Is This Racist?

Too many people get upset and call things Racist without knowing the whole story. So I am undeciding.

Originally posted by Lestov16
Maybe I'm mistaken, but isn't that a clip from this movie? I'm 80% sure that it is, making the racism moot because that's the point

If not, ignore everything I said atop

Says so on the youtube page.

Bardock42: You don't even in the USA, so making a comment about does not make any sense. It's like saying all Germans are just itching to go back to the old days of Hitler.

Originally posted by YankeeWhaler
Bardock42: You don't even LIVE n the USA, so making a comment about it does not make any sense. It's like saying all Germans are just itching to go back to the old days of Hitler.

So taking a scene from a satire movie and jumping to conclusions and becoming indignant? No wonder why Hitler got to be so popular in Germany. Augustus put down the chocolate.

http://youtu.be/rw_R9SS3kQ8

Originally posted by Lestov16
Maybe I'm mistaken, but isn't that a clip from this movie? I'm 80% sure that it is, making the racism moot because that's the point

If not, ignore everything I said atop

Originally posted by YankeeWhaler
Bardock42: You don't even in the USA, so making a comment about does not make any sense. It's like saying all Germans are just itching to go back to the old days of Hitler.

I have lived in the USA, and I am just as able to watch your news and media, in fact, I assume I am very likely in the upper 50 percent (not that that means much) when it comes to being informed on issues of current and historical social and political issues even among Americans currently living in the US.

Regardless, this is an issue of racism, on which the US does, luckily, not have the claim to sole knowledge and rights to discussion.

Nor did I jump to any conclusions from the satire. In fact, I very clearly stated that it could very well be satire, it is however satire designed to show racism, and if it was played straight (which it could be) it would be racist.

Don't pretend you know anything about me cause you creepily stalked someone on my forum, when you are so clearly unable to even comprehend what I actually write.

Originally posted by Omega Vision
Reminds me of the movie CSA.

Originally posted by Lestov16
Maybe I'm mistaken, but isn't that a clip from this movie? I'm 80% sure that it is, making the racism moot because that's the point

If not, ignore everything I said atop

If this IS from that movie, then they did a pretty good job making it convincing.

It's not rascist.

It's just sneaky. Which is worse.

I can understand the name now if its from the movie, any company advertising "confederate" living would turn me off from the start. I mean the name is offensive in and of itself.

Originally posted by jalek moye
The fact that the black guy showed up right as it said and their property made me lol

😆

So this really was from the CSA movie?

I haven't seen it.

But that settles it: I was right and Johnny Demonic was wrong. 313

Originally posted by King Kandy
If this IS from that movie, then they did a pretty good job making it convincing.

Originally posted by Johnny Demonic
The company that the commercial promotes may be a racist folks, but just off what the commercial shows, I don't see any racism.

Originally posted by jinXed by JaNx

didn't see the whole and their property when it panned to the black guy?

Lol, or the fact that its from a movie about an alternate America where slavery and racism are the status quo?

Furthermore, the black guy in question is of the "boy" stereotype in America, who is characterised as being loyal, late teens/early 20s, optimistic, obedient and hard working.

As opposed to say another stereotype such as the "mammy" which is almost always a loud fat religious moody violent black woman, the most obvious example of this is Tom's owner in Tom and Jerry. Now, of course, childhood me didn't know this was racist, nor do I think most people did, but it so obviously is, and the same can be said about this advert.

I even went as far as to think this was a real advert since racial stereotypes are all over American television. Just off the top of my head I can see the Mammy stereotype in Friends, Scrubs, Becker and even Malcolm in the Middle, except this time they're all nurses. 2 and a half men at least made their Mammy housekeeper white. 😐

... Honestly that's pretty accurate of alot of older black mothers and younger grandmothers

So I don't see it as a racist depiction just a depiction of a type of person

Originally posted by lord xyz
As opposed to say another stereotype such as the "mammy" which is almost always a loud fat religious moody violent black woman, the most obvious example of this is Tom's owner in Tom and Jerry. Now, of course, childhood me didn't know this was racist, nor do I think most people did, but it so obviously is, and the same can be said about this advert.

I even went as far as to think this was a real advert since racial stereotypes are all over American television. Just off the top of my head I can see the Mammy stereotype in Friends, Scrubs, Becker and even Malcolm in the Middle, except this time they're all nurses. 2 and a half men at least made their Mammy housekeeper white. 😐

I've met a *lot* of black "mammy" type women. I'd hesitate to call it particularly racist unless they're the only representative of black people in the show.

Originally posted by jalek moye
... Honestly that's pretty accurate of alot of older black mothers and younger grandmothers

So I don't see it as a racist depiction just a depiction of a type of person

You could say impoverished, condescended mothers of African ethnicity within the United States are inclined to a specific or broad trait, but their behaviour isn't caused by them being black, which is the implication here.

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
I've met a *lot* of black "mammy" type women. I'd hesitate to call it particularly racist unless they're the only representative of black people in the show.

And FYI, I haven't met a single person who acts like they do in the UK.