T-Mobile Superbowl Ad: Science!™ says babies aren't racist, buy cell phones
02-06-2018, 10:06 AM
The objection to the ads doesn't really have to be with the message as much as it's the context. I think those who are opening up a discussion on issues of race are just buying into the idea of TV ads serving some useful function of "opening up a dialogue". This is wrong wrong wrong.
Big business has no role pushing ANY political agenda in its ads...period. If it wants to do charitable work, fine. But outright preaching, no, and that goes for left-wing stuff like this as well as the Koch Brothers trying to buy elections.
The founding fathers insisted on separating church and state but they overlooked the need to separate corporation from state.
Corporations by definition harbor ulterior motives to the point where this can be nothing other than pandering anyway. They ultimately don't stand for anything other than profit. Even Ben & Jerry's is owned by Uniliver at this point. All we can expect from them is to do things to score brownie points from the public but it would be fucked up to lean on them as if they are a legitimate social advocacy group. It's an insult to actual non-profit groups and NGOs and this phenomenon of everything in some way being tainted by capitalist motives is a uniquely American affliction.
What's next? Social justice, the flamethrower, social justice, the doll...
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Big business has no role pushing ANY political agenda in its ads...period. If it wants to do charitable work, fine. But outright preaching, no, and that goes for left-wing stuff like this as well as the Koch Brothers trying to buy elections.
The founding fathers insisted on separating church and state but they overlooked the need to separate corporation from state.
Corporations by definition harbor ulterior motives to the point where this can be nothing other than pandering anyway. They ultimately don't stand for anything other than profit. Even Ben & Jerry's is owned by Uniliver at this point. All we can expect from them is to do things to score brownie points from the public but it would be fucked up to lean on them as if they are a legitimate social advocacy group. It's an insult to actual non-profit groups and NGOs and this phenomenon of everything in some way being tainted by capitalist motives is a uniquely American affliction.
What's next? Social justice, the flamethrower, social justice, the doll...