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Mixed-race Cheerios commerical - why the hate?

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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    Why anyone is surprised at anything that the idiots that inhabit YouTube have to say is beyond me.

    Years ago I saw a video of a five or six month old baby 'playing' the guitar by moving his hand and inadvertently striking the strings of a guitar that someone was holding. The person that uploaded this video had obviously only meant her family and friends to see it but somehow it got a million views and attracted thousands of comments about how the baby was a crap guitarist and deserved to die for 'wasting their time'.

    It was then then I discovered that the average YouTube commenter is a pimply teenage moron with too much time on their hands.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3 Pinkandick


    Oranage2 wrote: »
    So where are mixed race people suppose to go?

    gl
    Mixed-race there is no such thing it’s only a social construct. Don’t get bogged down there man in their madness, Like they classify people as mixed race so they can give credence to their hate of a future they will have no choice but to embrace…i.e new immigrants assimilating what else are we all supposed to do, they seem so thick they need a new outlook, bring on the immigrants because they will only help out with all the good stuff like nice food and nobody likes paying taxes but things have to run in an economy, Like paying back the bloody German’s. Everything makes sense here but what they want doesn’t make any sense at all. P.s any help with the mantra?


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    What a cute ad. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,128 ✭✭✭✭Oranage2


    Pinkandick wrote: »
    gl
    Mixed-race there is no such thing it’s only a social construct. Don’t get bogged down there man in their madness, Like they classify people as mixed race so they can give credence to their hate of a future they will have no choice but to embrace…i.e new immigrants assimilating what else are we all supposed to do, they seem so thick they need a new outlook, bring on the immigrants because they will only help out with all the good stuff like nice food and nobody likes paying taxes but things have to run in an economy, Like paying back the bloody German’s. Everything makes sense here but what they want doesn’t make any sense at all. P.s any help with the mantra?

    Not everything makes sense, take for example, your post.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,088 ✭✭✭Pug160


    John Agard - Half Caste

    Excuse me
    standing on one leg
    I’m half-caste.

    Explain yuself
    wha yu mean
    when yu say half-caste
    yu mean when Picasso
    mix red an green
    is a half-caste canvas?
    explain yuself
    wha yu mean
    when yu say half-caste
    yu mean when light an shadow
    mix in de sky
    is a half-caste weather?
    well in dat case
    england weather
    nearly always half-caste
    in fact some o dem cloud
    half-caste till dem overcast
    so spiteful dem don’t want de sun pass
    ah rass?
    explain yuself
    wha yu mean
    when yu say half-caste
    yu mean tchaikovsky
    sit down at dah piano
    an mix a black key
    wid a white key
    is a half-caste symphony?

    Explain yuself
    wha yu mean
    Ah listening to yu wid de keen
    half of mih ear
    Ah looking at yu wid de keen
    half of mih eye
    an when I’m introduced to yu
    I’m sure you’ll understand
    why I offer yu half-a-hand
    an when I sleep at night
    I close half-a-eye
    consequently when I dream
    I dream half-a-dream
    an when moon begin to glow
    I half-caste human being
    cast half-a-shadow
    but yu must come back tomorrow
    wid de whole of yu eye
    an de whole of yu ear
    an de whole of yu mind.

    an I will tell yu
    de other half
    of my story.


    I'm not sure how well known that is but I discovered it a while back.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 119 ✭✭se02orqua5xz9v


    mike65 wrote: »
    Anyone who thinks the English Defence League is not actually the White English Defence League is a fool.
    mike65 wrote: »
    On the UK telly it almost conspicuously the other way. Not that I disapprove (if only cos it must piss off the EDL...).

    The EDL was founded by Tommy Robinson aka Stephen Yaxley-Lennon. In the documentary Proud and Prejudiced, first aired on Channel 4 in 2012, Robinson stated the following, in response to David Cameron's 'state multiculturalism has failed' speech.
    "David Cameron is wrong. Multiculturalism has worked. It hasn't failed. My Goddaughter is black. My niece is black. We live side-by-side, brothers and sisters. It hasn't failed. What's he on about? He doesn't know what he's talking about. Religion has failed."
    I see nothing in that to infer that he would be 'pissed off' by depictions of mixed-race couples on TV.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭old hippy


    He's still a wrong 'un, that Tommy. As is anyone involved with the EDL.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,436 ✭✭✭c_man


    Wait, so this isn't one of those threads were we'll post the clip of Bill Hicks saying advertisers should kill themselves? ok


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,425 ✭✭✭Festy


    Solair wrote: »
    What is it about YouTube comments in particular that seems to bring out some of the most vile hate on the web.

    You see really nasty stuff under some of the most non-controvertial videos you could possibly think of.

    Stormfront members out in force no doubt.:pac:


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    "OK guys, we need a new ad for Cheerios. Something to grab attention and make us money. Any ideas?"
    "Uhh, yep. Whut about Cheerios being eaten by a mixed race family?"
    "Oh, come on, Michael! The "I'm no fascist but.../ I'm no racist but.../ I'm so right-on" hoards will go ape!"
    "Right, and the profile of Cheerios will go into orbit!"
    "Mmmm, do you think they'll fall for it?"
    "Oh yes, they always do."
    "Thanks, Michael. Say "hello" to Mrs. O'Leary for us".


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,420 ✭✭✭positron


    Pinkandick wrote: »
    So here's the full "Mantra" < i thought that meant something to do with religion like the buddha they don't seem like enlightend people :)

    First i post this so we can think how to battle it, I'm sure their are people here like me but who are ten times smarter & therefore more capable of battling this tripe.
    Cheers Pinkandick.

    The Mantra

    ASIA FOR THE ASIANS, AFRICA FOR THE AFRICANS, WHITE COUNTRIES FOR EVERYBODY!

    Everybody says there is this RACE problem. Everybody says this RACE problem will be solved when the third world pours into EVERY white country and ONLY into white countries.

    The Netherlands and Belgium are just as crowded as Japan or Taiwan, but nobody says Japan or Taiwan will solve this RACE problem by bringing in millions of third worlders and quote assimilating unquote with them.

    Everybody says the final solution to this RACE problem is for EVERY white country and ONLY white countries to “assimilate,” i.e., intermarry, with all those non-whites.

    What if I said there was this RACE problem and this RACE problem would be solved only if hundreds of millions of non-blacks were brought into EVERY black country and ONLY into black countries?

    How long would it take anyone to realize I’m not talking about a RACE problem. I am talking about the final solution to the BLACK problem?

    And how long would it take any sane black man to notice this and what kind of psycho black man wouldn’t object to this?

    But if I tell that obvious truth about the ongoing program of genocide against my race, the white race, Liberals and respectable conservatives agree that I am a naziwhowantstokillsixmillionjews.

    They say they are anti-racist. What they are is anti-white.

    Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white.


    Not sure if you are trying hard to be silly, or naturally this way! You are bringing up a ridiculous and incorrect statement to even start your point.. No one is claiming "inter-marry and assimilate" is the solution for race related issues anywhere in the world - no one sane would say that. Solution is perhaps along the lines of education and acceptance. Tolerance. Humility. You know the normal good qualities you would expect your neighbour woudl have, irrespective of their race / colour.

    Your points are so outlandish, I suspect I might have just fallen for a troll here..


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 9,441 ✭✭✭old hippy




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,386 ✭✭✭Killer Wench


    New Response to the Cheerios Haters:



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