Hey, just letting you know I’m going live at 7pm to discuss Sarah Pochin’s comments about overrepresentation in adverts, and the predictably mental response.
Won’t be an epic length one but join if you like here:
Cheers,
Nick
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By coincidence yesterday morning we were commenting on how many Facebook adverts feature non white people. I started to screen shot them. There were so many I gave up!! Hardly a pale face to be seen. Yet again we have the State yelling RACIST because we have the audacity to notice and comment. How dare we?!!Disappointed Sarah felt she needed to apologise, thus feeding the false narrative she'd done something wrong. She hadn't. We can all see what's going on and we've had enough.
Whenever this topic is raised I always try to imagine what defenders of it would think if the diversity were always Japanese instead of black/mixed. It would seem bizarre, and the fact that it would seem bizarre tells you all you need to know. As it is, all that the diversification in ads has taught me is that black men only marry white women and I wonder how black women feel about this. No doubt they will take it calmly in their stride.