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All this pandering is just sugar coating the real problem. That's the one thing I really hate about America is the PC culture is so awful here. You go to any other country, people are more assertive about what they say without fear of being labeled some stupid PC acronym they have here. Outside the US, it is perfectly cool to say any word in English or native language without fear of being called out by people or the media.
Who cares? A company can do what it wants with it's products/logos/labels. A company changing a logo on some syrup is not "going too far". A man getting fired from his job because he was supposedly making a white power symbol as he was cracking his knuckles, and some idiot took a pic and posted it on his social media? THAT is what is going too far. Knocking down statues of our founding fathers? Going too far. Rioting, looting, destroying neighborhoods? Going too far. Syrup labels? eh.
Sleepy Joe says your going to be back in chains !!! So that's how you will go on all the way to the breakfast table !!! The cry bullies want their bucket of tears and they will have it one way or another !!!
Does he? Does he say, "Your (sic) going to be back in chains?" I'm pretty sure he's smarter than that.
That ad hasn't been around for decades. It is a pic of the much modified Aunt Jemima that is being removed from the products. I challenge anyone to tell me what is offensive with the current Aunt Jemima because I just don't see it.
Anyone, from any culture, can dig into the past and find something offensive to themselves.
Quaker Oats announced it will replace and rename its breakfast brand something else, because it has been accused of perpetuating a racial stereotype. Now we're getting ridiculous. Should we change the Quaker Oats image to reflect a faceless profile rather than an old white conservative religious man? That's a racial stereotype as well. How far is this going to go?
Who cares? A company can do what it wants with it's products/logos/labels. A company changing a logo on some syrup is not "going too far". A man getting fired from his job because he was supposedly making a white power symbol as he was cracking his knuckles, and some idiot took a pic and posted it on his social media? THAT is what is going too far. Knocking down statues of our founding fathers? Going too far. Rioting, looting, destroying neighborhoods? Going too far. Syrup labels? eh.
Ah the slippery slope of "who cares ?"
Well go ahead and don't care. And keep "don't caring" as more and more things get removed or renamed.
But one day you will care but by then it will be too late.
That ad hasn't been around for decades. It is a pic of the much modified Aunt Jemima that is being removed from the products. I challenge anyone to tell me what is offensive with the current Aunt Jemima because I just don't see it.
Anyone, from any culture, can dig into the past and find something offensive to themselves.
The name is a racial slur and a slave reference. It's a stereotype. The "mammy" was an enslaved person, required to care for her master's children while not being able to care for her own. There's no need for this depiction on a bottle of syrup. What possible benefit is there, other than to people who don't want things to change?
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