The new John Lewis ad

[bitchstewie]

Jenny Tailor said:

In the ned ad "Together in Electric Dreams" is sung by Lola Young.

Doh!

[bitchstewie]

Had to fking happen.

John Lewis make big decision after racist abuse over Christmas advert

Makes you wonder what's wrong with some people.

[Johnnytheboy]

What was the big decision?

[shih tzu faced]

Johnnytheboy said:

What was the big decision?

My thoughts exactly.

Great that John Lewis have made a big decision, but what have they actually decided?

[bitchstewie]

Not really a fan of the weird headlines myself but I'd probably focus on this more than the headline.

"I think it’s shocking when you get that [racist abuse] and unfortunately you do get racist abuse on certain stuff. We have a duty of care and we would always take that [racist abuse] very seriously as a brand."

Or play dumb over the headline I guess.

[CoolHands]

Like the girl but I thought boy was overacting, as so often happens.

[shih tzu faced]

bhstewie said:

Not really a fan of the weird headlines myself but I'd probably focus on this more than the headline.

"I think it’s shocking when you get that [racist abuse] and unfortunately you do get racist abuse on certain stuff. We have a duty of care and we would always take that [racist abuse] very seriously as a brand."

Or play dumb over the headline I guess.

Yeah the headline is just bizarre.

Surely something like… New John Lewis Christmas Ad Generates Racial Abuse would be more fitting to the story?

[poo at Paul's]

bhstewie said:

Had to fking happen.

John Lewis make big decision after racist abuse over Christmas advert

Makes you wonder what's wrong with some people.

WTF are John Lewis doing, naming the actors reportedly getting abuse in that press release!

[dundarach]

poo at Paul's said:

bhstewie said:

Had to fking happen.

John Lewis make big decision after racist abuse over Christmas advert

Makes you wonder what's wrong with some people.

WTF are John Lewis doing, naming the actors reportedly getting abuse in that press release!

Getting more advertising exposure for their money?

[bitchstewie]

Don't think it's John Lewis naming them and it's an ad with tradition of being fairly high profile so they're hardly going to be anonymous.

And even then what on earth has it come to when child actors need "protecting" from knuckle draggers?

[TTmonkey]

John Lewis. The most ‘white’ shop around.

[Johnnytheboy]

TTmonkey said:

John Lewis. The most ‘white’ shop around.

No, that's White Stuff.

[Oilchange]

Good ad, bit soppy but I like that kind of thing and she looks a bit like Winona Ryder who I'm a big fan of.
Well done JL

[Leon R]

bhstewie said:

Don't think it's John Lewis naming them and it's an ad with tradition of being fairly high profile so they're hardly going to be anonymous.

And even then what on earth has it come to when child actors need "protecting" from knuckle draggers?

Welcome to the Internet.

[Common Porpoise]

El stovey said:

That new advert is disgusting, pushing the usual lefty mainstream media sneering agenda!

1 All the british in it are black
2 The young alien isn’t obviously male or female pushing women transgender bias
3 The alien is white and the boy is black promoting mixed race couples and possibly all kinds of woke sexuality issues.
4 The liberal bias msm woke lefty message about aliens being good when we know they’re usually terrorists wanting free stuff
5 Plus is the crash is false advertising as it doesn’t specifically say that John Lewis mince pies won’t help you repair a spaceship
6 The advert is also pushing toxic misogynistic messages making out the female crashed the spaceship and needs the male character to feed her, this is true as I read it on mumsnet
7 Clearly woke lefties are trying to ban traditional british values and Christmas with their marxist multiracial agenda.

You missed the rainbow trail from the spacecraft!!

[TTmonkey]

Johnnytheboy said:

TTmonkey said:

John Lewis. The most ‘white’ shop around.

No, that's White Stuff.

Went there recently. No white stuff.

[Countdown]

poo at Paul's said:

bhstewie said:

Had to fking happen.

John Lewis make big decision after racist abuse over Christmas advert

Makes you wonder what's wrong with some people.

WTF are John Lewis doing, naming the actors reportedly getting abuse in that press release!

What’s wrong with naming them?

[230TE]

bhstewie said:

Had to fking happen.

John Lewis make big decision after racist abuse over Christmas advert

Makes you wonder what's wrong with some people.

Hmm. The JL ad popped up this morning on my FB feed as a sponsored post and I had a look at the comments to see what people made of it. Most seemed to think it was either very good or a bit meh, with some criticism of the music. No racism evident, so either JL's moderators were zapping it the moment it got posted, or this story is just an attempt to stir things up and get people talking about the ad. In which case it seems to have worked.

Big business manipulating your emotions for financial gain, Stewie. It's a nasty world we live in.

[hyphen]

JohnLewis from that article said:

We didn’t have any prescriptive points of view. We wanted to represent a modern Britain, quite frankly, and that’s our customer base.

Think they are confused about their customer base - Their shops are full of old white people

[abzmike]

TTmonkey said:

Johnnytheboy said:

TTmonkey said:

John Lewis. The most ‘white’ shop around.

No, that's White Stuff.

Went there recently. No white stuff.

White Company is the whitest shop of all…