Washington Mutual Commercial
Washington Mutual is a $350 billion bank, based in Seattle, that does extensive business in California and is currently running a series of anti-white-male ads. The ads are known as the Banker's Pen. They show a group of middle-aged white males locked in a pen. All of them are wearing suits and ties, many are smoking cigars and most are balding and pudgy.
The counter to this is the casually dressed, hip, young black male who identifies the penned-up group as "traditional old-fashioned bankers" and goes on to say, "If they think it's wrong, we know it's right."
there is most definately not a shortage of black, Latino or Asian actors, male and female, willing to play bankers in a television ad.
The depiction of "tradional old-fashioned bankers" as middle-aged white males is blatant racial discrimination. In real life there is no lack of Black, Latino, Asian, male or femal who actually are bankers. It qualifies as a stereotype - a conventional, formulaic and overspimplified conception, opinion or image. The defense for this is that the ad is humorous. Every other use ose of a stereotype - even a gentle or humorous one - is labeled racist, chauvinistic or homophobic, but this category doesn't extend to white males. Also, this blatently claims that white males have considerably smaller reproductive organs than casually dressed, hip, young black males.
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