OK, good people – as promised last week, we’ll dare to look at the FR thread about the most horrific and important issue the country faces.
Cereal ads.
Or as I like to say:“They’re racially delicious!”
Cheerios Commercial: Racist Slurs Force YouTube to Close Comments Section for New Ad (VIDEO)The Christian Post ^ | May 31, 2013 | Jon Campbell
Posted on Sunday, June 02, 2013 12:48:23 PM by James C. Bennett
A Cheerios commercial has sparked controversy after a large group of people started posting racially charged messages about the new ad on YouTube.
The commercial features an interracial couple and their daughter, and was released by Cheerios on YouTube. However, a group of Internet “trolls” quickly began posting comments about the interracial nature of the ad, sparking such racially charged comments that YouTube eventually decided to close the comments section of the page to bring a halt to the discussion.
The 30 second commercial features a young girl talking about the nutritional value of Cheerios. She asks her mom whether Cheerios are good for your heart, to which the mother responds that they are.
The young girl then smiles and runs off with the box of Cheerios. The next shot is of the girl’s father waking up on the couch with a pile of Cheerios poured out over the left side of his chest where his heart is.
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 vomit.”
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.”
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Oh, brother!
He’s just pleading for a terrorist fist-bump.
Hmmmm….I wonder which Party those commenters voted for in the last two electons?
To: James C. Bennett
Pretty funny, too bad dad wasn’t Muslim. Holder could file charges then.
Life is full of missed opportunities.
That, and stupidity.
To: James C. Bennett
Companies post on YouTube to get feedback.They got some.
What screen name did you comment under? I’m curious.
Was it “AmeriKKKan”, “mathdoktor99”, or “JCMateri”?
To: James C. Bennett
I think the bigger issue is that since Obama has been elected – and all opposition to him is called racist by the MSM – people feel more free, not less, to say whatever the hell they want no matter how non-PC it is – especially anonymously on the internet.
7 posted on Sunday, June 02, 2013 12:55:54 PM by
vladimir998
“Nigger”.
It’s the new “politically incorrect”.
To: ROCKLOBSTER
I figure that the liberals would jump on such comments as having been written by conservatives. Even though YouTube isn’t known as a bastion of conservatism, liberals would say that only some conservative bigot would write such nonsense.
“No true conservative” logical fallacy in five…four…three…two…
To: James C. Bennett
I would chalk it up to trolls. I know of no true conservatives that would have even noticed anything racial about this commercial. I didn’t.
23 posted on Sunday, June 02, 2013 1:20:55 PM by
grimalkin (Once abolish the God and the government becomes the God. -G.K. Chesterton)
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Fortunately that kind of racist thing doesn’t fly at Free Republic.
To: James C. Bennett
Reddit is a steaming pile of Obama. Nothing on that vile website surprises me..
8 posted on Sunday, June 02, 2013 12:56:33 PM by
cardinal4 (Skip impeachment and move straight to deportation..)
To: brwnsuga
“I live in the Tidewater area of Virginia; home of the largest Navy Base in the world. There are a gazillion biracial children here due to interracial marriages that military members bring into the community. It is just more common and accepted today.”
We would get along if I met you.
Unless of course, you’re a nigger or a wetback. Oops. Your screenname is “bwrnsuga”. GFY.
I just don’t believe in inter-racial marriage or dating.
Colour me (heh) suprised.
Only 10% of the world’s population is white and I don’t like to see it decreasing. In 1900 white were 25% of the worlds population because we invented and were developing modern medicine, were reducing mothers death at childbirth, developing sound public sanitation, reducing infant mortality. As knowledge of theses measures spread other populations increased making whites only 10% of the worlds people
Fortunately, whites control 84.3 % of the money.
It’s bad enough that white birthrates are low in Europe and whites in UK (and others) will be swamped by Muslims and other immigrants
100 posted on Monday, June 03, 2013 2:29:34 PM by
dennisw (too much of a good thing is a bad thing – Joe Pine)
Poor baby.
I wonder if he’s seen this one yet?
Queerios!!!!
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More bag-of-hammers action after the nail.
Remember the hooting and feces-flinging over Syria over at Freeperville?
I do.
And then…
Syria says yes to Russia-inspired chemical weapon dealWashington Times ^ | 09.10.13
Posted on Tuesday, September 10, 2013 7:24:07 AM by Perdogg
Syria on Tuesday said the government would take the deal proposed by Russia to turn over its chemical weapons cache to international control, the nation’s foreign minister said.
“[Monday] we held a round of very fruitful negotiations with Russian Foreign Minister Serge[y] Lavrov and he put forward an initiative regarding chemical weapons. Already in the evening we accepted Russia’s initiative,” said Walid Muallem, the foreign minister, in a statement reported by Russian news and picked up by USA Today
1 posted on Tuesday, September 10, 2013 7:24:07 AM by Perdogg
How could the fasict pro-war-on-the-browns Democratic Reich ever accomplish such a thing???
To: Perdogg
Actually I believe this is the answer to prayers sent to God from millions of people around the world.It was not a coincidence that those words came out of Kerry’s mouth.God said he would put words in the mouth of people. (not that I think Kerry intended it) just God acting in his own mysterious way.
2 posted on Tuesday, September 10, 2013 7:26:18 AM by
mware
This has been another installment of “bugfuck crazy answers to simple questions.”
OK – what’s next?
Some Shutdown Shitheads?
I thought you’d never ask.
In reverse order:
Peter King – RINO!!!
A Republican Calls Another a ‘Fraud’: Peter King calls Cruz’s Tactic “Government Terrorism”New York Times ^ | 09/25/2013 | JIM DWYER
Posted on Wednesday, September 25, 2013 11:06:06 AM by SeekAndFind
When Peter King is going to give you a sound bite, he lets you know ahead of time, so as not to insult your intelligence or, for that matter, waste your time if you’re not that interested in the details.
But please, stay for the footnotes.
Here is Mr. King, a Republican congressman who represents Long Island, speaking on Tuesday afternoon about Ted Cruz, the Republican senator from Texas, who is bringing the federal government to the brink of a shutdown because he wants to cut all the money for President Obama’s health care plan.
“My sound bite is to say he’s a fraud,” Mr. King said. “I start with that, and then I go on. It takes me two or three minutes to explain it.”
Jumping ahead to that third minute, Mr. King said precisely what he thought of the Cruz tactic: “It is just a form of governmental terrorism.
1 posted on Wednesday, September 25, 2013 11:06:06 AM by
SeekAndFind
How batshit insane do you have to be for Peter Fucking King to call you crazy?
To: SeekAndFind
So.. what is it that Republicans stand for, again?
3 posted on Wednesday, September 25, 2013 11:09:17 AM by
Izzy Dunne (Hello, I’m a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
They don’t know, but they stand for it right now!
To: SeekAndFind
King is off his meds again.
4 posted on Wednesday, September 25, 2013 11:09:22 AM by
VeniVidiVici (Play the ‘Knockout Game’ with someone owning a 9mm and you get what you deserve)
That would be because you’re an imbecile. Let me know if you need any more help remembering things.
Tommy, thank you (and thank A) on so many items in the last few days. Starting with allowing a special weekend edition.
When I saw that you indeed brought up the Cheerios, my anticipation climbed (since you mentioned doing this, I started having fun imagining what the Freepers could do with a commercial that is totally tame although overly-saccharine-sweet. The paroday was hilarious! (But you must be kidding me- two brothers at the table and one swipes some food from the other – that is a schtick as old as video – usually though of 2 white brothers.)
You’d think someone who grew up being called N—-r would be a little understanding of someone not wanting to be called Jewish American Princess.
The picture of Jesus and “Pre-existing condition, LOL” is perfect !
And I admit that I have a hard time getting my head around the idea that Russia was the broker of Peace with Syria (avoiding an international travesty) and the new head of Iran is making overtures of peace. Can’t imagine how this gets conflated in the Freepers’ collective head with the Marxist Kenyan in the White House versus GWB talking about the axis of evil but not able to do anything about it (and as much as I detest much of GWB’s politics, there wasn’t a lot he could positively do about the axis of evil other than realize that his bellicose statements could be making things a whole lot worse).
Thank you so much but remember to keep a proper distance between yourself and the freepers or adverse effects may occur.
Should have included some praise for Cheerios / (are they General Mills?): even after the hooplah over the commercial, they have continued to regularly run their ad. Kudos for not bowing to stupidity that doesn’t realize that desegregation was 50 years ago.