tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26937038.post7232160888607461299..comments2023-10-31T05:49:26.683-06:00Comments on CMM News: Embarrassment is behind the Trident complaintsSchizoFishNChimpshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13275715509603896447noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26937038.post-72051922162949568412009-04-26T19:17:00.000-06:002009-04-26T19:17:00.000-06:00Unfortunately, marketing trends and policies being...Unfortunately, marketing trends and policies being what they are, as a society, when we allow smidgens of PUBLIC racism to reach the airwaves, the result is that more obvious racism will also find it's way, since viewers have now been somewhat desensitized.<br /><br />Trident commercials in Quebec now feature huge CGIed flapping lips (on black people) ridiculously screaming.<br /><br />Easter Island anyone?<br /><br />Now, we also have a cell phone company, KOODO, which uses CGI to exaggerate black lips flapping.<br /><br />Give a marketing firm an inch (cm) and they'll take a mile (km)<br /><br />CGIed flapping lips on nearly only black actors in multiple different commercials in 2 different companies, within months of each other.<br /><br />This needs to be addressed in all countries.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15426714191985921787noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26937038.post-86625393888258876262007-03-30T09:01:00.000-06:002007-03-30T09:01:00.000-06:00It's a lovely thought that members of the public u...It's a lovely thought that members of the public used racism as a pretext, their real objection being that the ads were simply crap!Scamphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13452038283410892541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26937038.post-42651621523737893212007-03-30T05:08:00.000-06:002007-03-30T05:08:00.000-06:00thanks for the comment amelia - I think you're the...thanks for the comment amelia - I think you're the first person who has brought up the issue about the audience, but as I understand it the performance is supposed to be of reggae poetry, not comedy, and the audience is bemused (once he starts on the Trident) rather than smug.<BR/>Most of us would know racism when it's obvious - but it becomes very subjective when we touch on grey areas such as with this ad (which I or my agency had nothing to do with, incidentally).<BR/>My point is that if you compare the fellow in this ad with, say, the smiling, happy Lilt ladies or the poor but jolly Malibu natives (all very recent Caribbean / W.Indian ad characters), then I challenge anyone to define which of them is racist. I don't recall any fuss against the same racial sterotypes appearing in these ads.<BR/>Does the ad earn its racism label because it includes a much-used stereotype in an AWFUL ad?<BR/>Personally, I consider the Woolwich whiteys at the airport to be racist and no different than the Tory councillor in today's papers (the one who dressed up as Nelson Mandela)SchizoFishNChimpshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13275715509603896447noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26937038.post-63352809678666412412007-03-29T17:56:00.000-06:002007-03-29T17:56:00.000-06:00Oh my god, I beg to disagree. I saw these ads on T...Oh my god, I beg to disagree. <BR/><BR/>I saw these ads on TV and literally I say there wondering how many years, centuries, we as a culture had progressed. The happy black man singing in a funny happy voice for his white audience, who watch him in a smug, contended way. AAAGGHH. <BR/><BR/>I am so pleased that they were banned. I am sorry if you had anything to do with them, but they really are shite of the up-most degree. And racist.Ameliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17917442239241569953noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26937038.post-79368954789474878992007-03-29T12:25:00.000-06:002007-03-29T12:25:00.000-06:00best. numptie. ever.best. numptie. ever.Doughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17979284789722932128noreply@blogger.com