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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsConservatives are outraged by this cute potato ad
By Alex Bollinger · Sunday, September 17, 2017
An ad for McCain frozen potato products in the UK featured all sorts of families eating potatoes, which made some people upset.
Hateful comments were directed at Lee and Mat Samuels-Camozzi, the gay dads in the ad. They appeared with their 19-month-old son Carter, and they have been called perverts and told that theyre denying their child a mother.
We are shocked this kind of attitude exists in the 21st century, Lee said. Were proud of our little family and we have nothing to be ashamed of.
One of the most hurtful compared us to perverts, saying Whatever next, society accepting pedophiles?
Lee said that they received dozens of hateful messages from people who didnt know them before they made their Facebook profiles private. Also, the YouTube comments on the ad are full of vitriol directed at the couple, as well as racist comments about the mixed-race families in the ad.
I wont copy any of them here since Im sure you all can imagine what they say. Instead, here is a response: ITS A CHIP ADVERT, GET OVER IT AND EAT UR POTATOS.
Its 2017, and gay people existing is still enough to break some peoples brains.
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https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2017/09/cute-ad-potatoes-set-storm-homophobia
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)rurallib
(62,448 posts)surprise - not
What did my 1st grade teacher tell me? Oh yeah - my your own business.
irisblue
(33,023 posts)when the foolish bigots are not American religious, I am suprised.
Yavin4
(35,445 posts)But that the truth. Europe has their fair share of right wing assholes just like we do. THE critical difference is that their racists vote their economic well-being first before their racial prejudices
csziggy
(34,137 posts)That family of any sort is good.
What petty, hate filled assholes.
Initech
(100,102 posts)They really are some of the worst people on earth.
Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)"You shall love your neighbor as yourself. Unless, of course, your neighbor is gay; that neighbor you shall hate and fear."
xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)cannot abide inclusive anything.
I think that brief ad managed to include just about everyone, Nicely done.
Bettie
(16,125 posts)people suck.
WinstonSmith4740
(3,056 posts)The need for family/group is strong, regardless of how it's defined.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)being dragged up front from their sewers with this story.
This distortion is ruining people's understanding of what is happening. The 10% creeps are not just as real as 75% decently accepting people, no matter how much sensationalist media distort the picture in pursuit of profits.
avebury
(10,952 posts)StarryNite
(9,460 posts)shadowmayor
(1,325 posts)Then I say those people are deplorable.
keithbvadu2
(36,906 posts)"and told that theyre denying their child a mother." Why didn't a conservative religious m/f couple adopt the child?
They also deny many children a mother (and/or father).
There are many available to be adopted.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,038 posts)Conservatives have so many products to boycott.
justhanginon
(3,290 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)It mentions all sorts of families that really exist. So whether one approves or not, they do exist. Great commercial.
broadcaster90210
(333 posts)Ever.
cloudbase
(5,525 posts)the way Dan Quayle does.
Ilsa
(61,698 posts)Children born here as they have their parents rounded up and sent to Mwxico or central america.
cp
(6,655 posts)WillParkinson
(16,862 posts)And that their relevance is waning. So do as much damage as they can now.