By being shown washing the feet of the “unfit” we are still being reminded that they are infact “unfit”. They are still other, lesser than and to be saved. The target audience, the Christian viewer, is the white person doing the washing, and is meant to feel empowered and that they are good like Jesus for showing compassion to these poor other people.
Noone will actually wash the feet of someone in need. They will translate their Christian compassion to help them by saving them from themselves, i.e. restrictive laws.
That’s a fair take on it for sure, and one I hadn’t considered. When I went to rewatch the commercial to make sure that I didn’t misremember it, there were a lot of “Controversial Superbowl Ad” type videos that I did not click on, because I don’t need hyper-Christian videos defending it or anything else in my YT reccs, so that clearly shows an intense difference of reception of this ad.
I’m just wary of immediately poking holes in anything/everything the right does, if I feel like they’re at least making an attempt, rather than being like, “Hey, you tried, and that’s good. Maybe next time showcase your message like this instead so more people find this palatable…”
Maybe it’s because I grew up in a Republican household, and even spewed some of that rhetoric, and I had my own journey into Progressive thinking, so I like to give people the benefit of the doubt/growth/seeing the error of their ways/etc.
Definitely give people the benefit of the doubt. But corporations spending superbowl-ad money I always assume the worst and maybe will one day be pleasantly surprised.
Overall there’s probably more misguided good intent than mal-intent. I’ve just become so jaded.
By being shown washing the feet of the “unfit” we are still being reminded that they are infact “unfit”. They are still other, lesser than and to be saved. The target audience, the Christian viewer, is the white person doing the washing, and is meant to feel empowered and that they are good like Jesus for showing compassion to these poor other people.
Noone will actually wash the feet of someone in need. They will translate their Christian compassion to help them by saving them from themselves, i.e. restrictive laws.
“look we care about all these disgusting sinners”
That’s a fair take on it for sure, and one I hadn’t considered. When I went to rewatch the commercial to make sure that I didn’t misremember it, there were a lot of “Controversial Superbowl Ad” type videos that I did not click on, because I don’t need hyper-Christian videos defending it or anything else in my YT reccs, so that clearly shows an intense difference of reception of this ad.
I’m just wary of immediately poking holes in anything/everything the right does, if I feel like they’re at least making an attempt, rather than being like, “Hey, you tried, and that’s good. Maybe next time showcase your message like this instead so more people find this palatable…”
Maybe it’s because I grew up in a Republican household, and even spewed some of that rhetoric, and I had my own journey into Progressive thinking, so I like to give people the benefit of the doubt/growth/seeing the error of their ways/etc.
Definitely give people the benefit of the doubt. But corporations spending superbowl-ad money I always assume the worst and maybe will one day be pleasantly surprised.
Overall there’s probably more misguided good intent than mal-intent. I’ve just become so jaded.