Porsche removes religious statue from ad.
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"but why do you Christians have to post your Christian stuff on muh
videogamesnerdy culture war board"I have no issues with discussing things like media groups trying to push 1984-style historical rewriting and exposing the subversive nature that... ahem... some groups are trying to push.
I just hate moralfagging and talking about how "Jesus is just the greatest" because it's ultimately a circle jerk that says nothing interesting.
Not just "a religious statue," THE Jesus statue. I dare you to name a more iconic Jesus statue.
EDIT: I thought this was the Brazilian statue for some reason.
Yeah, I'd say Christo Redemptor is probably more iconic, but the statues are similar.
Oh, wait, so that wasn't the statue in question? Goddamn, I'm an idiot.
This is why I don't make comments on the internet for the first 2 hours after waking up.
So the Lisbon one came after the one in Rio..?
Historically, that is… Ironic.
Though considering the history of the Portuguese Empire (inc. the Royal Family fucking off to Brazil to avoid riots at home, iirc), perhaps that is… Appropriate, somehow.
Depending on how specific you want to be, "stuff" coming back from the colonies is the point. Even ideas. Like, there wasn't much of an appetite for tobacco before the colonies. Europeans picked that habit right up.
They can’t have the Jesus statue in the commercial for a few seconds? Wow
Regressives don't (or can't) distinguish between depiction and endorsement. It's why the film Joker was so controversial with them even though he's supposed to be a fucking villain, why they get so upset over swastikas and even the Iron Cross in video games, and why they're so focused on "representation" in media.
Obviously, I'm not comparing the statue to these things. But you can bet the statue was removed because they didn't want to be seen as endorsing Christianity by virtue of depicting a real place the way it actually is.
Of all the lame excuses...
The statue doesn't just 'not appear,' it was obviously intentionally edited out.
That and the bit about this being "an early version" (as if that's an excuse) are such bullshit. Sure, they spent the time carefully editing the statue out without the intent for that to be the final product.
I guess it's just so unfinished that they forgot to edit it back in.
Yep. Way back in ye olden times I worked for an IT firm that installed a large SAN for a big name advertising agency. While I was hanging out doing performance testing I talked to a couple of the video editors and they showed me a their edit sheets.
A lot of the editing notes from their Don Draper types were kind of hilariously mean spirited. They wanted all the ugly, fat and "too ethnic" looking people brushed out.
Stuff like "36 seconds - get rid of the fat fuck with sagging pants". Literally every pixel in a million dollar campaign is scrutinized over and over (and over) again. I guarantee that someone high up the food chain said something like "lose the fucking Jesus statue".
I have some sympathy for them not wanting to include a religious symbol in material that might air in any given region. It's not their fault people get butthurt about that. OTOH the way to do that is not to edit a fucking landmark out of a city. Technology has made this, perhaps, too easy. In another time, they would have been forced to just pick a different shot.
"Mistakes were made."
You made a mistake.
"No no no, mistakes were made. By themselves. Just like that. It's magic!"
It's really just a "sorry you were offended" type of response.
Interesting experience but how would you know? Lol
Can you elaborate? "working professionals" and "trad Christians" are exclusive groups as worded.
I wouldn't be surprised if Porsche customers are just atheist but literally all of them?
I don't think you should be downvoted but I think people are challenging how you determined who was a trad Christian. Based on language or dress or what?
Thanks, that's a pretty cool job. Porches are fantastic cars. I'd love to get one someday somehow, but for now I'm cool with my eternal subaru build.
I would most likely fall into the daily driver class but I'm not sure if my current shop thinks I'm Christian. I had bluetooth autoplay on as my car was getting backed out of the garage and it snapped onto a Halloween loveline episode of the Red Scare podcast at the point some moron call-in was literally talking about getting his dick wet (which I had no idea that episode was going in that direction) and the mechanic got out of the car like the seat was made of lava. I had no idea until I got in and shut the door. Some things you can't really explain lol, you just have to hope they forget.
You see how you had to insert the unnecessary "trad" label in there?
That's how we can smell your bias that makes your position untrustable.
It wasn't required to be used at all, regardless of gayhomo pastors. It makes no sense to do so, other than to associate them with the cringe "trad" movement for the purpose of mockery.
Its the entire reason why an interesting bit of context from a lived experience has instead been disregarding and downvoted.
Hey are you aware that Jap is just the shortened version of Japanese, but it also was a major "slur" during WW2 that people still get up in arms about?
Hey did you know "alt-right" just stands for alternative right wing and literally anything else you take from the label "alt-right" is wrong? It has no further connotations when anyone uses it at all!
Damn homie, I'm comforted to know that the brain quality in car shops stays the same from ultra rich Porsche ones as it is in rusty shitcan ones.
I would say the chances of there being a huge difference between your experience and that of, say, Porsche in Germany/any other largely Catholic country in Europe would be quite high…
But that’s kind of beside the point.
Suggesting Porsche owners is implicitly hate Christianity by default is pretty damn amusing, though, I’ll give you that much…
"Remember, if you truly love baby Jesus you will never let your cheeks rest in the devilwagon that is a Porsche" -pastors every third Sunday, allegedly
Your point?
I know it can't possibly be as dumb as Christians don't buy Porsches because that is easily disproven.
Like we're in the low-power zone of some Matrix ...
https://media.tenor.com/RhC_Pzy6A5cAAAAd/rick-and-morty-looking-good.gif
Seems full-arsed to me.
Had to be intentional, either by woke PR department to thumb their nose at anybody that actually recognized it and cared or intended to stir up controversy and get the company talked about.
One side says "time to boycott wokeness again... but they pulled it so they're ok" and the other side "at least they tried to shit on Christians too bad they didn't go through with it", and they all have the company in their mind now.
Yeah, some marketing snobs are circle jerking how clever they are that they got so many eyes on that add now.
It may be a deliberate jab rather than half assed, maybe they wanted rub it in people's faces that they hate them and want to remove every trace of them from history, so they make it obvious why they removed it by being very specific about what part they removed.
They were hoping that people were so used to current architecture being so dog shit that a massive, concrete monolith sticking out like a giant cock wouldn't seem out of place.
Or, as I posted elsewhere, the fires of Rio and Notre Dame…
Or like, the commies literally destroying churches (first USSR, and then obviously China, where that still happens. Also Vietnam…).
Also, fucking ISIS at Palmyra et al. Or the Saudis doing the same across Arabia…
I’d say that’s all obviously worse. But nonetheless, yeah.