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Apple Pulls Latest Ad After Criticism Over Depiction of Thailand
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So now would be a bad time to say that US flag is actually a crypto-colonial flag as far as the "symbols and signs" are concerned?
People don't "have to" pay attention to the "symbols and signs"(and how the things are presented) but it does help if you want to understand the world a little bit better.
I can't believe how tone deaf some people can be. They're the sort who pulls a stupid prank that offends the one being prank. But somehow they get offended because the one being pranked got upset. "It was a joke. It's only a prank." Yeah right.
It's a prank if the victim thinks it's okay or funny. If they're offended, it's bullying. Apple managed to offend an entire nation. That's beyond bullying, it's an international incident.😑
It's a prank if the victim thinks it's okay or funny. If they're offended, it's bullying. Apple managed to offend an entire nation. That's beyond bullying, it's an international incident.😑
Not to mention that this is advertising. The point is to improve sentiment and drive sales. If it offends people, regardless of if others like it, it’s failing to do its job and should be pulled. I assume many of the people defending the ad are also the “Apple should just leave the EU” people though, i.e. not the people you should turn to for business advice.I can't believe how tone deaf some people can be. They're the sort who pulls a stupid prank that offends the one being prank. But somehow they get offended because the one being pranked got upset. "It was a joke. It's only a prank." Yeah right.
It's a prank if the victim thinks it's okay or funny. If they're offended, it's bullying. Apple managed to offend an entire nation. That's beyond bullying, it's an international incident.😑
What? Hahah that's ridiculous. That's like saying Americans are bullying Japanese people because they put cream cheese in sushi.
Just because you're offended doesn't make you in the right.
Wes Anderson, for one, needs to be held to account over this. Most of his films urgently need to be edited and re-graded to remove offensive colour filters, much like Disney have been editing their old films to remove smoking.
“yellow filter” is the new “blackface” and filmmakers need to take ownership of this problem and make amends before they get cancelled!
I was shocked when I first visited America and discovered it didn’t look anything like “South Park”. It’s amazing how different countries can be in real life compared to fictional portrayals.
? Did you just compare an Apple advert to a comedy show? 😬🤦♂️
I wonder what would happen if we had real problems to focus on…
Sometimes there is a gritty reality problem that exists and people like to hide it.
I was shocked years ago at the number of beggars living on the streets in San Francisco.
War vets often let down by an expensive health care system and forgotten by those they served.
Should we never show the bad and try to change things?
I've been to Thailand.
Like everywhere, there are good and bad elements.
There's a huge industry in sex workers there and people exploiting them.
There's also some amazing hotels, shopping centres, food and natural beauty.
And some people need to look up the definition of "bullying"...
I was shocked years ago at the number of beggars living on the streets in San Francisco.
War vets often let down by an expensive health care system and forgotten by those they served.
Should we never show the bad and try to change things?
I've been to Thailand.
Like everywhere, there are good and bad elements.
There's a huge industry in sex workers there and people exploiting them.
There's also some amazing hotels, shopping centres, food and natural beauty.
And some people need to look up the definition of "bullying"...
Perhaps do some research on what happens in Thailand if you dare make a sideways criticism of the Royal Family...
The Apple "ad" is a comedy too. It's a 10-minute short comedy film, part of a long-running series called "The Underdogs".
Having watched the whole thing, I think people are really getting the wrong idea about it from the short edited version posted here. Things go comedically wrong at the beginning for the characters (they're on a business trip to Thailand to find suppliers for their business), but in the end it all works out and makes Thailand look very professional: their Thai business partners really come through and solve all their problems (along with some help from Apple technologies, of course!)
The Executive Hotel looked like a 5 star hotel, and the factory where they produced the boxes looked better than any factory I've personally been in and did the job in a timeline that would be beyond impressive in North America.
Did you watch the actual 10 minute ad by Apple, or just the 2 minute video by the Bangkok Post (not by Apple)?
We do have real problems to focus on. These are just cartoon diversions designed to distract us from them.
You don't expect anyone to bother Googling freedom of expression in Thailand, do you?
That's not bullying, that a crime against good cuisine.🤮 I'm not going to gatekeep food. Still, some food is uniquely American: deep fried Twinkies/Mars bar🤢, what passes for chocolate😬, orange plastic "cheese".🤭
I'm not offended. The Thai tourism people and a lot of the population is offended.
If I tell a joke at someone else expense and they find it highly offensive, I don't double down and claim that they're too sensitive. I would make amends immediately. Otherwise, I just be the . in (_!_). Doubly so if I double down.
OK I looked it up:You don't expect anyone to bother Googling freedom of expression in Thailand, do you?
"Whoever defames, insults or threatens the King, the Queen, the Heir-apparent or the Regent, shall be punished with imprisonment of three to fifteen years." As lèse-majesté is one of the offences relating to the security of the kingdom, according to Section 7 of the Thai Criminal Code.
The deep fried Mars bar is Scottish! Talk about misrepresentation! Careful or you will end up cancelled.
Apple removed the ad, they didn't double down. Unfortunately, that just leaves the edited version on the Bangkok Post that doesn't show the part with the world class factory that the Americans couldn't find in the USA, the whole reason the Underdogs went to Thailand.
Their follow up ad should be a callback where they decide it isn't worth the effort to travel outside the USA to find a better factory ("Remember what happened last time?") and they just stay in the USA and wait for a longer turnaround. It would be boring, but more realistic, and that seems to be what the people demand, and would create more American jobs.
I understand Thais to be honest, their country is pretty much KNOWN as a run-down, poor, third-world sex-tourism destination, with every woman being a hooker and every other guy a tranny - I capitalize "known" because I mean to say "known" with or without regard to the actual state of affairs. It is one thing to be stereotyped like this by private individuals, and another – by the massive tech giant which is Apple.
Yeah, Human Rights Watch seemed to be concerned about it actually being used quite a few times. Maybe it isn't a concern anymore.
Wow. I provided a link to the actual ad, but now I want a link to the one you saw. It sounds unbelievable.