EPTNaomi Cambell threatens sue over "racist" advert - Page 2
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hypercube
Hungary2735 Posts
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RaLakedaimon
United States1564 Posts
 Tbh I don't think the company meant any harm at all, but what can you do she seems to just not like it maybe they should have just issued an apology/explanation and pulled the ad when this thing started. But I know one thing I love chocolate (not milk chocolate though just like starbucks and dark chocolate) and I love to look at Naomi Cambell so this entire ordeal has been a win/win for me. | ||
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veljanov
Sweden33 Posts
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Zinnwaldite
Norway1567 Posts
On June 01 2011 20:37 Supamang wrote: Uhhh, imma let you in on something Naomi Campbell...theres way worse commercials than that jpeg youre crying over: + Show Spoiler + and this is one of the more mild ones This one is extremely mild,, as in not racist at all.. It's just a guy dancing while eating chicken... *sigh* | ||
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valheru
Australia966 Posts
On June 01 2011 20:45 Sebzou wrote: This one is extremely mild,, as in not racist at all.. It's just a guy dancing while eating chicken... *sigh* Sooo... you've never heard about the thing with black people and fried chicken? (I think it's fried chicken I'm not sure I am for Aus and it's an american thing I believe) But I think the advert is only racist if you are looking for something to be racist. | ||
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FractalsOnFire
Australia1756 Posts
Black Coffee - RACIST!!!! Dark Chocolate - RACIST!!!! That Black Guy - LOL UR SO RACIST!!! I like my tea black - RACIST!!! WHY BE SO RACIST FOR?!?! etc etc. How is that video even remotely racist anyway? It's just a black guy eating fried chicken while dancing... Also RIIIIIIBS! Black man's milk and cookies! | ||
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Skilledblob
Germany3392 Posts
On June 01 2011 20:42 veljanov wrote: in sweden we have theese chocolate balls that was always called neger(nigger)bollar(balls), but ofc that aint allowed any more for some quite good resons, just plain old choclate balls now. haha nice, we have something similar in germany, it's basically some cream with choclate over it so you can take it in the hand and it's called negerkuss ( niggerkiss ) ![[image loading]](http://www.pulster.de/info/info_bilder/negerkuss.jpg) | ||
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sob3k
United States7572 Posts
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TheDeli
France110 Posts
The best course of action for Cadbury PR is to explain that they didn't mean any harm through putting that advertisement (as in, they didn't aim to bully her in a public way) and didn't know / inadvertently blundered. Obviously, none of them is at fault as both had some legitimate course of thinking. She took offense because, in her culture, there was this. Cadbury ain't American, it's British! | ||
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Legatus Lanius
2135 Posts
in the worst case scenario, cadbury is making a joke about naomi having the same skin colour as a chocolate bar | ||
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Zinnwaldite
Norway1567 Posts
On June 01 2011 20:47 valheru wrote: Sooo... you've never heard about the thing with black people and fried chicken? (I think it's fried chicken I'm not sure I am for Aus and it's an american thing I believe) But I think the advert is only racist if you are looking for something to be racist. I think this + Show Spoiler + Some would even say if no black people were in the commercial it would be racist for not including any black people. If an asian guy dances while eating noodles,, would that be racist because noodles as food is a part of asian culture? I'd say no.. They are just people dancing while eating something they tend to enjoy as a culture.. | ||
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CortoMontez
Australia608 Posts
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Supamang
United States2298 Posts
On June 01 2011 20:45 Sebzou wrote: This one is extremely mild,, as in not racist at all.. It's just a guy dancing while eating chicken... *sigh* Its pretty interesting actually. Things that dont seem like insults will become insults when 90% of people around you are making fun of you because of it. Eating rice for most of my meals never seemed like a bad thing until most of the kids around me started pointing out that difference in culture in a not so nice way. but let me guess, youre a white guy living in a predominantly white country. you would never understand what its like having the people around you making fun of your culture and drawing out stereotypes | ||
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IMABUNNEH
United Kingdom1062 Posts
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Mykill
Canada3402 Posts
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bkrow
Australia8532 Posts
If you want to be treated as equal to your peers then you have to expect to be treated as equal to your peers.. right? Your skin colour is black, just like mine is white - get over it! Just because you are likened to a chocolate bar does not mean someone is trying to opress you. | ||
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Schwopzi
Netherlands954 Posts
On June 01 2011 20:56 Supamang wrote: Its pretty interesting actually. Things that dont seem like insults will become insults when 90% of people around you are making fun of you because of it. Eating rice for most of my meals never seemed like a bad thing until most of the kids around me started pointing out that difference in culture in a not so nice way. but let me guess, youre a white guy living in a predominantly white country. you would never understand what its like having the people around you making fun of your culture and drawing out stereotypes Ye because stereotyping only happens to people from a different racial background, not to people from uncommon backgrounds or whatever. Never has a kid been bullied because his parents are poor/crazy/farmers/whatever, and if it would happen it would in no way be comparable because it's whites bullying whites. DERP | ||
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Zinnwaldite
Norway1567 Posts
On June 01 2011 20:56 Supamang wrote: Its pretty interesting actually. Things that dont seem like insults will become insults when 90% of people around you are making fun of you because of it. Eating rice for most of my meals never seemed like a bad thing until most of the kids around me started pointing out that difference in culture in a not so nice way. but let me guess, youre a white guy living in a predominantly white country. you would never understand what its like having the people around you making fun of your culture and drawing out stereotypes Hm,, i would say my neighbourhood is 80% people from Pakistan, Somalia, Turkey and such places.. And it has happened that i've been taunted for eating meat from swine,,because they don't. Growing up me and my fellow ¨white¨ people were always called potatoes(for reasons i still don't understand). In school there has always been atleast a 40-60% ratio of people originally from where i live and people from other places, so i've spent most of my life in a place where i've racially been part of a minority,, and i have no issues with that. There are worse things out there than people dancing.. Everything that in some way singles out a race of people is not racist,, it's when a race is seen as a lower being the racism really kicks in. Culture is not the issue,, people are,, everything can be twisted to become negative. | ||
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Supamang
United States2298 Posts
On June 01 2011 21:04 Schwopzi wrote: Ye because stereotyping only happens to people from a different racial background, not to people from uncommon backgrounds or whatever. Never has a kid been bullied because his parents are poor/crazy/farmers/whatever, and if it would happen it would in no way be comparable because it's whites bullying whites. DERP Derp is right. how is your post in any way refuting my original argument? He said those stereotypes arent insults and therefore not racist. Im saying stereotyping is bad even if it doesnt seem like an insult in and of itself. You also say stereotyping is bad. Wtf? | ||
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Danjoh
Sweden405 Posts
On June 01 2011 20:42 veljanov wrote: in sweden we have theese chocolate balls that was always called neger(nigger)bollar(balls), but ofc that aint allowed any more for some quite good resons, just plain old choclate balls now. There was also a fuss about the "balls" part, so for a while every teacher and politically correct person told us they were now named "Chocolate kisses" Also, with the name change, some people took the liberty of changing the recipy also, so alot of times negerbollar != chokladbollar, wich makes me bitter =/ On June 01 2011 20:56 Supamang wrote: but let me guess, youre a white guy living in a predominantly white country. you would never understand what its like having the people around you making fun of your culture and drawing out stereotypes Let me tell you something, kids (especially) will find the slightest anomaly in a person and bully them for that. And if it continues long enough, they'll make stuff up and pretend it's unique to the person they're bullying. Skinny in a room full of fat people? Only person wearing glasses? Only girl that doesn't have curly hair? Shortest person in class? Only blonde in the class? Ugly shirt? A week late with adopting the newest hairstyle? etc... | ||
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