Cheerios Ad with Biracial Family

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A nice Cheerios advertisement whose only discernible difference from other Cheerios commercials is that it depicts an interracial family was forced to disable its YouTube comments section today after it became inundated with virulent racism. [...]

Read more: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/0...outube-disables-comments-video/#ixzz2UzAJNxyL
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Racism is alive and well. I guess they must hate Clarence Thomas too.
 
if we became a utopia where no adults were ever racist on any level, there would still be 12 year olds flaming on the internet.
 
It took me a while to figure out what the references to 12 & 13 YO trollers was. It certainly wasn't explained very well. I now understand that it was in reference to some of the on-line responses to the ad. OK.

But kids do NOT learn hate and intolerance from each other in the absence of input from the previous generation SOMEWHERE. They are only a reflection of adult attitudes without a regulator having yet been installed.
 
Red Mule said:
It took me a while to figure out what the references to 12 & 13 YO trollers was. It certainly wasn't explained very well. I now understand that it was in reference to some of the on-line responses to the ad. OK.

But kids do NOT learn hate and intolerance from each other in the absence of input from the previous generation SOMEWHERE. They are only a reflection of adult attitudes without a regulator having yet been installed.
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APPLAUSE
 
Red Mule said:
It took me a while to figure out what the references to 12 & 13 YO trollers was. It certainly wasn't explained very well. I now understand that it was in reference to some of the on-line responses to the ad. OK.

But kids do NOT learn hate and intolerance from each other in the absence of input from the previous generation SOMEWHERE. They are only a reflection of adult attitudes without a regulator having yet been installed.
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That is not true. We have become a much more politically correct society. People will always have reservations about those who are not like them. It is human nature. Political correctness dictates that people don't share those feelings outwardly. The internet provides a vehicle for anonymous venting.

It isn't complicated
 
I Love America said:
That is not true. We have become a much more politically correct society. People will always have reservations about those who are not like them. It is human nature. Political correctness dictates that people don't share those feelings outwardly. The internet provides a vehicle for anonymous venting.

It isn't complicated
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Total agreement on the nature of speech/text by anonymous posting. People (of any age) will say things they would never think of saying to someone's face. I think that it is a shame they think those things, not that there is too much Political Correctness. In fact, a certain amount of politeness and civility in discourse can actually lead to hearing one another and perhaps learning something you didn't know before. Two people shouting at each other without regard for accepted social conventions is just the opposite of communication.

But, my comment about the nature of ideas (right or wrong) being passed along from the previous generation still stands. If I EVER hear or see hate and prejudice coming from my children I need to spend some time in front of a mirror looking at the culprit or asking serious and pointed questions about who else they have been listening to.
 
My wife saw that commercial....I of course, was on here and wasn't paying attention to the TV. I think it sucks that some can't accept that people are people, regardless of skin color, religion, sexual preference, or any other demographic.

We are Americans....we need to start acting that way. Life would be a hell of a lot less complicated if we could do that.

There are so many people that I've seen that are just beside themselves about the words "under God" in the pledge to the flag....but the concept of "liberty and justice for all" seems to escape those same people.
 
There is only one race and it is the HUMAN RACE.

What if we decided to group people by the length of their pinky instead of their skin color? Can you imagine? WOW! Look at that big pinky kissing that small pinky. Outrageous!

I look forward to the day we have mingled sufficiently that the pale people don't have to lay in tanning beds trying to look more like the people they look down on.
 
tekkychick said:
Wow - I saw your title and came in to say HOW COOL! a cereal ad with an interracial family! That's fantastic!

And then I read about the racist comments. How sad. Just shows we have a long way to go.

But hopefully given the increase in the number of interracial marriages, this is a problem that will eventually diminish.
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-04-24/census-interracial-couples/54531706/1
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I love those ads! It gives us a glimpse into what the average American family will look like in fifty years.

Grid said:
if we became a utopia where no adults were ever racist on any level, there would still be 12 year olds flaming on the internet.
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And USF, ILA, and 007.
 
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