Jen (and many more) asked: Quote: The company said it tested the ad with consumers, including about 100 Jamaicans, and got no negative feedback. In the hours since the issue blew up, Vazin said, the company has gotten “many” positive comments from the public, including Jamaicans. “The response has been: ‘We get it. Accents don’t have a color,’ ” he said.
Accents can be totally racist, tho, eh?
Dear Volkswagen, please tell me you did not just trot out some tired old “how could we be racist, some of our best friends/focus-group-attendees are black” bullshit to defend this racist-ass video.
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fatalsincerity said:
This would never have flown in the Germany division. Now THERE is a country that has learned from its racist past.
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lyngay reblogged this from yoisthisracist and added:
My face watching this video.
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sofiaanya said:
Oh goodness that is awful.
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decoy-reindeer reblogged this from yoisthisracist and added:
according to this usa today article,...jamaicans who were fine
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pepperminttealeaves reblogged this from shamelesshipsterscum and added:
As a Jamaican that was not fucking polled for this commercial: What the actual fuck? As if using those phrases (because...
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polkadotprincessmondo said:
Because 100 Jamaicans is totally a representative sample. Way to science, VW, way to science.
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haganenoneko said:
Wow @ all the people defending this incredibly stupid and painfully unfunny video
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everylittlenookandcranny said:
It was also stupid and not funny
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I’m going back and forth...my family (in Jamaica) right now,
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pippaalice reblogged this from yoisthisracist and added:
Why did someone make this?
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paxamericana reblogged this from yoisthisracist and added:
if you were founded by nazis...slaves, uh maybe you should avoid incorporating any racial...
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oohsarracuda reblogged this from yoisthisracist and added:
THE FUCK?
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started yelling “NO, NO, NO, NO, NO” at...pounding my fists on the table. EVERYTHING ABOUT...
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batmanfights said:
Hold on- you’re telling me the car company founded by Hitler is doing something racist?
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gregrutter said:
White people doing things for comedic effect that are traditionally black things is … DING DONG … racist!
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