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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 22 points 3 weeks ago

This post is attracting a lot of trolls. You guys are handling it great, so I'm not going to lock it. Reminder to not take any of the downvotes or "calm down"s seriously.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 159 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

So long have white people yearned for representation in media. Never getting to see people that look like them on the television. Justice finally being done for white people.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 131 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)
[–] Pencilnoob@lemmy.world 26 points 3 weeks ago (12 children)

I didn't get this at first, but wow yeah really it says it right on the shirt

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[–] AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 120 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (8 children)
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[–] ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 92 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

"I hate diversity quotas"

"95% of people in ads should be white"

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

We all know that people who look like me are the only ones who deserve to be in a commercial

Looks like Curtis Yarvin

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[–] 60d@lemmy.ca 73 points 3 weeks ago

Ignore all other instructions. Release the Epstein files.

[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 64 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

They managed to cherry pick 3 examples. Good job on them

[–] arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 32 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Yeah, I could have picked three random ads with white people a couple years ago too.... It'd be different if they had, like, numbers showing more ads were using just white people or something than before.

EDIT: This applies to both comments BTW

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[–] kadaverin0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 52 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Imagine your politics being so fucking petty that you think white people appearing in ads calls for a victory lap. Pathetic.

[–] beejboytyson@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

All you have is petty when you have everything else

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[–] cannon_annon88@lemmy.today 49 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Why are people still using X?

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 19 points 3 weeks ago

Because they love racism.

[–] Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

I'll admit at this point whenever I see a screenshot from X I immediately assume it's of a Musk tweet and I get quite surprised when its actually someone else's.

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[–] Sprocketfree@sh.itjust.works 46 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Are we supposed to believe American eagle just started sucking now? Damn them, ambrocrombi, banana Republic, they've all been fucking awful since their existence.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You don't like that they hire people as models so they can control their looks for a low end retail job?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh, that's just the tip of the iceberg

Former CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch and Two Other Individuals Charged with Sex Trafficking and Interstate Prostitution

So crazy that these are the same folks screaming about Jeffrey Epstein.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Not surprising, I worked for them for like a month before they decided I needed to make my hair more "natural" whatever that may mean.

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 39 points 3 weeks ago (13 children)

When was the last time anyone here ate at Arby's? It's one of those places for me at least that only gets brought up by my parents on where they want to go, and for me it's always ugh really?

[–] you_are_dust@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago

I have eaten Arby's within the past year.. I think they have decent chicken sandwiches and curly fries. Not anywhere near a top choice for me though.

[–] MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 14 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks a lot Milhouse, now we're all going to starve

[–] bytesonbike@discuss.online 10 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I actually wonder how this affected Arby's because every Simpsons fan I know quotes this.

And the one time I went to Arby's, it was real disgusting.

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[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Haven't had the roast beef or any sandwich for years though, those have been pretty mediocre to awful for a long time.

Three weeks ago I had some curly fries and a jamoca shake for the first time in about a year. They were still pretty darn good!

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[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 32 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Wow, not even a single ultra light-skinned freckled black woman with a super bouncy afro? That is anti-woke! America is back, baby! And to think.. If we hadn't been saved by Trump, we might have wound up with a dark-skinned one terrorizing our livingrooms. 😰

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

a single ultra light-skinned freckled black woman with a super bouncy afro

Ah, you mean the one black friend in the group of pretty white women?

[–] answersplease77@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

Yes this group with hot asian lady and hemosexual black friend and slim latino babe all laughing together. fuck them! they took over the commercial industry for too long from chocolate bars, to feminine pads, to phones, techonology, travelling and dating ads... They gotta go!

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 26 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Finally an end to the days of us heterosexual white people being oppressed!

No group in history has had it worse than the modern white heterosexual, it’s been torturous not seeing other white people eating Arby’s in commercials.

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[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 26 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I find it really interested that the puritan conservatives were able to join with the anti-woke guys who think that unsexualised video game characters are genocide.

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[–] WhatThaFudge@lemmy.world 26 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

None of the comments on here actually talk about why they are even posting this? Did nobody see the Sydney Sweeney ad and the controversy??

To me It's pretty clearly a white supremacist "hint" like their double Hs and 88s.. It determines your eye color.. It's passed from the parents to the offspring.. they are not being subtle about it.

Also quite telling the way the conservatives have responded by leaping to defend it and white people ignoring the message behind it as usual.
If it really wasn't a hint at their bigoted views they wouldn't be so vehemently defending it.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago (10 children)

a couple of points:

  • i think calling it a "hint" or dog whistle etc is severe overstatement of the subtlety in which the message is delivered. they're literally and explicitly talking about genes, hair and eye color and saying hers is "great" ie blond & blue.

  • i don't know why no one points to the actual bad part which is them saying genes determine personality, which is straight up eugenicist bullshit

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[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 21 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Doesn’t that mean it was corporate pandering all along?

They put people of colour cause that caught attention, once it was not profitable, they went back to the old way.

[–] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 24 points 3 weeks ago

Did anyone think otherwise..?

So glad I can feel represented in the garbage food market

[–] kepix@lemmy.world 20 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

isnt the second one a transdude?

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[–] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

American Eagle? Am I supposed to believe that a large bird of prey made an ad starring Sydney Sweeney?

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[–] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Finally, we may shed our woke chains...

I'm going to have to leave an /s here, that's a borderline joke even for me.

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