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Old 10-11-2017, 10:16 PM #1
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Just days after its release, Tesco’s Christmas advert has come under fire for featuring a Muslim family.

In the supermarket’s one-minute long advert, families prepare Christmas dinner and cook a turkey in a variety of ways.

As families meet and greet each other, one scene shows a Muslim family holding Christmas gifts and preparing to celebrate the festive holiday.

Some haven’t taken too kindly to Tesco’s inclusive message, with one Twitter user claiming to be a devout Christian feeling “very offended”.

Another user said “@Tesco why are you showing Muslims celebrating Christmas in your advert. That’s just wrong, we all know they don’t!!!”.

Tesco hit back, arguing everybody should be able to enjoy the festivities.

“Everyone is welcome at Tesco this Christmas and we're proud to celebrate the many ways our customers come together over the festive season”, a Tesco spokesperson said.

As part of a series of five short videos set to be released in the run up to Christmas, Tesco said the adverts aims to promote diversity.

Tesco said its Christmas campaign “will celebrate the many ways we come together at Christmas, and how food sits at the heart of it all”.

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I like it when racists pretend that Christmas is anything but an excuse to get pissed, eat like pigs and get given presents for 90% of the country so they can feel validated in their racism. Christmas simply isn't a religious holiday for most people any more and to pretend otherwise is just silly.
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As if the majority of people complaining even celebrate the religious side of Christmas, probably the same bunch who kicked off about Halal Easter eggs.
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So depressing. People complain if muslims "don't integrate into Britain" but also attack them for celebrating Christmas (Nadiya from bake off is another example of this happening)

You can't win with some people
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Some haven’t taken too kindly to Tesco’s inclusive message, with one Twitter user claiming to be a devout Christian feeling “very offended”.

Another user said “@Tesco why are you showing Muslims celebrating Christmas in your advert. That’s just wrong, we all know they don’t!!!”.


So 2 Twitter users complained? there will always be idiots on Twitter is anyone surprised
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Damned if you, damned if you don't
Bit unfair to paint everyone with the same brush over a handful of Twitter users, if we applied that logic to all Twitter trolls where would we be
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Some haven’t taken too kindly to Tesco’s inclusive message, with one Twitter user claiming to be a devout Christian feeling “very offended”.

Another user said “@Tesco why are you showing Muslims celebrating Christmas in your advert. That’s just wrong, we all know they don’t!!!”.


So 2 Twitter users complained? there will always be idiots on Twitter is anyone surprised
.......lol

In articles like this they'll take two or three examples because, you know, you'd be scrolling for years if they listed all the tweets relating to the story.
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.......lol

In articles like this they'll take two or three examples because, you know, you'd be scrolling for years if they listed all the tweets relating to the story.
I'm pretty sure that the JL ad has been slated as well, where is the thread
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That devout Christian who claimed to be offended needs to re-evaluate his life choices and get out more.

Christmas is about as religious as Halloween nowadays.

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I'm pretty sure that the JL ad has been slated as well, where is the thread
Because I don't give a **** about John Lewis?
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Because I don't give a **** about John Lewis?
But you do about Tesco that figures were there any positive tweets?
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Saw a load of this stupidity on fb.
People should celebrate what they want, how they want, when they want, where they want.
Muslims celebrating Xmas are no different to us atheists who do so.
Christmas trees and turkey dinners are hardly religious, any more than Easter bunnies and bonnets.
Good on Tesco for including us all in the celebration of Xmas, whatever it means to us.
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But you do about Tesco that figures were there any positive tweets?
You aren't making much sense.

Of course there was positive tweets, does that somehow lesson the blatant racism in your eyes?
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with one Twitter user claiming to be a devout Christian feeling “very offended”.
I don't understand this. Is he offended by the millions upon millions of atheists who use it as a gift giving holiday and the complete commercialisation of the season?

Or just that a Muslim dares to shop at Tesco to make their Christmas dinner?
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Also what's the point in comparing it to John Lewis' advert? Do they feature muslims in their advert as well or are you trying to liken people taking offense at muslims being present in an advert to people simply not liking the JL advert?

If so, your logic is fatally flawed.
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You aren't making much sense.

Of course there was positive tweets, does that somehow lesson the blatant racism in your eyes?
There will always be idiots, it's just good to have a balance, why give the idiots oxegen? Not sure why this is a story of course people will complain, some people complain about EVERYTHING, that's why every TV show has a disclaimer now in case someone gets offended they will need to do that for Christmas ads soon

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There will always be idiots, it's just good to have a balance, why give the idiots oxegen? Not sure why this is a story of course people will complain, some people complain about EVERYTHING, that's why every TV show has a disclaimer now in case someone gets offended they will need to do that for Christmas ads soon
So we shouldn't highlight racism? We should just try to rationalise it instead?
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So we shouldn't highlight racism? We should just try to rationalise it instead?
You are making a mountain out of a molehill and that is just silly, you say complaining about Muslims in the Tesco ad is not comparable to complaining about the mixed race family in the JL ad though I am sure someone somewhere on Twitter has complained about it, why is that..
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What's the problem with the mixed race family in the JL ad? I haven't heard that one.
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You are making a mountain out of a molehill and that is just silly, you say complaining about Muslims in the Tesco ad is not comparable to complaining about the mixed race family in the JL ad though I am sure someone somewhere on Twitter has complained about it, why is that..
I didn't say that at all, I haven't watched the JL advert, that much should be apparent by my post asking why JL is relevant to this discussion about a TESCO ADVERT.

All I gather from this is that you are trying to take the thread off topic while downplaying apparent racism in in response to both adverts.
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What's the problem with the mixed race family in the JL ad? I haven't heard that one.
Neither have I but you can bet your life there is a negative tweet out there somewhere about it
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Neither have I but you can bet your life there is a negative tweet out there somewhere about it
So you are comparing a real outcry that is pretty much racially motivated to an imaginary one in order to downplay the actual racism?
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I didn't say that at all, I haven't watched the JL advert, that much should be apparent by my post asking why JL is relevant to this discussion about a TESCO ADVERT.

All I gather from this is that you are trying to take the thread off topic while downplaying apparent racism in in response to both adverts.
The discussion about the TESCO advert should maybe have the percentage of negative v positive tweets, if the positive outweigh the negative of course that doesn't sit well with the U.K. is racist narrative nor does it give TESCO any extra publicity...every little helps
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I don't think it's a "UK is racist" narrative.
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