can commercials change our perception of the past?

Started by aitm, January 31, 2015, 08:33:07 PM

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aitm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meQKpdVgEjo

watching this commercial, one modern day person, may think that back in the 40's black people were playing football and driving around with white folk. Do you think even the playful version of this can lead some people to believe that race relations were not as bad back then…kind of like how we will have kids in another 10 years who think Lincoln actually hunted vampires?
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Munch

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I'm more concerned about what will happen when children today begin to question why it is Thor's a man in all these old comics when he clearly has tits today.

If my nephews ask this, I'll tell them "Well, theres this evil word called feminism.."
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Atheon

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Quote from: Munch on January 31, 2015, 08:43:21 PM
I'm more concerned about what will happen when children today begin to question why it is Thor's a man in all these old comics when he clearly has tits today.
I thought Guanyin was the only transgendered god(dess).

In any case, anachronisms are all part of the joke of that commercial. I mean, they even take a selfie!
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PickelledEggs

Abraham Lincoln did hunt vampires. Why else would they make a movie about it?

Shiranu

Quote from: Munch on January 31, 2015, 08:43:21 PM
I'm more concerned about what will happen when children today begin to question why it is Thor's a man in all these old comics when he clearly has tits today.

If my nephews ask this, I'll tell them "Well, theres this evil word called feminism.."


Or the truth; that it's two different people.

That isn't a very hard question to answer....
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Jason78

Quote from: PickelledEggs on February 01, 2015, 01:17:16 AM
Abraham Lincoln did hunt vampires. Why else would they make a movie about it?

They couldn't have filmed it unless it actually happened.
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SGOS

I watched that commercial with my sound not plugged in.  Not that it probably made a difference.  The whole thing struck me as blatant.  Blatant how?  I'm not sure.  It did not seem real.  It did create a feeling of "awe look, their having so much fun living in a simpler time."  The girls looked so sweet and innocent, like none of them ever had a sexual thought in their head.  It didn't seem real.

And I actually remember those times in my own past.  In retrospect, that era didn't seem real back then either.  No wonder I felt like I never fit in until the 60s or 70s.  I was living in a culture where we were nothing more than puppets playing our roles as directed by commercials created by corporations or ideological groups.

And to answer the question in the OP, yes any propaganda can make us believe anything.  All you have to do is lie, and someone is going to believe you.  It's that simple.

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