How Stupid Are They?

[up148]

Howard Cosell didn't fair any better with his comment about why blacks could run faster and be stronger than most ethnicities. There is a severe anti-white push in this country these days. Present day whites are being blamed for history that was beyond their control. Just saying...............

BH

[robert.]

Unger is able to say he beat bolt twice. That was during a period of time when Usain sat out a few meets due to a pulled hamstring. He had such a great running career that it was sad to see him(bolt) fall in is last race.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

How about this for really, really stupid:
I just now, on TV, saw in the News that Dove bar soap had a commercial that showed a Black woman using the product and turning into a White woman as a result. The News only showed a quick piece of the ill-advised, crazy commercial, and I only caught approx. 6 seconds of it, but the message seemed very unwise and, frankly, awful. I believe Dove has apologized.

I was stunned at the bad taste of the commercial. I will try to catch it again, but in its entirety , if it comes on again. Oops! It just did!

[robert.]

Dove did something Sunday. Not sure what. The add you see from decades ago is trying to show they have a history of racism.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Dove did something Sunday. Not sure what. The add you see from decades ago is trying to show they have a history of racism.

But what was the ad trying to say, one has to wonder. I am left puzzling over why Dove would make such an ad.

[robert.]

" what was the ad trying to say, one has to wonder. I am left puzzling over why Dove would make such an ad."
They were hoping for free airtime. Everybody loves a great apology. Now then can donate some dough ray me to a few programs on equality. That will give them some more free airtime. People have short memories and will flock back to dove soap or try it for the first time. Not all stupidity backfires or is it a stroke of genius ?

[rogruth]

Back a bit.
Wayne pointed out that several white guys beat some black guys running down a field of one type, got some medals and retired.
A lot of those guys that lost went into athletics and got lots of money and then retired.
Tall guys make better basketball players than short guys. Thin, lithe guys make better dancers than large big guys who make better
rasslers ( spelling meant), etc., ftc.
Of course this is all generalized and there are exceptions. Done now.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Dove did something Sunday. Not sure what. The add you see from decades ago is trying to show they have a history of racism.

But what was the ad trying to say, one has to wonder. I am left puzzling over why Dove would make such an ad.

A display of mind numbing stupidity.

Never underestimate the human race's capacity for stupidity.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Dove did something Sunday. Not sure what. The add you see from decades ago is trying to show they have a history of racism.

But what was the ad trying to say, one has to wonder. I am left puzzling over why Dove would make such an ad.

A display of mind numbing stupidity.

Never underestimate the human race's capacity for stupidity.

But this stunt was beyond, beyond stupid. No, strike that - not stupid, it was ignorant (having knowledge but refusing to use it.)

[webenda]

But this stunt was beyond, beyond stupid. No, strike that - not stupid, it was ignorant (having knowledge but refusing to use it.)

Arrrrgh! ARRRGH!! You did it again Murph but I am not going to correct you this time.

[rogruth]

I think I'm lost.
Who is Dave and what did he do?
What has Muroh done?

[robert.]

Brings up the question how many people approved it. Unilever is so large you would think a few people would watch it first. It's not something that was done live with no time to pull the plug. Even an add agency would not want to be associated with it. This could sink your chances to get more clients. one more thing these companies have large legal teams that would say "no good". It's not hard to have your finger on the pulse of today's insensitivities.

[robert.]

Dave is DOVE soap. I'm not sure what they did. If you google dove soap you will see .

[MurphOnMillerAve]

But this stunt was beyond, beyond stupid. No, strike that - not stupid, it was ignorant (having knowledge but refusing to use it.)

Arrrrgh! ARRRGH!! You did it again Murph but I am not going to correct you this time.

I am using ignorant to mean they should know better, that they surely have learned about acceptable behavior on the subject of race but they have acted like they do not have knowledge, by "showing a lack of knowledge or training," training which should have been absorbed and evidenced by now.
(A bit loosey-goosey of a use of ignorant, but I wanted it to sound more pejorative than a simple "stupid," which to me implies a person is just too damdumb to know any better. They should have known better, and probably did, but went ahead anyway; thus, being ignorant. )
Murph

[robert.]

I looked. It starts with a black lady removing her brown shirt , changing into a white lady wearing a white shirt and then the white lady removing her shirt and changing into a black lady.