Inappropriate Brainwashing.

[david small]

Ethnic group Population (2011) Percentage of total population[21]
White or White British: Total 55,010,359 87.1
Gypsy/Traveller/Irish Traveller: Total 63,193 0.1
Asian or Asian British: Indian 1,451,862 2.3
Asian or Asian British: Pakistani 1,174,983 1.9
Asian or Asian British: Bangladeshi 451,529 0.7
Asian or Asian British: Chinese 433,150 0.7
Asian or Asian British: Other Asian 861,815 1.4
Asian or Asian British: Total 4,373,339 7.0
Black or Black British: Total[note 1] 1,904,684 3.0
Mixed or Multiple: Total 1,250,229 2.0
Other Ethnic Group: Total 580,374 0.9
Total 63,182,178 100
Why are there so many black people in nearly every advertisement on TV?
This disproportionate ratio is blatantly misleading and displaying an agenda
Of intent that is discomfiting.

[Mamyalynne]

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Current Affairs may have been a better home for this David.

[Chinajan]

'an agenda of intent'

What does this mean please?

[naomi24]

Inappropriate brainwashing? Just wondering what appropriate brainwashing might be?

[Mamyalynne]

You might find reading this recent thread interesting David.

https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Media-and-TV/Question1754225.html

[gness]

You'd be much more relaxed, David if you could stop looking for colour and just saw people.

[Mamyalynne]

Yup.

[Chinajan]

Well said gness.

Simply a dog whistle.

[david small]

My point being the saturation of black people in all advertising gives the impression, one obviously intended, that we are a fully integrated country. Not so. There is racial diversity rampant, though unacknowledged in many strata of our society. But pretending it’s normalcy does not make it so. I just take issue with the unbalanced presentation.

[Mamyalynne]

As I said, read the linked thread - you have a soulmate in Espresso and a few others.

All side are shared there.

[THECORBYLOON]

As the percentage for black folk is only three percent, if there were ten folk in an advert, how many black folk would you allow, one or none?

Perhaps there would need to be different versions of every advert? Version A would have only non-black folk and Version B would have a black person replacing one of the non-black folk for example.

That way, they could show the two versions such that when the appearances are all added together, no more than three percent of the folk in them are black.

As this would have to be done for all the other minorities, there would need to be several versions of every advert.

[david small]

I posted in that link more than once Mamyalynne.
Don’t misunderstand me.I do not consider myself as racist. I just don’t like big brother spinning it’s deception so flagrantly. Controlling our perception of our society.

[david small]

Corbyloon. With such response I end participating in this post.

[naomi24]

For what it’s worth, David, I think you’re right,

[Mamyalynne]

I'm not calling anyone names - I just don't get it.

Like Gness, I see people on telly - I don't sit and count the tones and shades and jot down the numbers (would be tough anyway as I have partial sight).

Still, we all have different views, my point was that it's recently been debated on a very long thread in a more appropriate topic.

[Chinajan]

Prepared to be corrected, but I'm not aware of any rules that oblige advertisers to reflect the actual percentages of ethnic or racial origin in this country.

[naomi24]

You don’t sit and count the the tones mamyalynne, but other people do - which is why ITV have an accelerated diversity plan
and BBC have allocated £100m to increasing diversity. They’re counting the tones. David shouldn’t be criticised for telling the truth.

[Canary42]

"I'm not a racist" he says, then goes to great lengths to get some statistics in order to make a racist point. Blinkered.

[jno]

I'm not a racist but

[naomi24]

Canary, the truth might be unpalatable to you but racist it isn’t.

[naomi24]

you too, Jno.