10-06-2011, 09:14 AM
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Other than some branding violations and issues with using obama's image (or likeness) they could dodge the racist thing. unless maybe the theme is cotton fields and slavery or something.
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10-06-2011, 10:47 AM
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Why would it be racist? Black people aren't allowed to eat fried chicken? Fried chicken is fuggin' delicious.
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10-06-2011, 10:51 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Huntingwhale
Why would it be racist? Black people aren't allowed to eat fried chicken? Fried chicken is fuggin' delicious.
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If you use a stereotypical southern white guy that's not racist, but having a black "face of the brand" is racist? I get that they don't have permission, but I don't see how it's racist. They steal Mickey Mouse's image in China to sell knock off goods, and he's black, is that racist?
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10-06-2011, 11:00 AM
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Originally Posted by bizaro86
If you use a stereotypical southern white guy that's not racist, but having a black "face of the brand" is racist? I get that they don't have permission, but I don't see how it's racist. They steal Mickey Mouse's image in China to sell knock off goods, and he's black, is that racist?
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Absolutely it is!
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10-06-2011, 11:55 AM
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I hired a traffic controller for some road work that I was doing recently and the guy was black. We happened to be working close to a KFC and you could smell it really well where we were, and he was cracking jokes the whole time about how it was unfair to make a black man work so close to a fried chicken restaurant.
Another thing to keep in mind is that places like China didn't have African slavery or the civil rights movements. They probably don't understand the senstitive nature of black and white race issues.
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10-06-2011, 12:25 PM
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I'm still waiting for some news...
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10-06-2011, 01:11 PM
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Norm!
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10-06-2011, 01:22 PM
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Redundant Minister of Redundancy
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I'm offended. Offended! I say we march down there and throw bananas at them.
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10-06-2011, 02:33 PM
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Originally Posted by CrusaderPi
I'm offended. Offended! I say we march down there and throw bananas at them.
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Don't throw bananas at Chinese people, it doesn't mean anything to them. But be careful when you go there you may be run over by some lady who doesn't know how to drive!!
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10-06-2011, 02:35 PM
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Throw rice-a-roni. That'll fix 'em!
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10-06-2011, 02:42 PM
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Took an arrow to the knee
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Toronto
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They're the Chinese. They're zany. That, and they seem to fart and belch a lot in public here in Toronto; noticeably more than other ethnicities. Zany, I tell ya.
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10-06-2011, 02:51 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by lazypucker
Don't throw bananas at Chinese people, it doesn't mean anything to them. But be careful when you go there you may be run over by some lady who doesn't know how to drive!!
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Throw a banana at a chinese guy born in NA, and if he knows karate, you're fooked.
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10-06-2011, 11:41 PM
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Apparently a lot of people don't know it here, but yes, fried chicken is a stereotypical African American food/themed joke. There was a golfer who got in trouble years ago when after Tiger won one of the majors (I forget which one offers the winner the chance to choose the menu) joked that they would probably be having fried chicken and collard greens.
Now just how terrible this specific case is, is anyone's guess. Maybe the guys in charge just really like Obama. I think it's kinda funny, in that weird, getting an English product manual written by a Chinese person sort of way.
But yeah, it's like the banana thing, it's a racial stereotype. As I posted in that other thread though, maybe it's a good thing that the new generations don't know these things. Perhaps it's showing how far we're coming? I dunno. Usually if you point out the issue to someone who didn't know they stay away from it in the future, but it's not their fault for not knowing.
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10-06-2011, 11:45 PM
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Location: Calgary
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What? No waffles?
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10-06-2011, 11:54 PM
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Redundant Minister of Redundancy
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Fuzzy Zoeller.
Guess he wasn't fuzzy, was he?
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10-07-2011, 12:23 AM
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Just wait til someone opens Jintao's Manchu Wok
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10-07-2011, 12:27 AM
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Norm!
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Originally Posted by FlamingInfinity
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Shadup and finish your watermelon
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10-07-2011, 05:09 AM
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This is just a distraction so no one finds out the local swingers' club meets in the basement there.
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