Anybody notice an increase in the amount of interracial couples in advertising? It started a few years ago but has really ramped up recently with race/racism being inserted into everything. Also noticing a lot more black people in general in Canadian ads.
I don't have a problem with seeing interracial couples or black people in advertisements but the over-representation is simply over the top and statistically impossible at this point. Black people only make up 3.5% of the Canadian population but it seems like a quarter to half of the people you see in ads are black or an interracial couple often including one black person. Even if every black person was dating outside of their race, we would still only see 3.5% of couples being black interracial, which you almost wouldn't even notice.
I got a look at the behind-the-scenes on this:
I volunteered for a student service on campus a couple years ago. They do advertising across campus and needed a picture of a man and a woman for the advertisement. The coordinator picked me, as well as a girl volunteer, to be part of it. Both white. We take the pictures, and pick out some that we like. A few weeks go by, and eventually the coordinator casually lets me know that they decided to go with a different set of pictures, that includes a black man and a white woman (both volunteers again). After some questioning, the she (the coordinator) revealed that the first pictures had been rejected by the campus advertising committee (or w/e, some university bureaucracy that controls the advertisements on campus), and that they requested a reshoot with more "diversity". So, that's how that came to be.
In the end I think overrepresentation in advertising basically has the effect of subconsciously convincing white people that they should "step aside" and support affirmative action programs, greater immigration, and yes maybe more interbreeding between races. It's the psychological programming before the BLM riots, immigrant takeover of communities, and immigrant crimes so white people will casually accept it.
Of course I doubt that any of the people involved in this particular decision have really thought of any of this - they're probably just middle-class white women going along with the morality that they've already been conditioned to accept through media and public schooling. I.e. they genuinely believe that promoting diversity in advertising is a good thing at face value, and fully believe that minorities are disadvantaged in Canada.
Have you considered, I don't know, the entire basis upon which modern advertising is created? Advertisements are entirely subliminal messaging at this point, watch TV for a few hours and really focus on how many of the advertisements try to convince you through rational presentation of the relevant facts. It will be approximately 0 of the ads you watch. It's all subconscious manipulation of people into consuming their product.
Fuck off.
I can't say I've seen that too often either. Seems fishy.