{"id":1296771,"date":"2022-02-14T16:07:29","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T21:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1296771"},"modified":"2022-02-14T16:07:35","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T21:07:35","slug":"culture-shift-woke-barely-present-in-sundays-super-bowl-commercials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/culture-shift-woke-barely-present-in-sundays-super-bowl-commercials\/","title":{"rendered":"Culture Shift: Woke Barely Present in Sunday&#039;s Super Bowl Commercials"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fculture-shift-woke-barely-present-in-sundays-super-bowl-commercials%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1296771&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1370413820-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The commercials during this year\u2019s Super Bowl Sunday broadcast all seemed to have a strange theme in common: woke sermonizing was barely present.<\/p>\n<p>With well over five advertisements for electric vehicles, one of which featured actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, only one \u2013 just one \u2013 leaned into the woke messaging about environmentalism and climate change: the General Motors Austin Powers ad in which notorious villain Dr. Evil plans to use electric vehicles to save the planet. As Breitbart News previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2022\/02\/10\/mike-myers-austin-powers-villains-sell-climate-fear-and-electric-cars-in-gm-super-bowl-commercial\/\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The ad opens with Dr. Evil and crew taking over GM\u2019s headquarters in Detroit as one more step in Evil\u2019s plan to take over the world.<\/p>\n<p>The henchmen, though, correct Dr. Evil\u2019s assertion that he is the number one threat to the world and tell him climate change is worse. Climate change, Scott Evil says, is \u201carguably the No. 1 threat to the world now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ad ultimately moves on to showcase GM\u2019s line of electric cars as the Evil crew makes ready to drive off in EVs to rule the world.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Though slightly less on the nose, the Salesforce commercial featuring actor Matthew McConaughey took subtle jabs at Tesla founder Elon Musk for his space exploration push and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s Metaverse while calling upon people to \u201cplant more trees\u201d and cultivate planet earth.<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Despite the actor\u2019s heavy climate change <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/07\/02\/arnold-schwarzenegger-panics-nonstop-climate-alarmism-has-left-people-confused-or-tuned-out\/\">advocacy<\/a>, the Arnold Schwarzenegger BMW electric vehicle ad in which he played the Greek god Zeus opposite Salma Hayek as Hera jettisoned politics entirely for what some Twitter users said was the best ad of the night:<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Though the famed Barbie doll has long been co-opted by feminists and hardcore gender theorists, the Rocket Homes commercial in which she made an appearance alongside He-Man offered plenty of laughs with a side-helping of nostalgia:<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Even commercials targeting minorities or people of color, such as the Google Pixel 6 ad, were less about lecturing on white privilege and more about empathy:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n[embedded content]\n<p>On the decidedly non-woke side, the Chevy Silverado commercial featuring Jamie Lynn Sigler paid tribute to <em>The Sopranos<\/em>&nbsp;\u2013 one of the most politically incorrect television shows of the past two decades \u2013 with yet another electric vehicle ad that made no mention of carbon footprints or impending planetary doom:<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Between The Weeknd\u2019s Super Bowl 2021 halftime performance and this year\u2019s commercial lineup, the tide my finally be turning in the culture war on corporate wokeism.<\/p>\n<p>Only time will tell how long it lasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The commercials during this year\u2019s Super Bowl Sunday broadcast all seemed to have a strange theme in common: woke sermonizing was barely present. 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