Cheerios Ad Starring Interracial Family Ignites Racist Hate Storm
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Awesome commercial, but racist comments are expected for anything like this.
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White people seem to have a problem with this commercial
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The problem is?
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Cute commercial racist people are stupid
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It's a sad world that whites still have a problem with racism but they say we're the racist ones
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From an article in The Christian Post:The commercial seems cute and innocent to most, but a number of Internet trolls quickly took over the discussion on the YouTube comments board referring to the interracial nature of the family, which featured a white mother and black father.
Some of the comments referred to "Nazis" and "racial genocide" and more than 600 dislikes were recorded for the video. Others commented that the concept of a happy mixed-race family made them "want to ? ."The racial slurs also spilled over onto the Cheerios Facebook page where some commenters stated that they found the commercial "disgusting."
One commenter also posted a racial slur about the likelihood of black men staying with their family, stating: "More like single parent in the making. Black dad will dip out soon."
On Reddit the comments continued, and some turned the debate into the likelihood of a black man being with a white woman, against a couple with a white man and a black woman.
In 2012, a Cheerios commercial was also targeted by racial slurs and comments. In that commercial released in June last year, two black siblings are shown at their family kitchen table, when the older brother steals the cereal from his younger brother, who is in a high chair.
One commenter on YouTube wrote: "Just goes to show you they start steeling [sic] at an early age!!! First Cheerio's next bikes then cares lol just like in real life."
Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/cheerios-commercial-racist-slurs-force-youtube-to-close-comments-section-for-new-ad-video-97062/#fZvhw0iIr1c8EwVi.99 -
i hate "crackers"
I wish all the cracka daddies... cheryl underwood and flava flavs in there family -
glad we've finally got to the point where we can effectively judge the overall pulse of america by usings comments made on social media.
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We really gonna do this again???????
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glad we've finally got to the point where we can effectively judge the overall pulse of america by usings comments made on social media.
a hell of a lot better than going by polls.. people true feelings come out anonymously.. and if they arent their true feelings doesnt make "trolling" less ignorant.. we havent reached that place where one could "joke" ... contrary to popular..media...(tv shows..) -
social media proves the whole post racial society is ? and where middle Americas minds are at when minorities are on their tv...any ? that says racism is rare or doesn't exist just has to go to the comment section of youtube or dailymail to see Americas morals peeled back
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playmaker88 wrote: »glad we've finally got to the point where we can effectively judge the overall pulse of america by usings comments made on social media.
a hell of a lot better than going by polls.. people true feelings come out anonymously.. and if they arent their true feelings doesnt make "trolling" less ignorant.. we havent reached that place where one could "joke" ... contrary to popular..media...(tv shows..)
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playmaker88 wrote: »glad we've finally got to the point where we can effectively judge the overall pulse of america by usings comments made on social media.
a hell of a lot better than going by polls.. people true feelings come out anonymously.. and if they arent their true feelings doesnt make "trolling" less ignorant.. we havent reached that place where one could "joke" ... contrary to popular..media...(tv shows..)
since when did people's names get attached to polls?
never said they did .. im speaking about online comments.. -
glad we've finally got to the point where we can effectively judge the overall pulse of america by usings comments made on social media.
This ? is not suprising or unusual Matt.
People say what they truly feel on the internet. Yes there are some trolls, but if you spent any time on CNN.com or Yahoo News and read the comments this ? is tame in comparison.
Nobody is going to publicly speak against IR relationships because they know better, but there is definitely an underlying current that proves America is not ready for it to be accepted as normal by depicting it in something as all-American and wholesome as a Cheerios commercial.
It's still viewed as taboo and participants are seen as lesser than...it's stupid. -
playmaker88 wrote: »playmaker88 wrote: »glad we've finally got to the point where we can effectively judge the overall pulse of america by usings comments made on social media.
a hell of a lot better than going by polls.. people true feelings come out anonymously.. and if they arent their true feelings doesnt make "trolling" less ignorant.. we havent reached that place where one could "joke" ... contrary to popular..media...(tv shows..)
since when did people's names get attached to polls?
never said they did .. im speaking about online comments..
you said people's true feelings come out anonymously. polls are anonymous, and are probably more anonymous than online commenting. -
Yo Cheerios need to put a White man and Asian woman for their next commercial.
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what do you expect from youtube comments anyway. that commercial is blood in the water. it's troll fuel.
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and soledad Obrien gets hate mail from whites telling her to stop dividing the country along racial lines....
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glad we've finally got to the point where we can effectively judge the overall pulse of america by usings comments made on social media.
on the contrary, when you really think about it
it's actually (almost) the perfect way
the internet gives you the cloak and "inviolability" of anonymity
you have absolute freedom to say and expression exactly how you feel without fear or care
of "prosecution" you would otherwise in "real life".
what would you say....about who or what?
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Anonymity is a ? .
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So IMO this and other racist hate posts
are not mere "trolling" for the sake of trolling
this is a general representation of how many white people REALLY feel and think
but must grin & bare it in real life..... -
MzGrahamBitches wrote: »glad we've finally got to the point where we can effectively judge the overall pulse of america by usings comments made on social media.
This ? is not suprising or unusual Matt.
People say what they truly feel on the internet. Yes there are some trolls, but if you spent any time on CNN.com or Yahoo News and read the comments this ? is tame in comparison.
Nobody is going to publicly speak against IR relationships because they know better, but there is definitely an underlying current that proves America is not ready for it to be accepted as normal by depicting it in something as all-American and wholesome as a Cheerios commercial.
It's still viewed as taboo and participants are seen as lesser than...it's stupid.
i'm not saying that people don't feel a certain way about stuff like this or that every online comment is meant to troll, or to get a reaction from people. There is a segment of the population that probably finds this to be disgusting. I'm not denying that.
I'm looking at it like this: how many truely racist comments were made about this commercial? A thousand? maybe 10,000??? Thats an extremely small percentage compared to the number of people who watched the commercial, who liked the video, who had something positive to say, or who just didn't say anything at all. Its silly to take the opinions of a few and pretend the represent the whole
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I need to give myself a :"feelings" and move on.
But how can anyone look at that kid and spew hate?? -
Its a new world out there we out here grabbing married white women ? with no ? given "like what you workin with".
