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

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

It's stupid, narcissistic, (i.e., "Kardashian) and tone deaf. Can't believe she joins the protest cause a cute guy gives her the nod.

But I didn't think it was so terribly offensive. It's a diverse protest; Kendall is also a human being. They could be protesting for women's issues for all we know. From all the controversy I expected it to be much, much more objectionable.

Can't believe I'm having to defend a Kardashian, ugh.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Hi-five

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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.

Police were at the women's march in DC...but not in riot gear. The only ones in riot gear were several blocks away dealing with the anarchists throwing rocks, breaking windows, etc.

Have you ever been to a BLM march? In most cities the police wear riot gear.

No riot gear in the Pepsi ad. It was more like the women's March than a BLM march.

[Anonymous]

I agree with whomever said they may as well have sat down and TRIED to make the most offensive ad possible. The part where she hands her wig to an Angry Black Lady (tm) is the icing on the cake.

https://giphy.com/gifs/CIN5JqHCHKAOk?utm_source=iframe&utm_medium=embed&utm_campaign=tag_click

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Oh, and also the part where the ONLY woman of color featured is there to take a photo of Jenner. Of course.

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Anonymous wrote:I agree with whomever said they may as well have sat down and TRIED to make the most offensive ad possible. The part where she hands her wig to an Angry Black Lady (tm) is the icing on the cake.

https://giphy.com/gifs/CIN5JqHCHKAOk?utm_source=iframe&utm_medium=embed&utm_campaign=tag_click

I think I was the PP that said this -but now looking at the Nivea commercial, I may have spoken too soon.

http://www.allure.com/story/nivea-white-is-purity-ad-racism

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Anonymous wrote:I agree with whomever said they may as well have sat down and TRIED to make the most offensive ad possible. The part where she hands her wig to an Angry Black Lady (tm) is the icing on the cake.

https://giphy.com/gifs/CIN5JqHCHKAOk?utm_source=iframe&utm_medium=embed&utm_campaign=tag_click

I think I was the PP that said this -but now looking at the Nivea commercial, I may have spoken too soon.

http://www.allure.com/story/nivea-white-is-purity-ad-racism

This is an older one, but the Pepsi furor has brought it back to the forefront.

[Anonymous]

I voted for Obama twice and Hillary once and Bill Clinton twice but I just think people take offense at everything these days. Save your fire for the real problem...Trump! And his people!

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

Hi-five

No high five here. The first rule of LSA is that you don't mention LSA elsewhere on the web. You all really want the extremists of DCUM to find their way there?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

Hi-five

No high five here. The first rule of LSA is that you don't mention LSA elsewhere on the web. You all really want the extremists of DCUM to find their way there?

+1 although posters here are really no match for LSA.

[Anonymous]

I thought it was pretty dumb. It was as if they tried to be 'deep' and came off as very shallow. I didn't think it was overly offensive though.

[Anonymous]

Quick show of hands: who has time or energy to watch commercials let alone analyze them?

Not me.

Netflix and chill, people.

And when I do watch tv, I most certainly don't pay attention to the commercials. That's typically my cue to skim DCUM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

Hi-five

No high five here. The first rule of LSA is that you don't mention LSA elsewhere on the web. You all really want the extremists of DCUM to find their way there?

Hmmmm it's not fight club. it's got an app FFS, trends on twitter, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh, and also the part where the ONLY woman of color featured is there to take a photo of Jenner. Of course.

And hold her wig.