Chevy ads and their PC B.S.

mrt144

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The new ads with the terrible jon cougar song and all the freaking interracial interaction, IN THE 1930s, 50s, 60s!!!! I mean this is something that I cant fathom as being an accurate representation of racial population, racial relations, or anything. it's a half assed high five to racial equality without any real sentiment.

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You mean the "this is our country" ads?
 
its a very specific our country ad where it shows chevy trucks through the years but every scene and setup has at least one black person in it with white people being oh so nice despite the eras they were in and the presumed locations that they show, (like the south. interacial friendships in the south during the 30s to 70s are portrayed as norma, commonplace)

i dont like it for 2 reasons; glosses over history and its such obvious pandering.
 
Never seen it.

And so what? Its a car commercial, not a history channel program.

Though I do hate truth.org commercials with a passion. NOW those commercials really distort the "truth."
 
Bugfatty300 said:
Never seen it.

And so what? Its a car commercial, not a history channel program.

Though I do hate truth.org commercials with a passion. NOW those commercials really distort the "truth."
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Unfortunately the "this is our country" ads have a terrible song coupled with the "rural america is real america" attitude (despite the fact that most people live in urban and suburban areas now) and that somehow including black people in your ads with no regard to the truth about racial relations makes you more racially friendly.
 
You do know that white people and black people have gotten along over the years right? Its not like all people were raving racist lunatics. Its like a book that an old black woman wrote from my home town. People were all bent out of shape because she didn't include a bunch of blacks in her book. So they assumed there weren't any. The old black lady laughed at them and said that to her people were people and she didn't denote which were which in her book because it didn't mater.
 
Bugfatty300 said:
Never seen it.

And so what? Its a car commercial, not a history channel program.

Though I do hate truth.org commercials with a passion. NOW those commercials really distort the "truth."
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Yes they do.
 
mrt144 said:
Unfortunately the "this is our country" ads have a terrible song coupled with the "rural america is real america" attitude (despite the fact that most people live in urban and suburban areas now) and that somehow including black people in your ads with no regard to the truth about racial relations makes you more racially friendly.
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Well it was common for whites and blacks to work together in the south and (gasp!) actually be good friends!

Besides, rural doesn't equate to the US southeast. The south is nearly as urbanized and suburbanized as the north. Rural USA generally means the Midwest, not the south. But then again the Northeast and Southeast has plenty of rural folks too.
 
skadistic said:
Yes they do.
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My "favorite" one is where they go into a gun store and ask for "light bullets" as some sort analogy to "light cigarettes." What a bunch horse crap. I don't even smoke and my Grandpa even died from lung cancer but I still hate those damn commercials.
 
Bugfatty300 said:
My "favorite" one is where they go into a gun store and ask for "light bullets" as some sort analogy to "light cigarettes." What a bunch horse crap. I don't even smoke and my Grandpa even died from lung cancer but I still hate those damn commercials.
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I like how he asks for lead free at one point. Bullets do come in lead free!!

My fav is the one where he sets up the little cigarette stand selling flavoured smokes ( a direct dig at Camel) and all the little kids come up for some and he has to say no. Because we all know only little kids would want fruit flavours.
 
The one with milk has to be the worst lie.

Milk and dairy products have been linked to increased risk of heart disease and (in fact) heart disease kills WAY more people in America than tobacco.
 
the problem isnt so much that white and black people may have gotten along, its that in every scene there is multiracial (wait no, its only black white, no asians or latinos.) interaction and they are always getting along. its pandering.
 
Bugfatty300 said:
Though I do hate truth.org commercials with a passion. NOW those commercials really distort the "truth."
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Oh man I just hate those ads! On those ads where they stand in front of the Philip Morris offices and yell questions with a loud speaker at the building, I can imagine that there's a company rep frantically running down the stairs at break neck speed with a big folder, screaming "WAIT! DON'T GO YET! I HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS IN THIS FOLDER!" and by the time he arrives at the bottom, they're already gone. :lol:
 
mrt144 said:
the problem isnt so much that white and black people may have gotten along, its that in every scene there is multiracial (wait no, its only black white, no asians or latinos.) interaction and they are always getting along. its pandering.
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Its not pandering. Its called CYA. You know just in case some uppity PC-nazi calls in the NAMBLA defense team ... er I mean ACLU to sue because its racist with out blacks.
 
"TTTTTTHHHHIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSSS ISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS OUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRR COOOOOOOOUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNTTTTTTRRRRRYYYYYYYYy"
 
I'm not a fan of the commercials, but I prefer them to most of the other crappy car commercials these days. I've actually never noticed the people in the ads; I like seeing the old trucks!

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mrt144 said:
...coupled with the "rural america is real america" attitude (despite the fact that most people live in urban and suburban areas now)...
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They're truck commercials. People in rural America actually have use for trucks. People in urban America have much less legitimate use for trucks, except for those at job sites. Generally. Don't jump down my throat over that one.

If I were Chevrolet, I would also be targeting people who would buy the most trucks in my truck ads.
 
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