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Milo and POTUS posted:Guaranteed this person doesn't believe in global warming or thinks it's a good thing because "they don't like the cold" Kinda seems like they like the cold too much 
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Browsing old Brit comic books and came across this 1973 ad: Turns out Robertson's was really attached to the Golliwog imagery, here's just one example https://www.historyworld.co.uk/advert.php?id=1392&offset=75&sort=0&l1=Food&l2= See if you can guess when they finally stopped with it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robertson%27s#Golly_branding
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I was close! My guess was 3 years too late.
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I especially love how the brand director made emphasized that they didn't actually learn and evolve about the issue, just following the money.quote:We are retiring Golly because we found families with kids no longer necessarily knew about him. We are not bowing to political correctness, but like with any great brand we have to move with the times.
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Don't wanna lose those sweet racist bucks, gotta make sure the whole world knows you're not bowling to political correctness or your customers might switch to Hitlerdidnothingwrong Special Preserves
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Whybird posted:Don't wanna lose those sweet racist bucks, gotta make sure the whole world knows you're not bowling to political correctness or your customers might switch to Hitlerdidnothingwrong Special Preserves I actually think this is kind of ... unfair isn't the word because it's a dumb as gently caress thing to be doing, but, like, if they 'genuinely' thought it was just a cute design, and that at no point had they seen it as being a caricature of a black person, then in their minds, admitting that they were doing it for PC reasons would also mean admitting that they were racist. I mean, it just IS racist, intention doesn't matter, but I can see why they'd stick to this principle really hard (in a super misguided way) if they weren't racist too. The reason I say this isn't some 'both sides' bullshit, I do think the character is racist and should be retired. But I do think we need to have a bit of compassion about it. Like, my mum grew up with Gollywog dolls. She's always keen to point out that she played with them with her black friends (I mean, she says 'coloured'... but yeah). And, y'know, obviously hearing that makes me cringe. But she was a teacher before she retired, and she'd often do private tutoring for super wealthy parents. She'd always make a point of exclusively using foreign names and characters in her lessons to try and undermine the typically conservative white parents worldview and teach inclusivity. Yeah, sure she was getting paid, it's not super punk of her but it's a genuine force for good, to call her historic views racist just seems so infantile. But what's more, you know, if I said to her, 'Mum, your happy childhood memories are racist and bad', do you think she's going to go "Ah, thanks for updating my reference points I'll be sure to adapt", or do you think she's going to go "Ok, yes dear" and then later post online "Kids these days with their 'wokeness' I do'nt know" and then get sucked into an algorithm that has her joining a 'bring bag Gollywogs' group on facebook and being exposed to worse and worse? Yes, I've kind of gone off at Wendys here, but it's just something I see ALL THE TIME among my leftist friends where they'll just explode at someone for not being able to make 100% of the massive personal growth needed to come round to a point of view 'immediately', which inevitably entrenches them further into their right wing beliefs. And I feel a little sickened by it, because, obviously. Obviously that's the case, I shouldn't need to say it. Which implies like they LIKE this. They 'want' to have this enemy to be enraged by, they're not keen on actually bringing someone over to a healthier state of mind, no, they just want to 'beat' someone. Which is ... you know, loving horrible. So I think, even in a situation like this where a stupid dumb company has done something stupid and dumb and racist.... ...Hmm. I'm actually hearing myself here, and nah, gently caress em.
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Europeans don’t consider themselves racist but that’s only because when you point out the incredibly racist things they do and believe they’re like “oh no that’s not racist we’ve been doing that forever it’s just part of being english/dutch/french/etc”
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Scratch Monkey posted:Europeans don’t consider themselves racist, just don't ever bring up the Roma people and immigrants. E: and also I'll bring out again that a friend toured France in the 90's and wouldn't you know it, turns out absolutely nobody in any family ever collaborated with the Nazis! no one at all. By popular demand fucked around with this message at 12:39 on Apr 2, 2024 |
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Scratch Monkey posted:Europeans don’t consider themselves racist Referring to an entire continent of people like we're all homogenous is incredibly asinine. Racism is a problem everywhere, generally racists don't consider themselves racist, but that's also a universal problem ("I'm not racist but..."). Those of us 'Europeans' who are aware of the very obvious problems with racism as it exists in its myriad forms in the hugely differing countries of Europe would never try to deny that it exists here, because we're not loving stupid.
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`Nemesis posted:
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BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:The real curse is that the generator is not properly grounded Looks like it's on the ground to me 
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`Nemesis posted:
Earth's climate never stood a chance
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Butterfly Valley posted:Referring to an entire continent of people like we're all homogenous is incredibly asinine. Racism is a problem everywhere, generally racists don't consider themselves racist, but that's also a universal problem ("I'm not racist but..."). Those of us 'Europeans' who are aware of the very obvious problems with racism as it exists in its myriad forms in the hugely differing countries of Europe would never try to deny that it exists here, because we're not loving stupid. Yeah those dirty southerners barely count as European anyway
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Butterfly Valley posted:Referring to an entire continent of people like we're all homogenous is incredibly asinine. Racism is a problem everywhere, generally racists don't consider themselves racist, but that's also a universal problem ("I'm not racist but..."). Those of us 'Europeans' who are aware of the very obvious problems with racism as it exists in its myriad forms in the hugely differing countries of Europe would never try to deny that it exists here, because we're not loving stupid. English food sucks
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Oi! You’ll get me sausage and butter butties with pea wets and jellied eel when you pry it from me cold dead ‘ands!
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Scratch Monkey posted:Oi! You’ll get me sausage and butter butties with pea wets and jellied eel when you pry it from me cold dead ‘ands! The Cursed Images Thread: Goons not understanding art
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Waltzing Along posted:The Cursed Images Thread: Goons not understanding art
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Slugworth posted:It's a commentary on mirrors Definitely something to reflect on 
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Scratch Monkey posted:Oi! You’ll get me sausage and butter butties with pea wets and jellied eel when you pry it from me cold dead ‘ands! It's an artistic interpretation of the flag of the Isle of Man
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By popular demand posted:E: and also I'll bring out again that a friend toured France in the 90's and wouldn't you know it, turns out absolutely nobody in any family ever collaborated with the Nazis! no one at all. It's famously been noted and studied in France and in Germany. From memory, something like 30% of French families think their ancestors were in the resistance, while in Germany the figure is 10%. There's a school of thought that this was necessary for the countries to move on after WW2, otherwise society would just break down in a hail of accusations and guilt.
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Waltzing Along posted:The Cursed Images Thread: Goons not understanding art I dunno,  "My Lonesome Cowboy" seems pretty straightforward. The sculpture is 9 feet tall and sold for $15.1 million.Avatar: The  Bender
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Safety Dance posted:It's an artistic interpretation of the flag of the Isle of Man Or that photoshop of two pairs of a woman's legs joined together (without the torso) on a bed
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Butterfly Valley posted:Referring to an entire continent of people like we're all homogenous is incredibly asinine. Racism is a problem everywhere, generally racists don't consider themselves racist, but that's also a universal problem ("I'm not racist but..."). Those of us 'Europeans' who are aware of the very obvious problems with racism as it exists in its myriad forms in the hugely differing countries of Europe would never try to deny that it exists here, because we're not loving stupid. I can say with confidence the entire continent of Asia is racist as holy gently caress.
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Das Boo posted:I can say with confidence the entire continent of Asia is racist as holy gently caress. I mean pretty much everywhere in the world is, but everyone has their own flavours of it depending on their history with colonialism/tribalism/religion/whatever. I've just seen the "well Europeans don't even think they're racist!" thing a few times, inevitably posted by Americans, and it feels like a brainless attempt at deflection/points scoring.
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Waffle! posted:I dunno, I went to an exhibition at the Portland museum of art some 20 years ago and saw this live and in person. Pictures do not do it justice. IIRC there was a companion piece that involved a sailor moon type anime girl squirting breast milk and using the streams as… a jump rope? Jesus, I hope that’s true and not something I conjured up…
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fischtick posted:I went to an exhibition at the Portland museum of art some 20 years ago and saw this live and in person. Pictures do not do it justice. IIRC there was a companion piece that involved a sailor moon type anime girl squirting breast milk and using the streams as… a jump rope? Jesus, I hope that’s true and not something I conjured up… that’s hiropon
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TrashMammal posted:that’s hiropon quote:Price realised Goddamn, I picked the wrong career 
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nah, art’s been like that ever since rich people started paying for it
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Captain Hygiene posted:Goddamn, I picked the wrong career I mean, do you have the connections? No one's gonna care about a giant titty statue made by some random person in their garage
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When people make sweeping generalizations like "people in country X are racist", they never seem to extend it far enough. Like yeah, sure, X folks are racist as gently caress, but have you considered that they also really hate people from X? It's like they're all just colossal assholes that are only out for themselves, and barely that. loving asshikes I swear E: that's a typo but it stays. Karate Bastard fucked around with this message at 22:05 on Apr 2, 2024 |
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america first? liechtenstein first. austria second.
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Kit Walker posted:I mean, do you have the connections? No one's gonna care about a giant titty statue made by some random person in their garage
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TrashMammal posted:nah, art’s been like that ever since rich people started paying for it The Bronze Age? The Neolithic?
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`Nemesis posted:
The real curse is that I had one of these air conditioners in my last apartment, and it would raise my electric bill by $100/month during the summer
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BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:The real curse is that the generator is not properly grounded Well that's just unprofessional...  Ah that's better.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Who wants their mirrussy polished? Oh, me! !ɘm
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