Submitted 8 months ago by MacNCheezus@lemmy.today to [deleted]
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Hell yeah, get rid of ALL the people while we’re at it!
Uncle ben is a brontosaurus Aunt Jemima is now a giraffe Little debbie is little ducky Quaker oats has a giant sentient, “THE Quaker oat” Sunmaid is the literal sun in a french maid outfit And of course land o lakes should be the lochness monster or some similar native american cryptid.
I would be okay with this.
Only people that are racist have no idea why the figures on the left are racist and not those on the right.
Only people that have no ability to think for themselves have a need to put others into categories of acceptability based on what the dominant culture around them thinks instead of judging them based on their individual merits.
What if someone’s judgement of your individual merits just happens to agree with the dominant culture around them? Or is that not possible? Does the ability to think for ones self necessarily lead to disagreement with whatever is commomly believed? I think that would just be dumbass contrarianism.
You’re genuinely saying that those on the right aren’t racist?
I’ll be honest, this comment section is confusing. Every comment I read makes me feel bad about myself and I’m not sure which comment is agreeing with which.
I still think it’s bad to put slaves on your products but why am I supposed to feel bad about the white people?
I’m just gonna say… I don’t really think this was the kind of media representation were looking for. Or needed. Or found helpful in any way.
From that article:
“The character of Aunt Jemima is an invitation to white people to indulge in a fantasy of enslaved people — and by extension, all of Black America — as submissive, self-effacing, loyal, pacified and pacifying,” Twitty wrote in a recent NBC Think essay. “It positions Black people as boxed in, prepackaged and ready to satisfy; it’s the problem of all consumption, only laced with racial overtones.”
This piece is interesting but even the relatives understand the imagery to be racist.
Fuckin chud thinking removing racist depictions is somehow bad.
If you flip around the capitalized letters in your username, it spells VikingHet, which is clearly a white supremacist and anti-LGBT dog whistle.
I notice that a lot of people make sense of life using a series of rules. “if X then that means Y!” I think they’re bad at sussing out what’s right by reading the room, and they also can’t make sense of a complex world. They just default to thinking of the world as if we’re in a video game. It’s like they lack empathy or the ability to read humans or something.
Whom exactly is this directed at?
Probably written by ChatGPT.
DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.world 8 months ago
This feels like one of those right wing memes that could go either way, but let’s break it down like this Uncle Ben and Aunt Jamima are both domestic servants, do you think that’s an appropriate mascot for a company? Do you think black folks want them as some of their oldest icons?
Land of lakes also has a stereotypically dressed native woman who probably wouldn’t dress like that at all even back in the day.
I get that most people couldn’t give a shit either way but when you use your brain to think about how messed up presumably white owned companies are for using slaves and genocided people as their logos or mascots is pretty fucked.
AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Mia, the Land o Lakes butter maiden, is actually rather interesting, at least the modern version they got rid of. The artist was a member of the Red Lake Chippewa and the design included traditional Ojibwe floral motifs. Yeah, it needed to go, but it wasn’t the worst by a long shot.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 8 months ago
I just love the idea of a native american being iconfied for… butter.
like, wow, that’s so very, very native and authentic - butter.
I get it, it’s the land-o-lakes, minnesota, and they take butter fucking serious folks, they make it, they eat it, they sculpt it, so yeah, they’re REALLY into butter… but why the stolen iconography? why associate the native americans, who didn’t domesticate cows, with butter of all things?
like what the actual fuck was the line of thought?
wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 8 months ago
Uncle Ben is supposedly based upon a southern maitre d. Aunt Jemima though, undoubtedly problematic.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 8 months ago
TIL
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben's_Original
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 8 months ago
Well, the Sun-Maid girl is clearly working a job that’s mostly done by immigrants from the south these days, so using a white woman instead of a brown one denies them representation. But using a brown woman would also be racist because it would perpetuate harmful stereotypes… hm, what to do?
Little Debbie is clearly a child. Do you want children to be exploited for marketing purposes?
At least a Quakers are historically against war and slavery, so I guess he can stay.
DigitalTraveler42@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Quakers are also who gave us the “puritanical work ethic” that plagues our society as we try to adapt to a more convenient era of work.
Either way you’re just being a pendantic smart ass about this, so you’re definitely just some shithead right wing troll looking for rage bait.
Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 8 months ago
As a European (we had slavery, made more wars than you can imagine and have probably the worst history you can’t even imagine) nice try locking people up in “black” vs “white”.
lewdian69@lemmy.world 8 months ago
You are in a shitposting community friend.
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I’m not making a statement about the post, but “it’s just shit posting” is a reeeeaaal good way to turn this place into a nazi bar. Not calling OP a nazi, just saying that this argument right here is chum in the water for them