But I love, is that it was an Ojibwe woman that was illustrated by an Ojibwe. It was done out of honor and respect…
Then someone decided to get rid of her… Feel free to read into that.
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glitchdx@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Reminds me of land o lakes butter. They got rid of the indian but they kept the land.
CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 5 months ago
HawlSera@lemm.ee 5 months ago
This, the woman behind Aunt Jemima has a pretty progressive history as well. This just reaks of the usual problems we get from Liberal Virtue Signalling. Creating something incredibly offensive in a poor attempt to be less offensive.
Remember when Cartoon Network discontinued Speedy Gonzales because white people called the character racist, only to reinstate him when Latino and Hispanic watchers were like “Where’s the only Looney Tune that represents us in anyway?”
FMT99@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Some company decided to change their logo because it looks dated and might give the wrong impression. How is this even an issue?
HawlSera@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I know, I’m not saying I support the Republicans, but the Democrats don’t actively want me dead so I reluctantly support them. However, I do ask people acknowledge the difference between Leftists and Liberals.
CraigeryTheKid@lemm.ee 5 months ago
THAT is absolutely the same “point” I made when I first saw it?!!
Ok, so, the person was bad to show, I guess, but now it’s an even better analogy to what the settlers did…
saltesc@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I honestly don’t know why “it’s bad to show”. Like, if the person on the packet isn’t a white man, it’s bad.
We had these growing up in Australia…
Like, that I get now, but it’s worth pointing out no kid in Australia obviously even knew what a “redskin” was. Hell, I thought Comanches and Apaches were snakes because of the Huey Cobra.
Wait a second… Oh my god, just realised a Blackhawk isn’t named after a hawk, this is also a native American peoples. Like the NHL team, duh. And that’s my wife’s second fav team because she thinks it’s a cool logo and “I’m glad they’re repping the native Americans.”
See?
Anyway, I strayed from my point. I really like seeing other cultures on stuff. Seems a shame to remove that stuff, kind of disingenuous or disrespectful. If there’s a dark history, no one’s researching that, they’re more interested in other things like buttering some toast and then deciding to put a documentary about native Americans on because of the cool image.
todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 5 months ago
I really like seeing other cultures on stuff. Seems a shame to remove that stuff, kind of disingenuous or disrespectful.
This would be true if what you were seeing was culturally representative. “Redskin” is a racial slur and the images on that package are racist caricatures. All of it was created by white men, using Native Americans as mascot for their product.
These images were not created by or for Native Americans, and they are racist and insulting.
The most disrespectful thing you could do is to keep using images like this. The most disingenuous thing you could do is argue that they earnestly represent the cultures they depict.
saltesc@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I don’t see how that’s racism. There’s no discrimination of traits, assertion of superiority or inferiority of races, and it’s actually being used to help sell a product and brand identity which requires.positivity.and.attraction from others.
Culturally inappropriate? Sure, could be. That’s up to that culture to determine and advise though.
roguetrick@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Maybe if your only reference to a culture is an insulting one, they’d rather you not have an impression at all. Though I dunno much about Australia. That bunch of bogans seem to like people to think bad about them.
saltesc@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That’s actual light racism, mate 👍
HawlSera@lemm.ee 5 months ago
This is pretty much how I feel about it. Heck my ancestry is French and I’m still salty as hell over Pepe LePew vanishing from existence.
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 5 months ago
As is tradition.
samus12345@lemmy.world 5 months ago
They ruined it!
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EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
Bart Simpson made that joke once, I think they cut it out of future re-runs because religious zealots got mad about it.
samus12345@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Ah, so he did! I’d forgotten about that. The first time I saw it was in a Beavis and Butt-head comic.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 months ago
My dad did that in the late 70s and had it inside one of our kitchen cabinets for basically my whole childhood.