Between the Scenes - Colin Kaepernick's Nike Ad & The Downside of Aligning with Brands
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
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🗓️ 8 September 2018
⏱️ 3 minutes
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While Trevor is a fan of Colin Kaepernick's Nike ad, he worries about the problematic nature of supporting corporate brands based on their political messaging.
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| 0:36.5 | I genuinely, big fan of Colin Kaepernick, I love the ad. |
| 0:41.9 | I do worry though that people have become a little too convinced by corporations that |
| 0:50.3 | suddenly seem to have political stances. |
| 0:53.1 | That's what I worry about. |
| 0:57.1 | And so my thing is, at the end of the day, we always have to acknowledge and remember |
| 1:01.2 | that corporations are trying to make money. |
| 1:04.2 | So corporations are trying to make money. |
| 1:07.0 | And they're always going to go for the best interest of the corporation. |
| 1:10.8 | So as much as people are like, yeah, I'm going to buy a Nike's because they support |
| 1:13.8 | it. |
| 1:14.8 | They're also trying to make money and they see there's a trend that they think can be |
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