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Originally Posted by passthru
Back to the topic, if Swedes recognize the word nigger, then adding black to the product name was a total dumbass decision by the company who makes it. The design of the word 'black' on the product takes it a little bit further if you look at it a certain way. I don't think the product is racist but could definately be percieved as racially insensitive by many people.. I don't know how this got through all the phases of reviewing the design of a new product.
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Racially Insensitive? I guess my post above only touches on my true feelings about this... but seriously. If a black man is prejudice against a white man because ones ancestors may or may not have held the others ancestors in slavery, this is somehow not considered racially insensitive. If a white man holds it against a black man that he went to college for free using money put together by a black organization for black-only use that IS racially insensitive. Why aren't people just allowed to feel how they feel anymore? I'm not prejudice outside of the fact that I hate stupid people. You can be just as stupid, black or white (or yellow or red)... why the hell do people care what others do or don't like about people?
There was a post I commented on recently about fat being the last acceptable prejudice. What a crock. All people are prejudice of SOMETHING. It's human nature. You cannot avoid it. People who say they love everyone perfectly equally are likely lying to themselves and/or were tragically raised to believe that everyone is perfectly equal.
What's next? The Olympics being banned because it makes crippled people feel badly about themselves?