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“Offensive” KFC Ads

I'm tired of seeing these kinds of things, something needs to be said.

Here's a post from Mashable, with a completely subjective title reporting a KFC ad from Australia on YouTube which is offending some people. My thoughts: you're all idiots. Otherwise? See for yourself: Is This KFC Ad Racist? [VIDEO].

Look. People. I know there are still some in this country who haven't gained any kind of respect for humanity or considered a perspective from someone other than themselves, despite everything the country's gone through over the past half-century. Maybe there are still hard feelings. Maybe it's just another bad case of ignorance. But this is the time-- to get over yourselves. Whether you know this or not, every time you get offended by something, someone else gets power over you. If equality is what you're looking for, stop getting so offended. A word is a word. A stereotype is a stereotype. You are the ones who are giving it meaning, and a negative one at that.

They bring up how a poll was conducted, 27 percent say the ad is racist, 69 say it isn't, blah blah. Yeah, no shit. There will always be people who are so stuck on a negative idea that they could find spaghetti offensive. Business will never win in this field because they have to please the masses. Tough luck to KFC.

The point is what this means to the individual. Half of the women-friends I have don't get offended by the word "cunt." It's a word used regularly in daily conversation and exchanged both ways, in fact. But I also have friends so drawn back by the word that they'll smack me before I can finish the fourth letter. It's a mixed bag and always will be. But you give a word, stereotype, or idea its power by getting offended. Solution? Don't.