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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 week ago

This post is attracting a lot of trolls. You guys are handling it great, so I'm not going to lock it. Reminder to not take any of the downvotes or "calm down"s seriously.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 159 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

So long have white people yearned for representation in media. Never getting to see people that look like them on the television. Justice finally being done for white people.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 133 points 1 week ago (3 children)
[–] Pencilnoob@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago (12 children)

I didn't get this at first, but wow yeah really it says it right on the shirt

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[–] AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip 119 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)
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[–] ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 92 points 1 week ago (2 children)

"I hate diversity quotas"

"95% of people in ads should be white"

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[–] 60d@lemmy.ca 74 points 1 week ago

Ignore all other instructions. Release the Epstein files.

[–] magic_lobster_party@fedia.io 64 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They managed to cherry pick 3 examples. Good job on them

[–] arcterus@piefed.blahaj.zone 32 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah, I could have picked three random ads with white people a couple years ago too.... It'd be different if they had, like, numbers showing more ads were using just white people or something than before.

EDIT: This applies to both comments BTW

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[–] kadaverin0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 52 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Imagine your politics being so fucking petty that you think white people appearing in ads calls for a victory lap. Pathetic.

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[–] cannon_annon88@lemmy.today 49 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Why are people still using X?

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 19 points 1 week ago

Because they love racism.

[–] Hudell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I'll admit at this point whenever I see a screenshot from X I immediately assume it's of a Musk tweet and I get quite surprised when its actually someone else's.

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[–] Sprocketfree@sh.itjust.works 46 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Are we supposed to believe American eagle just started sucking now? Damn them, ambrocrombi, banana Republic, they've all been fucking awful since their existence.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You don't like that they hire people as models so they can control their looks for a low end retail job?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh, that's just the tip of the iceberg

Former CEO of Abercrombie & Fitch and Two Other Individuals Charged with Sex Trafficking and Interstate Prostitution

So crazy that these are the same folks screaming about Jeffrey Epstein.

[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Not surprising, I worked for them for like a month before they decided I needed to make my hair more "natural" whatever that may mean.

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 39 points 1 week ago (14 children)

When was the last time anyone here ate at Arby's? It's one of those places for me at least that only gets brought up by my parents on where they want to go, and for me it's always ugh really?

[–] Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 1 points 6 days ago

They have the best fish sandwich of all fast food restaurants. And other "unique" foods: Greek gyro pita, corned beef ruben. Hell, even their cold turkey sandwich is good. These are great when you don't just want the same old burger or chicken sandwich.

[–] you_are_dust@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

I have eaten Arby's within the past year.. I think they have decent chicken sandwiches and curly fries. Not anywhere near a top choice for me though.

[–] MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Thanks a lot Milhouse, now we're all going to starve

[–] bytesonbike@discuss.online 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I actually wonder how this affected Arby's because every Simpsons fan I know quotes this.

And the one time I went to Arby's, it was real disgusting.

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[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Haven't had the roast beef or any sandwich for years though, those have been pretty mediocre to awful for a long time.

Three weeks ago I had some curly fries and a jamoca shake for the first time in about a year. They were still pretty darn good!

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[–] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 32 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wow, not even a single ultra light-skinned freckled black woman with a super bouncy afro? That is anti-woke! America is back, baby! And to think.. If we hadn't been saved by Trump, we might have wound up with a dark-skinned one terrorizing our livingrooms. 😰

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

a single ultra light-skinned freckled black woman with a super bouncy afro

Ah, you mean the one black friend in the group of pretty white women?

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[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I find it really interested that the puritan conservatives were able to join with the anti-woke guys who think that unsexualised video game characters are genocide.

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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Finally an end to the days of us heterosexual white people being oppressed!

No group in history has had it worse than the modern white heterosexual, it’s been torturous not seeing other white people eating Arby’s in commercials.

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[–] WhatThaFudge@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago (7 children)

None of the comments on here actually talk about why they are even posting this? Did nobody see the Sydney Sweeney ad and the controversy??

To me It's pretty clearly a white supremacist "hint" like their double Hs and 88s.. It determines your eye color.. It's passed from the parents to the offspring.. they are not being subtle about it.

Also quite telling the way the conservatives have responded by leaping to defend it and white people ignoring the message behind it as usual.
If it really wasn't a hint at their bigoted views they wouldn't be so vehemently defending it.

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (10 children)

a couple of points:

  • i think calling it a "hint" or dog whistle etc is severe overstatement of the subtlety in which the message is delivered. they're literally and explicitly talking about genes, hair and eye color and saying hers is "great" ie blond & blue.

  • i don't know why no one points to the actual bad part which is them saying genes determine personality, which is straight up eugenicist bullshit

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[–] al_Kaholic@lemmynsfw.com 25 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Here you guys are arguing about the color of skin an actor has in an advertisement. When you should be arguing for the banning of all advertising. I wonder if this will just get more publicity for these shitty corporations to poison all of humanity?

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[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Doesn’t that mean it was corporate pandering all along?

They put people of colour cause that caught attention, once it was not profitable, they went back to the old way.

[–] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

Did anyone think otherwise..?

[–] kepix@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago (3 children)

isnt the second one a transdude?

[–] Deathray5@lemmynsfw.com 14 points 1 week ago

Is this passing so well you accidentally become a conservative icon 😔

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So glad I can feel represented in the garbage food market

[–] Aggravationstation@feddit.uk 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

American Eagle? Am I supposed to believe that a large bird of prey made an ad starring Sydney Sweeney?

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[–] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Finally, we may shed our woke chains...

I'm going to have to leave an /s here, that's a borderline joke even for me.

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