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Car Forum / Mercedes-Benz Cars / November 2007

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Mercedes Criticised Over Racist TV Advert

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maidenmerch@googlemail.com - 24 Nov 2007 17:32 GMT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QorvMRGnMa0

A blonde walks into a library and ask a jewish librarian for a fries
and coke. Hilarious! I look forward to the one with the duplicitous
jew and the uppity negro.
Frank Arthur - 24 Nov 2007 18:32 GMT
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QorvMRGnMa0
>
> A blonde walks into a library and ask a jewish librarian for a fries
> and coke. Hilarious! I look forward to the one with the duplicitous
> jew and the uppity negro.

If this is what you find as "Hilarious!" you would fill a book in a
Psychiatric institution.
True Blue - 24 Nov 2007 20:07 GMT
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QorvMRGnMa0
>>
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> If this is what you find as "Hilarious!" you would fill a book in a
> Psychiatric institution.

Let me guess, you're "uncomfortable" with it?
Frank Arthur - 24 Nov 2007 21:03 GMT
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QorvMRGnMa0
>>>
[quoted text clipped - 8 lines]
>
> Let me guess, you're "uncomfortable" with it?

Uncomfortable? No. Puzzled. I find no "hilarity". Do you find it
"hilareous"?
Maybe you can join maidenmerch in your looney bin!
Refinish King - 24 Nov 2007 23:45 GMT
Maybe you are blonde?

>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QorvMRGnMa0
>>>>
[quoted text clipped - 10 lines]
> "hilareous"?
> Maybe you can join maidenmerch in your looney bin!
runbiodiesel - 25 Nov 2007 08:27 GMT
> <maidenme...@googlemail.com> wrote in message
>
[quoted text clipped - 8 lines]
> If this is what you find as "Hilarious!" you would fill a book in a
> Psychiatric institution.

Ummm, I'm pretty sure that was sarcasm. I think maidenmerch was
indicating that it was an offensive stereotype and not funny.
maidenmerch@googlemail.com - 25 Nov 2007 09:19 GMT
A blonde walks into a library and asks the intelligent jewish
librarian for fries and a shake. The librarian points out she is in a
library and the 'blonde' asks the same again in a whisper, and the
tagline is "Beauty is nothing without brains".

Hilarious! I look forward to the ones with the duplicitous jew and the
uppity negro. North Eastern Europe, the home of the blonde is one of
the most advanced areas on the planet BTW.
Guenter Scholz - 26 Nov 2007 17:58 GMT
.... never mind Frank, maidenmerch, I thought it was hilarious as well.

cheers

>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QorvMRGnMa0
>>
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
>If this is what you find as "Hilarious!" you would fill a book in a
>Psychiatric institution.
weelliott@gmail.com - 27 Nov 2007 13:07 GMT
I will admit that I can't see the video since my firewall won't let in
youtube. I'm assuming that this is meant for the north American market
because it is a blonde joke. If that is nto the case, then my further
comments are null and void.

If it is for the North American market, I'm sure it is irrelevant that
it is a Jewish librarian. The joke revolves solely around the blonde.
It is an ongoing American joke that blondes are stupid. I think trying
to read into it beyond that is taking it too seriously. Sure, it is
not politically correct to paint blondes as stupid, but it's obviously
a joke, and especially not meant to be racist. In America Jewish
people and blondes are not considered to be their own races. So
claiming that it is racist is stretching it even for those the most
apt to complain. I can't comment on the cultures elsewhere in the
world. It might be that blondes and Jewish people are considered
different races elsewhere. Apparently it is that way judging by the
responses on here. If the commercial were made for that market by
someone in that market, that would be messed up. I woudl see reason
for outcry. However, applying another cultures racial categorizations
and lack of blonde stereotypes(The stupid-blonde stereotype is a joke
that is not taken seriously by most, but is understood by most.) to
America doesn't work.

Just my two cents, or whatever currency that is equal to where you are.
nico - 26 Nov 2007 02:28 GMT
uncomfortable??
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