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MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 9 months agoWell, the Sun-Maid girl is clearly working a job that’s mostly done by immigrants from the south these days, so using a white woman instead of a brown one denies them representation. But using a brown woman would also be racist because it would perpetuate harmful stereotypes… hm, what to do?
Little Debbie is clearly a child. Do you want children to be exploited for marketing purposes?
At least a Quakers are historically against war and slavery, so I guess he can stay.
Quakers are also who gave us the “puritanical work ethic” that plagues our society as we try to adapt to a more convenient era of work.
Either way you’re just being a pendantic smart ass about this, so you’re definitely just some shithead right wing troll looking for rage bait.
Quakers may have perpetuated this concept as well, I’m not sure, but this is literally named after the Puritans, not Quakers
Alright, guess he guess to go as well, then.
Protestant work ethic.
Always thought the Sun-Maid mascot was Hispanic, but so am I.
Well if she’s hispanic, that’s clearly racist because it associates brown people with low-paid manual labor. (semi /s)
Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 9 months ago
As a European (we had slavery, made more wars than you can imagine and have probably the worst history you can’t even imagine) nice try locking people up in “black” vs “white”.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 9 months ago
Literally every culture on earth has practiced slavery at one time or another. Europeans were actually the first to abolish it.
Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 9 months ago
Let’s stop making “racial” (there is only one human race) stereotypes then.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 9 months ago
So we get rid of the people on the right as well? Because those are stereotypes as well.
BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I hope you’re willing to learn because that is historically incorrect. The first nation to abolish slavery was Hati around a decade before the first European country (Denmark). That is if we are talking abolish and keep abolished in all territories controlled. Persia is possibly the first country recorded to have used slaves but they would have periods of “abolishment” which were probably good for causing slave revolts in new areas they were thinking of conquering. Arguably the first country to have and to abolish slavery.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 9 months ago
Ah yes, if we pick and choose our definitions, we can get pretty much any outcome we want, can’t we.
Haiti didn’t abolish slavery as much as revolt against it (by killing all the slave owners), and they didn’t even manage to keep it abolished for very long, as it’s currently one of the worst countries on earth with regards to child slavery.
Is that really the hero you want to choose?
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 9 months ago
so what do you want, a fucking cookie?
like you were involved with the effort and take such pride in your works?
this is such a bullshit post by someone who’s obviously racebaiting and loving every second of it. ignore the chuds people.
MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 9 months ago
No, I’m just pointing out that “they practiced slavery” isn’t an argument you can just throw at any race or nationality in particular without inflicting massive self-damage.