Kendall Jenner's Pepsi commercial - is it really controversial?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bleeding heart liberal here. There's nothing controversial about it. Critics are stretching to make connections that simply aren't there.

Where does it say it's a BLM protest?

We don't know what kind of protest or rally it is. We just know it's a protest or rally.

Here's what the commercial actually depicts and conclusions we can reasonably draw:

-Kendall the model leaves a photo shoot and immediately tosses her wig and rubs off her make-up...she's keeping it real.

-Then she's just regular citizen Kendall in jeans at a protest or rally. We don't know what people are protesting. People don't seem upset...there's no violence. It almost seems like a fun atmosphere.

-Kendall is a cheeky monkey and boldly approaches the cute cop and hands him a Pepsi. Gasp...what will he do? Will he taze her or drink it? He drinks it!

-Kendall has a smirk as she walks away. Yeah, she's still got it...the cute cop drank her Pepsi.

-Cop smiles and shrugs his soldiers at his colleague. Sure, he's not supposed to flirt with protesters...but, oh well.

I don't get the faux outrage. Is it just because she's a Kardashian and the world is hell bent on rooting against them?

Nothing controversial here.

Do you work for Pepsi or Mama Pimp Kris?

I'm a public interest lawyer and antipoverty advocate in DC (doing work on the national, state and local levels). And I'm supremely annoyed by faux outrage fueled by misguided social media rants. Where were you people during the election? All of a sudden you "care"...allegedly...and are easily outraged and feel compelled (for whatever reason) to act out on social media.

Well, kudos to you, America...Pepsi yanked the commercial. Mission accomplished. Of course we still have a mad man in the White House whose proposed budget seeks to eliminate critical programs that assist low-income and vulnerable populations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The protesting for blm and against Trump is stupid. A Pepsi would be less stupid.

It's presumptious to think it is a blm protest especially since the majority of the "protesters" are white

[Anonymous]

I don't get it either. I don't think it's a good ad, but I'm not sure what the controversial point is (aside from it being about a protest rally).

[Anonymous]

The whiteness of DCUM can sometimes make this place a scary place to be on the Interwebz. Let me take my butt back to Lipstick Alley, where common sense prevails over white privilege.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bleeding heart liberal here. There's nothing controversial about it. Critics are stretching to make connections that simply aren't there.

Where does it say it's a BLM protest?

We don't know what kind of protest or rally it is. We just know it's a protest or rally.

Here's what the commercial actually depicts and conclusions we can reasonably draw:

-Kendall the model leaves a photo shoot and immediately tosses her wig and rubs off her make-up...she's keeping it real.

-Then she's just regular citizen Kendall in jeans at a protest or rally. We don't know what people are protesting. People don't seem upset...there's no violence. It almost seems like a fun atmosphere.

-Kendall is a cheeky monkey and boldly approaches the cute cop and hands him a Pepsi. Gasp...what will he do? Will he taze her or drink it? He drinks it!

-Kendall has a smirk as she walks away. Yeah, she's still got it...the cute cop drank her Pepsi.

-Cop smiles and shrugs his soldiers at his colleague. Sure, he's not supposed to flirt with protesters...but, oh well.

I don't get the faux outrage. Is it just because she's a Kardashian and the world is hell bent on rooting against them?

Nothing controversial here.

Do you work for Pepsi or Mama Pimp Kris?

I'm a public interest lawyer and antipoverty advocate in DC (doing work on the national, state and local levels). And I'm supremely annoyed by faux outrage fueled by misguided social media rants. Where were you people during the election? All of a sudden you "care"...allegedly...and are easily outraged and feel compelled (for whatever reason) to act out on social media.

Well, kudos to you, America...Pepsi yanked the commercial. Mission accomplished. Of course we still have a mad man in the White House whose proposed budget seeks to eliminate critical programs that assist low-income and vulnerable populations.

You are supremely ignorant and cloaked in your pretty white privilege I'm sure you're nothing but a disservice to your "public interest" clients. Mostly because you seem to totally, completely and conveniently forget that the people upset about this ad did show up on Election Day, you dimwit, and Hillary won the popular vote, but self centered, self interested and frankly stupid white woman voted that mad man into the White House.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bleeding heart liberal here. There's nothing controversial about it. Critics are stretching to make connections that simply aren't there.

Where does it say it's a BLM protest?

We don't know what kind of protest or rally it is. We just know it's a protest or rally.

Here's what the commercial actually depicts and conclusions we can reasonably draw:

-Kendall the model leaves a photo shoot and immediately tosses her wig and rubs off her make-up...she's keeping it real.

-Then she's just regular citizen Kendall in jeans at a protest or rally. We don't know what people are protesting. People don't seem upset...there's no violence. It almost seems like a fun atmosphere.

-Kendall is a cheeky monkey and boldly approaches the cute cop and hands him a Pepsi. Gasp...what will he do? Will he taze her or drink it? He drinks it!

-Kendall has a smirk as she walks away. Yeah, she's still got it...the cute cop drank her Pepsi.

-Cop smiles and shrugs his soldiers at his colleague. Sure, he's not supposed to flirt with protesters...but, oh well.

I don't get the faux outrage. Is it just because she's a Kardashian and the world is hell bent on rooting against them?

Nothing controversial here.

You can be a bleeding heart liberal and still completely ignorant to the recent history of police violence towards minorities versus white women. You don't get a gold star for being a white liberal person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bleeding heart liberal here. There's nothing controversial about it. Critics are stretching to make connections that simply aren't there.

Where does it say it's a BLM protest?

We don't know what kind of protest or rally it is. We just know it's a protest or rally.

Here's what the commercial actually depicts and conclusions we can reasonably draw:

-Kendall the model leaves a photo shoot and immediately tosses her wig and rubs off her make-up...she's keeping it real.

-Then she's just regular citizen Kendall in jeans at a protest or rally. We don't know what people are protesting. People don't seem upset...there's no violence. It almost seems like a fun atmosphere.

-Kendall is a cheeky monkey and boldly approaches the cute cop and hands him a Pepsi. Gasp...what will he do? Will he taze her or drink it? He drinks it!

-Kendall has a smirk as she walks away. Yeah, she's still got it...the cute cop drank her Pepsi.

-Cop smiles and shrugs his soldiers at his colleague. Sure, he's not supposed to flirt with protesters...but, oh well.

I don't get the faux outrage. Is it just because she's a Kardashian and the world is hell bent on rooting against them?

Nothing controversial here.

Do you work for Pepsi or Mama Pimp Kris?

I'm a public interest lawyer and antipoverty advocate in DC (doing work on the national, state and local levels). And I'm supremely annoyed by faux outrage fueled by misguided social media rants. Where were you people during the election? All of a sudden you "care"...allegedly...and are easily outraged and feel compelled (for whatever reason) to act out on social media.

Well, kudos to you, America...Pepsi yanked the commercial. Mission accomplished. Of course we still have a mad man in the White House whose proposed budget seeks to eliminate critical programs that assist low-income and vulnerable populations.

I was saying the exact same stuff during the election as I am
Now. You can care about two issues you know. You must be a terrible advocate if you're this black and white.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP how can you be so dense? Others hae touched on some points but I'll sum it up:

Kendall Jenner, who is like, 21, white, and does absolutely nothing to advance social justice or civil rights as a public person, is portrayed as a "white savior" whom Muslims and African Americans cheer because she, and she alone, is brave enough to walk up to the officers and have the genius idea of handing them... a Pepsi.

This a) trivializes the work ACTUAL activists have done over the years by essentially making Kendall Jenner not only their equal, but their BETTER! They are the ones to blame for protests turning violent and having their civil rights still in question to this day. Maybe if only they had been brave and bold like KENDALL they could have been more successful!

It also denigrates the very serious issues of civil rights by tying them to friggin PEPSI.

It is 100% intended to be perceived as a BLM protest- cops don't stand in a phalanx like that at any regular political protest. They do that at Black Lives Matter protests and protests after incidents of social injustice such as in Baltimore and Ferguson. So Pepsi is saying, "Sure, people are dying for your black rights, but Kendall here has got just the answer: PEPSI."

People have died over these issues. MLK Jr., Malcolm X., Medgar Evers were all killed for their work protesting the unfair treatment of blacks and engaging in peaceful protest. This is a huge dishonor to their memory.

You are reading waaaaaaaay too much into a Pepsi commercial. Do you really think that was the intention behind the commercial? It wasn't.

Yes, it was. I'm not reading too much into it. I'm explaining what immediately jumps out. It's not even subtext. Your ignorance doesn't make everyone else's reaction wrong.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bleeding heart liberal here. There's nothing controversial about it. Critics are stretching to make connections that simply aren't there.

Where does it say it's a BLM protest?

We don't know what kind of protest or rally it is. We just know it's a protest or rally.

Here's what the commercial actually depicts and conclusions we can reasonably draw:

-Kendall the model leaves a photo shoot and immediately tosses her wig and rubs off her make-up...she's keeping it real.

-Then she's just regular citizen Kendall in jeans at a protest or rally. We don't know what people are protesting. People don't seem upset...there's no violence. It almost seems like a fun atmosphere.

-Kendall is a cheeky monkey and boldly approaches the cute cop and hands him a Pepsi. Gasp...what will he do? Will he taze her or drink it? He drinks it!

-Kendall has a smirk as she walks away. Yeah, she's still got it...the cute cop drank her Pepsi.

-Cop smiles and shrugs his soldiers at his colleague. Sure, he's not supposed to flirt with protesters...but, oh well.

I don't get the faux outrage. Is it just because she's a Kardashian and the world is hell bent on rooting against them?

Nothing controversial here.

Do you work for Pepsi or Mama Pimp Kris?

I'm a public interest lawyer and antipoverty advocate in DC (doing work on the national, state and local levels). And I'm supremely annoyed by faux outrage fueled by misguided social media rants. Where were you people during the election? All of a sudden you "care"...allegedly...and are easily outraged and feel compelled (for whatever reason) to act out on social media.

Well, kudos to you, America...Pepsi yanked the commercial. Mission accomplished. Of course we still have a mad man in the White House whose proposed budget seeks to eliminate critical programs that assist low-income and vulnerable populations.

You are supremely ignorant and cloaked in your pretty white privilege I'm sure you're nothing but a disservice to your "public interest" clients. Mostly because you seem to totally, completely and conveniently forget that the people upset about this ad did show up on Election Day, you dimwit, and Hillary won the popular vote, but self centered, self interested and frankly stupid white woman voted that mad man into the White House.

Minorities did not turn out for the election in same numbers as the first Obama election.

Plenty of liberal white women are outraged by this commercial. Some of them voted---and likely voted for HRC---but many didn't bother to vote. All of a sudden people are interested in getting political (which is a good thing), but they fail to realize that faux outrage on social media doesn't actually change the world.

When media coverage focuses on a stupid Pepsi commercial instead of Syria or Russian interference in the election, we lose.

And this whole "white privilege" thing has gotten out of hand. Not everything is white privilege...especially an innocuous Pepsi ad. I won't be guilt tripped into believing the ad is controversial, because it's not. You're making giant leaps in your criticism. There's no mention of BLM anywhere in the commercial. There's no police confrontation. Do you not realize that police are present at most public gatherings? Do you not realize that police typically wear riot gear at controversial rallies (like the BLM protest pictured up thread)? This is not a BLM protest. Period. And stop making everything about race. How can a Pepsi ad be a political statement about race? They introduced a black guy and a presumably Muslim woman to show diversity. Had those people been white, would that have made it better or worse? What if Kendall was holding the camera and the Muslim woman handed the cop the soda---better or worse? I think I know the answer to this question: what if the black guy handed the soda to the cop? That's worse, right? Because then you people would say, "OMG, Pepsi thinks a soda will end issues with race relations and police brutality!" (Isn't that the leap that King's daughter made up thread? Again: a leap since there was no police confrontation in the ad.) That's what Pepsi wanted to avoid, so that's why they had pretty Kendall hand over the soda.

I suppose the bottom line is that America isn't ready to have a coke and a smile. America isn't equipped to join hands and teach the world to sing. America is too cynical, too angry...and clearly has too much time on their hands if they are over analyzing commercials.

Question: what if the ad was for coke. What if it was a hands across America style chain of people holding hands singing I'd like to teach the world to sing, and a young black guy was holding hands with a white cop? Better or worse?

Continue to be outraged over a Pepsi commercial. I'll be at work today helping actual people fight the system.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kendall who?

Hey, if you read past the first word of the thread title, you'll find your answer. In English, surnames follow the first name. That proper noun you see- Jenner- is her last name.

HTH

Learn to recognize sarcasm. No one gives two shits about anyone in that family

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Her outfit is a crime.

Agreed. Those pants!

[Anonymous]

The protestors should offer Pepsi instead of chant sub human sayings and block roads

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bleeding heart liberal here. There's nothing controversial about it. Critics are stretching to make connections that simply aren't there.

Where does it say it's a BLM protest?

We don't know what kind of protest or rally it is. We just know it's a protest or rally.

Here's what the commercial actually depicts and conclusions we can reasonably draw:

-Kendall the model leaves a photo shoot and immediately tosses her wig and rubs off her make-up...she's keeping it real.

-Then she's just regular citizen Kendall in jeans at a protest or rally. We don't know what people are protesting. People don't seem upset...there's no violence. It almost seems like a fun atmosphere.

-Kendall is a cheeky monkey and boldly approaches the cute cop and hands him a Pepsi. Gasp...what will he do? Will he taze her or drink it? He drinks it!

-Kendall has a smirk as she walks away. Yeah, she's still got it...the cute cop drank her Pepsi.

-Cop smiles and shrugs his soldiers at his colleague. Sure, he's not supposed to flirt with protesters...but, oh well.

I don't get the faux outrage. Is it just because she's a Kardashian and the world is hell bent on rooting against them?

Nothing controversial here.

Psst. Your privilege is showing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bleeding heart liberal here. There's nothing controversial about it. Critics are stretching to make connections that simply aren't there.

Where does it say it's a BLM protest?

We don't know what kind of protest or rally it is. We just know it's a protest or rally.

Here's what the commercial actually depicts and conclusions we can reasonably draw:

-Kendall the model leaves a photo shoot and immediately tosses her wig and rubs off her make-up...she's keeping it real.

-Then she's just regular citizen Kendall in jeans at a protest or rally. We don't know what people are protesting. People don't seem upset...there's no violence. It almost seems like a fun atmosphere.

-Kendall is a cheeky monkey and boldly approaches the cute cop and hands him a Pepsi. Gasp...what will he do? Will he taze her or drink it? He drinks it!

-Kendall has a smirk as she walks away. Yeah, she's still got it...the cute cop drank her Pepsi.

-Cop smiles and shrugs his soldiers at his colleague. Sure, he's not supposed to flirt with protesters...but, oh well.

I don't get the faux outrage. Is it just because she's a Kardashian and the world is hell bent on rooting against them?

Nothing controversial here.

Do you work for Pepsi or Mama Pimp Kris?

I'm a public interest lawyer and antipoverty advocate in DC (doing work on the national, state and local levels). And I'm supremely annoyed by faux outrage fueled by misguided social media rants. Where were you people during the election? All of a sudden you "care"...allegedly...and are easily outraged and feel compelled (for whatever reason) to act out on social media.

Well, kudos to you, America...Pepsi yanked the commercial. Mission accomplished. Of course we still have a mad man in the White House whose proposed budget seeks to eliminate critical programs that assist low-income and vulnerable populations.

You are supremely ignorant and cloaked in your pretty white privilege I'm sure you're nothing but a disservice to your "public interest" clients. Mostly because you seem to totally, completely and conveniently forget that the people upset about this ad did show up on Election Day, you dimwit, and Hillary won the popular vote, but self centered, self interested and frankly stupid white woman voted that mad man into the White House.

Minorities did not turn out for the election in same numbers as the first Obama election.

Plenty of liberal white women are outraged by this commercial. Some of them voted---and likely voted for HRC---but many didn't bother to vote. All of a sudden people are interested in getting political (which is a good thing), but they fail to realize that faux outrage on social media doesn't actually change the world.

When media coverage focuses on a stupid Pepsi commercial instead of Syria or Russian interference in the election, we lose.

And this whole "white privilege" thing has gotten out of hand. Not everything is white privilege...especially an innocuous Pepsi ad. I won't be guilt tripped into believing the ad is controversial, because it's not. You're making giant leaps in your criticism. There's no mention of BLM anywhere in the commercial. There's no police confrontation. Do you not realize that police are present at most public gatherings? Do you not realize that police typically wear riot gear at controversial rallies (like the BLM protest pictured up thread)? This is not a BLM protest. Period. And stop making everything about race. How can a Pepsi ad be a political statement about race? They introduced a black guy and a presumably Muslim woman to show diversity. Had those people been white, would that have made it better or worse? What if Kendall was holding the camera and the Muslim woman handed the cop the soda---better or worse? I think I know the answer to this question: what if the black guy handed the soda to the cop? That's worse, right? Because then you people would say, "OMG, Pepsi thinks a soda will end issues with race relations and police brutality!" (Isn't that the leap that King's daughter made up thread? Again: a leap since there was no police confrontation in the ad.) That's what Pepsi wanted to avoid, so that's why they had pretty Kendall hand over the soda.

I suppose the bottom line is that America isn't ready to have a coke and a smile. America isn't equipped to join hands and teach the world to sing. America is too cynical, too angry...and clearly has too much time on their hands if they are over analyzing commercials.

Question: what if the ad was for coke. What if it was a hands across America style chain of people holding hands singing I'd like to teach the world to sing, and a young black guy was holding hands with a white cop? Better or worse?

Continue to be outraged over a Pepsi commercial. I'll be at work today helping actual people fight the system.

You presented evidence against your own case. The phalanx of police officers is ALWAYS at BLM protests. Why is that? Why weren't they at the Women's March? I'm guessing they won't be staring down scientists at the March on the 22nd, either. That is provilige. That is institutional racism. Wake up.

[Anonymous]

But could it be worse?
Did Pepsi court the controversy on purpose?
To get people talking?
This is how certain people operate (cough, everyone in that family that begins with K and J).

Clickbait! Social media tending!

When I was reading page 1, I thought... wait... people expect to see a Jenner name NOT linked to controversy? That would be too boring for them.