Volkswagen Backtracks On New Golf 8 Ad As Racist - What Does This Tell You?

Volkswagen Backtracks On New Golf 8 Ad As Racist - What Does This Tell You?
A bizarre, racist video promoting Volkswagen's new Golf 8 made its way to the company's Instagram page ... so the German car company's saying sorry for what it calls an "insult to every decent person."

The ad -- which has been pulled, but not before spreading and being slammed on social media -- shows a black man being forced away from a parked VW by an oversized white hand ... before he gets flicked into a restaurant called Petit Colon.

(click through to see the ad while is is still present)


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atc98092atc98092 - 5/21/2020 12:16:53 PM
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It tells me that someone did a poor job overseeing the ad agency, and perhaps never even previewed their work. Or the person did approve it, and will soon be looking for a job.


Dexter1Dexter1 - 5/22/2020 2:15:58 PM
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Obviously Trump approved this ad.


MDarringerMDarringer - 5/22/2020 2:54:12 PM
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Really? I thought the half-breed, racial token was behind it given that he starred in it.


trboaccordtrboaccord - 5/21/2020 1:01:23 PM
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tells me that people will make anything they possibly can offensive


USNA1999USNA1999 - 5/21/2020 1:17:52 PM
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Exactly!


mre30mre30 - 5/21/2020 3:33:19 PM
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Gee...a disgruntled and/or rogue employee at Volkswagon...quelle surprise (petit colon).

Wonder if they can even find out who did this? I'm sure this was the work of a few people on a team (who are NOT racist..BUT...) who have a NIGHTMARE boss and who are having a HUGE laugh right now as their boss gets in a lot of trouble for not checking the ad. There are probably 20 people who could have slipped in the wording sequencing but nobody is saying.

The moral of this story is slightly "don't be a racist"...but it is largely "don't be an as*hole boss because if your underlings hate you enough, they will take you DOWWWNNNN and you won't know what hit you."








MDarringerMDarringer - 5/21/2020 4:54:29 PM
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There is just no context where that is a commercial worthy of putting out to the public. If the premise is the big hand keeping the person away from the car, anyone with an ounce of common sense would know that the black/white portrayal was not only deeply racist but deeply offensive. But Germans love their cultural bigotry.


CANADIANCOMMENTSCANADIANCOMMENTS - 5/21/2020 6:29:09 PM
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Whoever is in charge of their Instagram account is likely going to be fired. This was an inside job. The footage, the words all racist from German slang. This had to be done to embarrass the firm. Heads will roll.


carloslassitercarloslassiter - 5/21/2020 7:38:06 PM
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On the other hand, it did succeed in getting 'Dieselgate' off the front page.


MDarringerMDarringer - 5/21/2020 9:38:38 PM
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Well, Carlitos, there is that I suppose. LOL


F1_DriverF1_Driver - 5/22/2020 5:31:49 PM
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Whoa! The leftist libturds/-turds are quite a touchy bunch. I wonder why the leftist agenda/motive keep on being shoved down our throat but anything else is deemed racist/offensive?


MDarringerMDarringer - 5/22/2020 5:36:32 PM
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The Alt-Left has an oral fixation.


MDarringerMDarringer - 5/23/2020 4:11:30 PM
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Actually, we now know what happened. This wasn't a VW ad. it was a Biden ad. The black guy got kicked because he "ain't black" but at least we know now that the entitled, white privilege Alt-Left thinks they get to determine who is black. To them, Kamala Harris is black even though she isn't. See how it works?
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