I'm not sure about the title that you used. This video has a much deeper content than "wrong order" makes employee mad.

This is a "muslim" KFC and the customer wants some bacon. The employee kid goes "full retard" and wants to behead all americans.

real intro to this clip:

"... yeah could I have an original-recipe KFC SnakeBucket, and also a coleslaw, to go?"

"Sure. I just need to check the back room real quick..."

>> ^kurtdh:

It's good to see something like this. I've often thought about how odd our attractions are to one another considering we're all just a skeleton underneath.


Skin, muscle and a little toning to both are a plus. If I can see their bones they ether need to eat a sandwich or seek medical help. Sometimes both. So please if you see a size 0 model, force feed her several KFC double downs.

Will have to see if I can sandwich this (no pun intended) in between a Double Down from KFC.

Or better yet, I could just open up my chest and jam it straight into my aorta, and save from all that bothersome chewing and digesting.

There's something very wrong with me. I know it's awful, but every time I see a photo of one of those KFC Double Downs, I want one.


Bleh. It's a good thing they aren't sold here. Anti-Bacon religion finally does me some good.

@NetRunner. Genocide comment was directed toward bcglorf more than you, but I just combined the two of you into one mental gay orgy and responded as if I was talking to one. These weren't strawman arguments. They're direct debating points for your and bcglorf's positions. I don't think you've been paying attention.

You seem to think we're going into Afghanistan to help them now. Help who? How? That land is a collective of tribes. Are we going to build them roads or drop KFC gift certificates from the sky? What could we possibly offer them? I'm curious what exactly it is you expect us to continue to do there? We've killed families and innocents and children and women. We've done enough. We're occupying their land. We've done enough.

Your analogy is flawed, by the way. The better analogy would be if your brother came over to my house, stabbed me with a spear, then hung around for the next eight years building me shelves I never asked for. And he's syphoning the gas from my car. What I'd really like is for him to just get the hell out of my house.

Holy Shit the australians are gonna want to burn down the studio. I wonder if this was an intentional jab at them because of the way they reacted to the kfc racist ad story.
http://www.youtube.com/user/TheYoungTurks#p/search/2/i_StDMpVhDk

White Americans enjoy getting themselves fired up over anything remotely resembling racism because they want to use every opportunity to scream, "I'M NOT RACIST! SEE?!" They're constantly apologizing for their ancestors' actions.
>> ^Raaagh:

It's disappointing to see the Americans fire up, because it seems isolationist and self-centered to pressume this certain strain of cultural poison that is endemic in their own country, must be endemic everywhere else.

No, a bunch of executives did. A bunch of executives do not represent a company, the shareholders do. Unless you have evidence that a majority of the shareholders endorsed the commercial then you can assume any more than what I stated.

You also have no evidence they used a racial stereotype intentionally. I had never heard of this stereotype until I came across it on VideoSift.

I'm not aware of your example but what you're describing is racist. If it was designed to entertain white people at the expense of mocking black people as a racial group then it was racist.
>> ^longde:
I think this is a valiant effort to rationalize something that is cut and dry. KFC did endorse this commercial (obviously, since it's their ad); and the aussie ad team did intentionally use a racist stereotype to sell chicken.
And I disagree that intent is at the core of what makes something racist. The sambo stories are offensive to blacks, but when they were produced, the intent was to entertain whites, not to offend blacks. They didn't care what black thought.
>> ^RedSky:
I think the notion of racism needs to be brought back to the core.
It's not racist unless it's purposely meant to be offensive to a particular racial background. It's clear that no company, least of all a fast food chicken company, would walk off a cliff willingly like this and put on an intentionally racist ad.
At worst it was produced by a bunch of employees that want to play up on a racial stereotype but was in no way endorsed or acknowledged by KFC. At best, and to me most likely, the ad was produced by an Australian marketing team unaware of the stereotype. Cenk to me seems correct, they're not rowdy, they looked like they were generally having a good time at the game. As for the whole 'awkward situation' phrasing relating to being surrounded by a bunch of black people, well yes it's a fact that even now people from different racial backgrounds tend to have more trouble getting along. There's no harm is stating that evolution has made us innately mistrustful of those that look different to us, there's nothing offensive about admitting that.
Point is, regardless of which it is, it's overblown and diverts attention away from actual examples of racial hate.



It comes down to how you define it, and yes I agree that ignorance with no hateful or prejudiced intent can be harmful but I wouldn't think of it as racism. The point where you draw the line is definitely fine though. Being wilful ignorance as a form of denying your prejudiced views is not the same as simply being unintentionally offensive. Being culturally acceptable is also of course not a defence either. Jokes about Aborigines are common place around here unfortunately, although I can definitely say I've heard less of them since I left high school.

It also doesn't help that it's virtually impossible to separate the two. We will never really know if the people who made this ad were purely ignorant or racist. Looking from the point of view of a minority I can see that perhaps past experience would gravitate you towards assuming the latter but I think it's an important distinction to make.

>> ^Throbbin:
RedSky - racism doesn't have to be intentional to qualify as racism. Ignorant/inadvertent racism is just as harmful, maybe even more harmful than intentional (hateful) racism. At least with hateful racism it's easy to isolate, identify, and mock/ridicule the racists. When it's ignorant/unintended racism it's tacitly accepted by society, and thus harder to isolate and rectify.
I don't buy the 'Australia doesn't have the same stereotypes of black people that Americans do' line. Aussies consume just as much American media as Canadians do, and all of the stereotypes about black people I encountered came from American media. In general, I have heard that Australia is an exceptionally racist place - I heard this firsthand from Aborigines (and Maori from NZ). I have even even heard it from 'white Aussies' themselves. One Aussie was trying to congratulate me (us? as in Inuit) for having our shit together much more than the good for nothing Aborigines down under. I shit you not.

I think this is a valiant effort to rationalize something that is cut and dry. KFC did endorse this commercial (obviously, since it's their ad); and the aussie ad team did intentionally use a racist stereotype to sell chicken.

And I disagree that intent is at the core of what makes something racist. The sambo stories are offensive to blacks, but when they were produced, the intent was to entertain whites, not to offend blacks. They didn't care what black thought.

>> ^RedSky:
I think the notion of racism needs to be brought back to the core.
It's not racist unless it's purposely meant to be offensive to a particular racial background. It's clear that no company, least of all a fast food chicken company, would walk off a cliff willingly like this and put on an intentionally racist ad.
At worst it was produced by a bunch of employees that want to play up on a racial stereotype but was in no way endorsed or acknowledged by KFC. At best, and to me most likely, the ad was produced by an Australian marketing team unaware of the stereotype. Cenk to me seems correct, they're not rowdy, they looked like they were generally having a good time at the game. As for the whole 'awkward situation' phrasing relating to being surrounded by a bunch of black people, well yes it's a fact that even now people from different racial backgrounds tend to have more trouble getting along. There's no harm is stating that evolution has made us innately mistrustful of those that look different to us, there's nothing offensive about admitting that.
Point is, regardless of which it is, it's overblown and diverts attention away from actual examples of racial hate.

I think the notion of racism needs to be brought back to the core.

It's not racist unless it's purposely meant to be offensive to a particular racial background. It's clear that no company, least of all a fast food chicken company, would walk off a cliff willingly like this and put on an intentionally racist ad.

At worst it was produced by a bunch of employees that want to play up on a racial stereotype but was in no way endorsed or acknowledged by KFC. At best, and to me most likely, the ad was produced by an Australian marketing team unaware of the stereotype. Cenk to me seems correct, they're not rowdy, they looked like they were generally having a good time at the game. As for the whole 'awkward situation' phrasing relating to being surrounded by a bunch of black people, well yes it's a fact that even now people from different racial backgrounds tend to have more trouble getting along. There's no harm is stating that evolution has made us innately mistrustful of those that look different to us, there's nothing offensive about admitting that.

Point is, regardless of which it is, it's overblown and diverts attention away from actual examples of racial hate.

Westy - You're saying that's okay to perpetuate and export stereotypes because that's "good marketing"? O_o?!
How is spreading stereotypes i.e. embellished prejudice a good thing?

GeeSussFreak - Who made you the authority on "who is supposed to be" or "rightly" offended?
I'm bi-racial so (while i'm not up in arms) the ad instantly reminds me of all the annoying moronic fried chicken and watermelon jokes i had to suffer thru and smile off as a child.

Please don't assume racist undertones are "harmless" simply because you personally aren't bothered. -_- ..


Like Asmo says, any american can indentify the awkwardness of one white guy giving fried chicken to wild rowdy black people to shut them up.

KFC knows this and that's why they did everything they could to stop americans from seeing it.. except for not producing or releasing it. (Like KFC doesn't know about the internet)

KFC knowingly chose to depict something that implies racial prejudice and all the things that go with it.

If it had been a group of white fans surrounded by the group of black fans and both laughed and smiled, Westy's claims of interracial chicken enthusiasm would hold water. ...But that's not the case.

KFC could have just as easily focused on the color of the jerseys and team rivalry to imply the awkwardness.

"OH no, we're all yellow shirts in this huge group of red shirts. Let's both enjoy some food! Yay!"

The ad is in poor taste. Plain and simple.

I'll go all Don Bradman on your ass unless you start behaving, young man.

In reply to this comment by kymbos:
Shush now, Rasch. The adults are talking.

In reply to this comment by rasch187:
What I don't like about this ad is how exited everyone is about watching cricket, a game that lasts for 7 days is never going to create that level of exitement.

No, kymbos, I don't want to hear why cricket is the best game on earth. I've played it and watched it, and it's the most boring activity on earth, closely followed by watching paint dry.

Lol, the TYT team are bang on (I'm an Australian) and yeah, American's would probably instantly recognise the stereotype and get offended.

The Australian's that decided to flame them... Jesus, we typically have thicker skins than this even if the claim of racism was aimed at us and not KFC. It's more embarrasing that people got worked up over it than the fact that the ad was released in the first place.

Every black person i have talked to loves chicken , in the same way that all the Indians i know love curry. I don't know any white people that don't like shepherds pie, fact is races are normally geographical and different geographical locations will have different preferred foods due to what grew in that place or what could be stored easily.

if annything this advert is saying White and black people love chicken and that KFC's food brings people together "everyone is happy with kfc" . In fact its the general theme of the adverts in the uk where a husband and wife canot think what to cook but everyone can have something they like with a kfc so it brings the family together.

there is no real way you can if this is racist from the clip alone you would have to know the makers true intentions.

a;;sp young Turks have presumed by default that spreading a stereo type is a universally bad thing. despite the fact that in order to advertise most product you pretty much have to create or perpetuate a stereo type. normaly that stereo typ will just be an amalgimatoin of the products target market. For apple they make out that only trendy graphic designers use apples , gravy companies perpetuate the house wife that cookes for the family.

my piont is if you are going to have a go at them for spreding a stereo typ then you would then have to atack most adverts making it strange to specifcly draw atentoin to this advert.