Racist Dairy Queen ad

[Old Union Guy]

How many negative stereotypes can you count?

[CurtEastPoint]

1. I didn't think race. I thought very irresponsible. Kids learn to do crap based on what they see.

Driving is not a game.

[Jitter65]

82. I thought: black folks making money thru ads. nt

[msongs]

2. where the racist part? 2 people doing something weird in an ad is what I see. nt

[Mosby]

3. I think those samsung ads are racist

Surprised no one talked about them when they came out.

You know the ones where a rapper and his friends pour cristal on their phones.

[TipTok]

15. That's his bit...

[Mosby]

17. who is he?

[TipTok]

19. I had to google to be sure...

... but his name is Lil' Wayne.

Stereotypical rapper talking about champagne, hoes and liberal use of N*****.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

20. I saw that one last night

Wow.

[Mosby]

33. lot's of negative stereotypes in those commercials

Right down to the liquor store clerk with a foreign accent.

[SickOfTheOnePct]

4. I counted zero

I take it that's the wrong answer?

[EL34x4]

10. I didn't see any either.

I guess my offense meter needs to be re-tuned.

[braddy]

35. Zero here as well.

[Journeyman]

5. "Ditzy blondes going around in circles?". . .

Don't know that that's so much a racial thing, but certainly a stereotype.

[Travis_0004]

6. I don't see where its racist. I thought it was a good ad

[Ed Suspicious]

7. Point them out. I have no idea what you're seeing in this ad

that has anything to do with racial stereotypes.

[PJMcK]

8. I tried but I give up

It's a stupid ad but aren't most TV ads pretty dumb? It certainly doesn't make me want to run to DQ.

I'll echo msongs post: where's the racist part? Perhaps Old Union Guy could enumerate what he's seeing or what I'm missing.

[Nye Bevan]

9. Another vote for "zero" here.

Perhaps you could tell us all what we're apparently missing?

[cwydro]

41. I see nothing either.

I actually thought it was funnier than some I've seen.

Substitute white dad and white son, or white dad and mixed son, or black dad and mixed son...all the same.

[jberryhill]

51. It's very sneaky

What goes on top of funnel cakes?

Think about it - White Powder!

The commercial is designed to subliminal promote an Aryan skinhead racist slogan!

[cwydro]

57. Bwah!

The responses in this thread are fantastic !

[Sunlei]

11. I think calories, not race for DQ funnel cake. Cute ad, why do you think it's racist?

[jberryhill]

46. Dairy Queen - the polite way to say FU to your cardiologist

[AngryAmish]

58. FU to the cardiologist? Eat funnel cake and you are buying him a boat.

Your endocrinologist also is cheering on every bite, for the beetus.

[linuxman]

12. Put down the pipe.

That's enough virtue signaling for today.

[Orrex]

13. I count five--scandalous!

1. Dark-skinned man with balloons. This plays into the decades-old racist belief that dark-skinned men are pawns of Big Helium
2. White, possibly middle-aged woman wearing a white sun hat. Maintains the racist stereotype that white people wear hats in the sun.
3. Dark-skinned man riding bumper cars with a dark-skinned boy. What could be more pointedly racist than having a fun time at an amusement park?
4. Long-haired white funnel cake vendor throwing a fist-pump. Need I say more? Classic!
5. Two fair-skinned young women sitting in a teacup. This is clearly a throwback to the days of the British empire and its stranglehold on tea production around the world (around as in "spinning around&quot .

Duh.



Also, that DQ entrance clearly isn't handicapped-accessible. What if that's the only point of access?!?

[cwydro]

42. Bwah!

Lmao!

[cagefreesoylentgreen]

14. Now I want funnel cakes.

Om nom nom.

On topic, I'm not seeing what's racist here? Explain please.

[Greybnk48]

16. You work for DQ, right? And you just suckered a bunch of us

into watching your ad, right? I saw nothing racist.

[Old Union Guy]

21. Very funny.

Black stealing cars is not a stereotype where you live?

[Raine1967]

26. That was the take away?

Personally, I say it was a faulty bumper car machine, I see a class action lawsuit.

[jberryhill]

48. Aha! Of course!

At the very end, there is a Jewish lawyer chasing after them!

I almost missed it until you pointed it out.

Shameful ad.

[Raine1967]

67. *snort*

[immoderate]

27. I think it's about black folks stealing bumper cars.

Have you ever seen white people do that? I don't thinks so.

--imm

[Travis_0004]

28. Its just an ad

For some quite good looking funnel cakes

If he hopped out of the bumper car, hotwired a car and drove it off you would have a point. I dont really see any problem with this ad.

[FrodosPet]

39. Whites stealing china and silverware is!

There is far more than enough legitimate examples of racism that it is not necessary to micro-analyze a goofy commercial.

Let's flip it around: Should African Americans be excluded from humorous roles in movies, TV, and commercials just to make sure they do not come close to saying or doing anything that YOU consider racist?

[jberryhill]

43. You do realize that bumper cars are powered through that pole

It's why the floor is metal.

Bumper cars don't actually work unless they are in the enclosure with the metal floor and the pole in contact with the ceiling.

It is a fantasy situation suggestive of the availability of a classic carnival food item at a place other than a carnival.

To see this as anyone "stealing a car" strikes me as odd.

[Orrex]

61. Well thanks a whole bunch for ruining the magic for me, you fink.

Up until 12 seconds ago I understood bumper cars to be powered by laughter and happiness.

Way to go.

[jberryhill]

62. The generator runs on the tears of kidnapped children

[Orrex]

63. Okay, that makes me feel a *little* better.

[linuxman]

54. I think it's pretty funny

that you watched this ad and the first thing you thought was "that black man is stealing a car!"

Very telling.

[WillowTree]

59. OMG......Really?!! I mean REALLY??!!!

You've gotta be working at finding racism where it doesn't exist to come up with that one.

[romanic]

70. Holy hell

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Thank God I don't see racism or stereotypes in (not) racist commercials/situations like you do.

[Chan790]

73. No. All our car thieves are white here. n/t

[jberryhill]

45. That's what I'm thinking

About the only thing I got from it was "So, it would appear they have funnel cakes at Dairy Queen."

Since I had my blood tested last week, but haven't been to my follow up appointment, I figure this is an opportune time to go on a cholesterol binge anyway.

The ad is clearly racist, as there are no Asians in it. Asians have an increased incidence of lactose intolerance, and since this is Dairy Queen we are talking about, then the ad is clearly designed to discourage Asians from going to Dairy Queen.

[TipTok]

18. Is everything so right in your world that this is the thing you chose to expend energy on?

Really?

[X_Digger]

22. Sorry, my poutrage meter doesn't go down that far. n/t

[Takket]

23. zero

[MrScorpio]

24. I think that I know racist stereotypes when I see them

And I didn't see any.

If you transpose the racial identity of the main characters with another race, you'd get the same effect.

[Bucky]

77. It's sad, but some people, even liberals, can't see black people without seeing race

There's two demographic groups of people who see this way: older people (60+ or so) who grew up in the shadow of Jim Crow and younger people (those under 40) who grew up in a society of constant dogwhistle politics.

So basically everyone who's not about my age is wrong.

[gollygee]

25. Dairy Queen has funnel cakes?

Oh my.

[brewens]

29. Don't take yes for an answer. It is black people in an ad. I don't see race. Not even as bad as

Jeff Gordon Pepsi ad a couple years ago. Now if they went in and "aksed" for a funnel cake, you could start thinking racist.

[Duckhunter935]

30. None

Someone is hypersensitive

[rollin74]

31. none

[Liberal_in_LA]

32. None

[jberryhill]

34. Anti democratic promotion of monarchical society

Dairy Queen will be replaced by The People's Dairy.

[Rex]

50. This has the smell of Whataburger operatives.

Of course people forget about the DQ vs. Whata wars of '85. I blame the media.

[matt819]

36. None

It was a decent enough ad. Who doesn't like funnel cakes and ice cream?

[LiberalElite]

37. I read the title, clicked, saw :30 sec and thought "I better keep my eyes peeled"

for all that racism. I didn't see any.

[rufus dog]

38. That is quite a stretch

So you are going for two black guys "stealing" a car. But they are obviously father son, or at a minimum, youth with role model. They are nicely dressed, free from any tats, chains, etc.

You are way overthinking this.

Now if the CEO of DQ was in the ad and said "look at my African Americans," then you would have a racist ad.

[NightWatcher]

40. The outrage police having a slow day? Don't go looking for shit to offend you.

[Tarc]

44. With all the ACTUAL racism going on atm, THIS is what you hold up?

[Vinca]

47. What part is the racism?

The worst thing about the ad is the funnel cake creation.

[Rex]

49. I dunno, if it was the two white girls in the bumper car and the two POC in the tea cup

the stereotype might have been not as obvious. Racist, no...stereotypes, yeah maybe.

[Warpy]

52. It's still reaching

After all, they didn't rip off a bumper car that was just sitting there. They'd already paid the fare and were in it. "Stealing a car" is therefore a huge stretch.

I guess if you want to see racism everywhere, that's what you're going to see. This ad is stupid but I don't see the racism in it, especially since you knew those two blondes at the end were going to ride that teacup right after them.

[Rex]

53. It is a stretch we could find a thousand more obvious stereotypes in no time.

The fact that the males 'broke out' GTA style and the young ladies floated through the drivethru in a teacup...meh...yeah just really hard to see racism there.

Maybe a stereotype, but a hard stretch to see racism.

[Warpy]

55. Agreed

However, one of the main things to normalize integration in this country was the use of POC in stupid commercials. Before the Civil Rights legislation was passed, television was largely a lily white wasteland, the only POC were seen in old Amos n Andy reruns.

After the legislation passed, black men were giving women the stinkeye over ring around the collar just like their white brethren and that normalized seeing black faces in other unexpected places (like anywhere but doing shit work).

So long live the stupid ass, borderline stereotyped commercial. It has power the admen never anticipated.

[Rex]

56. The only commercials that I cannot stand are the ones for monster conglomerates

I'm remembering the BP oil spill and the American CEO at the time making a commercial with him smooching on his grand daughter and saying how precious life is to BP.

[Dreamer Tatum]

60. The racism is yours, for finding racism in this innocuous ad. nt

[brettdale]

64. None

Zip, zero, zilch.

[brettdale]

65. cricket ad

Non cricket fans would call this racist, cricket fans wouldnt.

[Dr. Strange]

66. Oh, I get it.

They're racing down the street--they're racists!

Very clever. I guess.

[rug]

68. When I see funnel cakes I think of white people at county fairs.

[spanone]

69. shirley, you jest.

[Iggo]

71. Oh.

[basselope]

72. One

The one about political correctness being WAAAAAY out of control.

[kentauros]

74. I found the square-root of negative-one.

I.e., it's all in your imagination

[bvf]

75. The zeta function plot is real, though.

[Bucky]

76. It's the old "black people drive wrecklessly at the mention of funnel cakes" canard

Throughout history there has been a direct correlation between Klan membership and funnel cake sales. I weep for the future

[leeroysphitz]

79. OP seems pretty thin...

[rock]

80. None?

How close did I get?

[snooper2]

81. Read title, watched ad, haven't read comments- = FUCKING idiotic OP

LOL...

Kid looked like he was having fun with dad hauling ass down the street, I want to try

Except those bumper cars only move from electric power on the custom made track

[brooklynite]

83. Whenever an OP says something controversial, and the poster doesn't hang around to respond...

...that says something right there.

[CurtEastPoint]

84. Yes, as Mrs Doubtfire said, 'It was a run-by fruiting.'

He dropped the bomb and then ran.

[NaturalHigh]

85. Surely you jest.