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Title: Stupidity knows no limits
Post by: RoadKingLarry on October 09, 2017, 07:56:15 AM

Someone once said that the difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has limits.

https://www.thewrap.com/dove-apologizes-racist-soap-ad-turned-black-woman-white/ (https://www.thewrap.com/dove-apologizes-racist-soap-ad-turned-black-woman-white/)

 :facepalm:

Even this poor ole dumb hillbilly can see where that would ruffle a few feathers.

Title: Re: Stupidity knows no limits
Post by: HankB on October 09, 2017, 10:02:49 AM

LONG history of racist ads like that . . . and those idiots in marketing STILL can't learn!  :facepalm:

This one popped up just recently:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2016/may/28/chinese-detergent-advert-black-man-washed-different-colour-video (https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2016/may/28/chinese-detergent-advert-black-man-washed-different-colour-video)

And here's a vintage ad from quite a few decades ago when racism was common in advertising:
(https://thoughtcatalog.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/kaufmann-mercantile-com.jpeg?resize=600,440&quality=95&strip=all&crop=1)

Sheer stupidity to put out ads which will alienate so much of your potential customer base - Dove needs to fire the people responsible, including whatever executive signed off on that ad.