Reform MP Sarah Pochin says it ‘drives me mad seeing adverts full of black and Asian people’

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Surely that's what colour TV was invented for ?

https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/sarah-pochin-reform-gb-news-advertising-black-asian-video-b2852382.html

It wasn’t so long ago people were proud of diversity and saw globalisation as sophisticated and exciting.

If people get tired, there is a simple solution, don't watch those programs.

Same with adverts, don't watch or don't buy the product if you get tired of diversity.

I have noticed the change but I welcome it.
I have also noticed that household cleaning products adverts ( flash etc) now seem to feature predominantly male characters and women appear more in car adverts. Its all good. Noticing doesn't make something wrong

It's interesting that you perceive it as "tickbox" - as if these people have nothing to bring to the table other than the colour of their skin. If I stop to think about it for long enough, then I can of course see that the producers have attempted to get a good mix of people on the cast, but I don't fixate on that to the point of becoming "tired" of it. On the contrary, I welcome the diversity. The black and brown people are generally just as interesting to watch as the white people, so I don't really see the issue... they're just people?!

Do people really sit watching these programmes huff puffing about the failure to put more white people on the screen? What miserable little lives those individuals must lead!

The programs mentioned are also very popular, maybe that is what annoys that poster, succesful diversity.

Maybe? I just don't get it tbh. I genuinely can't wrap my head around why this would annoy someone.

At least we now know why Pochin joined Reform. It must have been genuinely blood-pressure raising for her to be a Conservative party member under a brown leader and with several brown and black Secretaries of State.

The OP loves being ‘controversial’ and is the cleverest girl in the class.

What is controversial about posting a MP's comments?

I didn't say it annoys me, I said that it is clear that it annoys some people. I love the shows and have no problem with the diversity.

But.... You cannot be blind to the fact that every panel show, or contest, or lifestyle show, has a drag/ trans, a gay man, a lesbian, a zany older woman, a disabled person, a person of colour etc etc

It's that, that is triggering for those attracted to parties like Reform, who no longer see themselves represented.

Nothing

The majority of people on those shows are still straight white people,.

This Sarah Pochin person must be really looking forward to the Christmas ads.

Phew what a relief

Maybe for those Reform voters and people who count black and brown faces.

I am not sure what point you are making?

What does that even mean, though? Why do they no longer see themselves represented on TV? There are white British people on virtually every single programme, so how are they not represented, exactly?

You think people are triggered by the sight of black and brown faces alongside the white ones? What possible reason could there be for someone to be triggered by this, apart from straightforward racism?

And yes, we see a more diverse range of people on our screens these days, but it is hardly as if straight, white able-bodied people have been erased from view. Far from it. So what are people so upset about?

I don't think we're supposed to talk about Reform being racist.

According to a YouGov poll, 5% of Reform voters consider themselves racist.

But yeah, we should just shrug at an MP's racist comments.

Self awareness may not be their strong point.

Oh no not Reform. Save me from their evil clutches

Oh no not Reform. Save me from their evil clutches

It's not like white people have disappeared from the telly, so what is it about seeing non white people on the screen that annoys you?

I see adverts as entertainment. I couldn’t care less who’s in them. They’re representative of the ad agencies world not the world of ordinary people.

Advertisers work for businesses.
Businesses are just interested in your cash.

It’s a free market economy. I thought people liked that.

So representation matters to you.

And you feel representation should be taken more seriously when it comes to you, but not to BME, the disabled, the elderly and the pregnant.

Is that right?