Posted on 11/15/2021 8:38:22 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
My wife doesn’t believe me that this is a thing, and when commercials play, I point out the complete lack of white males. Those who are often in commercials are cast as buffoons. This isn’t in my head. It’s definitely happening.
Most commercials feature all black actors, or feature mixed couples. TV shows are now about half-black actors and all of them have assured that there will be gay couples or lesbian couple.
Blacks are supposedly about 13-14% or the population, and gays and lesbians are an even lower percentage, but, you wouldn’t know it from watching TV or movies.
If one were to arrive from outer space and draw conclusions from what they see in TV and the movies, they’d be convinced that America is composed of at least half black, and that every other couple was of mixed races, and that at least a third of the population is gay or lesbian (or some other gender ID which people want to describe themselves as).
And, btw, I’ve noticed at restaurants and stores and other places, that at least 1/3 of the employees are black. So, those stores and restaurants have gotten the liberal memo about racial equality and equity.
I don’t mind blacks and other minorities getting their due, but, their due is not to have them represented in every facet of society as being the greater number of people.
Google
“happy white woman”
Commercials is why auto mute was invented.
In our (exurban) area there are no black employees in restaurants.
The commute from where they live would be brutal—with no public transportation.
Here in lefty CT we are segregated beyond the wildest dreams of George Wallace and Lester Maddox.
Wow. Google totally sucks.
Mrs. L,TOWM and I saw the same thing in the 90’s, right before ditching most of what comes through the idiot box.
Look up on google...
“happy white woman”
Then
“Happy black woman”
Then
“Happy white man” (spoiler, first pic is a gay white black couple)
Then
“Happy black man”
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Lol. It’s been a mainstay in sitcomms ever since there were sitcomms.
DVDS work well for me, 99 percent of what I watch is ancient TV and movies.
Currently, Mannix the boxed set is my choice.
I remember when these techniques were used in early 1950s and 60s advertisements. There was even a book written about them.
THE HIDDEN PERSUADERS by Vance Packard(1957)
I believe subtle hints in advertisements are still used.
It used to be only white Country Bumpkins who did that on TV!
Watch PBS shows where they place books about Cuba or some racial thing around in the background that has nothing to do with what they are talking about. Or you are enjoying the show and they then tell you how bad you are when it is the complete opposite.
CredtKarma has a commercial with a guy in a high pitched voice. I watch Youtube shows that are 10-20 minutes long and that commercial I swear is in every one and repeated again and again. Here it is for your enjoyment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldk9GAK2has
I race to have the mute on when I see Ad coming up in 5,4,3...
Tell-A-Vision=Brain washing device.
Television is dead. Long live television.
Years ago I used to watch the old Amos and Andy show on TV. I knew all the characters.
One day there came an advertisement for something and I would swear that the woman in the advertisement was a WHITE Ernestine Wade (1906–1983) Sapphire!
Actually Santa Claus can be any color you want him to be as he is for all children.
I remember an American Indian Santa Claus years ago dressed in buckskins and feathers. The Indian kids loved him!
Advertisement has always been about social engineering. The only difference between today and those halcyon days when four out of five doctors were recommending Marlboros is that it’s gotten even cruder and more shameless. The worst and most obvious of these have to be the Gillette commercials that were openly insulting to their target audience and damn proud of it. Here a sizeable advertising budget was wasted on sermonizing rather than selling razor blades, the real sales job involved being suckering the marketeers into paying for decreased sales under the con that they were Making A Difference. That con has separated a whole lot of suckers from a whole lot of cash, so there must be something in it, but not what they’re thinking.
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