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Why do people want to make me angry...

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    Why do people want to make me angry...

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6222393.stm

    Other contenders for this accolade have included Virgin Trains, whose Apaches on horseback try to chase a Pendolino train. It garnered 83 official complaints from people saying it played on racist stereotypes - one reader of Ad Breakdown asked "What's next? Will Virgin Trains help deliver the smallpox-infected blankets to the Iroquois?" - but the ad escaped a ban after it was ruled to be tongue-in-cheek.
    and in the comments...

    I am a Native American, though born in England, and I found it very offensive.
    Well doesnt being born in England kind of ruin the whole "native" thing that you have going on there?

    I mean WTF? Its an advert and a failry silly one at that. Stop trying to act all persecuted and tulip!

    At least these guys have the right idea -> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6222153.stm

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