Wow. Just Wow. Sony seems to get worse every day! Although I still plan on picking up that nice new 46" TV of theirs. I just can't resist, even if the proceeds are going to the nazi party.
DaVince This fool just HAD to have a custom rating
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5th July, 2006 at 14:39:33 -
Oh yeah. I've seen that commercial once or twice, then it disappeared from TV. Luckily.
It's not racism. It's just depicting that the white PSP is newer and fresher than the black one, and is pushing the old one out of the scene.(If they were racist, why would the PSP be black in the first place?)
That's the thing with people these days, they look for the racism inside everything that could be racist.
The ad still is kinda really weird though. Does Anyone know whats in the woman's pocket? Drugs?
The white woman is shown in a superior position to the black woman. They would have been better off depicting it in some other way, for example using animals.
Most likely, but as we all know, some people look way to into these sort of things. I can tell you right now though, the person who shot those photos, has no idea what they are doing.
Then again I could say the same for half of hollywood, and about 98% of US TV shows -_-;
I actually wonder why people dwell on things like this. If it was intentional, then Sony would have just had a bunch of Klan members standing around, with the caption "White Power". I mean, nothing more white then a bunch of morons wearing their parents bedsheets to a hate rally...right?
Though I somtimes wonder had I been born a different race/color/whatever, would things be different?
Nahh, I'd still be here, lurking the forums and playing user made games
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DaVince This fool just HAD to have a custom rating
It's funny how that site doesn't show the photo of the black person being 'superior' to the white person - over 100 photos were taken (and TV ad shot). So how it expresses racism is anyone's guess. People just taken political correctness too far in my opinion
"t's funny how that site doesn't show the photo of the black person being 'superior' to the white person - over 100 photos were taken (and TV ad shot). So how it expresses racism is anyone's guess. People just taken political correctness too far in my opinion"
Pretty much, as it had been the reverse, it's a pretty good bet not much would have come from it. Again, racism is really just in a persons mind, and if they think they see it all the time, in ads like this or superfical things, then the real problem is, they are probably just racsist, except now using the reverse angle to allow themselves to think they aren't racist.
Actually I'm one of the first people to be annoyed by black people saying everything is racist. I can't stand it. And I can see the point of "if it was switched around it wouldn't be a big deal" but look at that picture and consider that white people weren't the ones made slaves for hundreds of years, just the whole vibe of the positioning is offensive. Then there's the issue that while we use them all the time, "Black" and "White" aren't the most politically correct terms, so saying a black woman is a Pure Black DS and a white woman is the new sleeker version. . . Whether you find it racist or not, this was a horrible decision on sony's part, and how they could not predict that an image of a white woman standing above a black woman holding her face would stir people up is rediculous.
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