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Black Lives Matter.
“Can you show me an example of great teamwork?”
Me:
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How do you quit your job at an agency?
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or maybe they’re holding companies and us accountable for once
I read “holding companies” and immediately became offended.
People have been made to feel inadequate and have been offended by ads for decades. Women and POCs have felt like their voices didn’t matter in this industry for just as long.
It may seem to some that these complaints are coming out of nowhere, but they aren’t. We finally just have the platforms to have our voices heard.
@CD2, absolutely spot on insight.
Yep. Sad times we live in
I'm curious how much of this is due to social media and the spread of the internet. It's give the few a very big voice and a very big audience to reach out too.
Hold on. There’s censorship - from powerful people who can control your ability to speak - and there’s “I said/did something thoughtless” and people reacted in a less-than-receptive way. If you’re conflating the two, you fundamentally misunderstand free speech.
America baby
Holy smokes, this really got people fired up
For example?
PD1, I think that’s a false equivalency. Christians have benefits many other stereotyped groups don’t. They are in the majority, and enjoy freedoms and protections smaller groups are denied, or have to really fight for.
For the same reason i cringe at privileged protests like All Lives Matter or Thin Blue Line, I don’t my bend myself into a pretzel trying to provide Christians the exact same empathy I reserve for groups without easy access to massive cultural and political power.
Its exhausting.
People complaining about ads is what exhausts you?
Offence is a relative thing. Just because one is offended doesn't mean the world has to care. The same as a perceived victim does not have to care about a perceived perpetrator. No one has to care about anything if they don't want to. It's called free will. Machines are programmed to care about certain things, they lack free will.