Ok… what about the Christopher Columbus Statues that are now being attacked? Where is the goalpost there? If I had stewardship over a brand that had a logo that was widely seen as uncomfortable, I would strongly consider making some changes, but with C Columbus, we see what happens when they burn through a few legitimate concerns.
Fighting Irish. Generally seen as “white people”. Also touches on the stereotype that we like fighting. (Ok, that one is generally true)
Maybe in some places, but not universally,
I don’t know about Poland but I’ve been to Hungary quite a lot and am learning the language. I’m actually there right now as I’m writing this.
Actually when I think of slavery I don’t think primarily of American style slavery but i think of the Romans. maybe this is is because I live in Europe. And the Romans didn’t particularly care about skin colour as they had both masters and slaves of different colours.
As I have read it, Aunt Jemima received money for her image. Not much difference.
The Irish draft riots were about the draft, not about the term “Paddy wagons”. I can see you don’t much care for Irish.
The media and the “movements” depict all white people as oppressors. Down come the confederate and non-confederate statues. Even Lincoln gets defaced. Columbus gets torn down. Down come Conquistador monuments. Down come missionaries. We’re going to end up with a symbol-free country in which nobody knows, let alone admires, the history of this nation. We’ll just be one big consumer market with no identity.
Yes. Probably ten times as many people believe we’re visited by aliens from space.
All southerners are used to a lifetime of it, and it’s considered a “Yankee defect”. It’s like that line of Brother Dave Gardner’s “Down in Hot Springs I saw those “stupid, ignorant southerners” selling WATER to those “brilliant Yankees”…and the government owns it!”
Not an intelligent response. You’re saying that white people were the ones pushing it, I showed evidence that the black community didn’t like it for a long time, and you give a nonsensical response.
Terribly sorry if I’m not sufficiently intelligent to please you. Your asserted “evidence” was just anecdotal and wasn’t evidence at all. You proved nothing.
Well, Poland is different. Unless it would be some older people who miss certain aspects of security — basic foodstuffs available at nominal prices (and sometimes not even that) — nobody misses communism. Not one smidgen. It is the most rabidly capitalist societies imaginable. Every last vestige of socialism is gone.
From pancakes to book burning to abortion? Just because some company admitted it could not clean up a negative stereotype of longstanding? You realize they had been cleaning it up for years, right?
Big difference. I’ve seen a lot of black women’s cookbooks and not one of them had their hair in a kerchief. They control their image. Nancy Green did not.
The Irish draft riots were about the draft, not about the term “Paddy wagons”. I can see you don’t much care for Irish.
Yes. Probably ten times as many people believe we’re visited by aliens from space.
Which is not an answer to the question. Does a regional slur offend you?
Look, its time we let minorities choose their own images. Simple as that. Anything else is paternalistic.
You ever hear two big women call each other fat? Come on, the discussion of the ‘N’ word was done with more than 10 years ago. Let’s move on.
Ah. So nobody can portray a black person unless that portrayal is approved in advance by one or more black people. That probably is how it will turn out, which will result in no black images used in advertising until the next complaint that “no black faces are seen in advertising”.