Spongbob Sambopants

[Nie Trink Wasser]

AN UN-FUNNY VALENTINE: Greeting card picture evokes race stereotype

http://www.freep.com/features/living/sponge13_20040213.htm

http://www.freep.com/art/2004/feb/13/sponge.jpg

[Upchurch]

Well, that was an unfortunate mistake.

[kittynh]

I always wonder WHAT the people in China who make this stuff think....

even a yellow spounge bob would make people go, "OK, maybe communism isn't so bad..."

[Upchurch]

Originally posted by kittynh
I always wonder WHAT the people in China who make this stuff think....You know, I have too.

I imagine some poor barefoot worker putting together a pair of $150 sneakers. Or some mother putting together cheap plastic McDonald's toy for our kids when she's struggling to feed hers.

Maybe that's an out-dated steriotype. I hope it is.

[shecky]

Originally posted by kittynh
I always wonder WHAT the people in China who make this stuff think....


Me, too. I found this ridiculous little toy at the $.99 Store, a half dog-half cat, kinda grafted together in the middle. I think it's a tie-in to some cartoon. I could imagine workers in the factory seeing this stuff and saying "WTF is this supposed to be!?!"

[epepke]

Originally posted by kittynh
I always wonder WHAT the people in China who make this stuff think....

Before or after they brush their teeth with Darkie toothpaste?

(Not to the uninitiated: Darkie is a brand of toothpaste popular throughout Asia. Sometimes it is labeled as Darlie toothpaste. The logo is a stylized caricature of a smiling black man dressed in 1930s formal attire. It is occasionally possible to find tubes of this toothpaste sold in Asian grocery stores in the United States.)

[Ed]

Originally posted by epepke


Before or after they brush their teeth with Darkie toothpaste?

(Not to the uninitiated: Darkie is a brand of toothpaste popular throughout Asia. Sometimes it is labeled as Darlie toothpaste. The logo is a stylized caricature of a smiling black man dressed in 1930s formal attire. It is occasionally possible to find tubes of this toothpaste sold in Asian grocery stores in the United States.)

Another fine product, incidentially, from our devil worhipping friends at P&G.:D

[Ed]

welllllllllllll, lookie hea:

http://www.prmuseum.com/kendrix/gifs/darkie2.jpg

[Tony]

From a marketing standpoint, isn't "Darkie" as a name for toothpaste a bad idea?

[Silicon]

I always brush with "Whitey".

[VicDaring]

I hate Whitey.

[NightG1]

Originally posted by shecky


Me, too. I found this ridiculous little toy at the $.99 Store, a half dog-half cat, kinda grafted together in the middle. I think it's a tie-in to some cartoon. I could imagine workers in the factory seeing this stuff and saying "WTF is this supposed to be!?!"

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