Reform MP Sarah Pochin says it ‘drives me mad seeing adverts full of black and Asian people’

19 comments

1. Stuart doesn’t like minorities it seems 

2. Another “it’s not racist to be be racist” racist. When will these cowards just come out and admit it? The farcical attempt to pretend this party isn’t just idiot gutter racists and moronic public school tories in a different colour tie is wearing graphine thin.

3. Seeing Reform MPs on TV drives me mad

4. So she’s a racist then

5. Lmfao

6. Imagine letting the shade of someone’s skin bother you that much.

7. Weird how this not racist party keeps attracting people who constantly say and do racist things. Oh well, better not look into this any deeper.

8. she’s got a point to be honest

9. The point where you don’t even think about that is the point you are not a racist.

10. Like damn 

11. There is a wider context that might get lost within the battle off narratives, which is black people ARE significantly overrepresented in TV adverts (50%) than the population average (4%).

    It’s a strange phenomenon.

    The second point relates to how ethnic minority individuals on TV are portrayed compared with white individuals. Often, white males are portrayed as stupid or bad. The Maltesers advertisement is a good example of the former. On the other hand, it’s very rare ethnic minorities will be portrayed in either of these categories, which makes TV more predictable and boring.

12. Its woke nonsense we are a white country, the reason these companies choose to target there products towards the minority of people is fear

13. Well she should stop looking at adverts then. Normal people don’t even bother to notice adverts, let alone care about the skin colour of the participants.

14. Zia Yusuf, where are you?

15. Reformer and being a vile subhuman racist cunt, name a more perfect pairing.

16. I’m glad I can just watch TV without getting mad about what colour people are.

17. Minorities in adverts drives her mad? In adverts.

18. Isn’t she nice 

19. I don’t know about “drives me mad,” but you could say that the commercial media likes to use disproportionately large numbers of non-white actors, and that sometimes isn’t very fair, and it’s virtue signalling.

    Casting actors is one of the very rare situations where picking people for ethnicity is sometimes necessary, because you may need two people to look like family. The thing is in any one situation you’re not casting ten ads, you’re casting one. You might decide to deliberately pick non-white cast for political reasons, and that might be fine. The problem is that if another fifty production companies are doing exactly the same thing at the same time, you end up with the status quo we have now where the conspicuous diversity is, well, pretty conspicuous. It’s not as if anyone’s deliberately coordinating it, but it’s hard to deny it’s happening and that everyone knows it.

    My username tells you what I do for a living and I’ve been in the meetings where this stuff happens. I wish it weren’t because it really does give people like reform ammunition.

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