Trump put out an insensitive and inaccurate anti-immigration advertisement that aired on NBC and Fox. NBC finally took the ad down after it was viewed by millions in a Sunday Night football commercial. NBC realized that the content was inappropriate. The advertisement showed immigrants walking towards the border, which portraying them as bad people such as criminals and invaders. It is rumored that this ad was perfectly timed-right in time with the midterm elections, so that it would increase the Republicans voting. The ad had very racist content that was intended to scare people. When questioned about the offensive content of the ad, the present denied knowing anything about it. He responded saying, "well, a lot of things are offensive. Your questions are offensive a lot of the times." Facebook also received backlash for displaying this ad on their website.
Brian Stelter and Oliver Darcy published this article on Monday, November 5th, 2018 in order to explain the offensive nature of this ad and why companies no longer want to air it. I personally am glad that this offensive advertisement is no longer being aired. I am disgusted that our president would put out this sort of racist advertisement-I also think it is very unfair that the advertisement had inaccuracies. It is really sad that the president decides to stereotype people and assume that all immigrants are rapists and criminals. I wish we had someone more mature watching over our country. Reading this article reminded me of all of the confederate memorials that are coming down in the U.S. because they are offensive.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/05/media/nbc-trump-immigration-ad/index.html
What racist content was included in this ad? This ad said nothing about race, and while everybody read it as a race issue, Donald Trump was trying to take a low stab at the Democrats and like most of his tweets is ill-informed about the subject matter.
ReplyDeleteIn one of our recent lectures, we learned in class that while "race" is not real, being racist is "showing or feeling discrimination or prejudice against people of other races, or believing that a particular race is superior to another." If you watch the ad and decide it to be racist, then only in your eyes is it actually racist, because the ad has nothing to do with race.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1057728445386539008
I do agree with you that the president should not be stereotyping people to assume that they are all bad, but he is using that fear to hurt the democrats.
DeleteIf you watch the ad, you'll find no racist comments or assertions. The campaign, stressing the importance of border security, is strictly anti-illegal immigration. Not anti-Hispanic. President Trump, as well as virtually everyone else in the country, is perfectly fine with legal immigration.
ReplyDeleteYou mentioned that "the president decides to stereotype people and assume that all immigrants are rapists and criminals." Not exactly true: no one has said that all immigrants are rapists and/or criminals. The problem is that there is a disproportionate number of violent criminals in illegal aliens. Also, it is true that all illegal aliens are criminals becuase illegally crossing the border is a criminal offense, thus making anyone who does it a criminal.
Also, what's the connection to U.S. history?
ReplyDeleteWhile I do not think the ad has racist intentions, illegal immigrants should not be looked so down upon that there must be an ad that can appear as propaganda to many, portraying all of these immigrants as though they have criminal intentions. Yes, immigration without authorization is illegal, but when it occurs it should not be used to dehumanize people or make them seem less of a person as someone who did not immigrate illegal, which I feel this ad does. I also feel that President Trump did not keep an open mind with this, as our President he should accept that he has to consider what people find offensive when presenting a public ad. - Emma Hancock
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