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Is this man guilty of 'blackface with voice'? (YouTube)

Maybe This VW Super Bowl Ad Isn’t Racist; Maybe You’re Racist

By now, you’ve probably written your heated HuffPost post about how horrible those Nazis at Volkswagen are for coming up with such a racist commercial for the Super Bowl. (Actually, HuffPost already found a new racist Super Bowl ad; they have moved on.) The spot, which was leaked early–because who cares, they already paid their bazillions, so why not release it on YouTube days before the actual event? It will only generate more buzz that way!–features a Caucasian man with a Jamaican patois accent running around his office like Michael Scott in that one episode where he comes back from Sandals.

And it did generate “buzz,” so there’s that. Unfortunately, it was the kind of buzz that comes from a dozen angry blogger/Sean Paul bees flying towards your face. Read More

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VW's "The Dog Strikes Back" ad

Volkswagen’s Meta-Star Wars Dog Ads Rip Off Everyone Except George Lucas (Video)

Last year, Volkswagen made waves with its Super Bowl commercial featuring a little kid in a Darth Vader helmet using “the force” to control his dad’s car. It was an instant viral hit, and for awhile the boy from that commercial, 6-year-old Max Page was mildly famous.

This year, the same agency behind “The Force” commercial, Deutsch Inc., took the Star Wars theme to a whole other level, with Super Bowl ads that began as videos featuring dogs and then pulled back to reveal something much, much stranger. Read More