http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/nyhete...631018,00.html
(Link is in swedish)
Ok, so this has to be the stupidest thing that ever happened here in Sweden.
For you non-swedes (Which I guess are most of you) here is a little background info.
Since the seventies, the biggest ice cream company here in Sweden has had an ice cream called 'Nogger'. It's called that since it contains nougat, and Nogger is pretty catchy name I suppose. So, for like 25 years, no one had a problem with that name, until just a few weeks ago when this ice cream company released a variant of it with a licorice cover. They called it Nogger Black, simple enough.
Suddenly, this ice cream is racist. It's called Nogger, which is similar to 'nigger', it's black (Like colored people!), and it has "cool ghetto text" which apparently is something black people deal with. Some group called 'Centre against racism' (Which I thought consisted of clever people) is all up in flames over this.
I didn't know what to say when I heard this.
1: First of all, as I said earlier, this ice cream has been called 'Nogger'
since the seventies, and in NO FUCKING WAY is it meant to be racist. Nigger isn't even a swedish word. Yes, I understand some people can see a connection between 'nogger' and 'nigger', but please! We're talking about ice cream here, nothing more!
2: It contains licorice, which is black. Yes, really. It is black, and I'm pretty sure its reason for being black is not to make fun of colored people.
So, what it all comes down to, people are getting upset...by an ice cream. I guess some people just have to be upset about something.
My question, am I being stupid? Should I be upset by this? Is this ice cream company an evil racist organisation? Am I blind or is this matter just plain stupid? I'm leaning towards the latter, what do you think?