S00da N?M wrote:Martin wrote:Ugh... this is exactly what's wrong with society. Therre's nothing wrong with that advert, at all. If the white woman was having her shoes shined by the black woman, I might see where all this grief is coming from. Is it is... sit down, black people.
A respectable post before the bold print. I hardly think this is EXACTLY what's wrong with society....I thought the murders, car theft, and you know crime in general is/what's wrong with society....but hey, you let me know something. But so as not to turn this into a flaming session; I do see where you're coming from I think, simply look at the ad in reverse and if it doesn't 'feel racist' it probably isn't.
Wha..? I could've been a thousand times more savaging. I was actually quite forgiving, that's how much this kind of shit irritates me to my very core.
S00da N?M wrote:EDIT: I do beleive this ad is a bit racist, they could have depicted both woman equally as alternatives to one another (for example two white women with different color clothing), they instead hinted towards the white woman's superiority over the black woman, by leaning toward a subservient attitude of the black woman, while someone might argue that only a racist individual would view things in that light since an anti-racist persons argument is that we all are created equal (which is true) and we should be completely blind to color, that can't be the case this time because SONY obviously made sure to find a very deeply complected woman for this add, while making sure to powder up her malanin challenged counter-part; forcing you pay even more attention to the emphasis of the color contrast.
For fuck sake.. The whole
point of the add
is the colour contrast! You're seriously actually looking too much into it. You're
trying to see racism. It's just an ad, dude. You know it's sad when you cannot imply
anything about blacks, other than complete awsomeness. Why can't the black woman (symbolizing the old boring black PSP) seem subordinate to the white woman (symbolizing the fresh new white PSP).
I guarantee that you would not be saying a fucking thing if it was the other way around. Fucking politically correct cunts.
S00da N?M wrote:SheN_MaD wrote:To be honest I am more annoyed that people care that much about the ad, the models that did the ad didn’t seem to care that much, lol.
This can be said but at the same time, just because someone driven by money doesn't know or has completely disregarded the social ramifications of such an advert doesn't quite make this right. I don't mean to jump on any of you but this irritates me down to my very dark skin.
No, she probably just accepted the fact that it's just an ad, and accepted what it symbolized, accepted the fact that it's perfectly
A-OK, and not racist. Stop trying to redifine racism. Racism = Discrimination based upon a persons race. You don't
own the colour black, or the use of it in any particular way. This PSP ad is fine.