Michael Knowles DESTROYS Woke Commercials... They Keep Getting Worse
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Summary
We all thought that woke had been exterminated, and it largely has been. However, little traces of liberalism linger on, and there s a silver lining to that: there are, in fact, more woke commercials for us to see.
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We all thought that woke had been exterminated.
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But it means that there are, in fact, more woke commercials for us to see.
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More importantly, we agreed that our role, as his parents, was not to change him, but to love him.
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It used to be the commercials just led with all the woke.
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So, you couldn't even identify what the company was.
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Now, at the very least, we can say that in the woke commercials, they are leading with the product.
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And there's even something to, like, you know, the kid is like, I'm having, you know, strange thoughts and desires about sex.
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And maybe the dad says, okay, buddy, well, you know, you try to be, like, kind of nice about it.
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He's gay, but he has a special connection to classical music.
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Here's a six-pack of Miller, some poppers, and keys to my car.
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Yeah, I was a kid growing up, so everyone's looking at their freckles.
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I looked at it as something that only motivated me to go harder.
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I used to get upset by it, but then I realized, none of it really matters.
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Everyone's entitled to their opinion, for sure.
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I thought the new commercials were at least leading with the product.
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But I, if you said, Michael, list 1,500 products that that ad could be selling, I would not have
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I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might, but it might work
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Maybe if we pander to the gaze, especially, I don't know when that commercial came out.
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In a way, that would make sense that that were a new commercial because Nissan's having
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And so maybe they're saying like, all right, this is a last ditch effort.
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Maybe we could do woke and maybe that'll help prop up our sales.
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I don't, I would never make the claim that woke is dead in Canada or whatever.
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O'Shea, I guess it's close, but the Irish, I don't know.
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Until it's the 51st state, they can do what they like.
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I see the outline of someone who's afraid of one who looks like me.
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When we see black faces on television, they are mostly negative.
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When I see stereotypes in TV and movies and film, it's disappointing.
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They only want to see us either as slaves or thugs.
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I noticed I was always getting thug rolls, something that warranted aggression.
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Growing up and seeing certain caricatures of black people in commercials, in films,
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It's so beautiful when you see stories of everyday people
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and how showing the family dynamic in reality would be a great thing.
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But what's the thesis of the commercial is that all prejudice,
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prejudice which is something that all human beings constantly necessarily engage in
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because we don't have the time or the resources to rationally analyze every single thing we do all day.
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They're saying the reason that people have prejudice,
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especially racial prejudice, is because of the media.
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First of all, the media are all making ads like Proctor and Gamble.
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The media are doing the exact opposite of what you're suggesting.
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yeah, people are always blaming the media for racism, whatever.
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I'm not looking over my shoulder for the media.
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every time black people want to have a good time,