Thread: Dunkin’ Donuts draws rebuke over ‘racist’ ad campaign in Thailand

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I do not see anything wrong with the poster or TV advert really.

Originally Posted by Zooheekock

I thought the advertisement was somewhat (though, compared to some of the shit you see on Thai TV, not excessively) racist. The chocolate = black person angle, combined with a bizarre revival of the Black and White Minstrel Show, is a little distasteful and it trades off some stereotypes which would be better left to die of neglect. It also shows an impressive lack of creativity but it's far from being the worst you see. What gives the complaint more bite is the fact that it's such a big company doing it on such a scale.

If we stopped saying everything is racist maybe the word and thought would go away.

Well, if everyone stopped using the word then, by definition, the word would go away but that wouldn't stop people being racist.

Do you think we can stop people from being racist not all of them ever but in the future with all the inter marriage maybe in 10,000 yrs or so we will all be the same color...

And the color of you skin does not make you who you are that is through upbringing and education.

Originally Posted by afghanpicker

Originally Posted by Zooheekock

I thought the advertisement was somewhat (though, compared to some of the shit you see on Thai TV, not excessively) racist. The chocolate = black person angle, combined with a bizarre revival of the Black and White Minstrel Show, is a little distasteful and it trades off some stereotypes which would be better left to die of neglect. It also shows an impressive lack of creativity but it's far from being the worst you see. What gives the complaint more bite is the fact that it's such a big company doing it on such a scale.

If we stopped saying everything is racist maybe the word and thought would go away.

Well, if everyone stopped using the word then, by definition, the word would go away but that wouldn't stop people being racist.

Do you think we can stop people from being racist not all of them ever but in the future with all the inter marriage maybe in 10,000 yrs or so we will all be the same color...

And the color of you skin does not make you who you are that is through upbringing and education.

Education.

What sort of education might we be talking of?

Phil Robertson

Your racism theory is full of holes.

Originally Posted by Rural Surin

Education. What sort of education might we be talking of?

Brainwashing

Lot of old cock, fuck all racist about that!

I'd put money on it being a dogooder white clown that decided it was and if you ask any black people they'd see nothing wrong at all...

How can racialism be combatted when Niggers, Niggaz or Niggahs go around calling each other Nigger, Nigga, or Niggah?

They should use a picture of a fat American cop to sell donuts.

Originally Posted by Mid

Human Rights Watch's deputy Asia director Phil Robertson told the Associated Press: "It's both bizarre and racist that Dunkin' Donuts thinks that it must color a woman's skin black and accentuate her lips with bright pink lipstick to sell a chocolate doughnut."

Roberts had also demanded that the company offer an apology and immediately yank the print and TV campaign.

doesn't HRW deputy Asia director have better things to do like exposing actual Human abuses in the region like Cambodia or Burma ?

Originally Posted by Bung

They should use a picture of a fat American cop to sell donuts.

preferably a black cop,

What a stupid over-reaction. She eats a chocolate donut and loves it so much on the second bite she becomes chocolate herself. I guess the company figured they were just better off just yanking it than trying to explain the simple idea to the shrieking minority.

Dunkin donuts should have an ad for a hansum man donut in the usa featuring a tattood pole dancing slant eyed buck toothed thick lipped brown girl in a bikini eating one and saying " me ruv you rong time" and see how long it takes the thais to complain.

Anyone who has been in Thailand for more than 24 hours and isn't thick as hell would know turning your skin dark on purpose is an inconceivably negative proposition and good marketing wouldn't even sniff at suggesting it. It's quite obvious--in an odd way, but eye of the beholder, I suppose--that this is an artistic statement that indicates the young woman likes the new donut so much that she unconsciously undergoes some kind of chameleon-like transformation to resemble the donut. IF it were racist, it would be racist in the Thai sense, and since that doesn't help DD's campaign to equate eating the charcoal donut with appearing as/changing to a hideously ugly peasant, WTF are these idiots talking about?

^Wasn't that in the movie Snakes On A Plane?

Originally Posted by hazz

An advertising image that I find bazaar and has certainly preventing me from even looking at their products.

You must find this truly horrifying.

Is this racist too?

Human rights make money from complaining about these trivia matters.

Sad world really,

you lot must take care with your tan, a shade to dark and your foked

Originally Posted by Jesus Jones

Is this racist too?

Human rights make money from complaining about these trivia matters.

Perhaps Coal Miners are Racist as well?



How 'bout rock & roll bands too?

You have to laugh

A company selling thoroughly unhealthy food uses a girl with a chocolate covered face to promote their product which will add to obesity and diabetes...and the only fuss is over racial undertones in their advertising.

was it a black dog that dropped that humungous turd on her head ?

Originally Posted by hazz

^^Your not missing a thing really.

This imaginary can only really be seen as racism if your believe that the simple use of the color black with anything human or anything negative as racism. And I have come across a few people who so sincerely believe this, and I would describe them as a loud fringe group who seem to confuse xenophobia and racism which are two entirely different things.

In both the advert and the poster it is quite clear the colour has been derived from the doughnut that it is promoting. The only exploitation that is taking place here, is the exploitation of our brains hardwired interest in nopvelty. There is absolutely no way anyone who is not blind could walk past this distorted image of a face without giving it a look. Something artists and marketers have been exploiting for centuries.

What HRW have done here, is label a company and more importantly an artist as racist with absolutely nothing to back them up. McCarthyism at its worst, personally if I were that artist I would be going after HRW and those who made the claim for defamation... let them explain their rational to a jury and judge as a false accusation of racism is second only to pedophillia in terms of the harm it does a person.

Excellent points.

There are a lot of stupid people out there.