[Hmmm...] Chinese government says Nike is naughty with TV ad

Kasey Chang · Post by **Kasey Chang** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 12:34 pm

Apparently they were NOT amused by Lebron James, wearing Nike shoes, defeating Kung Fu Masters and dragons, in a TV ad.

http://www.kron.com/Global/story.asp?S=2656732

raydude · Post by **raydude** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 1:05 pm

Well, they could have used something more american in the Ad.

Like Lebron taking on two thugs from GTA, a crack whore and Tommy Soprano

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Exodor · Post by **Exodor** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 1:06 pm

raydude wrote: Like Lebron taking on two thugs from GTA, a crack whore and Tommy Soprano .

Or, in the spirit of today's NBA, Lebron pummeling a few fans.

Austin · Post by **Austin** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 2:01 pm

Lebrone wrote: That's big. I need as much fans as I can get,

Odin · Post by **Odin** » Tue Dec 07, 2004 2:08 pm

Further proof that westerners don't corner the market on finding stupid things to get offended about.

Like anybody would blink twice at a Toyota commercial that showed a bunch of ninjas humiliating a US basketball team or something.

I remember listening to some radio talk show a while back where the guy was complaining about how what you say is only allowed based on the cirucumstances of whether the insult is aimed at a minority or majority group. He used the movie title "White Men Can't Jump" as an example. Imagine the uproar, he proposed, if a movie had been titled "Black Men Can't Read." This is the same kind of pointless BS. People around the world need to stop being so damn sensitive, so it actually means something when somebody is truly offensive.

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