H&M Racism storm

FoxEye said:
I can't believe nobody involved with this product spotted the potential ****storm coming.

Seriously? Even the photographer was probably wincing as he did the photo shoot.

It was so bloomin' obvious what the reaction would be, justified or not (in this case I think it's borderline justified - "monkey" is a well-known taunt when used against black people).
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Probable plot twist.

Photographer is black.
Marketing exec is black.
Clothes designer is black.
Offended parties are white.
 
Tweet from someone called Tariq Naheed.

As far as this racist #HM ad, the people of the H & M company knew EXACTLY what they were doing and they anticipated the backlash. This is their coded way of tapping into the white supremacist demographic. Racists buy clothes too, and these companies want those bigoted dollars

Just wow...
 
Zatoichi.uK said:
Tweet from someone called Tariq Naheed.

As far as this racist #HM ad, the people of the H & M company knew EXACTLY what they were doing and they anticipated the backlash. This is their coded way of tapping into the white supremacist demographic. Racists buy clothes too, and these companies want those bigoted dollars

Just wow...
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What a fool.
 
Zatoichi.uK said:
Tweet from someone called Tariq Naheed.

As far as this racist #HM ad, the people of the H & M company knew EXACTLY what they were doing and they anticipated the backlash. This is their coded way of tapping into the white supremacist demographic. Racists buy clothes too, and these companies want those bigoted dollars

Just wow...
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Tariq is a racist.
 
Zatoichi.uK said:
Tweet from someone called Tariq Naheed.

As far as this racist #HM ad, the people of the H & M company knew EXACTLY what they were doing and they anticipated the backlash. This is their coded way of tapping into the white supremacist demographic. Racists buy clothes too, and these companies want those bigoted dollars

Just wow...
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Whoa, whoa, whoa, hold your horses chap. He might be right. Let's just see if H&M release a camo and jackboots range before jumping to conclusions.

I am not serious.
 
MookJong said:
If you want to stop a black child wearing that hoody then you are a racist. How would you explain to the poor lad that he shouldn't be wearing it? "Sorry son you're too black?" How disgusting is that!
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Obviously those won't be the exact words used but I'd expect the parent to explain it to the kid in the wider context of society.

Zatoichi.uK said:
If someone in the PR department potentially saw this coming and sent an email stating not to put the black kid in the monkey hoodie, wouldn't that also be racist?
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Nope.

Jamauk said:
I actually don't understand some of the things that are considered racist. The "N" word. It's considered racist if a white person says it to anyone, but if a black person says it to another black person it's fine.
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Spot on. If you're not black why would you even want to say it?
 
antijoke said:
Well. that's a view and a half.
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Just because some one finds something offensive, so what?
What do you expect to happen, change it, what if I find your change offensive, then what?

It's in the mind of the person that's offended no where else, it's for them to deal with not everybody else.
 
LabR@t said:
Just because some one finds something offensive, so what?
What do you expect to happen, change it, what if I find your change offensive, then what?

It's in the mind of the person that's offended no where else, it's for them to deal with not everybody else.
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I got offended so badly once that I needed antibiotics
 
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