crodonilson
He/Him
Blacks in UPROAR in the States over this horrific racist ad from Gap.
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Racist GAP
- Thread starter crodonilson
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StonehamPark
#Brighton-Nil
Great.
Another thing to get offended about on behalf of someone else.
Another thing to get offended about on behalf of someone else.
Mackenzie
Old Brightonian
That is neither offensive or racist.
studio150
Well-known member
Another example of people being offended by nothing.
Without racist being tagged to the picture I would have dismissed the advert as boring and just flicked over to the next page or forgotten about it by the time the advert break on TV had finished.
Without racist being tagged to the picture I would have dismissed the advert as boring and just flicked over to the next page or forgotten about it by the time the advert break on TV had finished.
Curious Orange
Punxsatawney Phil
Dreadlocks - horrible stereotyping...
Mackenzie
Old Brightonian
....but a comfy arm rest....
daveinprague
New member
Paul Reids Sock
Well-known member
What rubbish.
That is just simply not racist.
There will be people that say as a middle class white guy I just don't get it. But you cannot claim that is racist!!
That is just simply not racist.
There will be people that say as a middle class white guy I just don't get it. But you cannot claim that is racist!!
Curious Orange
Punxsatawney Phil
... and so the picture is a clear indication of the subjugation of the minorities... rather than just a picture of four girls in slightly odd poses...
A picture of four girls is all I saw when I opened the thread - and that is all ANYONE should EVER see. The world would be a better place if they did.
beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
- 35,303
im confused and intrigued how this is offensive.
Curious Orange
Punxsatawney Phil
It isn't, that is the point I think.
So was I, until I read that it was 'racist' because the white girl is resting her arm on the black girls head.
Unfortunately, Gap have given in to the 'offended fascism' of social media and apologised.
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
I spent most of the time trying to work out whether their odd body poses are supposed to be spelling something out.
Whatever is supposedly racist about that ad has completely gone over my head I'm afraid.
Whatever is supposedly racist about that ad has completely gone over my head I'm afraid.
Greg Bobkin
Silver Seagull
- May 22, 2012
- 14,844
This.
My only thought would be that the black child is shorter than the one next to them. But surely that's a) not a problem (looks younger anyway), and b) is preferable to not having an all-white line-up (which, in itself, wouldn't REALLY be racist).
World's gone mad.
pastafarian
Well-known member
Always be on the lookout for your white privilege and those pesky micro-aggressions.
but dreadlocks on white people are now racist
its appropriating black culture
Easy 10
Brain dead MUG SHEEP
"Writing in The Root, a black culture magazine, Kirsten West Savali argues that the advert compounds "the feeling that our black bodies are undervalued and positioned to serve as props upon which white bodies can be better appreciated and admired."
Jesus. Can somebody please stop 2016, I think I want to get off.
Jesus. Can somebody please stop 2016, I think I want to get off.
Buzzer
Languidly Clinical
- Oct 1, 2006
- 26,121
I think that's the point this bellend was trying to make.