Next time you watch adverts on TV, count how many black people are in the ads - loads. This is not a problem of course, but the whole thing is contrived.
Same with Police TV shows - these days there is always a black female senior officer in most police TV shows. You would think that the Police service mainly has black female senior police officers. They don’t. Again, not a problem, but it just feels forced and far from reality.
That’s wokeism right there.
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Pertussis not the exact definition in the dictionary but imo it's not far off.Frank Castle, vladimir and Tony Wilkinson like this. -
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And the millions of others who still think like that want to go back to the days when they could vocalise those thoughts without having to feel guilty about it.vladimir, Craven Cottager and JonButterfield like this. -
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They should take my example and not get all wound up. After all, offence is taken, not given.RCarol, Interested Bystander and Tony Wilkinson like this. -
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So everyone else can get on with being racist, sexist and homophobic, like the good old days, without being picked up for it?
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It’s not an issue, I’m simply saying it’s contrived, and I think @trevor sums it up perfectly.
in some cases, adverts might actually put people off buying a particular brand. Take Uncle Ben’s rice for example - they have rebranded and taken the black man off the packets, and there has been a big backlash of people saying they won’t buy that brand again.
The balance is all wrong, it’s all gone too far the other way. Contrived like I said.trevor and Tony Wilkinson like this. -
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Black people are officially only 3% of the population. If anything in the UK it is Asian people who seem to be severely underrepresented in most mainstream ways as they account for 7% of the population.Wakefield Bantam likes this. -
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To me "woke" becomes the active searching of offence or control based on ideas of injustice. In essence we all know that people can be too right wing and the warning signs that come with that, woke is simply an example of people who become too left wing but in many cases use it for the same objectives. -
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2. Adverts are designed to sell things. Advertisers will structure their ads to appeal to their target audience. For decades, TV adverts almost always featured 100% white actors. Now they don't.
Of course there's an active policy - companies want to sell things to the broadest possible consumer audience, so they have now wised up to the the need to feature people of various background, cultures and skin tones, not just white ethnic groups.
Yes, there are now far more black and other minority ethnic actors in TV shows than there used to be. Again, TV programme makers want to maximise views from all sections of our society. Once you recognise that there needs to be a mixture of different ethnicity actors, how do you go about getting the exact balance of ethnicities to a tee? But, yes, there probably is a conscious effort being made to redress the decades of massive underrepresentation and years of open racism like Jim Davidson, Bernard Manning and Love Thy Neighbour.
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