Mark’s Soap Box

Geez, this is so stupid. You people who think you are “victims” need to grow up. Pepsi sent out emails about an ad they were running that was targeted toward the deaf/hearing impaired/hard of hearing/etc… Someone is now offended they were not paid to run the ad on their website, because this person says it is taking advantage of the deaf community.

Pepsi is evil, says dense person

Pepsi Super Bowl Ad Exploits Deaf and Hard of Hearing

Well gosh, this must be stopped, right now; or should it? Was it really “exploitation” or just another whiner looking to complain more than they already do? It’s the latter.

Pepsi’s marketing people recently released a video of their upcoming Super Bowl ad called, Bob’s House. Based on a joke within the culturally deaf community, (as opposed to the hearing impaired community they mentioned in their email) the ad is performed in sign language and elicited a chuckle from me and anyone else I told about it. Unlike many deaf bloggers, I purposely did not post the video online at HearingExchange. Quite honestly, I was put off by the audacity of their strategy for free publicity.

What was the dirty little trick Pepsi played on these poor hapless victims? They gave them free content to put on their website. Content that would attract viewers. The offense was not offering to pay them to run it. Oh the horrors, the inhumanity. It’s unreal.

But Pepsi, don’t you think you should compensate deaf and hard of hearing bloggers and website owners if they agree to put your ad videos up on their sites for all of their readers to see?

Unbelievable. Get a life, people. Pepsi did nothing wrong here, and only the most dense individual, OR the most pathetic attention seeking whore (ASW in net lingo) would post this kind of garbage. Then again maybe it is someone who must keep the victims believing they are victims and can only be saved by this one person.

Here is the ad, so you can judge for yourself. It is funny.

You are not a victim

They did not put a gun to your head. They gave you free content to attract attention to your website/blog/whatever. Yet, your response is to use their name and promotion as a way to promote your victimology and further hold back the people you claim to support. Pathetic, and quite frankly disgusting.

I wish she would explain why people taking advantage of free content OF THEIR OWN VOLITION is Pepsi taking advantage of those people. The only way you can say that is if you feel those people are not capable of making decisions on their own — typical liberal attitude –, and you must run to their rescue to save them. How the hell does that help those people? Insulting people and treating them as children — which is what the victimology pushers believe about all of us — is not only offensive, disgusting, and arrogant; it’s counter-productive.

Why don’t you be productive

The pushers of victimology must keep those they say they protect feeling inadequate in order to keep their own cause alive. That cause is NOT helping the “victims” but keeping their own “power trip” alive, and usually some cheese-ball organization of which they reap significant economic benefit. Like Jesse Jackson and he is shake down apparatus called “The Rainbow Coalition”.

If their “victims” figure out they are not really victims, then the pushers lose all value, and thus lose all their power. Pathetic.

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