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German car giant Volkswagen pulls 'racist' ad after outcry
TheLocal.de ^ | 20 May 2020 14:53 CEST+02:00 | AFP

Posted on 05/20/2020 3:41:24 PM PDT by Olog-hai

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To: Olog-hai

Europeans are so pathetically misinformed.


21 posted on 05/20/2020 4:06:45 PM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: Olog-hai

Everyone knows white males are supposed to be the buffoons and idiots in commercials vs intelligent, authority figure minorities and women. Ever see a man drive a car now in a commercial? Very rare. How about those middle class white guys committing home invasions on all the alarm commercials? Maybe the Maytag commercials where two white guys supposed to be a washer and dryer get their noses twisted by the black family? Allstate, the black guy is everything good, the white guy is disaster waiting to happen.


22 posted on 05/20/2020 4:07:01 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: KC_Lion; rktman
"No, dag nab it, the Volkswagen commercial guy is near!"

23 posted on 05/20/2020 4:07:23 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: Moonman62

Did the German narrator in that story just say “sh!tstorm”????


24 posted on 05/20/2020 4:09:05 PM PDT by vladimir998 ( Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: Moonman62

I was amused from listening to the story, that the English phrase “sh*t-storm” has entered the German language.


25 posted on 05/20/2020 4:09:47 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: riverrunner

My 9 yr old son and his buddies have a habit of suddenly yelling THAT’S RACIST! to mundane statements or questions none of which has even the most remote connection to matters of race.

They may be beginning to lose the children...


26 posted on 05/20/2020 4:32:06 PM PDT by TalBlack
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To: Olog-hai

Maybe they thought only American blacks look for ways to be offended.


27 posted on 05/20/2020 4:35:13 PM PDT by libertylover (Socialism will always look good to those who think they can get something for nothing.)
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To: Olog-hai
An oldie VW Polo commercial "submittal". But still a goodie...
28 posted on 05/20/2020 4:39:05 PM PDT by Hatteras
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To: Olog-hai

What was the point of the ad? Why is the white woman’s hand trying to put him back into the building?

Is that Pelosi trying to save the black man from Covid-19?

Just from the video I don’t count that as racist possibly there’s context in the narration?


29 posted on 05/20/2020 4:39:22 PM PDT by Skywise
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To: Moonman62

Only thing I understood was sh**storm!


30 posted on 05/20/2020 5:04:15 PM PDT by Eagles6
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To: boycott

More likely white self-imposed-guilt imbeciles taking issue.


31 posted on 05/20/2020 5:10:21 PM PDT by TheZMan (I am a secessionist.)
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To: Hatteras

Thank you for posting my favorite all-time VW commercial that wasn’t from VW :)


32 posted on 05/20/2020 5:54:41 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici
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To: Olog-hai

According to The Left, the existence of Whites is racist, and is therefor to be opposed.


33 posted on 05/20/2020 6:06:54 PM PDT by Arcadian Empire
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To: Hatteras

I always liked: VW, what the snowplow driver drives to work.

There was an underground one, with a VW floating (as opposed to sinking) If only Ted Kennedy drove a VW........


34 posted on 05/20/2020 6:19:44 PM PDT by stuckincali
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To: Olog-hai

“es kann aber auch nicht euer scheiß Ernst sein, dass IHR das N-Wort mal eben locker im deutschen Fernsehen “vorlest”?“ - Twitter


35 posted on 05/20/2020 6:35:34 PM PDT by 11th_VA (May you live in interesting times - Ancient Chinese Proverb)
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To: Olog-hai

Pretty soon all ads will be considered racist if they don’t have a black dad with a white wife. Wait...are there any of those left? Amazing how 12% of the population is now the majority. Hispanics outnumber blacks, yet rarely in any commercials. The agenda is insane. They even changed Jake from State Farm’s race!


36 posted on 05/20/2020 7:12:30 PM PDT by Phillyred
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To: Olog-hai

I remember when “Petit Colon” meant that someone was very thrifty financially.


37 posted on 05/20/2020 7:15:11 PM PDT by meyer (WWG1WGA, MAGA! The DNC virus is much deadlier than the Wu Han Flu.)
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To: stuckincali
Not VW but a little sick humor... Ford Ka - Evil Twin
38 posted on 05/20/2020 7:25:05 PM PDT by Hatteras
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To: Hatteras

we had cats at work and the superintend had a state car and old plymouth. She loved the cats and they kept the mice away. we called her cat woman name she didn’t;t like. On day she started the engine and cat ran out from udder the compartment and ran away screeching. She tried to get security staff to find the cat to make sure it was ok.

Esso or another company had an add put a tiger in your tank (their brand of gas) The gave out little tight tails for kids. One of the employees put the tiger tail in her gas tank lid. We had ago laugh and finally so did she. We still called her cat woman and so did she at times.


39 posted on 05/20/2020 8:33:38 PM PDT by stuckincali
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