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Anyone else think McDonalds new "urban look" commercials are incredibly racist?
Apparently, pidgin English is the new trend in advertising these days.
Applebees - Eatin' good in the neighborhood, McDonalds and a few others I 've heard.
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Re: Anyone else think McDonalds new "urban look" commercials are incredibly racist
Nope.
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Originally posted by Albert Speer
just some weird people who can't stop eating mcdonalds and act like weirdos
I don't know why, but I found it really funny that Speer says something like this.
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I would say that it is more an example of how incompetent American advertising is becoming. Used to look forward to the Superbowl commercials, but now we're back to looking forward more to the football than the lame advertising attempts.
as i work at a mcdonalds, i saw a little booklet about this new advertising campaign and since i rememebred this thread, i read it... apparently, the whole "I'm Lovin' It" **** started at mcdonalds in Munich, Germany and then spread to the US
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Originally posted by Q Cubed
i don't find them racist. i do think, though, that they're trying wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy too hard for their own good, to get a specific market while simultaneously pushing other markets away. not everybody likes hip-hop.
Nobody likes their hip hop. I'm offended that you implied that hip hop fans might like the commercial.
I think its stupid that they're trying to be more "hip" by acting more "black." I can't believe I'm saying this, but they really are.
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what about the Vanilla Pepsi ads... or that Verizon Mobile Phone ad where the guy is saying, "Can you hear me now?" while a black woman sings on the steps of a rowhome...
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"I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben Kenobi
Originally posted by Albert Speer
what about the Vanilla Pepsi ads... or that Verizon Mobile Phone ad where the guy is saying, "Can you hear me now?" while a black woman sings on the steps of a rowhome...
Vanilla Pepsi ad is kind of racist. I can't really explain why though. Haven't seen that Verizon commercial.
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Makes me glad I haven't owned a TV in years. :smug look:
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I really should try that, but I love the Simpsons too much. And my parents love Law and Order, Law and Order SVU, Law and Order Criminal Intent, Law and Order Crime and Punishment, Law and Order Return of the Jedi, Law and Order The Lost World, Law and Order: An International Affair, etc. too much. Also CSI and clones.
edit: was an X-post with post above me.
"You're the biggest user of hindsight that I've ever known. Your favorite team, in any sport, is the one that just won. If you were a woman, you'd likely be a slut." - Slowwhand, to Imran
Nobody likes their hip hop. I'm offended that you implied that hip hop fans might like the commercial.
eh? how did you get that from what i wrote? if anything, my meaning is that the mcd commercials are so blatantly obvious in trying to get one slice of the market, that not only does it push several other sectors, particularly those with no interest in hip-hop, away, but that it fails miserably in trying to bring in the market that they wanted.
the ads sound like they were dreamed up by a bunch of honkies in suits trying way too hard to be "hip" and cool in regards to a market/culture that it does not understand in the least--which makes it all the more pitiful, annoying, and useless.
What would that involve? Would you have the Emperor as the Judge, and the Prosecutor be Darth Vader, and Luke as the Defendent?
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