Marks and Spenser Christmas advert
Doing its best to provoke
a boycott?
Have the ad
agencies who work for the big retail corporations learnt nothing? With Bud
Light using a Trans "woman" to advertise its beer and Target in the
USA trying to saturate its stores with rainbow Alphabet People clothes, then
having to contend with an almost apocalyptic loss of customers, we now have the
big stores with huge budget Christmas advert mini films that appear to try and
trash Christmas.
Perhaps the worst of these is the Marks and Spenser Christmas ad for 2023; it has nothing to do with Christianity, nothing to do with the birth of Christ, all to do with trashing Christmas as a Christian religious feast and, what is more surprising, trashing secular Christmas as well. The 'inclusive, diverse' actors got the message across spectacularly that this is a horrible time of the year, and they are bored with it. They look like they hate it, throwing Christmas games away, setting gift tabs on fire, taking a Christmas toy, Father Christmas, and whacking it with a stick. We see women drinking and getting drunk while white heterosexual men are absent, as are children.
However, Marks and Spenser did
apologize, but not for what you think. Was it for making such a miserable
advent? No. Was it for completely ignoring Christianity? No. Was it for
violently attacking Christmas toys, showing unhappy women getting drunk? No. It
was (and this is entirely ridiculous) for showing Christmas cracker hats in the
fire just because they were red, green, and white in colour. The hats you see
are the colour of the Palestinian flag, and some idiots thought that it was
anti-Palestinian! The fact that the Italian and Mexican flags are also the same
colours and they are also colours associated with Christmas was missed by these
idiots. So Marks issued the most obsequious apology one could imagine and
deleted the clip. The Waitrose Christmas ad is no better; no children, no
Christianity, no old people, just a bunch of diverse fat morons stuffing
themselves. Only Lidil dares show a happy white family (with children) enjoying
a traditional Christmas. Well, I know where I will be shopping this Christmas,
and it will not be at Marks and Spenser!
Not having a television I cannot check this. The Asda Christmas ad for some reason popped up in my Facebook feed. I watched it once. As far as I recall I did not notice a single reference to alcohol (a staple of the secular Christmas) nor even see a single bottle. Further, occasionally listening to the establishment safety valve which is Talk Radio I have heard a number of Asda ads through the months. I have never heard any of them mention alcohol.( I am no fan of alcohol but it is of course a staple of supermarkets' turnover and advertising.) You do not need me to tell you who are now the owners of Asda; hence, if I am correct in my impressions, a further Muslim tenet is now being quietly established, probably with no discussion or comment allowed.
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