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We may be in a recession, but there are always plenty of jobs in the indignation industry.

(And I still don't see the sucker punch. I hear it, but I don't see it.)

I could care less about this ad. But, this is the inevitable end to political correctness and victim groups who find insult in everything. My guess is that a lot of the "outrage" over this is ginned up b/c people realize that if the races were reversed in this ad, there would be the same outrage from the usual victim group suspects. Somehow I doubt you would find that outrage offensive though. Twanda Brawley forever! Has Al Sharpton ever paid the damages award to those officers whose lives he ruined? I mean, in between being feted by top Dem politicans?

Oooh! They missed such a great opportunity to cast Naomi Campbell in this and have her deliver the sucker punch. That would have been several levels of awesome.

The term "reverse racism" makes me very stabby, and not just because I'm a ninja.

Reverse racism sounds like something wonderful. Take racism, put it in reverse and you have everyone loving and respecting each other.

YouTube comments are the bathroom stall of the internet. It's the most racist, ignorant place on the web. I'd find the irony hilarious if not for the fact that, now that the drooling masses have gotten something taken down, they're going to start acting like the mentally deficient cousin of Anonymous.

Up next on the YouTube commenter-asshole list, the reporter who gets a fly in his mouth and decries living in a "hick town" is exposed as a real racist. (After all, we know the most egregious racism is committed against white people. Didn't you get the memo at our last meeting?) I mean how can we let such atrocious and hateful words stand? And on the internet of all places?

Hmm... for some reason I can only see about 2/3 of the video, and the right 1/3 is cut off. Anyone else have this problem?

I was about to say that, Purvis... I don't see an old white guy getting punched by a black kid in this video, so I don't see any sort of problem at all.

You are an unfit mother.

Carl's Jr. Fuck you, I'm eating!

RACE WAR!

No BSlim! A general knows when to take his troops to war. We will not fight foolish wars, or wars of vanity. Be patient my friend, your cry for war will soon be granted.

I didn't think it was racist.

Horribly frakking annoying, but not racist.

Bring back the tiny giraffe.

Kerminy, Ok, you're an ignorant asshole who complains about political correctness, but c'mon "could care less?" It's "couldn't care less," because you're saying that you could NOT care less.

MM, yes! Bring back the tiny giraffe! My Mom wants one of those.

The cries, no doubt, come from morons looking for any excuse to somehow, someway be the victim they see themselves as. Because, of course this is a white country and anyone not white is not a true American and therefore "their" rights are being eroded by the influx of brown people. The only way to legitimize their racist views is to make themselves "victims" of the watering down of the "real" America, because of course they're not really racist, they're just concerned about America and their freedom. The freedom to keep America American and that means white and Christian.

Youtube and Yahoo commentors are the true Tea Party. The Tea Party that Tea Partiers want to be but are afraid to be in public. Birthers who scream they are true Americans seeking truth but are really just pissed off dickheads who can't believe there's a black man in office. The same assholes who cry that Obama met with an African delegate and that means he's going to pander to African interests while they scream that he's a closet muslim who's going to bring in Sharia law. The width and breadth of their inconsistent complaints scream of grasping, idiotic racism and their all too dumb to see their own dumbness. That moment when McCain had to tell that idiot old woman, in public, on camera, that Obama was not a muslim should have shamed him right out of the old fart party, but instead, the asshole, who used to have a spine simply rounded his wagons tighter around Grizzly retard while she silently submarined him.

I would say their arguments are childish, but children are smarter than they are.

I prefer the DirecTV ad with the tiny giraffes.

Sorry, that's all I got.

Sorry for the diatribe. I get riled.

I saw the commercial the other day. Saw the kid smack the butler. I lold.

Aren't all butlers white?

anything to keep the trolls happy

sucksess!

... Does anyone realize that if there was an all-white entourage which had a black butler pictured as so subservient , no matter the side-plot or punchline of the scene, there would be an outcry from the NAACP?

Do we not remember the hallmark card incident involving the 'black holes'?
( http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/los_angeles&id=7475737 )

I think this kind of response is moronic from either side, but for all fairness, please be inclusive of stupidity.

Also, you and your commenters seem to have an odd definition of racism. You say in your article "...because it reinforces stereotypes about black people, namely that their children sucker punch their butlers, which we all know to be true."

But never has racism been about what is TRUE. In fact, stereotypes, by definition, aren't true as a general rule, that's why they're stereotypes.

All African Americans don't sit around chewing watermelon, drinking grape soda, relaxing from their stint of raping all the white women in sight and contemplating the next crime-spree and drug sale. All white people don't don business suits, walk around the house in slippers made of minority babies and spend eight hours of their day fulfilling their 'bring the colored-man down' job description.

One of your commenters explains racism as such:
Racism = Prejudice + Power

This isn't inherently true. The poorest, least powerful people can be racist. Racism often happens on both ends, when the powers that be are racist, they inspire racism in those who they rule. A perfect example is the dominant use of the term 'the white man' in the civil rights action days when those being oppressed would refer to their oppressors.

Of course not all white men, or women, were racist at that time. It was an established perspective which was not always accepted, even by those in relative power.

My point is, you shouldn't make commentary on racism unless you can accurately define it without the use of a dictionary. You become as aggressively sophomoric as those you're railing against.

My personal thought on the matter is if the NAACP and other advocate groups can rage against racist hallmark cards and toys and comic books and movies and cartoons and songs and everything else under the sun... If feminist groups can shout against movie posters and advertisements... If churches can take down billboards and ads... why can't other groups do the same? What does equality mean if it's still tipped to any side?

Although I'm against tribalism of any-kind.