Absolut Revanchism
Explained by the L.A. Times. (HT: Lawrence Auster.)
Update: It appears that this is all over the internet. Absolut's website features a ridiculous "explanation", and pages of very angry comments by people who've heard of the campaign. A sample:
"In an Absolut world, Sweden is a province of Nazi Germany."Another update: Marc comments:
" Prior to your disgraceful advertising campaign, there were more American Absolut drinkers than the entire population of Mexico. Now, the two or three Americans who will still drink your product can split the last bottle you ever sell in the USA. Now that you've shot yourself in the foot, what's next? Cut off your nose to spite your face?"
"Okay, as a white American I think this country was more ideal back before we opened the floodgates to non-Europeans in the 1960's and this country went from being 90% white to being about half white.
So can I get an ad catering to my "white sensibilities" saying, "In an Absolut world..." and showing a country populated by nothing but blonde-haired, blue eyed, happy white children? It can have a token African-American if you insist, setting the table or something. This ad doesn't have to advocate any particular immigration policy, or lend support to anti-minority sentiment. It would just hearken to a time that I, as a white American, feel was more ideal.
I'm waiting for my ad!"
Labels: Immigration, Latin America
posted by Dennis Mangan @ 9:28 PM
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13 Comments:
The reconquista right in our faces and I'm sure no outrage will arise from this.
For the record: Absolut vodka sucks. Stoly is much better
bah, vodka is just gin with much of the pleasure taken out.
FWIW, here's my comment on their site. :-)
"Okay, as a white American I think this country was more ideal back before we opened the floodgates to non-Europeans in the 1960's and this country went from being 90% white to being about half white.
So can I get an ad catering to my "white sensibilities" saying, "In an Absolut world..." and showing a country populated by nothing but blonde-haired, blue eyed, happy white children? It can have a token African-American if you insist, setting the table or something. This ad doesn't have to advocate any particular immigration policy, or lend support to anti-minority sentiment. It would just hearken to a time that I, as a white American, feel was more ideal.
I'm waiting for my ad!"
I wonder how long they'll keep it up.
Marc: Lawrence Auster just posted your comment on his blog: http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/010305.html
Great comment; I completely agree with the sentiment expressed - though the African-American could be a basketball player, or Thomas Sowell, or something.
Dennis: I think Marc pee'd on himself, with that cheap shot at Blacks. 'Ideal' that I am setting his table? He can KMBA. Why cheapen a good point in such a way? I give you credit for trying to clean him up, but I think you are wasting your time.
Dennis and others,
Dont forget Absolut Vodka. Lets not buy it, lets tell people about it every time vodka comes up in converstation, lets not let them forget the ad. In short, lets boycott it forever and RUIN the company. There are plenty of other brands.
Boycotts work. There is no "Im sorry" that will make up for this. The Swedes at Absolut have played their hand, now lets play ours and put them out of business.
Anon: I'm all for it - though since Absolut is a pretentious, expensive brand which appeals to the self-consciously hip, I never drank it. (And I agree with dearieme above on the merits of vodka vs. gin.) However, and this seems appropriate, Absolut is now owned not by the Swedes, but by a French company, Pernod Ricard.
http://www.usatoday.com/money/
industries/food/2008-03-31-absolut
-sold_N.htm
I doubt if we'll need a boycott really. Pernod's products are already history in the U.S.
Think everyone is overreacting. Don't see any problem at all with the ad. Another example of over sensitivity. Why must everything be politically correct? Everyone should take the advice dished out to blacks when they complain about racism (eg. a white person doing blackface) Lighten up!!! Learn to laugh!!! Don't be so sensitive!!!
Liking it under Muslim rule over there, are you nona?
Sweden is swamped with illiterate barbarous immigrants from the third world. Down she sinks under the gang violence and rape.
Absolut is now pro-poverty. By shrinking the first world and enlarging the third world, they give poverty a huge boost.
Yeah, guys, lighten up and let violence and poverty take over, like Nona says.
One contrary point of reference to Al Fin's lament.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/07/09/news/gangs.php
It seems the Swedes have imported a few US biker gang franchises to liven things up.
The immigrant profiled did not seem too 'illiterate or barbarous', and if you have had the food, outside help is not a bad idea.
James,
I threw the comment about the African-American in there because I felt it would be unfair to blacks to not include them in the pre-1965 America, seeing as to how they have been in this counry from the beginning. I had him setting the table to highlight both how offensive some people's historical fantasies can be to others, and how arbitrary is Absolut's choice regarding whose fantasies to indulge. I see now that it comes across as a cheap shot against blacks (who had nothing to do with this ad), and for that I'm genuinely sorry.
Wonderful how the bottle is perched so lovingly on Venezuela.
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