
I owned an Audi 100 many moons ago and I loved the thing. I had thought about another since I can afford one, but I think not. Done with the wokesters.
Here ya go:
"Oops, I guess it used JEWISH SLAVE LABOUR, before they were exterminated!"
I would have thought that the sarcasm of my comment would have been obvious. I guess I was wrong!
I was chiming in with more (mordant) sarcasm.
Regards,
Are there not Muslim countries that still don’t allow women to drive?
Seems like this commercial is an oxymoron.
And to think that I was planning to sell my Lexus and purchase an Audi A7.
I do know at least two people who present to their families as Muslim who are actually atheist, one I am pretty sure is gay.
They have another ad showing a rabbi holding a pig.
Are they insane? Don’t they have any idea of muslim culture?
dint know there was a big islime dyke car buying demographic...
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