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PostPosted: 02/08/21 9:43 am • # 1 
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Jeep’s Super Bowl Ad Urged Us to Find the Common Ground of Christian Nationalism
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During the Super Bowl last night, Jeep aired a commercial featuring Bruce Springsteen urging Americans to find common ground.



It’s a dumb premise. There’s no unity to be found with racists, white supremacists, Christian Nationalists, MAGA cultists, and everyone else who’s been ruining the country. What compromise does Jeep want us to make with the sort of people who attempted to overthrow democracy at the Capitol last month?

Obviously, that’s not what the people behind the ad were intending, so maybe that’s an unfair takeaway. But the imagery right there in the commercial highlights the futility of the message.

It begins with a chapel at the geographical center of the contiguous 48 states: “It never closes. All are more than welcome to come meet here, in the middle.”

It’s a Christian chapel, of course. There’s even a picture of a cross resting on an American flag shaped like the country. This vision of a WASP-y America is the happy middle ground we’re supposed to walk toward.

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None of this should surprise us. The sort of people who want unity and compromise are almost always the people who think Leave It to Beaver represents the ideal American family — where people of color and LGBTQ people and non-Christians are either on the sidelines, ignored, or oppressed.

We’re better off today because more people want to move away from that exclusionary “middle” that always pops up whenever people become nostalgic for the past. By catering to that narrow band of Americans who don’t understand our history, and by pretending that we can find common ground with people who wish we didn’t even exist, Jeep ultimately caters to no one in its pathetic attempt to appeal to everyone.

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PostPosted: 02/08/21 12:15 pm • # 2 
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Frankly, with all the crosses I'd say the ad pandered to Christian nationalists. Are they saying "the centre" belongs to white, Christians? That's what it looked like. Why no Muslim crescents or black people or anything other than an aging white Christian? Remember who Jeep's base is and you will understand they weren't going to say anything that was going to offend them.


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PostPosted: 02/08/21 3:38 pm • # 4 
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jimwilliam wrote:
Frankly, with all the crosses I'd say the ad pandered to Christian nationalists.

You have to read the comments appearing on the Youtube vid - seems nobody wants to buy a Jeep after watching that.

That said a lot of them are moaning about stolen elections and the like.


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PostPosted: 02/09/21 12:37 am • # 5 
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fuck unity.
the time for unity was 2008.
what happened?
you know what happened.


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PostPosted: 02/09/21 6:17 am • # 6 
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PostPosted: 02/10/21 5:48 pm • # 7 
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Jeep Pulls Bruce Springsteen Super Bowl Ad Following DWI Revelation
The ad’s “message of community and unity is as relevant as ever,” car company says. “As is the message that drinking and driving can never be condoned”


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