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(Local10 WPLG)   Man has problem with certain cartoon character being on brown sugar label at grocery store. How bad could it be?   (local10.com) divider line
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aleister_greynight [TotalFark]
2023-01-28 3:02:34 PM  
Outraged I get, disturbed not so much.
 
AirForceVet [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-28 3:28:17 PM  
It's a product from another country. So I am not surprised.

While working in Qatar, I saw old time Tom & Jerry and other cartoons from my childhood and earlier on Doha TV that were racial insensitive or outright racist. But, considering Qataris pay for everyone from other countries to do their work for them, I wasn't surprised.
 
puffy999 [TotalFark]
2023-01-28 3:45:41 PM  
The man said he paid an artist some 20 years ago to come up with the image

... If someone had told me that was directly copied from a cartoon 100 years ago, I'd in no way have been surprised.
But tbh I'd actually be more surprised if it WAS original.
 
Breaker Moran [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-28 4:56:37 PM  
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vudukungfu [TotalFark]
2023-01-28 5:11:35 PM  
I had to look it up
Image nsfw

Because azucar morena just means brown sugar, so GIS and scroll.


The bigger question is:
How come you taste so good?
 
Jake Havechek [TotalFark]
2023-01-28 5:15:20 PM  
Now here's the conundrum: do you accuse South Americans of being racist bastards or does that make you a racist bastard?
 
Jesus McSordid [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-28 6:02:12 PM  
I'm outraged. I was expecting her to much much hotter.
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Theeng
2023-01-28 6:28:42 PM  

Jake Havechek: Now here's the conundrum: do you accuse South Americans of being racist bastards or does that make you a racist bastard?


Everyone's just a little bit racist...
 
12349876
2023-01-28 6:29:45 PM  

Jake Havechek: Now here's the conundrum: do you accuse South Americans of being racist bastards or does that make you a racist bastard?


There's a ton of racism against African and indigenous people down there.
 
Loucifer
2023-01-28 6:31:21 PM  
Brown sugar, how come you taste so good?
 
erewhon the opinionated
2023-01-28 6:31:33 PM  
Aw hell no
 
Gyrfalcon [TotalFark]
2023-01-28 6:32:07 PM  
It's from the DR, so maybe take it up with them?
 
pastramithemosterotic
2023-01-28 6:33:34 PM  
Just a teensy bit racist
 
Spartapuss
2023-01-28 6:34:16 PM  
Is that stuff sold in the markets down in New Orleans?
 
berylman [TotalFark]
2023-01-28 6:38:14 PM  
I, for one, am slightly perturbed by the unrealistic portrayals of bimbos as diminutive cute cartoon bears with eyelashes. /jk
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austerity101
2023-01-28 6:39:07 PM  
Boricua, morena ...

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Also, holy living f*ck how is that being sold in 2023? Will the defenders in that insane pickaninny-wallpaper thread we had some time ago be back to defend this, too?
 
Kalyco Jack
2023-01-28 6:40:22 PM  

Breaker Moran: [timesofsicily.com image 376x281]


You know those heads didn't have half as much to do with the ending of the show as I thought they would.
 
austerity101
2023-01-28 6:40:30 PM  
Also, La Morena is having none of your bullsh*t.

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Metastatic Capricorn [TotalFark]
2023-01-28 6:42:08 PM  

AirForceVet: It's a product from another country. So I am not surprised.


These were available from a shop in my town in France just this past summer:
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foo monkey
2023-01-28 6:42:36 PM  
Don't let him watch anime.
 
austerity101
2023-01-28 6:43:47 PM  
"The man said he paid an artist some 20 years ago to come up with the image; he said he does not find it offensive."

Oh, I guess that settles it, then. Settle down, people! It's not racist, sheesh. 🙄

Also, 20 years ago was still the 21st century. This imagery was considered offensive by most of society for several decades by that point. So this guy commissioned a racist illustration long after it has been established that this imagery racist as f*ck.

But it's okay, because he doesn't think it's racist.
 
wildcardjack
2023-01-28 6:44:38 PM  

Jesus McSordid: I'm outraged. I was expecting her to much much hotter.
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It's probably code for dirty heroin.
 
DoctorCal
2023-01-28 6:47:15 PM  
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pleasebelieve [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2023-01-28 6:49:13 PM  

Jake Havechek: Now here's the conundrum: do you accuse South Americans of being racist bastards or does that make you a racist bastard?


Go ahead, but the DR isn't in South America so they might take offense at being called South Americans.
 
Mithraic_bullshiat
2023-01-28 6:50:19 PM  
Jagganath
 
Fear the Clam
2023-01-28 6:51:52 PM  

Gyrfalcon: It's from the DR, so maybe take it up with them?


You'd think if they were bright enough to get through med school they'd know better.
 
austerity101
2023-01-28 6:51:56 PM  

Mithraic_bullshiat: Jagganath


Username doesn't quite check out...?
 
estrange666
2023-01-28 6:53:10 PM  
Using black people as mascots for sugar products is especially ugly, given the history of that industry.  It'd be less offensive to put them on cotton.  It's literally bragging about slavery and using that association to sell a product...because what else is so damn black about sugar that that same trope is found on a wide variety of sugars and sugary things all throughout every supermarket in America?

But people just don't know that history at all and of course teaching it has proven to be "controversial".  No of course most people are like, "What's the big deal, Mammy is nice and I really like syrup."

What's got me confused is why people aren't saying anything about Aunt Jemima or the rest.  OK, this one is quite a bit more THAT styling of cartoon but its really the same damn thing.
 
strutin
2023-01-28 6:53:45 PM  

Gyrfalcon: It's from the DR, so maybe take it up with them?


ftfa,The cane is from Dominican Republic, the product is packaged in Puerto Rico
 
Spartapuss
2023-01-28 6:55:17 PM  

estrange666: What's got me confused is why people aren't saying anything about Aunt Jemima or the rest.



Are you cereal?
 
SirDigbyChickenCaesar
2023-01-28 6:56:44 PM  
When I was a kid I had an aunt that had various versions of these antique ads hanging up in her house


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She would also say the tag line all the time if something tasted good.
 
jaytkay [OhFark]
2023-01-28 6:57:29 PM  
Today I learned Puerto Rico is a foreign country and in South America. Thanks, Fark!
 
iodized attic salt
2023-01-28 7:01:04 PM  
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Woo.
 
CruiserTwelve
2023-01-28 7:01:34 PM  

estrange666: What's got me confused is why people aren't saying anything about Aunt Jemima or the rest.


Aunt Jemima?

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Herr Flick's Revenge
2023-01-28 7:02:15 PM  

jaytkay: Today I learned Puerto Rico is a foreign country and in South America. Thanks, Fark!


Dominican Republic according to label, that's what people are talking about.
 
bucket_pup [TotalFark]
2023-01-28 7:04:13 PM  
Necessary......
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austerity101
2023-01-28 7:05:51 PM  

estrange666: Using black people as mascots for sugar products is especially ugly, given the history of that industry.  It'd be less offensive to put them on cotton.


Let's not create degrees of acceptable racism, please.
 
bucket_pup [TotalFark]
2023-01-28 7:06:58 PM  

berylman: I, for one, am slightly perturbed by the unrealistic portrayals of bimbos as diminutive cute cartoon bears with eyelashes. /jk
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Especially when EVERYONE just KNOWS they're all BLONDES?......(runs away)
 
Mithraic_bullshiat
2023-01-28 7:09:05 PM  

austerity101: Mithraic_bullshiat: Jagganath

Username doesn't quite check out...?


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Mulchpuppy
2023-01-28 7:09:09 PM  

Herr Flick's Revenge: jaytkay: Today I learned Puerto Rico is a foreign country and in South America. Thanks, Fark!

Dominican Republic according to label, that's what people are talking about.


DR is where the sugar comes from, but the packaging is done in PR.

Not really clear why they needed to tell us where the sugar came from...
 
punkwrestler
2023-01-28 7:11:08 PM  

Jake Havechek: Now here's the conundrum: do you accuse South Americans of being racist bastards or does that make you a racist bastard?


How much longer do you think it will be until lighter skinned South Americans are considered white? Keep in mind at one time Irish, Italians/Mediterranean people and Middle Easterners/North Africans  were all considered not white, but since the 1940's all of these people are now considered white according to the US census, and a lot of it is based on how you identify.
 
Miss_Dorothy_Kilgallen [TotalFark]
2023-01-28 7:12:12 PM  

austerity101: Also, La Morena is having none of your bullsh*t.

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When I saw that it was from Azucar Morena, my first thought was, "The same people who put that sassy, tired-of-your-bullshiat queen on their label?!"
 
estrange666
2023-01-28 7:12:13 PM  

jaytkay: Today I learned Puerto Rico is a foreign country and in South America. Thanks, Fark!


It's actually a US colony and not its own country.  Every so often there's an effort to gain their independence but it's yet to succeed.  I could be wrong, but I think the problem is still that most of the residents want to stay a colony and not that the US won't let them.  Trump almost changed their minds.  There's also an occasional effort to upgrade them to status of state but I don't see that happening ever (US citizens wouldn't allow it).

That's why it was especially egregious that Trump wouldn't help them when that hurricane hit and when so many here were like, "Their country, their responsibility."
 
strutin
2023-01-28 7:13:02 PM  

Herr Flick's Revenge: jaytkay: Today I learned Puerto Rico is a foreign country and in South America. Thanks, Fark!

Dominican Republic according to label, that's what people are talking about.


well, that's considered part of North America.
(Central America and the Caribbean islands usually are, anyway)
 
derpes_simplex
2023-01-28 7:13:28 PM  

punkwrestler: Jake Havechek: Now here's the conundrum: do you accuse South Americans of being racist bastards or does that make you a racist bastard?

How much longer do you think it will be until lighter skinned South Americans are considered white? Keep in mind at one time Irish, Italians/Mediterranean people and Middle Easterners/North Africans  were all considered not white, but since the 1940's all of these people are now considered white according to the US census, and a lot of it is based on how you identify.


Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico are both in North America.
 
puffy999 [TotalFark]
2023-01-28 7:14:13 PM  
The sugar is from the Dominican but it was packed in Puerto Rico.

Frankly, the Dominican might make more sense if that's where the image was created given the, uh... occasional people there...

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Unscratchable_Itch
2023-01-28 7:15:47 PM  
CSB: These are salt and pepper shakers that were popular in the 1950s, and probably before and beyond.

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Here's what that packaging made me recall...

My friend's mom had an antique shop in upstate NY. She had numerous sets of them that she got from estate sales, flea markets, etc. Eventually she took them out of the store but kept them in a curio cabinet in her dining room. I have no idea what happened to them - it's been many years since I've been in her house and she has since passed. Even as a teenager, the sight and sheer number of them was just plain weird. Strange. Bizarre. Weirder still is that she was one of the kindest people I've ever known and not the slightest bit racist.

I'm not sure what my point is, other than, yeah, there is such a thing as systemic racism, and images and depictions can be incredibly offensive, even if, or especially if, you don't think they are.
 
punkwrestler
2023-01-28 7:16:17 PM  

derpes_simplex: punkwrestler: Jake Havechek: Now here's the conundrum: do you accuse South Americans of being racist bastards or does that make you a racist bastard?

How much longer do you think it will be until lighter skinned South Americans are considered white? Keep in mind at one time Irish, Italians/Mediterranean people and Middle Easterners/North Africans  were all considered not white, but since the 1940's all of these people are now considered white according to the US census, and a lot of it is based on how you identify.

Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico are both in North America.


I know that, the person I was responding to mentioned South America.
 
Izunbacol [recently expired TotalFark]
2023-01-28 7:16:30 PM  

Jake Havechek: Now here's the conundrum: do you accuse South Americans of being racist bastards or does that make you a racist bastard?


South Americans?

It's a Dominican product packaged in PR.  Not sure where South America comes in.
 
estrange666
2023-01-28 7:17:27 PM  

CruiserTwelve: estrange666: What's got me confused is why people aren't saying anything about Aunt Jemima or the rest.

Aunt Jemima?

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LOL.  Today I learned that 6 months ago they finally stopped that crap.  Now that the biggest one has, maybe others will follow.
 
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