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posted by martyb on Sunday April 23 2017, @03:01PM   Printer-friendly
from the older-and-less-gullible dept.

AlterNet reports

Twenty years ago [1997-04-21], one of the most memorable ads of all time was launched, when Rachael Leigh Cook and her frying pan starting smashing up eggs in her infamous "This is Your Brain on Drugs" ad.

Today, Rachael Leigh Cook, her frying pan, and eggs are back but this time in a new ad that slams the drug war and its racist enforcement.

The new video, made by Green Point Creative, opens with Cook and her frying pan. She holds up a white egg and explains that it represents one of the millions of Americans who uses drugs but never gets arrested. She then picks up a brown egg and says, "This American is several times more likely to be charged with a drug crime." [Screenshot]

The animated ad, narrated by Cook, then shows what happens to the brown egg that is arrested and funneled through the criminal justice system. The ad highlights a range of harmful collateral consequences that result from drug arrest, including the loss of student financial aid, hindered job prospects and broken up families. The add[sic] contrasts the white egg's family that was never arrested, despite also using drugs.

The ad ends with Cook looking into the camera, holding her pan and [...] a smashed egg, and saying, "The war on drugs is ruining peoples' lives. It fuels mass incarceration, it targets people of color in greater numbers than their white counter parts. It cripples communities, it costs billions, and it doesn't work. Any questions?"


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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 23 2017, @03:40PM (6 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 23 2017, @03:40PM (#498364)

    No, no, no - he should urinate up a vertical piece of hemp. Doesn't that sound classier?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 23 2017, @03:41PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 23 2017, @03:41PM (#498365)

    No, you're both wrong. Just throw the bastard into an open septic tank, and drag the lid closed over his head.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 23 2017, @05:25PM (4 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 23 2017, @05:25PM (#498405)

      Well the only real bastard here so far is you, so have fun breathing in your own shit :D

      • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 23 2017, @06:34PM (3 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 23 2017, @06:34PM (#498435)

        No! The beliefs of Runaway1956 are fascinating! It's like seeing an eighteen-wheeler upside-down and backwards in the median of an Interstate: you just have to wonder, "how in the hell did *that* happen?" I often say the same thing when I see one of Runaway's "opinions". Even more fascinating is the throng of ACs that come to Runaway's defense. Amazing. Who would have thought that anyone could even support, let alone defend, such bizarre thinking? Unless, unlike me, they are not really ACs.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 23 2017, @06:54PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 23 2017, @06:54PM (#498443)

          they are not really ACs.

          Which means you're Runaway1956 playing both sides of a troll war.

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 23 2017, @06:56PM (1 child)

          by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 23 2017, @06:56PM (#498445)

          I disagree with a lot of things he says, but I see him as the bridge state of consciousness from full blown right winger wackjob and decent human with some politics I disagree with but don't find abhorrent. Thus I come to his defense when I think someone is overblowing his less palatable traits. I don't want people such as him to radicalize because they think all liberals/progressives/whatevers will forever judge them as "unworthy".

          • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 23 2017, @07:24PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Sunday April 23 2017, @07:24PM (#498468)

            I don't want people such as him to radicalize because they think all liberals/progressives/whatevers will forever judge them as "unworthy".

            I believe this almost 64.97%.