Xenophobia alert!
by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Spotted this at Angry Asian Man and Sepia Mutiny. The ad is paid for by the campaign of Bob Flider (D), who is running against Dick Cain (R) in the 101st Illinois House District.
Those evil Indians and Chinese computer programmers and math whizzes are stealing our jobs!
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of
Y. Carrington wrote:
That’s not xenophobia. That’s racist shite.
The magic ingredient that always brings liberal and conservative together: white supremacy.
Posted 07 Nov 2006 at 1:33 pm ¶
Daniel wrote:
Y. Carrington:
You forgot: Completely idiotic, unsubstantiated by facts, ridiculous, insulting and complete trash!
Posted 07 Nov 2006 at 2:45 pm ¶
makethelogobigger wrote:
That does it. I’m outsourcing all my comments from now on.
Posted 07 Nov 2006 at 4:57 pm ¶
Kenda wrote:
It’s always disappointing to see ads like this. I hope it doesn’t work, but I it probably will.
Posted 07 Nov 2006 at 5:49 pm ¶
Yori Kim wrote:
ugh! WTF! *sigh* i agree Y.Carrington white supremacy…..”oh stay away from the evil chinese and indian men! their coloured………and that ‘ill bring you bad fortune! so stick with me ’cause im white and pure!” god that shit’s everywhere now, and your right kenda most people(mostly racist white people.) will be ‘brainwashed’ by that commercial
Posted 07 Nov 2006 at 6:58 pm ¶
Howard wrote:
Is this really how US politicians do business ON their election campaigns, and how on earth are they getting away with it?
Posted 08 Nov 2006 at 12:17 am ¶
Daniel wrote:
They get away with garbage like that because not enough people speak out against it.
Posted 08 Nov 2006 at 12:23 am ¶
cw wrote:
FYI–a post about 10 racist commercials: http://flumesday.com/102906racist.html
Best,
CW
Posted 08 Nov 2006 at 12:48 am ¶
Dana wrote:
Um. Oh my god. I am seriously in shock that rubbish like this is legal.
Seeing the crap that you (Americans) put up with (”put up with” applying to Americans I actually respect) makes me really appreciate how our (NZ) racism/other -isms are at least viewed as being unacceptable in general public
As for the National Vanguard (re: Top Ten Racist Commercials)… It makes me feel ill seeing a billboard for the modern equivilent of the KKK! :vomit:
Posted 08 Nov 2006 at 3:40 am ¶
justin wrote:
For Dana’s appreciation 10 incidences of racism in New Zealand advertising;
Free to air Asian fetish phone sex ads on C4,
Susan Paul’s man servant,
That frozen vegetable salesman who fights ninjas,
The di di mao gym ad where the lady turns into a butterfly,
The men who play pranks on each other and call it ‘island styles’,
Those giggling Polynesians in the spa bath who get served by a geisha,
King prawns that speak with a fake Japanese accent ,
Every anti-smoking and social welfare ad aimed at Maori,
Every foreign ad, often american advertisements, which have been over dubbed with a white New Zealanders accent,
The 100 choices ad on channel one that tells us that race, ethnicity, gender are as meaningless as someone’s preference for butter or margarine and ribbed or lubed condoms.
New Zealand has laws that control a political party’s advertising during election time, but if anything they just prevent us from realising how racist or naïve some people can be.
Posted 08 Nov 2006 at 10:07 am ¶
tmk wrote:
Notice how the “American” jobs go to white males. Where are the women?
Posted 10 Nov 2006 at 2:33 pm ¶
eric wrote:
I think asian xenophobia is going to be a serious problem in the near future (in the US at least). It’s going ot be interesting to see how things play out, as the whole ‘model minority’ stereotype is trumped by white people thinking “they’ve taken all the jobs” and how thats going to play out.
Posted 11 Nov 2006 at 10:35 am ¶