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What's very telling is that we actually had to ask if these were satire or not. We've all seen enough stuff just as loony that was real.
 

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"America – Love It Or Leave It" has always been one of my favorites.


Which America?

What America?

When America?

"Your" America?

"My" America?

"Their" America?
 

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Yup. logic seems pretty consistent with the "white privilege" myth that liberals pedal to me

Yo dog I'm sure college life is tough on you and your homies. That grind is he shizit. Six million dead Jews say sup.
 

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Yo dog I'm sure college life is tough on you and your homies. That grind is he shizit. Six million dead Jews say sup.


Thought it was pretty obvious I was satirically relating how liberals view whites as privileged since they are on average wealthier than minorities and therefore must be institutionally oppressing them (even though asians disprove this) to Jews being wealthier than the average Christian in the US so they must be oppressing them. I just think their whole reasoning behind "white privilege" is flawed.
 

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">St. Patrick's day encourages and perpetuates the idea of whiteness and white culture. It otherizes non-whites and promotes nationalism. <a href="https://t.co/AL2QQRJCk7">pic.twitter.com/AL2QQRJCk7</a></p>— End St.Patrick's Day (@endstpats) <a href="https://twitter.com/endstpats/status/828017529943646210">February 4, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Haven't been able to determine whether this is a parody account or not.
 

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Get on Twitter. Search Pepsi. Thank me later.

The SJWs are eating each other alive.

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Stanford, Princeton, and Yale, it seems, are now admitting students who have written frivolous "personal statements":

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I submitted this answer in my <a href="https://twitter.com/Stanford">@Stanford</a> application, & yesterday, I was admitted...<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/BlackLivesMatter?src=hash">#BlackLivesMatter</a> <a href="https://t.co/R5YxM77bWL">pic.twitter.com/R5YxM77bWL</a></p>— Ziad Ahmed (@ziadtheactivist) <a href="https://twitter.com/ziadtheactivist/status/848215642385895425">April 1, 2017</a></blockquote>
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The kid is one Ziad Ahmed (see his website here), a nonblack student at an expensive prep school in New Jersey. As the incomparable Steve Sailer points out in commenting on the story:

One trend we’ve been tracking at iSteve recently is Tiger Children taking over the social justice jihadi racket. You might think that just because you are poor and black that you’d get a leg up in the struggle for, say, a leftist NGO job, but … look out! The hardest-charging immigrants are coming from 10,000 miles away to outhustle you for your black privilege. These well-fed scions of Asia’s upper classes just want it all more than some poor African-American kid from the slums and they’re willing to be the most insufferable brown-nosers ever to get their hands on some black privilege.

Like Steve, I can only hope that this a parody...but I wouldn't count on it.
 

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I mean. Most personal statements seem frivolous to me. These kids are 18 at best.

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So just now catching up on this whole Pepsi thing:

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The SJWs are eating each other alive.

It's weird that this is how you see the Pepsi thing. I see it as the internet all coming together to laugh at a corporation attempting to cynically commercialize something that obviously shouldn't be commercialized.

The whole commercial screams old white guy in a board meeting saying "The kids today like the gays and the Kardashians and the anti-establishment thing, so lets do that."
 

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It's weird that this is how you see the Pepsi thing. I see it as the internet all coming together to laugh at a corporation attempting to cynically commercialize something that obviously shouldn't be commercialized.

The whole commercial screams old white guy in a board meeting saying "The kids today like the gays and the Kardashians and the anti-establishment thing, so lets do that."

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It's weird that this is how you see the Pepsi thing. I see it as the internet all coming together to laugh at a corporation attempting to cynically commercialize something that obviously shouldn't be commercialized.

For about half of what I read on twitter, I would change "laugh" to "lose their collective minds in blinding white rage".... but otherwise I completely agree. Some mocked the ad in a comedic way, others just got super faux offended.

The whole commercial screams old white guy in a board meeting saying "The kids today like the gays and the Kardashians and the anti-establishment thing, so lets do that."

The irony is that this seems like what it would be, but is almost surely the opposite of what happened. My wife is an advertising account supervisor for a major brand (that will remain nameless for the sake of this post) at an advertising agency here in DC. Advertising/marketing is a female dominated industry, my wife's team doesn't have a single male working on it. All in all, her agency skews about 70% female and it'd be much higher were it not for their programmers in their web development department.

What generally happens is the "old white guy" (CEO, Board of Directors, etc.) on the client side doesn't get input until near the very end... and, as you'd expect, a lot of times he hates or "doesn't get" what's been put together. Then the CMO and/or whatever marketing manager was in charge of the project walks him through how he's "not the target audience" and how they're experts and "trust us, we've focus grouped/tested/researched/whatever and it's great." Then the old white guy shrugs his shoulders and signs off on it.

In this case, I'm sure the marketing team wanted to do something "current" and probably saw the very good Nike campaign and said "let's do that + a Kardashian." Where they failed was in the execution, and I could write paragraphs on how they could've done the same ad with polar opposite reaction. And for that, a lot of people are going to (rightfully) lose their jobs.
 

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In this case, I'm sure the marketing team wanted to do something "current" and probably saw the very good Nike campaign and said "let's do that + a Kardashian." Where they failed was in the execution, and I could write paragraphs on how they could've done the same ad with polar opposite reaction. And for that, a lot of people are going to (rightfully) lose their jobs.

Did you actually think it was very good?

They are inspiring and good technically, but Nike trying to talk about "equality" while operating sweat-shops is laughable.
 

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Did you actually think it was very good?

They are inspiring and good technically, but Nike trying to talk about "equality" while operating sweat-shops is laughable.

That's the rub. It's great brand management for a company that has a deplorable record of exploitation when you start peeling back layers.
 

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That's the rub. It's great brand management for a company that has a deplorable record of exploitation when you start peeling back layers.

Yeah I guess my question was unfair.

"Good Marketing" and "Blatant Hypocrisy" can both be true.
 

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Thought it was pretty obvious I was satirically relating how liberals view whites as privileged since they are on average wealthier than minorities and therefore must be institutionally oppressing them (even though asians disprove this) to Jews being wealthier than the average Christian in the US so they must be oppressing them. I just think their whole reasoning behind "white privilege" is flawed.

That is a much better way to state your case, but this exchange also shows how the whole idea of being "anti-PC" can easily be coopted and used as a shield behind which one can promote some really disgusting ideas. Case in point, one of the pillars of the modern white pride movement in America is the idea of the Zionist Occupation Government or ZOG. It's 100% predicated on the concept of Jews being a "privileged class". Taken at face value your post seemed to be very much in line with this idea.
 
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That is a much better way to state your case, but this exchange also shows how the whole idea of being "anti-PC" can easily be coopted and used as a shield behind which one can promote some really disgusting ideas. Case in point, one of the pillars of the modern white pride movement in America is the idea of the Zionist Occupation Government or ZOG. It's 100% predicated on the concept Jews being a "privileged class". [/B]Taken at face value your post seemed to be very much in line with this idea.

Is this similar to the idea of "white privilege" among non-whites?
 

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That is a much better way to state your case, but this exchange also shows how the whole idea of being "anti-PC" can easily be coopted and used as a shield behind which one can promote some really disgusting ideas. Case in point, one of the pillars of the modern white pride movement in America is the idea of the Zionist Occupation Government or ZOG. It's 100% predicated on the concept Jews being a "privileged class". Taken at face value your post seemed to be very much in line with this idea.
There is no modern white pride movement. GTFO with that.
 
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