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Potatisen ,

Lol, what are you complaining about? You think an angry little post on the internet will do anything?

America is lost to capitalism, just keep going to work, buy buy buy and be a good little piggy.

Do you have a dream?

distantsounds ,

A chocolate dream? Bro..

Potatisen ,

Lol!

x4740N ,
@x4740N@lemmy.world avatar

How to out yourself as a racist 101

Are you white, does people calling white people cracker make you angry

Now imagine black people's perspective being called that especially when their people had massive unjust racist treatment in the past and those ficking nutjob right wingers are trying to bring that back

Potatisen ,

What are you talking about? Right wingers, wtf is that?

SatanicNotMessianic ,

Just curious - are you a racist troll or do you not get that your post reads as being extremely racist?

Potatisen ,

That's it for you, huh? Racism but no further?

SatanicNotMessianic ,

Yup. I stop at racism. I think people should. You want to throw out some casual homophobia too?

Potatisen ,

You small minded American. Isn't it tiresome to be stuck in the hamster wheel? Being agitated at the will of other people? Having your thoughts and opinions given to you?

It might be about racism for you but this is indicative of a bigger problem, that corporation doesn't care about race, the person who made that campaign has diffused all responsibility through the proper chain of command but in typical fashion, you never seem to be able to pinpoint what the problem is. Isn't that frustrating for you, don't you feel it in your mind? There's always some quick reactionary phrase you can throw out, you see race = racism, and it's immediately too. No deeper thought, no analysis, no nothing.

It's pretty weird to see how so many people became so indoctrinated in such a short time.

SatanicNotMessianic ,

Yes, people who are against racism are indoctrinated. You’re totally open minded because you’re a racist, which proves you can think for yourself.

Honestly dude, and I mean this seriously, I hope you get the chance to turn 38 or something and look back on how much of a prick you were when you were 16 and say to yourself that you’ve got some ground to make up, karmically speaking.

Potatisen ,

It's not about racism. I hope you're not 38 and think like this.

FakeGreekGirl OP ,
@FakeGreekGirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

No, I really don't think this is going to change anything. Though I'd be pleasantly surprised if it did.

Honestly, I just wanted to share this horrifically tone deaf email I received. It's so fucking terrible that it makes you laugh about it. Like, some marketing goon somewhere actually thought this was a good idea, and the mere fact that that goon exists is both sad and kinda funny. It's like when McDonald's used "I'd hit it" in an ad for their double cheeseburgers, only racist as fuck to boot.

x4740N ,
@x4740N@lemmy.world avatar

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/19f7940b-c49f-46c1-9ace-9511b3f5bad7.jpeg

They have a history of poor ads apparently

Op you should send this to news sites to create a pain in the ass for snackcrate because some companies don't change until their behaviour is bought into the spotlight

dalekcaan ,

Lmao, what even was the thought process here? "You know what'll make people want to eat our chocolate? Santa's dick."

andrew_bidlaw ,
@andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works avatar

It's not even hard to do that. But having this idea, printing it in letters, completing it... How did they not have a keyboard burning under their fingers?

x4740N , (edited )
@x4740N@lemmy.world avatar

I also find the image of companies using Martin Luther King's image to advertise and make money pretty distasteful because it erases his history and message and replaces it with advertising and capitalism

FUCK CAPITALISM

jopepa ,

He was killed once he started advocating for socialism. Just makes it more obscene.

FakeGreekGirl OP ,
@FakeGreekGirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Definitely, yeah. But there's the baseline offensive there always is when Capitalism appropriates its critics and criticisms and turns them into commodities to further profit from, and then there's... well, this.

Like, this is an onion of bad choices. There's layers to this shit.

prole ,
@prole@sh.itjust.works avatar

Like the quote from the rich lady in Disco Elysium:

Capital has the ability to subsume all critiques into itself. Even those who would critique capital end up reinforcing it instead

prole ,
@prole@sh.itjust.works avatar

Especially given his outspoken anti-capitalist views.

Floey ,

You're doing free advertising for them so I'd say their campaign is potentially successful.

perniczech ,
@perniczech@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

No, now I know to avoid this company

Floey ,

You're implying that you would have been a customer. Maybe they lose some current customers off such tactics but if their stuff is being reposted everywhere a lot more people are s hearing about the existence of the service who have never heard of it before, and some of those will be new customers. Obviously many will find it distasteful, but most weren't customers in the first place.

stalfoss ,

Right, and as current US politics shows us, pandering to the racists is a winning marketing strategy

FakeGreekGirl OP ,
@FakeGreekGirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Meh. Being a wrestling fan in the late 90s/early 2000s and watching WCW fall apart disabused me of the notion that there is no such thing as bad publicity.

Custoslibera ,

I have no clue what brand this chocolate is and I literally just looked at the ad.

I do walk away from this post with a disgusting feeling that dirty capitalists are profiting off of the legacy of MLK though.

OP was fine to bring attention to this.

brbposting ,

Yikes. Shared with the NAACP.

hungryphrog ,
@hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

The chocolate industry also does a lot of slavery.

tabris ,

And has children working in the supply chain.

DessertStorms ,

For anyone unsure, of course Cadbury isn't exempt:

https://www.channel4.com/programmes/cadbury-exposed-dispatches

https://www.theguardian.com/law/2022/apr/03/cadbury-faces-fresh-accusations-of-child-labour-on-cocoa-farms-in-ghana

Pantherina ,

Wtf

KingThrillgore ,
@KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml avatar

Cringe

Kusimulkku ,

"Snackers" huh

Stamau123 ,

Sir the clue was 'people who annoy you'

Kusimulkku ,

I'm just another snacker guy

puchaczyk ,

Another proof that people running big companies are sociopaths. Seriously no one looked at that and thought it was distasteful?

trucy ,

"It's ok we had a black person writing this"

funkless_eck ,

whats worse the only diverse part of it is the curly wurly. you can just get everything else easily.

FakeGreekGirl OP , (edited )
@FakeGreekGirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

I'm in the US. We don't get most of the Cadbury stuff here, and what we do get (mostly Creme Eggs and Mini Eggs, sometimes Dairy Milk bars) is made by Hershey under license so it's kinda crap.

Unless, of course, you get it from an importer like World Market or these guys. Though I don't think I'll be buying from these guys in the future.

Jimmyeatsausage ,

made by Hershey under license

THAT'S WHY THEY SUCK NOW? I used to love these things as a kid... I still usually buy 1 eqch year, knowing I'll regret it, which I consistently do.

prime_number_314159 ,

Easy: fly across the ocean, purchase a few sweets, fly back. If you take your private jet over, you can be there and back in a single day.

UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT ,

Reprehensible

TheBlue22 ,

This shits disgusts me and I'm white, cant imagine how it must feel for someone who has to contend with systematic racism

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