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Mixed Race Cheerios Commercial Plagued by Prejudiced Comments

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    DomJollyDomJolly Posts: 1,768
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    fink wrote: »
    Meh, it's just kids having fun on the World Wide Web. It's not really racialist.

    How do you know its only kids? Adults use YouTube as well and they are just as capable of posting racist comments

    I think one who resorts to posting crap like that is just setting themselves up for a huge fail somewhere along the line.

    Its beyond me why anyone would want to post comments like that, and ive been using the Internet since I was a teenager.
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 4,845
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    But inter-racial couples are on tv all the time?
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    PrimalIcePrimalIce Posts: 2,897
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    But inter-racial couples are on tv all the time?

    And racist comments are on youtube all the time regardless of the video.

    Every video, Family Guy clip, AllTime To 10, gardening tips. It don't matter the argument will be

    -Race
    -Religion
    -Both
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    Prince MonaluluPrince Monalulu Posts: 35,900
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    vinba wrote: »
    The Daily Mail is probably incensed that they didn't get there first! :eek:

    Anyway the internet is the chosen trolling ground of the racist. Youtube is full of rubbish like this. It's as if these clips give off some kind of pheromone akin to horse shite viagra that gets them frothing at the mouth....erm mandible.

    Yup youtube is full of nutbars and trolls, just par for the course.
    They probably make a beeline for this sort of thing to wind people up.
    Probably happens a lot, but I don't read a lot of Youtube comments on more general stuff, you know it'll attract them and generate more heat than light.
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    ChuckyBlackhartChuckyBlackhart Posts: 2,468
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    I'd rather have a bowl of Coco Pops.
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    burton07burton07 Posts: 10,874
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    But inter-racial couples are on tv all the time?

    Yes, they are. But they are not real couples - they are actors. I actually find it annoying that advertisers use mixed race couples as an advertising ploy. It's as if they are saying "Oh look at us, aren't we oh so politically correct and liberal."

    You just know that they have deliberately picked two actors of different races, instead of picking two PEOPLE. It's called positive discrimination.
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    frisky pythonfrisky python Posts: 9,737
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    It wasn't just YouTube, their Facebook page got targeted too.
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    LykkieLiLykkieLi Posts: 6,644
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    ianx wrote: »
    That's odd - normally the comments on Youtube are the very definition of politeness and reason.

    PMSL:D
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    ChuckyBlackhartChuckyBlackhart Posts: 2,468
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    burton07 wrote: »
    Yes, they are. But they are not real couples - they are actors. I actually find it annoying that advertisers use mixed race couples as an advertising ploy. It's as if they are saying "Oh look at us, aren't we oh so politically correct and liberal."

    You just know that they have deliberately picked two actors of different races, instead of picking two PEOPLE. It's called positive discrimination.

    Exactly.
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    offtotheracesofftotheraces Posts: 723
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    Shock, horror there is racism in the world.

    Racism is vile but why do people like the OP always seem so wide-eyed innocent when they come across any? No one is that sheltered.
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    tellywatcher73tellywatcher73 Posts: 4,181
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    I have yet to see a video on YouTube with exclusively sensible comments. The most it can go is two posts before descending into farce. I have seen videos of farting dogs with offensive comments so I can't say I'm surprised at this.
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    Bad Wolf 525Bad Wolf 525 Posts: 5,552
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    I just saw this on Youtube....I thought it was funny. Take that haters :p
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    GlowbotGlowbot Posts: 14,847
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    Good on them i guess... not that there is really an issue in most of the world, but crikey, what a terrible advert! They should have got bi racial people who could act and a script.
    Idiots on youtube isn't news.
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 4,391
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    Its the way of the world like it or not that such comments will appear.
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