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The top one could be. Out of context of the other three, it looks a little racist.
The top one could be. Out of context of the other three, it looks a little racist.
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I think that if they were trying to do a \"black v white\" theme with these ads, it would have worked better against a neutral gray background.
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Just use the standard European excuse that they don't really understand racism over there. Would have been easy to reverse the races and keep the costumes and hair --- would have gotten the point across and avoided the flak.
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Really good idea, to put the black person in the white costume and vice versa. Much better than what they did.
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here's why this isn't racist. It has nothing to do with establishing one race as better than another. At best, it says that maybe the white psp will kick the black psp's butt, or dominate it sexually, or something. It's about game systems, not people. If it were about people, the copy would read \"This white girl is better than this black girl, see?\" Once again, lets fight the racism where it exists in real life, and stop making it up where it's convenient to poke at it and burn it under a microscope.
Only racists would see this as racist. That's what I say. And if you don't like it, you're a dumb-ass racist. Racist.
\"...White is coming\"
And Black got to come first.
Where's the racism?
If anything, this may be sexually-charged affirmative action.
...Whatever that means.
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Uuuhhgggg... Offense-feigning, whiney Eurotwats.
Can't wait to see the X-box vs. X-box campaign.
I think that this is racist if you come from a background where black people are looked at as inferior. So, you go, \"wow, that white lady's giving it to the black lady! how typical!\"
Being American, and taught endlessly that black people have been subjugated for hundreds of years (which is true), I looked at that poster and said, \"Whoa.\"
But maybe if you live somewhere that black people are thought of as like everyone else (as opposed to, say, muslims) you'd be scratching your head.
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Who started that racism crap - Mayor Ray Nagin from New Orleans ? No ? OK, Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson ?
Completely racist, in any culture in which dark-skinned people have been subordinate to light-skinned ones (which is pretty much every Western and African culture).
DeeJayQueue must be coming from another planet to say that this illustration is \"just about game systems\" and lacks any racial components.
Inane, two hot chicks fighting each other, sounds more like accurate marketing towards their core audience.