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Converse ad drawing fire over racism claim
Posted on 9/21/26 at 9:34 am
Posted on 9/21/26 at 9:34 am
quote:boredpanda
Karina held the sneakers by their laces at her side, leaving them hanging against the white background. Some viewers said the shoes resembled the feet of a person hanging in a lynching.
Lynching refers to the slaying of a person by a mob outside the legal system, and thousands of Black Americans were victims of lynching in the United States, often through hanging.
Actress Yvette Nicole Brown was among those who immediately questioned the imagery.
“That’s a lynching, yes? … AND a Klan robe,” she wrote.
“We can see the symbolism from a mile Away”, another user said.
The reaction was far from unanimous, however. Some netizens strongly disagreed with the comparison.
“This is stupid — it looks nothing like a symbol of the K*K. People need to get a life,” one person wrote.
Another questioned the lynching comparison, writing, “A lynching? I don’t see a rope, a tree, or even feet off the ground.”
This is about the dumbest one I've ever seen.
Posted on 9/21/26 at 9:41 am to bigjoe1
The last national news story of a person hanged... was committed by a black man.
This is a fine opportunity to remind 'the community' of that.
This is a fine opportunity to remind 'the community' of that.
Posted on 9/21/26 at 9:42 am to bigjoe1
That is pathetic.
Talk about fragile.
Talk about fragile.
Posted on 9/21/26 at 9:42 am to bigjoe1
Well, we have stupidity and outrage covered for this week.
Posted on 9/21/26 at 9:43 am to bigjoe1
quote:
Lynching refers to the slaying of a person by a mob outside the legal system, and thousands of Black Americans were victims of lynching in the United States, often through hanging.
You know who they hanged a lot more of? Whites.
This is so moronic it doesn't deserve bandwidth. Hanging doesn't have a race. People were being hanged before Judas.
A rope and a high place make a good way to kill a man, color be damned
Posted on 9/21/26 at 9:44 am to bigjoe1
When everything is racist, nothing is racist.
Posted on 9/21/26 at 9:45 am to Snipe
quote:Correct
When everything is racist, nothing is racist
Posted on 9/21/26 at 9:45 am to SpotCheckBilly
Not nearly as good as Macy's Hitler Teapot ad years ago.
Posted on 9/21/26 at 9:46 am to bigjoe1
The most absurd angle of this entire thing is that it's an ad in Korea for the Korean market. Pretty sure that the KKK and the whole lynching thing was pretty non-existent for blacks in Korea.
Posted on 9/21/26 at 9:46 am to bigjoe1
Pathetic fools will continue to find offense in anything and everything
Posted on 9/21/26 at 9:49 am to bigjoe1
quote:
Actress Yvette Nicole Brown
I for one think it’s a good thing when idiots out themselves as people who are never to be taken seriously.
Posted on 9/21/26 at 9:51 am to bigjoe1
The ad:
What the race-baiters see:
They had to actually draw out what they saw in order for the rest of the people to see what the frick they were talking about.
Anyone trying to perpetrate that as anything other than just an ad trying to sell shoes is a race-baiter trying to sell outrage and their place in whatever protest opportunities they can generate from making shite up.
What the race-baiters see:
They had to actually draw out what they saw in order for the rest of the people to see what the frick they were talking about.
Anyone trying to perpetrate that as anything other than just an ad trying to sell shoes is a race-baiter trying to sell outrage and their place in whatever protest opportunities they can generate from making shite up.
Posted on 9/21/26 at 9:52 am to bigjoe1
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This post was edited on 9/21/26 at 9:53 am
Posted on 9/21/26 at 9:54 am to bigjoe1
Woketards are definately trying to make a comeback. Don't fricking apologize to these idiots.
Posted on 9/21/26 at 9:55 am to fr33manator
quote:
You know who they hanged a lot more of? Whites.
While true, this isn’t even the argument to make.
Nothing in that photo has anything to do with lynching or racism anymore than a triangle shaped cloud does.
I feel like even making comparisons here sort of validates these deranged comments in a way.
Posted on 9/21/26 at 9:55 am to bigjoe1
quote:
This is about the dumbest one I've ever seen.
I agree. Yet, Converse has now pulled the ad and apologized. Sure fire way to ensure that these people continue to make things up in an effort to create racism out of thin air.
Posted on 9/21/26 at 10:00 am to SallysHuman
quote:
The last national news story of a person hanged... was committed by a black man.
This is a fine opportunity to remind 'the community' of that.
Saw a few people try to make that connection to support their lynching theory, only for people to respond with the article about the black man being arrested. Of course, the pivot was to the other handful of black people that were hung the past few years, only to point out those were suicides.
Posted on 9/21/26 at 10:02 am to Weekend Warrior79
You can’t dissuade them from doing things like this with the truth. What’s actually true is the least of their concerns.
Posted on 9/21/26 at 10:08 am to bigjoe1
just put a black dude or women in all ad's to be safe lol
Posted on 9/21/26 at 10:08 am to stelly1025
quote:
Woketards are definately trying to make a comeback. Don't fricking apologize to these idiots.
This is a simple ad for shoes. SHOES!! You know those things on your feet that someone (of a certain demographic) will murder someone for their fancy, hightop Nike Jordans.
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