Advert with monkey doing gymnastics right after Black olympic athlete causes outrage
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Re: Advert with monkey doing gymnastics right after Black olympic athlete causes outrEveryone knows why it could be, but if they had deliberately not shown it afterwards then it would be discriminating against the other races and only assumes that every black person would get offended.(Original post by democracyforum)
White girl wins, followed by monkey commercial, no big deal.
Chinese girl wins, followed by monkey commerical, no big deal.
Black girl wins, followed by monkey commerical, RACISM! Why? -
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Re: Advert with monkey doing gymnastics right after Black olympic athlete causes outrWhat is the main objective of a newspaper - sell copies.(Original post by Clip)
Daily FAil Trolololololol. StoppeD reADING after I saw thta.
What has the Daily Mail once again achieved - another thread on one of its topics on TSR. It sells copies by printing outrageous rubbish -
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Re: Advert with monkey doing gymnastics right after Black olympic athlete causes outrSurely the real racists are the ones making the complaints since they immediately made an unprompted association between the monkey and the Black person?(Original post by democracyforum)
NBC has become the centre of a race storm after airing an ad featuring a monkey performing gymnastics, right after showing the performance of Gabby Douglas, the first African-American to win Olympic gold.
The network has since apologised for the advert's poor timing, explaining: 'No offense was intended.'
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...#ixzz22aWAzvj8 -
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Re: Advert with monkey doing gymnastics right after Black olympic athlete causes outrThat's it....(Original post by democracyforum)
hehe
judge for yourself, then decide
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFBHjgpIq7I
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Re: Advert with monkey doing gymnastics right after Black olympic athlete causes outrAnd I bet those people are mostly white.(Original post by Maerzin)
Because some people look for racism in everything.
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Re: Advert with monkey doing gymnastics right after Black olympic athlete causes outrI don't know whether they're white or not. What I meant was the OP is making this into a bigger deal than it is because he is angling for something else as can be seen by his posts in this thread.
