Oh God. Another advertiser has caved to bigotry and pulled their advertising from “All-American Muslim.”
They’ve posted this apology.
Source: twitpic.com
I’m sort of middle grounded in this instance of ad pulling. It doesn’t seem to stem out of bigotry. In principle, the show is good because it attempts to destroy stereotypes, but if a show sucks and doesn’t get views, then it isn’t profitable for a company to buy ad space for it. While I agree that what the show is trying to do is noble, perhaps they aren’t going at it the right way. Viewers like drama, and if All-American Muslims fails to deliver, then it won’t do good. I personally had no idea that the show existed until Lowes pulled advertising. The fact is that it was probably a better idea to run it as a news report, rather than a full season of showing. And even then, similar news stories have been attempted, but their problem is that once they were put out, they were seen by few who actually had a bigoted opinion. Judging by comments made on the Fox News Website, Fox should be the ones to run an All-American Muslim news report. My fear with that is that Fox would over-sensationalize it, as they do with most things. To sum it up for anybody who posts tl;dr — If a show sucks, and a company decides to pull advertising because it sucks, then all is fair. If a company decides to pull advertising because they feel it does not portray the stereotypical image of a group of people, then they deserve a massive drop in sales.
They should just lie and say they’re pulling their adds because the show sucks. No one would dispute that.
I’m not sure if I even have this channel, but the show seems like a great idea in principle. People fear the unfamiliar and often therefore hate it for no other reason. If you demystify it, it’s not such a big deal anymore. Gay people, midgets, other marginalized groups. If you see them on TV doing normal stuff, they just turn into people, or rather they stop seeming like whatever other nonperson thing you vaguely thought they were, and you can just go on with your life without any particular need to think of them as different in a meaningful way. If people can see American Muslims just doing the daily mundane things that everybody does, that’ll be a good thing. You wouldn’t think this would be compelling tv, but we have hit shows about storage units. The advertising controversy will be the less important issue longer term compared to the normalizing effect of the show (if it doesn’t suck like this guy says, that is).
FAIL FAIL FAIL A MILLION TIMES FAIL!! WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE??? WAY TO PROMOTE FEAR AND BIGOTRY. GAH! I CAN’T WAIT FOR DECEMBER 21 2012 NOW. STUPID HUMANS
OHHH NOOO! I didn’t mean to press “win”…I was thinking of how there should be a “sad” button and in my head that would be a “win” so i pressed “win” :(
“content” about regular people who just happen to be Muslim? So much fail, I can’t even. It shocks me that such public hatred is still being perpetrated in this country. Have we learned nothing?
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