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Shoe company Converse removed a social media ad after public backlash that the imagery resembled a hanging figure alongside a Ku Klux Klan member.
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This is an absolute reach. This is like when Serena Williams got offended by a cotton tree decoration in a hotel. I'm able to call out racism when I see it but this shit is RIDICULOUS. I've watched this so many times and I don't see it. Now they'll be ready to cancel the girl in the commercial.
Anyone who understands art understands that this was 100% deliberate on the side of the artist. It's possible the CEOs were ignorant and stupid but the artists damn sure knew what they were evoking
Black History education is important. Educate your staff!
Absolutely ridiculous. <br>Some people will be offended by everything. <br>They wake up looking for shit to be offended by.
This is most definitely a “I’m sorry if that offended you” situation. To suggest it was on purpose is absolutely insane. <br><br>This kind of hysterical over reaction attributing malice where there’s no proof of any does <b>nothing</b> but give ammunition to right wing media.
Come on now... I’m liberal, but this is ridiculous. It’s literally just a shadow. Reaching this hard just gives actual racists free ammunition to mock us.
Is her arm supposed to be the body of the hanged person? 'Cause all I see are a pair of shoes
Lololol wuttttt
Not everyone automatically sees violence in imaging.. i think it's a stretch.
If you crop the photo and zoom in on the Converse tennis shoe… They’re black
Companies need to stop apologizing for this stuff. Obviously it's not the intention. Take it down if you must, but don't start saying that you messed up because the only thing happening here is people are twisting an innocuous ad into something it's not.
if i draw a few lines on a mcdonals ad, it does start looking a lot like the early 40s... they gotta explain that
Look, im all for being culturally aware. But if you are looking that far in to be offended then please reevaluate your life.
Im about ready to go and live alone in the wilderness. This modern world is worthless
Converse could have seen this …bit obvious …
It’s called subliminal messaging.
BS... Karina is hot. Maybe because she is not a fatso?
This is totally absurd if you believe and live your whole life as a vi¢tim you're going to be a vi¢tim to your own self @buse
I would really like breakdowns of "social media outrage" to find out if there are real people behind any of it. I did look up the congress person actually published this complaint. But this one seems so absurd to me. Im black for what thats worth and this feels disrespectul to the word racism...
IMHO, until one can walk in someone else's shoes, personally I would hold my perspective judgement of how someone else may see something as offensive...but then again, that's just me; 'to each their own' 🤷🏻♀️😉
who the f is in their marketing dept?
How utterly ridiculous to make an issue out of this. People need to tend their own biscuits. So much nonsense in the world anymore.
I don't see it.
Sorry means get over it in today’s world.
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I’m sorry……but I didn’t see anything resembling what they are seeing.
I don’t see anything, maybe someone can outline the figures for me?
So now the laces on shoes are racist? Unbelievable. Here's something racist: roads... the white lines show people the way as they drive around on black roads.<br>I guess anything can be racist.
Fuck converse.
If I close my eyes I see a McDonalds ad. THEY MUST EXPLAIN THIS!…
Schizophrenic
Anything that reminds any of us of any atrocity should be avoided no matter how well intenttioned we are , afterall alllll are humans and all need to be woke and respectful .
If you live your life though a racist viewpoint you’ll be angry at literal shoes
People...GET A LIFE!!!
....What? That's just how the light hits her clothes. Who spends this much time dissecting ads? lol
You guys have crazy ass NEGATIVE imagination. Stay out of my life you idiots.
The demand for racism far exceeds the actual supply
Tell me your a victim without saying your a victim. 😂😂😂😂😂
I’m sorry but call me blind and I’m a black man I don’t see nothing racist it’s just someone holding a shoe 🤷🏽♂️
We got stupid people asking why a shadow looks like something they have in their head
The image is so bad and yet you can show us??? 😂 if you crop googly eyes it looks like a face too.
What will the Son of LVMH’s Goup and Mister <a href="http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%23arnault">#Arnault</a> himself to repent on what he did and do for Humans and Animals?!? It is time to stop and tell the True Reality as too many customers don’t know it and still promote the Bad Faith that runs some Big Industries. Thanks for your time and my Opinion belongs to Me 😊! Thanks 🙏
This should be an Onion video. Was there really any intent here?
If I squint my eyes I can also see a church steeple…wtf, this is absurdity run amok.
The radical left
What?
Victims being victims
I don't see it ? <br>I have my glasses on 🧐
... if you crop the photo ... <br><br>Ridiculous
Huh? I’m really struggling to see the alleged imagery here. If Convers sneakers were somehow associated with lynchings already, sure, I can see how this ad could be construed that way, but I’m not aware of any existing association. That Congressman should really take a hard look in the mirror because claiming racism where there isn’t any actually hurts Black people. That combined with his over-the-top rhetoric is frankly embarrassing for him.
I enjoyed the ad I did not see anything wrong with it I went through the video a lot so I saw nothing so people are seeing something different the eye can create optical illusions go read a book I would have left it woke 1era dumb shit out of here
May converse sneakers go the way of the KKK and hide in the darkest of night like roaches and bedbugs. Sad but extremely factual 😪 😔 😕
Who wears those outdated sneakers anyway? 😂😂😂
What a load of bullshit.
Jesus Christ they find racism in everything
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