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.
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.
I’ve noticed they never show a woman in a hijab with a white man, funny that. Only African heritage women, who, if from the Windies, would be pretty much culturally British. The Indian sub continent families represented are never mixed race. Keep it in the family.
Good stream. Your setup is looking good / professional. No tech issues and the intro worked OK. I noticed the media misrepresented what she said and nobody corrected them. Can't hate them enough.
Thanks! Watching back l see some sync issues from the picture lagging I guess, which must be connection. You can’t get faster internet than me but it still sometimes says it’s ‘unstable’. Might have to get some long Ethernet cable to achieve the next level.
Yes the intro worked well Nick. As regards the commercials, it drives me nuts too. It's less about colour, it's the feeling that 'The Message' is being forced down my throat constantly. Thank you for the podcast, great as usual.
Thankfully we don't watch a lot of live TV, but when we do, it's so noticeable it's embarrassing. There fewer and fewer companies I want to spend money with, especially those who've decided men can become women.
One stat from the UK 2021 census, maybe not picked up on in this story, is that only one in eighteen households - 5.7% - involve a mixed-ethnicity relationship, compared to the *somewhat* different picture given during every advert break on UK television.
I've always considered it to be a quietly racist message being presented in the adverts, where almost every ethnic minority person in a relationship in an advert has a white partner.
Are the advertisers suggesting this is an aspirational ideal: 'You should get yourself a nice white partner, rather than a partner from your own ethnic group'?
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.
I’ve noticed they never show a woman in a hijab with a white man, funny that. Only African heritage women, who, if from the Windies, would be pretty much culturally British. The Indian sub continent families represented are never mixed race. Keep it in the family.
Good stream. Your setup is looking good / professional. No tech issues and the intro worked OK. I noticed the media misrepresented what she said and nobody corrected them. Can't hate them enough.
Thanks! Watching back l see some sync issues from the picture lagging I guess, which must be connection. You can’t get faster internet than me but it still sometimes says it’s ‘unstable’. Might have to get some long Ethernet cable to achieve the next level.
Yes the intro worked well Nick. As regards the commercials, it drives me nuts too. It's less about colour, it's the feeling that 'The Message' is being forced down my throat constantly. Thank you for the podcast, great as usual.
Thankfully we don't watch a lot of live TV, but when we do, it's so noticeable it's embarrassing. There fewer and fewer companies I want to spend money with, especially those who've decided men can become women.
I’ve only just noticed this! (9:52pm, 27th)…most odd.
One stat from the UK 2021 census, maybe not picked up on in this story, is that only one in eighteen households - 5.7% - involve a mixed-ethnicity relationship, compared to the *somewhat* different picture given during every advert break on UK television.
I've always considered it to be a quietly racist message being presented in the adverts, where almost every ethnic minority person in a relationship in an advert has a white partner.
Are the advertisers suggesting this is an aspirational ideal: 'You should get yourself a nice white partner, rather than a partner from your own ethnic group'?