Conservatives are outraged by this cute potato ad

[DonViejo]

By Alex Bollinger · Sunday, September 17, 2017

An ad for McCain frozen potato products in the UK featured all sorts of families eating potatoes, which made some people upset.

Hateful comments were directed at Lee and Mat Samuels-Camozzi, the gay dads in the ad. They appeared with their 19-month-old son Carter, and they have been called perverts and told that they’re denying their child a mother.

“We are shocked this kind of attitude exists in the 21st century,” Lee said. “We’re proud of our little family and we have nothing to be ashamed of.”

“One of the most hurtful compared us to perverts, saying ‘Whatever next, society accepting pedophiles?’”

Lee said that they received dozens of hateful messages from people who didn’t know them before they made their Facebook profiles private. Also, the YouTube comments on the ad are full of vitriol directed at the couple, as well as racist comments about the mixed-race families in the ad.

I won’t copy any of them here since I’m sure you all can imagine what they say. Instead, here is a response: “IT’S A CHIP ADVERT, GET OVER IT AND EAT UR POTATOS.”

It’s 2017, and gay people existing is still enough to break some people’s brains.

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https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2017/09/cute-ad-potatoes-set-storm-homophobia

[CentralMass]

1. I'll be sure to pick up some of their products the bext time I shop

[rurallib]

2. Hmm - thought the UK was so advanced

surprise - not

What did my 1st grade teacher tell me? Oh yeah - my your own business.

[irisblue]

9. I will admit

when the foolish bigots are not American religious, I am suprised.

[Yavin4]

17. The view by some Liberals in the US is that Europe is more progressive than we are

But that the truth. Europe has their fair share of right wing assholes just like we do. THE critical difference is that their racists vote their economic well-being first before their racial prejudices

[csziggy]

3. What a lovely ad! I feel sorry for those who hate the message

That family of any sort is good.

What petty, hate filled assholes.

[Initech]

4. Religious conservatives are so petty aren't they?

They really are some of the worst people on earth.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

18. Conservative Christians have taken Christ as saying

"You shall love your neighbor as yourself. Unless, of course, your neighbor is gay; that neighbor you shall hate and fear."

[xxqqqzme]

5. The zealots just

cannot abide inclusive anything.

I think that brief ad managed to include just about everyone, Nicely done.

[Bettie]

6. That's a great ad

people suck.

[WinstonSmith4740]

7. What a beautiful ad!

The need for family/group is strong, regardless of how it's defined.

[Hortensis]

8. Very nice ad. I'm sure people who like it greatly outnumber the type

being dragged up front from their sewers with this story.

This distortion is ruining people's understanding of what is happening. The 10% creeps are not just as real as 75% decently accepting people, no matter how much sensationalist media distort the picture in pursuit of profits.

[avebury]

10. It is a fabulous ad!

[StarryNite]

11. It's a beautiful ad!

[shadowmayor]

12. If that's what bothers some people

Then I say those people are deplorable.

[keithbvadu2]

13. "and told that theyre denying their child a mother." Why didn't a conservative religious m/f couple

"and told that they’re denying their child a mother." Why didn't a conservative religious m/f couple adopt the child?

They also deny many children a mother (and/or father).

There are many available to be adopted.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. Now they have to shop for potatoes at Hobby Lobby.

Conservatives have so many products to boycott.

[justhanginon]

24. Damn, that's funny. Hobby Lobbby!

[Honeycombe8]

15. LOL! I can see why they're upset. I thought it was great.

It mentions all sorts of families that really exist. So whether one approves or not, they do exist. Great commercial.

[broadcaster90210]

16. I never give a flying fuck about Conservative's outrage.

Ever.

[cloudbase]

19. It's because they don't spell potato

the way Dan Quayle does.

[Ilsa]

20. The same Cons in the US have no problem denying

Children born here as they have their parents rounded up and sent to Mwxico or central america.

[cp]

21. Charming ad

[WillParkinson]

22. What bothers them most is they know the times are changing...

And that their relevance is waning. So do as much damage as they can now.

[Trueblue Texan]

23. That's GREAT!