Picked this one up via LRB forums and Shanghaiist . It’s a recent campaign by Dior that visually treads the lines into racism against the Chinese. Interesting brand positioning “yes; ability to catch attention and stir conversations “yes”; creates loyalty and brand affinity “no”; and therein lies the rub; one little “no” can ruin any good campaign.
Now is Dior racist? Methinks not; however, e...
A Le Monde beszámolója szerint a gall Pintér Sándor "sárga és piros lapokat" szeretne felmutatni a francia bajkeverőknek a most induló bajnokságban, az "azonosítás - előállítás - akció" hangzatos hármas jelszó jegyében. A fő elv az "abszolút szigor", a legkisebb incidenst sem lesznek hajlandóak tolerálni (de sokszor hallottam már ezt!). A sárga lapos figyelmeztetés természetesen a kitiltást tak...
Growing up as a white girl in Pennsylvania, I was taught that being tan was beautiful. My wealthier classmates would go on vacations to Florida in the winter, coming back with the most glorious tans. And the moment that it started getting warm, everyone would spend excessive amounts of time outside in an effort to get as dark as possible. I hated this charade for completely banal reasons. Ther...
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Human Terrain System Leadership: Worst Ever? “They Don’t Give a Rat’s Ass Except for the Money”
by John Stanton
29 March 2010
Thanks to the work of Howard Altman of Tampa Bay Online , we now know that US Army 1/LT Brian Brennan is alive and well and pursuing life’s challenges with vigor. Brennan was the driver of the Humvee in which the late Michael Bhatia, a civilian Human T...
Telfair Museum, Savannah, Georgia. Photo: UGArdener via Flickr
Step One: Don’t talk about race. Don’t point out skin color. Be “color blind.”
Step Two: Actually, that’s it. There is no Step Two.
Congratulations! Your children are well on their way to believing that <insert your ethnicity here> is better than everybody else.
Surprised? So were authors Po Bronson and Ashley Me...
Telfair Museum, Savannah, Georgia. Photo: UGArdener via Flickr
Step One: Don’t talk about race. Don’t point out skin color. Be “color blind.”
Step Two: Actually, that’s it. There is no Step Two.
Congratulations! Your children are well on their way to believing that <insert your ethnicity here> is better than everybody else.
Surprised? So were authors Po Bronson and Ashley Me...
LEGO Skin (via Shobrick )
Adolf Hitler
Techno Bar & Cocktail show
There is a lovely park up the road. (Via Engrish Funny)
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Racism is believed to be the reason behind why so many immigrants in Norway feel oppressed at work, reveals a new survey. Migrants face frequent exclusion from their working community—and this lack of inclusion stems from differences in national or ethnic background, resulting in prejudice.
The study, by working researcher and psychology professor Stig Berge Matthiesen along with colleagues Mo...
I’m doing a regular weekly visualisation for the excellent Guardian Datablog , the front-end for an amazing library of statistics and data, lovingly hand-gathered by The Guardian.
My first post is about Deadly Drugs.
There’s been a furore over here in the UK about the dangers of illegal drugs. The Government has sacked its most senior drugs advisor, Dr Professor Nutt, after he claimed cann...
As the apologists all over the right wing blogs continue to focus on one or two disputed quotes, here’s a lengthy collection of racist and/or race-baiting quotes from Saint Rush Limbaugh — all of them verified, cited and attributed: Limbaugh: My racial views? You mean, my belief in a colorblind society?