Posted on 05/20/2020 3:41:24 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Germany’s Volkswagen (VW) has pulled an Instagram ad that showed a giant white hand pushing around a black person, saying it was “surprised and shocked” that viewers decried it as racist.
The 10-second clip appeared on the firm’s Instagram story on Tuesday to advertise the new Golf car. It has since been removed, but was still circulating on Twitter on Wednesday.
The ad shows an oversized white woman’s hand picking up a black man in a suit and moving him around before flicking him into a building and away from the yellow Golf car parked nearby.
Viewers were quick to point out that the tagline reading “Der neue Golf” (The new Golf) faded in in such a way that it appeared to first spell out the N-word in German. Other social media users took offense at the sign above the building the man disappears into, which reads “Petit Colon”, a reference to colonialism. …
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“...spell out the N-word in German...”
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I think that would be “n-wort”.
Every thing is racist.
Every thing is racist.
Farfegnugen?
If some blacks are so sensitive about everything, they need to separate from the rest of us. That way they can have their little pity party and not disrupt every damn thing.
He got Farfenneuggled?
Send those particular ones back to where they claim they want to go.
neu? So I’m guessin’ VW should have used a black hand? Or better yet, a driving gloved hand so no particular race could be discerned. Fact stranger than fiction.
Tone deaf ad. Not even that good. When the Germans screw up they go all in.
Okay, I watched the ad. So ‘cherman of zem’ to flick the less desirable individual away.
Maybe the company was focusing on Turkish residents of Germany.
Funny....
I do NOT understand German BUT there apparently isn’t a German word for ‘Instagram’ as that was clear as was ‘Folkswagon’ and I do believe I heard ‘Schiffstorm’ as it would have fit right in.
I also understand that the ‘new’ VW logo is a symbol of white power which also apparently doesn’t have a ‘German counterpart’
Madness is not just confined to US....
Those wacky Germans. What’s that ad even supposed to mean? That if you buy a Volkswagen some giant person will keep your car from being stolen?
Here’s the ad on YouTube:
How about this phrase from the original Red Dawn: Afrikanski Babionski, translated in the movie as “African Baboon.”
It is the new bigotry.
Thanks. I'm not too sure what the ad was supposed to be about, period. The rest of the vid had that ridiculous "okay sign is white supremacist" bulll**** that was floating abour like the **** that it is a year or so ago.
Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.
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