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  • sweep
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    Arab-Americans not happy with Super Bowl commercial
    I dont get it....
    Arab-American groups calling Coca-Cola Super Bowl ad racist



    Found 4 hours ago on NESN.com:
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    Via NESN:
    What happens when you mix a thirsty group of cowboys, a bus full of showgirls, maniacal Mad Max characters and an Arab walking camels through a desert?
    The folks at Coca-Cola call it a commercial. Arab-American groups, however, call it racist, according to NBCNews.com.
    Abed Ayoub, director of legal and policy affairs of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), is unhappy with this particular multimillion-dollar Super Bowl ad, asking: ”What message is Coke sending with this?
    “By not including the Arab in the race, it is clear that the Arab is held to a different standard when compared to the other characters in the commercial,” he says.
    The ADC, which made headlines back in 1992 when it complained that lyrics in the animated film Aladdin were racist, isn’t alone.
    “The Coke commercial for the Super Bowl is racist, portraying Arabs as backward and foolish ‘Camel Jockeys,’ and they have no chance to win in the world,” Imam Ali Siddiqui, president of the Muslim Institute for Interfaith Studies, said in an email to NBCNews.com.
    CBS, which is airing the Super Bowl on Sunday, declined to comment on situation.
    Coca-Cola spokeswoman Lauren Thompson emailed NBCNews.com, explaining that “Coca-Cola is an inclusive brand enjoyed by all demographics. We illustrate our core values, from fun and refreshment to happiness, inspiration and optimism across all of our marketing communications.”
  • Mikail
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    #2
    "Towel heads" What kind of low life bigot are you?
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    • William Walters
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      #3
      Fukkin --- need to worry more about slapping on some deodorant and making sure the Big Gulp cups are stocked and less about what commercials air during our Sunday entertainment.
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      • bill2266
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        #4
        they should be lucky they can watch the super bowl
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        • Bcatswin
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          #5
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          • sweep
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            #6
            had the #6 camel in this sprint...Lost by a turbin hair
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            • Seaweed
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              #7
              Sweeper your head is wanted in Saudi Arabia
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              • Jonah
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                #8
                Wow, that's a new one. Sounds a lot like " Mommy, I want to play too."

                Might have a point tho. I want to know why they had that camel being so stubborn?
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                • Huego
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                  #9
                  Originally posted by William Walters
                  Fukkin --- need to worry more about slapping on some deodorant and making sure the Big Gulp cups are stocked and less about what commercials air during our Sunday entertainment.
                  if you're going to be racist, atleast be accurate. Indians own 7-11s, not Arabs.
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                  • ahmiss
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                    #10
                    OH YAY so it's cool to be racist towards arabs now.... i might already be rethinking my membership on this website if the two idiots above me aren't reprimanded. Even if it ruffles a few feathers, scumbags like you need to be made to realize that your freedom of speech means shit when you start invoking wholesale castigation of a race of people, no matter how politically approved it might seem.
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                    • Jayvegas420
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                      #11
                      Originally posted by Huego
                      if you're going to be racist, atleast be accurate. Indians own 7-11s, not Arabs.
                      Trying to discredit a stereotype by using a stereotype....
                      Brilliantly obtuse
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                      • Jayvegas420
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                        #12
                        Originally posted by ahmiss
                        OH YAY so it's cool to be racist towards arabs now.... i might already be rethinking my membership on this website if the two idiots above me aren't reprimanded. Even if it ruffles a few feathers, scumbags like you need to be made to realize that your freedom of speech means shit when you start invoking wholesale castigation of a race of people, no matter how politically approved it might seem.
                        Been here ONE week, with "2" posts and is demanding reprimands & repercussions!
                        This thread has it all!
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                        • Easy-Rider 66
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                          #13
                          Originally posted by ahmiss
                          OH YAY so it's cool to be racist towards arabs now.... i might already be rethinking my membership on this website if the two idiots above me aren't reprimanded. Even if it ruffles a few feathers, scumbags like you need to be made to realize that your freedom of speech means shit when you start invoking wholesale castigation of a race of people, no matter how politically approved it might seem.
                          If you stay on this site, you are going to see plenty of race related verbiage.
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                          • ahmiss
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                            #14
                            dear dipshit, in-spite of what some ADL esque group dedicated to promoting racist division and providing fodder for simplistic, narrow minded idiots like you to make broad based sweeping assertions about a whole group of people, I, as an Arab, can give to penetrates about some commercial about some shitty soft drink. So please, stick your head out the window, and see, are there any Arabs out there decrying this commercial, did you actually meet any, you know, like in actual, real, life, who are offended by it? Or, does it only exist in your little spectra of a mind because you read it and speciously concluded that all Arabs are of this particular belief, even though the article specifies "Arab group"?
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                            • Jayvegas420
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                              #15
                              25 points to anyone who can tell me whose ghost account is ahmiss!
                              This is a real offer!
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                              • ahmiss
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                                #16
                                Originally posted by William Walters
                                Fukkin --- need to worry more about slapping on some deodorant and making sure the Big Gulp cups are stocked and less about what commercials air during our Sunday entertainment.
                                Hey dick, why don't you tell me what race you are so I can make some simple stereotypical jokes about you? Arab's don't stink, they also don't all look the same, have the same amount of body hair, or sweat glands. Also, as mentioned, Arab's don't work at 7/11, or any retail/service job for that matter, and if they did, it would more often be related to the fact they own the store. Unlike you, or your kind, Arab's are per capita more educated and monetarily successful than whatever demographic you come from, within appropriate nations. You're a backward idiot, and your days of use for the evil that you serve are numbered.
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                                • ahmiss
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                                  #17
                                  Originally posted by Jayvegas420
                                  Trying to discredit a stereotype by using a stereotype....
                                  Brilliantly obtuse
                                  actually, he wasn't necessarily trying to "use" the stereotype, just correcting the idiot that used it improperly.
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                                  • ahmiss
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                                    #18
                                    Originally posted by Jayvegas420
                                    Been here ONE week, with "2" posts and is demanding reprimands & repercussions!
                                    This thread has it all!
                                    i think your grasp of the broad view is off, perhaps you to came to this thread thinking to would partake in the kocsher racism fest? Racism is wrong, and should be punished, regardless of who points it out.
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                                    • ahmiss
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                                      #19
                                      Originally posted by Easy-Rider 66
                                      If you stay on this site, you are going to see plenty of race related verbiage.
                                      oh but hostile racist verbiage is ok, against arabs, of course. i wonder what would happen if one started a post with "blacks" or "jews" presuming those words aren't censored by this forum like so many others.
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                                      • Jayvegas420
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                                        #20
                                        You dont have to wonder.
                                        This forum is full of them.
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                                        • ahmiss
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                                          #21
                                          Originally posted by Jayvegas420
                                          You dont have to wonder.
                                          This forum is full of them.
                                          yea, it's a shame. Can't wait for internet related legislation to be passed. America needs a soviet style reality check. Let's hope Obama is the commie mozzzlim anti christ they make him out to be.
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                                          • Jayvegas420
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                                            #22
                                            Regulating free-speech might not be the best way to endorse your argument
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                                            • ahmiss
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                                              #23
                                              Originally posted by Jayvegas420
                                              Regulating free-speech might not be the best way to endorse your argument
                                              free speech comes with responsibilities. i can care less about the freedoms of those who abuse them. and what argument? pointing out saliently the wrongness of hate filled speech isn't a deplorable thing to do. defending racists, (for whatever reason), is.
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                                              • Jayvegas420
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                                                #24
                                                Don't know that I am defending racists as much as I am defending freedom of speech.
                                                And I don't know that there are any responsibilities attached to inalienable rights.
                                                Maybe with privliges, come responsibilities but, no one ever said that you needed to be responsible for what you say.
                                                You, as the respondent have the right to be offended or reply but, there is no rule that says you need to think before you speak.
                                                You must be new!
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                                                • Easy-Rider 66
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                                                  #25
                                                  Originally posted by ahmiss
                                                  oh but hostile racist verbiage is ok, against arabs, of course. i wonder what would happen if one started a post with "blacks" or "jews" presuming those words aren't censored by this forum like so many others.
                                                  Arabs are not talked about much on SBR. Do a search on blacks/Jewish and you will find a wealth of related posts. Can understand defending your people, but if you want to engage in some parts of this site you will need thicker skin.
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                                                  • ahmiss
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                                                    #26
                                                    Originally posted by Jayvegas420
                                                    Don't know that I am defending racists as much as I am defending freedom of speech.
                                                    And I don't know that there are any responsibilities attached to inalienable rights.
                                                    Maybe with privliges, come responsibilities but, no one ever said that you needed to be responsible for what you say.
                                                    You, as the respondent have the right to be offended or reply but, there is no rule that says you need to think before you speak.
                                                    You must be new!
                                                    well don't worry, rights are just ideas. Ignorance shouldn't be facilitated just because you perceive the concept of law a particular way. Inalienable rights don't exist, only in your beliefs. Nihilism is nicely disguised by pretending to be libertarian. LOL @ inalienable rights. If i had it my way, America would still have eugenics based laws. A rightly guided tyranny can be a good thing. Nihilism and apathy are not signs that a nation is progressive. You wish to tell yourself you are defending free speech, but in reality you're just a condescending, and most likely a hypocritical closet racist.
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                                                    • Easy-Rider 66
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                                                      #27
                                                      Originally posted by ahmiss
                                                      well don't worry, rights are just ideas. Ignorance shouldn't be facilitated just because you perceive the concept of law a particular way. Inalienable rights don't exist, only in your beliefs. Nihilism is nicely disguised by pretending to be libertarian. LOL @ inalienable rights. If i had it my way, America would still have eugenics based laws. A rightly guided tyranny can be a good thing. Nihilism and apathy are not signs that a nation is progressive. You wish to tell yourself you are defending free speech, but in reality you're just a condescending, and most likely a hypocritical closet racist.
                                                      Interesting that you mention Nihilism. The violence in the Middle East is an indication of that affliction. And of course the USA has it's problems with nihilism as well.
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                                                      • GOIRISH
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                                                        • darrell74
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                                                            #30
                                                            Originally posted by Easy-Rider 66
                                                            Interesting that you mention Nihilism. The violence in the Middle East is an indication of that affliction. And of course the USA has it's problems with nihilism as well.
                                                            the violence in the middle east, that just magically crops up with the creation of Israel, filled with puppet dictatorships, American backed death squads, etc.. despite the politically influenced violence, America still has more murders relating to petty things than the world, including the middle east, combined. You're a nation of ignoramuses, hence your comment. The middle east, a place where your tax dollars go towards utterly annihilating through direct, and proxy wars, is, and forever will be home to people who are infinitely more moral, family oriented, and peaceful than Americans in America: the nation that has been violent since day one, ever will be.
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                                                            • ahmiss
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                                                              #31
                                                              Originally posted by darrell74
                                                              yean i get that its a new thing for white racists to claim they are being victimized when people point out their racism.
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                                                              • Easy-Rider 66
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                                                                #32
                                                                Originally posted by ahmiss
                                                                the violence in the middle east, that just magically crops up with the creation of Israel, filled with puppet dictatorships, American backed death squads, etc.. despite the politically influenced violence, America still has more murders relating to petty things than the world, including the middle east, combined. You're a nation of ignoramuses, hence your comment. The middle east, a place where your tax dollars go towards utterly annihilating through direct, and proxy wars, is, and forever will be home to people who are infinitely more moral, family oriented, and peaceful than Americans in America: the nation that has been violent since day one.
                                                                Not surprised at your response. It looks as if you are the racist. Keep hating on USA and hopefully do not live in USA. Go ahead and blame all Middle East problems on the creation Of Israel. And forget about the gratuitous violence committed by some of your people. Watched part of the Fitna video and the violence was obscene. But then maybe that speaks your language.
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                                                                • Easy-Rider 66
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                                                                  AHmiss- Check out this thread. It would interesting to get your response.
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                                                                  • ahmiss
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                                                                    #34
                                                                    Originally posted by Easy-Rider 66
                                                                    Not surprised at your response. It looks as if you are the racist. Keep hating on USA and hopefully do not live in USA. Go ahead and blame all Middle East problems on the creation Of Israel. And forget about the gratuitous violence committed by some of your people. Watched part of the Fitna video and the violence was obscene. But then maybe that speaks your language.
                                                                    again, ignorance at its finest. How is criticizing a nation for it's political actions racist? It isn't, but to the ignoramus with no grasp on reality derived not through rational thought, but rather through a "fitna video", drawing specious conclusions, it must be. Yea, it isn't a stretch to assert that 500 years of peace being disrupted, coinciding exactly with the creation of Israel, and the various Arab republics, are related. But then again, I didn't blame all the problems on Israel, I blamed it in part on the creation of Israel, along with the Arab dictatorships, whom the Arabs had no say in the establishment of. As for those irrelevant fitna videos, I literally don't know what those are, nor do i care, as I come from Lebanon, and have just as many christians in my family as i do muslims. You see, all that religious fanaticism, ethnic/sectarian strife only exists in the falsely portrayed version of what the middle east is, by your education and media.
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                                                                    • Easy-Rider 66
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                                                                      #35
                                                                      Originally posted by ahmiss
                                                                      again, ignorance at its finest. How is criticizing a nation for it's political actions racist? It isn't, but to the ignoramus with no grasp on reality derived not through rational thought, but rather through a "fitna video", drawing specious conclusions, it must be. Yea, it isn't a stretch to assert that 500 years of peace being disrupted, coinciding exactly with the creation of Israel, and the various Arab republics, are related. But then again, I didn't blame all the problems on Israel, I blamed it in part on the creation of Israel, along with the Arab dictatorships, whom the Arabs had no say in the establishment of. As for those irrelevant fitna videos, I literally don't know what those are, nor do i care, as I come from Lebanon, and have just as many christians in my family as i do muslims. You see, all that religious fanaticism, ethnic/sectarian strife only exists in the falsely portrayed version of what the middle east is, by your education and media.


                                                                      Have to agree to a certain extent. Some of the info USA gets about the Middle East is propaganda. Think build up to the Iraq War and the rationale to invade Iraq.
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