"... with stereotypes about minorities and warnings of race-mixing as the end of civilization. Late Friday night, after a day of widespread news coverage, the ad had more than 8,400 thumbs-up votes on YouTube, versus about 900 thumbs-down."
So we don't know who put up the comments and we don't have to suffer through reading them, whatever they were, but we're all watching the ad with the adorable little girl who conveys the message that Cheerios fend off heart attacks and loving females therefore feed their men Cheerios.
Viral ad campaign works swimmingly well.
Racism is bad. Well-known opinion, shared by everyone you know, is stated with indignant new fervor that seems justified by whatever that thing was that no one saw, and what slips in so easily is a genuinely questionable opinion: that eating packaged, processed grain food is good for your health.
Also, kids: In real life, pouring food on your dad when he's sleeping on the sofa is not a good way to cause him to wake up thinking I love you.
ADDED: This is a good time to look back on this great old George Bush viral video: "you're working hard to put food on your family.
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Leftism works in part by balkanizing populations into victim groups. The unintended consequence is that intolerance between groups increases.
Progressives have set the stage for increasing racism and ethnic enmity. I expect more and more of this to come, like Drudge pointing out the attacks on gays in NYC.
As for Cheerios, just another ad showing men too dumb to take care of themselves. Yeah, yeah, Dad told her it was good for your heart, but he's too stupid to eat it himself, or daughter wouldn't have poured it all over him.
Here's where I agree with Bullworth. Lets all fuck until we are all the same color. Then perhaps we will get over our silly obsession with skin color.
Beautiful kid. The often overlooked result of mixing racial lines is superior offspring.
Gregor Mendel proved that 150 years ago. But no one wanted to know that knowledge so the Czech friar's work was ignored until DNA theory caught up to him.
...our silly obsession with skin color.
Race is so much more than skin color. Two things are staggering: the amount of scientific evidence that racial differences are profound and inextinguishable; the willful blindness to the evidence on the part of the bien pensants.
Racism is bad. Well-known opinion, shared by everyone you know, is stated with indignant new fervor that seems justified by whatever that thing was that no one saw, and what slips in so easily is a genuinely questionable opinion: that eating packaged, processed grain food is good for your health.
Ah, the war on processed foods. Banned them in a perfect world and replace them with whole grain products baked by good-paid elves and available at a Whole Foods near you.
It is a cute ad. But you know what is bad? It took all these ad makers to cautiously wait for a mixed race president to put up an ad with a mixed race couple. That is embarrassingly transparent of their mindset.
I'd still like to see a sample, as I'm wondering the split on the divide.
PS Anti-Semitism is racism. So was Nazism - not too many "people of color" involved.
You may dice it up a little more finely as ethnocentrism (maybe that way people like Cornel West can be called what they really are)
I hate all those cereal commercials pushing their products as healthy when they are in fact very unhealthy.
Lets all fuck until we are all the same color. Then perhaps we will get over our silly obsession with skin color.
"If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon." - George Aiken, Republican governor, then senator, from Vermont.
Including Cheerios.
I never liked Cheerios.
There was never a moment of just-right sogginess.
It stayed too crisp and then suddenly went entirely into mush.
traditionalguy said...
Beautiful kid. The often overlooked result of mixing racial lines is superior offspring.
Gregor Mendel proved that 150 years ago. But no one wanted to know that knowledge so the Czech friar's work was ignored until DNA theory caught up to him.
6/1/13, 9:07 AM
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Just another example of religion's 'war' on science.
I know that if you cover a guy sleeping at his desk at work with a light snow of bits of torn-up paper, he awakes angry.
Racism is bad
"Racism" is now a term without meaning.
However, I'd like to point out that the science is settled and people really, really do like being around their own race.
I have to agree that mixing black and white makes for some good look offspring and can create some pretty good looking athletes too.
Lets all fuck until we are all the same color. Then perhaps we will get over our silly obsession with skin color.
Trouble is, then we'd all be the same IQ, too, and it wouldn't be good enough to keep things running.
A good IQ deal for the black and brown though. White and yellow, not so much.
I can say from personal experience that if you fill a sleeping guy's hand with shaving foam and then tickle his nose, he will not see the humor of it.
Interracial marriages and relationships wouldn't be quite so controversial if it weren't for the enormous gender skew.
Peter
Hardin, I leave the bag open, not too much, so they go slightly stale. It's one solution.
As for race, racism, interracial couples, the authoritarianism behind progressive ninny-ism, tradition, custom, history, love, fear, ignorance, politics, freedom, law, kids, marketing, politics following culture, political philosophy and ideology, and all manner of complexity...
No comment.
Viral ad campaign works swimmingly well.
Yup, racists outsmarted again. Consumers of healthy breakfast foods also outsmarted.
As for "general witless racism." God (if He exists) save us from witty racism.
I'm pleased to see this. It has bothered me for years that you never never never see (saw?) interracial couples in advertising.
The ad also makes a blatantly false nutrition/health claim. It should be shut down for that.
Peter wrote: Interracial marriages and relationships wouldn't be quite so controversial if it weren't for the enormous gender skew.
I never thought of it that way but it's probably true. And the reasons behind it are impolitic.
The ad also makes a blatantly false nutrition/health claim.
Oh, I think it's at least as solid as your race=IQ claim.
I believe eating oatmeal and therefore oat Cherios has been proved to lower Cholesterol levels.
Quaker Oats is not quacker oats.
My first thought being to wonder how many of the racist posts were written by toilers in the race industry may mean that the tactic is beginning to wear thin.
@MisterB said...
"If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon." - George Aiken, Republican governor, then senator, from Vermont.
Totally. The political class feeds upon victim groups. Victim groups will always exist. and yes, if not- victim groups will be created in a laboratory.
It is a cute ad. But you know what is bad? It took all these ad makers to cautiously wait for a mixed race president to put up an ad with a mixed race couple. That is embarrassingly transparent of their mindset.
I work in advertising. Maybe I'm in the minority (heh) but I don't consider race as much as an overall look for any of the roles we need to cast for commercials and printed work.
Also, The Jeffersons was on TV almost 20 years ago. So much for 'progress'
pm317 said...
It is a cute ad. But you know what is bad? It took all these ad makers to cautiously wait for a mixed race president to put up an ad with a mixed race couple. That is embarrassingly transparent of their mindset.
They also waited until he had stolen re-election.
Interestingly, if you look at ads aimed at blacks, there are no whites in them. That's starting to change, but very slowly.
MisterBuddwing - Are you a science denier? The racial difference in IQ is long established and stable. Please understand that it is a probabilistic consideration, not a deterministic one. My father conducted extensive I.Q. testing in the 1950s and 1960s and was well aware of the stats. Interestingly, the highest score he ever measured was a black woman.
Interestingly, the highest score he ever measured was a black woman.
So basically, race is a factor in IQ, except when it isn't.
Seriously,i didn't even notice that the woman was white and the man was black until i watched the ad just now. I thought it was cute when i saw it on TV. Still think it is.
Vicki from Pasadena
MisterBuddwing said...
The ad also makes a blatantly false nutrition/health claim.
Oh, I think it's at least as solid as your race=IQ claim.
Ah yes. We hear from yet another "ignorance is bliss" acolyte.
Educate yourself, my friend, but ready your feelings for the uncomfortable truths to come.
On second thought, the ad does (accidentally) make a valid claim.
Cheerios do you more good when poured on your clothed chest, than when ingested.
Educate yourself, my friend, but ready your feelings for the uncomfortable truths to come.
That the claim about Cheerios may actually be true? I'm bracing myself already.
What's with the "love" theme in advertising lately? Subaru and Gen. Mills are claiming their products are "love", or something. They're selling cars and cereal, for goodness sake.
Love! You are love!
Better far than a metaphor
Can ever, ever be.
Many pediatricians recommend Cheerios for young babies/children because there are no sharp edges to potentially harm tender mouths..
Buddwing - Here is a very important lesson for you. If you think carefully about this, it will probably be the best thing you learn all day. There is a interesting fact about people. It is fair to talk about groups of people and group tendencies. Groups have norms. But just because a person is a member of a group, does not mean that the next individual of that group will behave according to the group norms.
This completely explains the observation of my father. Blacks, on average test about a standard deviation lower than whites in measures of I.Q. But, pay attention, the average doesn't dictate where an individual within that group may fall! How cool! Blacks can be less intelligent on average than whites, but the single most intelligent person my father met can be black! It is difficult to get ahold of this, but if you work, it will come to you.
And armed with this knowledge, what do I do with it?
I never liked Cheerios
Cheerios are a great toddler snack, especially when traveling. A little baggie with some Cheerios that the kid can pick up and eat with their itty bitty fingers. Tasty and not full of sugar.
I've never seen the ad until now since we stream most of our television and movies [Roku] and delay the programs that we do watch so that we can skip the commercials. Meh. Stupid ad, just like always the Dad is the dumb one.
AprilApple: Here's where I agree with Bullworth. Lets all fuck until we are all the same color. Then perhaps we will get over our silly obsession with skin color.
Anecdotally - most of the people I've heard promoting this panacea are whites who are not, as a matter of fact, taking their own advice about mixing it up when it comes to marriage and reproduction. On the other hand, I've run into a number of people in mixed marriages who are very comfortably "race realist". At any rate, the "there's no such thing as race" or "it's only about skin color" thing seems to be a faith-based belief mostly restricted to whites.
I really like the Banana-Nut Cheerios. Which, I'm sure, has way too much sugar.
MisterBuddwing: So basically, race is a factor in IQ, except when it isn't.
I guess by now I should've stopped being surprised at the number of people who cannot understand the simple concept of a statistical distribution. But no, my astonishment is ever fresh.
Is it the "unnaturalness" of statistical thinking, or do people handle it just fine when the subject isn't emotionally loaded?
Is it the "unnaturalness" of statistical thinking, or do people handle it just fine when the subject isn't emotionally loaded?
Both.
"Is it the "unnaturalness" of statistical thinking, or do people handle it just fine when the subject isn't emotionally loaded?"
Political correctness trumps statistical thinking.
EMD said...
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Thanks for the input.. so advertising which was race neutral is now race central in the age of Obama,.. heh.
Political correctness trumps statistical thinking.
I'm inclined to believe there's value in statistics; I just don't consider stats to be that useful in my everyday life or in judging individual behavior.
MisterBuddwing said...
And armed with this knowledge, what do I do with it?
Use to inform effective public policy. Use it to see the idiocy of "No Child Left Behind", and judging teachers harshly when they can't get certain groups to achieve to the same level as other groups.
You stop worrying about disparate impact everywhere, and instead teach everyone to play (but first know) the hand they were dealt, the best it can be played. And you help them to do so, without wish-casting.
That's for starters.
And come one, you could have thought of all that yourself, no?
"Lets all fuck until we are all the same color."
I can proudly say that with one exception I've done my part in leading humanity towards this lofty goal.
Does anyone know if Senator Warren as a younger sister?
What's with the "love" theme in advertising lately? Subaru and Gen. Mills are claiming their products are "love", or something. They're selling cars and cereal, for goodness sake.
Love! You are love!
Better far than a metaphor
Can ever, ever be.
So true! So manipulative.
So true! So manipulative.
It's advertising and sales. Meant to be manipulative. Manipulative by its very definition. This is why critical thinking skills are important. Be skeptical
Use to inform effective public policy.
Sorry, I'm not in charge of public policy.
Use it to see the idiocy of "No Child Left Behind", and judging teachers harshly when they can't get certain groups to achieve to the same level as other groups.
Tell that to President Bush.
You stop worrying about disparate impact everywhere, and instead teach everyone to play (but first know) the hand they were dealt, the best it can be played. And you help them to do so, without wish-casting.
And treating people in terms of groups will help to achieve that?
And come one, you could have thought of all that yourself, no?
I think I already have.
I thought the commercial was cute. Then again, I don't see EVERYTHING through the political, pc or racial lens.
MisterBuddwing said...
Use to inform effective public policy.
Sorry, I'm not in charge of public policy.
So, someone takes time out of their busy day to enlighten you, and you respond with serial smart-assery. Nice. I feel sorry for those who know you.
It's advertising and sales. Meant to be manipulative.
Yup. Exploiters and creators of the sheeple.
So, someone takes time out of their busy day to enlighten you, and you respond with serial smart-assery. Nice.
He victimized you, didn't he? I know, I was following.
Combine this with the Lysol ad...
Children DESTROY a sofa in the Lysol ad.
A child makes a HUGE mess in this ad.
...and wakes up the father who's probably home from the hospital.
"Beautiful kid. The often overlooked result of mixing racial lines is superior offspring."
I'll see your Halle Berry and raise you a Chaz Bono.
SHTSI: You stop worrying about disparate impact everywhere, and instead teach everyone to play (but first know) the hand they were dealt, the best it can be played. And you help them to do so, without wish-casting.
MisterBuddwing: And treating people in terms of groups will help to achieve that?
If vast amounts of social policy are based on "treating people in terms of groups", then, yeah, you have to address the fact that vast amounts of social policy are based on "treating people in terms of groups", if you want to get rid of those policies. Prattling about how you, personally, judge individuals as individuals (like everybody else here doesn't?) is an evasion.
"Disparate impact" (and other gnostic concepts like "institutional racism" and "white privilege") are based on the belief that there are no aggregate group differences in traits like IQ, and therefore that any group outcomes not proportional to that group's representation in the population must be the result of some extraneous factor that can, of course, be fixed by pouring resources into social engineering and more and more bureaucrats.
But since you're dead-set against treating people in terms of groups, we can take it that you are willing to tolerate "unequal outcomes" in profession, income, etc. by racial group? Because noticing that in the first place requires "treating people in terms of groups". As would any honest attempt to understand why those unequal outcomes exist. (And by "honest" I don't mean "ignore any facts that don't involve blaming whitey".)
Advertising is tricky these days. TV is dying slowly, and an old rule in ads is that if you entertain too much, you might distract from the brand.
This ad works, much like the KMart ads that pretend to curse. Can't go wrong with pretty people, either. And the inter-racial element makes it worth discussing. Here I am, doing so!
Good job, ad folks.
MisterBuddwing said...
Sorry, I'm not in charge of public policy.
So, someone takes time out of their busy day to enlighten you, and you respond with serial smart-assery. Nice. I feel sorry for those who know you.
i've been guilty of smart-assery in the past, but this was a perfectly factual (and, IMHO) reasonable statement.
As for "feeling sorry for those who know me" - with all due respect, I seriously doubt it.
Just don't talk to Carmelo Anthony about Honey Nut Cheerio's.
Racism is bad
---No, it is not.
Diversity is not our strength, either.
Enjoy the decline, mongrels!
Honestly, what do you people eat for breakfast that you think is healthier than Cheerios? Because it honestly doesn't matter what form your carbs arrive in, or even your oat-carbs, because it's still all sugar.
Is an English muffin with jam healthier than a bowl of Cheerios? How could it be.
A latte from Starbucks? Even the stupid skinny sort?
Leftover cold pizza?
What healthy meal do you actually prepare every day for breakfast?
@AprilApple:
Lets all fuck until we are all the same color. Then perhaps we will get over our silly obsession with skin color.
---If the blacks were same as humans, I would agree with you.
Unfortunately, they are not.
They are more violent, stupider, more parasitic, and definitely do not want to be civilized.
They are not on the level of humanity.
Little nigger bitch will end up having 6 kids with 7 "men" and blame her father for "raping" her "beautiful" mother.
And Easy Annie A., the abortion lover, and Freeman Cunt, the man-hater, will cheer lead for her as she demands more handouts.
Enjoy the decline, bitches!
Also, for you idiots.
"Statistical thinking" doesn't have a thing to do with intermarriage because that mixing and those genetic choices are between individuals making the best reproductive choice available to them and any particular individual exists in isolation from the statistics of the group.
Apparently I'm not the only one who woke up crabby today.
Honestly to God, Althouse, I hope you're not leaving whore's posts up there.
@Synova, the typical totalitarian, group-think loving broad:
any particular individual exists in isolation from the statistics of the group.
---lol. Typical woman liar---pretending numbers don't apply to her or anyone else when she doesn't like it.
or...they do, Liar.
Apparently I'm not the only one who woke up crabby today.
---lmao. Note the female response: telling the truth is "waking up crabby." Lets all be nice and live in pretty little lies!
Honestly to God, Althouse, I hope you're not leaving whore's posts up there.
---Typical woman: demanding any "illegal" thought be erased from history, and only groupthink be allowed. 1984 lives on!
Never forget that women love a good book-and/or-witch burning. Never forget it is WOMEN who formed the majority of those mobs.
Enjoy the decline, shit heads!
Those of us who have lives don't waste them watching commercials on YouTube. So can someone bottom-line this for us? In particular, can we avoid heart attacks by joining the KKK or something?
Looks like Progress Kentucky comments on youtube videos...
"...the post-racial American society some hoped the election of an African American president signified is far from here."
I swear, bagels have more knowledge of statistical sampling than the idiot who wrote that sentence. If you want to know if a general population is post-racial, one has to control for other factors that alienate the living hell out of Set B. AAAND one has to rely on a test case that doesn't appeal to the racism of Set A.
On another note, how much can one tell about the general population by observing YouTube comments?
What healthy meal do you actually prepare every day for breakfast?
Coffee and a cigarette.
Peter
"Those of us who have lives don't waste them watching commercials on YouTube. So can someone bottom-line this for us?"
Bottom line: For many of the Althouse commentators its another chance to tell us all how much they HATE RACISM!, and Mixed race kids are OK with them.
They never pass up the opportunity. Given their obsessive need to do this, I can't figure out whether they're reformed racists, closet racists, or flashing back to 1968 when they told Racist Granddad that "Afro-Americans" were people too.
IQ is bullshit.
And when did the commenter demographic around here shift to majority racist?
Maybe Althouse should shut off her comments section like Cheerios did, as a viral blog advertising experiment.
@ironrailsweight:
What healthy meal do you actually prepare every day for breakfast?
Coffee and a cigarette.
---Really, Peter? I would have thought it was hairy, hairy pink pie.
@Palladian:
IQ is bullshit.
---That is lie.
IQ is real, valid, and good measure of human intelligence.
And blacks consistently score one standard deviation lower than non-blacks.
Lying about it won't help you.
And when did the commenter demographic around here shift to majority racist?
---When Obama's sons started overrunning and ruining society.
Enjoy the decline, liar!
Whore's posts create an interesting problem. Few of us want to be associated with them, and yet by sharing this space we are. On the other hand, free speech uber alles.
Contra rcocean, I don't think you have to be typical woman to not want to be associated with whore's comments. You could be a full blown red neck racist or a closet yankee racist and still not want to be associated with his particular virulence.
"... and still not want to be associated with his particular virulence."
Or immature stupidity.
@unreasonable turd:
Few of us want to be associated with them, and yet by sharing this space we are.
---The left and its enablers can never stand the truth, and want it banished forever.
On the other hand, free speech uber alles.
---lmao. the left believes in free speech like Hitler believd in socialism: only for his kind, and no others.
Remember Nakoula Nakoula, bitches.
Enjoy the decline, quislings!
I'm working on a chirbit reading for one of Whores' screeds but can't decide whether to voice him as Mr. Potter (Lionel Barrymore) from "It's A Wonderful Life" or as the voice-impaired Larry Flynt.
El Pollo Raylan said...
I'm working on a chirbit reading for one of Whores' screeds but can't decide whether to voice him as Mr. Potter (Lionel Barrymore) from "It's A Wonderful Life" or as the voice-impaired Larry Flynt.
My vote, Alvin from Alvin and the Chipmunks.
My vote, Alvin from Alvin and the Chipmunks.
Too cheery and upbeat. He needs to be a warped and frustrated old man.
El Pollo Raylan said...
He needs to be a warped and frustrated old man.
I don't think he is that old. That's not your mature blended variety, it's a cheap recent vintage.
"...not your mature blended variety, it's a cheap recent vintage."
A pre-adolescent boy who has discovered he can shout naughty words through a megaphone, and the adults can't stop him.
Raylan, I think this is the guy you want.
Altho I also think Jean Stapleton could do a terrific "Enjoy the decline!"
Ann, are you angling for an Obama appointment by bringing up Bush where there. Is no need to do so?
The linked to opinion piece uses web commentary as a representation of America and attitudes about race.
Seriously!
The Bush clip is cut off so short I have to wonder if the next word he said was "table."
Chip S. said...
I also think Jean Stapleton could do a terrific "Enjoy the decline!"
Another strong contender for the role.
I'm working on a chirbit reading for one of Whores' screeds but can't decide whether to voice him as Mr. Potter (Lionel Barrymore) from "It's A Wonderful Life" or as the voice-impaired Larry Flynt.
On the rare occasions that I happen to glance at a "whoresoftheinternet" dribble, I always imagine Truman Capote saying it.
It's so cute how the lefties and their enablers resort to character assassination when their lies are called out, and they have no other refuge.
Kill the messenger! The Emperor's new clothes are gorgeous!
Enjoy the decline, Obama propagandists!
Yes, we're all leftists here.
You're even more deluded than Robert Cook.
TrumanCapotesoftheinternet
I can do a better Capote, but I only had a few minutes to spare while packing.
Well, I was feelin' sad and kind of blue
I didn't know what I was gonna do
The Communists were comin' around
They was in the air, they were on the ground
They were all over
So I ran down most hurriedly
And joined the John Birch Society
I got me a secret membership card
Went back to my backyard
And started looking on the sidewalk
'Neath the rose bush
Well, I was lookin' everywhere for them gold darned Reds
I got up in the mornin' and looked under my bed
Looked behind the kitchen, behind the door
Even tore loose the kitchen floor, couldn't find any
I looked beneath the sofa, beneath the chair
Looking for them Reds everywhere
I looked way up my chimney hole
Even looked deep inside my toilet bowl
They got away
[ From: http://www.metrolyrics.com/talkin-john-birch-paranoid-blues-lyrics-bob-dylan.html ]
I heard some footsteps by the front porch door
So I grabbed my shotgun from the floor
I snuck around the house with a huff and hiss and
"Hands up, you Communist" it was a mail man
He punched me out
Well, I quit my job so I could work alone
I got a magnifying glass like Sherlock Holmes
Followed some clues from my detective bag
And discovered they was red stripes on the American flag
Did you know about Betsy Ross
Well, I was sittin' home alone and I started to sweat
I figured they was in my television set
I peeked behind the picture frame
And got a shock from my feet that hit my brain
Them Reds did it, no one's on the hootin' nanny
Well, I finally started thinkin' straight
When I run outta things to investigate
I couldn't imagine doin' anything else
So now I'm at home investigatin' myself
Hope, I don't find out too much, good God
Dedicated to Whores, of course, thanks Bob Dylan.
Palladian said...
TrumanCapotesoftheinternet
I'm lying here, as sick as a dog, but that made me laugh. Thanks.
@Palladian:
You mad bro? Man, you lefties really are bad at comedy. lol.
@Inga, the lying, murderous obama whore:
Aw, gotta love the lefty liars, 1984-ing history. According to the left, massive communist spying never happened in the west. Ignore Alger Hiss! Ignore Whittaker Chambers! Ignore 1985: Year of the Spy! Ignore the Cambridge Five!
McCarthy was deluded! No Commies here!
Enjoy the decline, liars!
p.s Inga, how's your daughter? Ready to have her die for Obama? I'd bet you'd proudly kill her yourself in service of Mein Obama!
Enjoy the decline, fascists!
Enjoy the spiritual decline @whoresoftheinternet
Whores of the internet gets the Moby of the year award tonight. It should be one free trip to banned commenter status.
The human Race is the only race around here.
General Mills is an evil corporation. They donated big money and public support for same sex marriage. This, despite the fact that marriage can only be defined as between one man and one woman, as this is the definition of the human person by natural law.
The board of directors at General Mills are hopeless liberals with no moral bearing.
General Mills is an evil corporation. They donated big money and public support for same sex marriage. This, despite the fact that marriage can only be defined as between one man and one woman, as this is the definition of the human person by natural law.
The board of directors at General Mills are hopeless liberals with no moral bearing.
That rant makes me hungry for Cheerios!
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