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Title: Cabela's Ad
Post by: Gym-Rat on May 17, 2022, 10:16:50 AM
 ;)
Title: Re: Cabela's Ad
Post by: robcguns on May 17, 2022, 10:19:30 AM
Hahaha there might be 20 black families that would spend a day at the lake and not shoot some people. What a crock of shit.
Title: Re: Cabela's Ad
Post by: Rambone on May 17, 2022, 10:38:50 AM
I love black only Subaru commercials that involve camping
Title: Re: Cabela's Ad
Post by: Gym-Rat on May 17, 2022, 10:39:47 AM
The real ad needs the fat, redneck guys, drinking beer, downing shots, smoking, etc.
This fakeness is comical..
Title: Re: Cabela's Ad
Post by: deadz on May 17, 2022, 11:11:18 AM
Bullshit ad! We know blacks don’t swim or camp. Come on man!
Title: Re: Cabela's Ad
Post by: Humble Narcissist on May 17, 2022, 12:46:28 PM
What is the point of advertising to a crowd that will never buy your products? Why be woke when it is no benefit?
Title: Re: Cabela's Ad
Post by: Dave D on May 17, 2022, 12:53:37 PM
What is the point of advertising to a crowd that will never buy your products? Why be woke when it is no benefit?

You don’t think black people wear life vests?


It’s a good question though; maybe the thought is if you push an idea long it will seem normal and then eventually you will have new customers?

Or use the black family to make boating cool and then whites and other groups will like boats?
Title: Re: Cabela's Ad
Post by: Humble Narcissist on May 17, 2022, 12:58:42 PM
You don’t think black people wear life vests?


It’s a good question though; maybe the thought is if you push an idea long it will seem normal and then eventually you will have new customers?

Or use the black family to make boating cool and then whites and other groups will like boats?
They better if they are on the lake because they sure don't swim. It is strange that black Americans aren't more into outdoor nature activities when they came from Africa which is about the most natural environment you can find.
Title: Re: Cabela's Ad
Post by: Dave D on May 17, 2022, 01:00:41 PM
They better if they are on the lake because they sure don't swim. It is strange that black Americans aren't more into outdoor nature activities when they came from Africa which is about the most natural environment you can find.

There are so many jokes.....
Title: Re: Cabela's Ad
Post by: ProudVirgin69 on May 17, 2022, 01:05:23 PM
I take it none of you have ever been to the Deep South, plenty of black folks that love hunting & fishing down there
Title: Re: Cabela's Ad
Post by: Gym-Rat on May 17, 2022, 01:22:25 PM
I take it none of you have ever been to the Deep South, plenty of black folks that love hunting & fishing down there

yes, but they dont look like the folks pictured in Cabela's ad...

(https://c8.alamy.com/comp/D6NHBC/black-man-holding-his-catch-while-fishing-for-mullet-on-the-stjohns-D6NHBC.jpg)
Title: Re: Cabela's Ad
Post by: obsidian on May 17, 2022, 02:41:23 PM
What is the point of advertising to a crowd that will never buy your products? Why be woke when it is no benefit?
They do it so they can get a higher ESG rating. This is now required for businesses to thrive.

Title: Re: Cabela's Ad
Post by: loco on May 17, 2022, 02:51:25 PM
Cabela crowds.  Find the black person.  You are more likely to find Waldo or Carmen Sandiego. 

(https://live.staticflickr.com/10/14034995_ab327b97aa_b.jpg)

(https://arc-anglerfish-arc2-prod-bostonglobe.s3.amazonaws.com/public/AUEKBVGRVQI6JMHRNKVSFZQLEQ.jpg)

(https://www.gannett-cdn.com/-mm-/a6560cc2b5fba5a9364a9e31d413fa4044ae9f2a/c=0-0-3261-1842/local/-/media/2015/08/20/Indianapolis/B9318530513Z.1_20150820163744_000_GKEBMAFQJ.1-0.jpg?width=660&height=373&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp)

(https://kubrick.htvapps.com/htv-prod-media.s3.amazonaws.com/ibmig/cms/image/wyff/25301676-25301676.jpg?crop=1xw:0.75000000000000000xh;center,top&resize=1200:*)

(https://www.denverpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/20130815__Thornton_crowd_cabelasp1-1.jpg?w=600)

(https://content.kgw.com/photo/2014/09/18/1411088394000-cabelas-rod-stevens_663627_ver1.0.jpg)

(https://rheareview.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/cabelas026.jpg)
Title: Re: Cabela's Ad
Post by: deadz on May 17, 2022, 02:52:51 PM
^  ;D
Title: Re: Cabela's Ad
Post by: Gym-Rat on May 17, 2022, 03:27:24 PM
^  ;D

Zactly, LOL...  :D
Title: Re: Cabela's Ad
Post by: beakdoctor on May 17, 2022, 04:48:58 PM
So, there is a massive corporate, media and, most important, government "push" for diversity.  Strike that. The new word is EQUITY. Equity essentially means treating certain people (or 'protected classes') with a preference and telling the remaining people that it is equality.

Equity is "leveling the playing field" in other words giving advantages to people who were historically at a disadvantage. They used to call it AFFIRMATIVE ACTION but that was struck down-rightfully so- as unconstitutional.  So now governments stress making decisions with an "equity lense" so most cities, governments, corporations, and organi!ations have whats called a "racial equity plan" as a work around. These plans favor just about anything that provides "opportunities " for historically disadvantaged people. Combined with totolitarian Harrassment and Desrimination rules that categorize everyone into a "protected class" it is the very definition of instituionalized racism. Although the forces involved will scream at the top of their lungs thats whites reap all the privileges of institutional racism nothing could be further from the truth.

But Why?

I dont know. But ill tell you how it gets done.

Take any failing organization, municipality or corporation and "incentivize" equity plans. What does that mean? Grant money. Any organization thats choking on a budget crisis (take police agencies for example since defunding is so popular) a large agency that is suffocating on expenses can apply to the federal government for grant money - provided that some or all of that money is used to hire, promote, advance, increase diversity and equity.

Grants exist for all reasons but progressing equity is a common theme. Further its "grant" is another word for "incentivizing" which is another word for coercion.

Don't want to go with the program? Don't need funding? Not buying the bullshit? Thats fine but its only a matter of time before a media source, that is in need of funding, targets you or your business and you wind up cancelled by the woke mob.

What you get is a police agency of POC and women
A swimsuit issue with a Buffalo on the cover, bonus points for mentioning its POC protected class
A man named as sportswoman of the year
Under reporting of the NY subway shooter and Wakesha sp.? Wisconsin racist christmas parade maniac
Over reporting of tge Buffalo shooter and Charlotte white nationalist assholes.
A tranny in chief and pronoun driven army

Etc etc ad nauseum.

Post Script:

Cabelas in all likelihood doesn't supply the creative content of tgeir ad campaign.

An ad firm like Weiden&Kennedy does.

Neither cabelas or weiden kennedy are recieving funding BUT uou can bet that Weidens group of talent and advertising creators are all recent graduates of liberal institutions (re:Colleges - that are also drowning in debt)that DID recieve such biased funding to push this insane and divisive agenda. So one way or another you end up with a polluted product.

Additionally POC's dont always benefit either: imagine being black AND being supremely qualified with appropriate experience for a position only to be stigmatized as "The Diversity hire." Nothing is more toxic to professional development.
Title: Re: Cabela's Ad
Post by: Walter Sobchak on May 17, 2022, 04:54:03 PM
So, there is a massive corporate, media and, most important, government "push" for diversity.  Strike that. The new word is EQUITY. Equity essentially means treating certain people (or 'protected classes') with a preference and telling the remaining people that it is equality.

Equality is "leveling the playing field" in other words giving advantages to people who were historically at a disadvantage. They used to call it AFFIRMATIVE ACTION but that was struck down-rightfully so- as unconstitutional.  So now governments stress making decisions with an "equity lense" so most cities, governments, corporations, and organi!ations have whats called a "racial equity plan" as a work around. These plans favor just about anything that provides "opportunities " for historically disadvantaged people. Combined with totolitarian Harrassment and Desrimination rules that categorize everyone into a "protected class" it is the very definition of instituionalized racism. Although the forces involved will scream at the top of their lungs thats whites reap all the privileges of institutional racism nothing could be further from the truth.

But Why?

I dont know. But ill tell you how it gets done.

Take any failing organization, municipality or corporation and "incentivize" equity plans. What does that mean? Grant money. Any organization thats choking on a budget crisis (take police agencies for example since defunding is so popular) a large agency that is suffocating on expenses can apply to the federal government for grant money - provided that some or all of that money is used to hire, promote, advance, increase diversity and equity.

Grants exist for all reasons but progressing equity is a common theme. Further its "grant" is another word for "incentivizing" which is another word for coercion.

Don't want to go with the program? Don't need funding? Not buying the bullshit? Thats fine but its only a matter of time before a media source, that is in need of funding, targets you or your business and you wind up cancelled by the woke mob.

What you get is a police agency of POC and women
A swimsuit issue with a Buffalo on the cover, bonus points for mentioning its POC protected class
A man named as sportswoman of the year
Under reporting of the NY subway shooter and Wakesha sp.? Wisconsin racist christmas parade maniac
Over reporting of tge Buffalo shooter and Charlotte white nationalist assholes.
A tranny in chief and pronoun driven army

Etc etc ad nauseum.

Everbody wants equality until the UPenn women’s swim team gets off the bus…
Title: Re: Cabela's Ad
Post by: wes on May 17, 2022, 05:01:20 PM
There are hundreds of Black people who enjoy camping.
Title: Re: Cabela's Ad
Post by: J. Richards on May 17, 2022, 05:20:41 PM
100% need the lifejackets...   i spent 3 days of boot camp helping the DI's haul chocolate recruits from the depths of the pool.  Sank.like.rocks....  :)
Title: Re: Cabela's Ad
Post by: Irongrip400 on May 17, 2022, 05:20:56 PM
What is the point of advertising to a crowd that will never buy your products? Why be woke when it is no benefit?


I believe their way of thinking, is that black people don’t do these things because they don’t see people that look like them in the ads, and thus, remain disinterested. We’ll see in a few years if this “woke” advertising leads to real changes in behavior. It may not be wasted money after all.
Title: Re: Cabela's Ad
Post by: beakdoctor on May 17, 2022, 05:30:47 PM

I believe their way of thinking, is that black people don’t do these things because they don’t see people that look like them in the ads, and thus, remain disinterested. We’ll see in a few years if this “woke” advertising leads to real changes in behavior. It may not be wasted money after all.

Nice take. Hopefully you are right.
Title: Re: Cabela's Ad
Post by: Dave D on May 17, 2022, 06:57:59 PM
You don’t think black people wear life vests?


It’s a good question though; maybe the thought is if you push an idea long it will seem normal and then eventually you will have new customers?

Or use the black family to make boating cool and then whites and other groups will like boats?

Nice take. Hopefully you are right.

I had the take first.
Title: Re: Cabela's Ad
Post by: kreator on May 17, 2022, 11:25:49 PM
Bullshit ad! We know blacks don’t swim or camp. Come on man!

No but they will turn up at grandma's house while the familiy is away camping and be ready to take nana down for some ice cream change
Title: Re: Cabela's Ad
Post by: Humble Narcissist on May 18, 2022, 02:20:30 AM
I take it none of you have ever been to the Deep South, plenty of black folks that love hunting & fishing down there
I know Bo Jackson loves to hunt and fish. So does Karl Malone.
Title: Re: Cabela's Ad
Post by: Irongrip400 on May 18, 2022, 02:43:46 AM
I had the take first.

Sorry hoss, I hadn’t read your post and came to that conclusion on my own. Great minds and all, I guess.

I’ll see myself out now. ;D
Title: Re: Cabela's Ad
Post by: lightweight83 on May 18, 2022, 03:50:42 AM
How come the wokeness almost never includes Asians?
Title: Re: Cabela's Ad
Post by: GymnJuice on May 18, 2022, 04:27:55 AM
How come the wokeness almost never includes Asians?

Ads probably affect them less. They run businesses and discipline their kids enough to get them through school with good grades. I bet they watch less TV.
Title: Re: Cabela's Ad
Post by: ProudVirgin69 on May 18, 2022, 05:32:04 AM
yes, but they dont look like the folks pictured in Cabela's ad...

(https://c8.alamy.com/comp/D6NHBC/black-man-holding-his-catch-while-fishing-for-mullet-on-the-stjohns-D6NHBC.jpg)

sure, but that's the case for nearly all advertisements.  americans are fat and schlubby, nobody wants to look at them  ;D 

(https://www.bgi-sa.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Cabelas-NRA-Weekend-Gun-Ad.jpeg)

honestly anything that gets more people enjoying the great outdoors is fine w me, performative wokeness and all
Title: Re: Cabela's Ad
Post by: Gym-Rat on May 18, 2022, 06:31:42 AM

honestly anything that gets more people enjoying the great outdoors is fine w me, performative wokeness and all

I honestly have zero issue with it as well, I just thought it was funny.
Title: Re: Cabela's Ad
Post by: King Shizzo on May 18, 2022, 06:38:39 AM
I know Bo Jackson loves to hunt and fish. So does Karl Malone.
Yes, but they are also Uncle Bens.....Like Samuel Jackson's character in Django.
Title: Re: Cabela's Ad
Post by: visualizeperfection on May 18, 2022, 07:30:35 AM
Sorta makes sense to me.

They already have all the normal outdoorsman’s business. They’re going to shop at their store regardless of advertising.

Might as well try and grab a few from a new market. 
Title: Re: Cabela's Ad
Post by: pamith on May 18, 2022, 08:50:12 AM
Brutal if true
Title: Re: Cabela's Ad
Post by: joswift on May 18, 2022, 09:20:10 AM
Sorta makes sense to me.

They already have all the normal outdoorsman’s business. They’re going to shop at their store regardless of advertising.

Might as well try and grab a few from a new market.

the only time the new target market will be going is if they are looting the stores...
Title: Re: Cabela's Ad
Post by: visualizeperfection on May 18, 2022, 10:07:05 AM
the only time the new target market will be going is if they are looting the stores...

Possibly. I actually have a bass pro shop within about an hour from me. They’re absolutely massive and far from massive urban centers. There’s also one in Las Vegas, but it’s not off the strip.

They do carry guns and ammo, so maybe yeah.

Title: Re: Cabela's Ad
Post by: ThisisOverload on May 18, 2022, 02:56:57 PM
How come the wokeness almost never includes Asians?

They are targeting the audience with the lowest IQ.

Easy prey.
Title: Re: Cabela's Ad
Post by: Dave D on May 18, 2022, 05:50:14 PM
Sorry hoss, I hadn’t read your post and came to that conclusion on my own. Great minds and all, I guess.

I’ll see myself out now. ;D

God bless you!

Your post was better stated, clear, concise and excellently stated. I just wanted acknowledgement, these type of things matter for the year end awards.
Title: Re: Cabela's Ad
Post by: Humble Narcissist on May 19, 2022, 11:40:36 AM
Yes, but they are also Uncle Bens.....Like Samuel Jackson's character in Django.
Don't you mean Uncle Tom's? Uncle Ben's is a brand of rice.
Title: Re: Cabela's Ad
Post by: King Shizzo on May 19, 2022, 01:17:48 PM
Don't you mean Uncle Tom's? Uncle Ben's is a brand of rice.
Uncle Ben's was so bad they changed the name  :D