Can't Black Children Be 'little Monkeys' Also?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5245887/Critics-call-boycott-H-M-racist-advert.html

[andy-hughes]

spathi - // If you read that and associate the youthful boy like behaviour of a monkey to a skin colour, i'm afraid to say you are racist... //

That logic does not hold water.

Following that logic, if I see a swastika, and it gives me thoughts of the Thir Reich (which of course it does) that that makes me a Nazi - which it does not.

There is a tangible link between the use of the term 'monkey' as a racist epithet, and the use of a black child to advertise this product.

As I, and many others on the thread have pointed out, it's not the end of the world as we know it, but it was ill-advised and not properly thought through.

[emmie]

the ad people needed to think it through, they didn't, its as simple as that.

[Togo]

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[anotheoldgit]

Togo

As a white person I now feel offended.

[andy-hughes]

AOG - // As a white person I now feel offended. //

Then you are a member of a seriously large, planet-wide group!!!

[Togo]

^^As was the original point of the thread......just speak for yourself and things will not be so convoluted.

[Togo]

Ohhh forgot the !!!

[Spicerack]

I posted a long and brilliant, natch, answer on the NFL players 'taking the knee'.
Unfortunately I included 'monkey business' or 'monkeying around' or something.
Didn't for a moment connect that with the colour of most of the players.
Some mod or the editor did. It disappeared. Took me half a day to figure out why, lol.

[andy-hughes]

Spicerack - // Some mod or the editor did. It disappeared. Took me half a day to figure out why, lol. //

It's not possible to know the thoughts behind a deletion - you can only make assumptions, which are often well wide of the mark.