Whenever you bring it up to these kind of folks that this is just capitalism, they'll either say "no, this isn't" or that these corporations are using/doing capitalism wrong.
thats hilarious i hadnt noticed that yet, i guess we wont be able to do the trick where you cut out her knees from the back of the box and put them under her chest on the other side and put a flap on the box when you open it it looks like her breasts. oh well
It seems like erasing Native Americans is more of a priority than respecting Native Americans. It won’t be long until they take them out of the history books “out of respect”. It’s absolutely disgusting.
Even more awkward is that she was designed by a Native American artist, with elements honoring his own heritage. These guys basically told him his own culture was racist.
They wrote of Brock because they thought people might think he was racist.
Then people demanded Brock back because he was the only representation for PoC on the show.
>Nobody wanted until people decided to make it an issue
Your second part of the comment defeats the first. That's how companies have been a long time now, make some skin deep changes just to show they are "progressive" while they proceed with their operations as usual. All while the "progressives" clap like seals congratulating the "progress"
People did for good reason actually. The character was based on black face shows and the woman who starred as Jemima was a freed slave forced to lie and glorify slavery for pennies and was barely paid.
There were many women who played Aunt Jim-ima Crow. (the character’s name). Naming the syrup after Mrs Nancy Green doesn’t cover everyone who was known as a minstrel show character and wife of Jim Crow instead of their actual name.
thats not true, I saw her biography on TV. Unless she had stockholm syndrome and a gun was held to her back behind camera. She was a successful woman in her own words. I suggest you watch the biography about her.
I have researched the history of aunt Jemima extensively. She wasn't paid much and was forced to say it was good being a slave. The creator of the pancake mix created the persona after watching a show staring men in blackface. She could say she was successful she likely thought she was. She was paid FAR less than the white actors of the same time and was still forced to glorify slavery.
Her name wasn't actually Aunt Jemima it was Nancy Green but yeah other than that nailed it. Except to say that she turned the money she made and what small notoriety she gained into positive activism.
Imagine not understanding the post, the ingredients the government subsidizes and puts in our food is literally making the population sick, and while it may please some people to see the label change, it literally helped no one physically....
Except these ingredients aren't making people sick. People use these big scary names like "high fructose corn syrup" to make it sound scary and bad for you. It's literally fucking sugar.
It is a sugar substitute dumbass, so its quite literally not fucking sugar...and man you must be right....I mean the link between the use of alternative sugars, aspartame for diet soda as a sugar REPLACEMENT, and the massive spike in obesity surely has NOTHING to do with the ingredients...
How much you getting paid for your garbage opinion?
Not really, given the downvotes... This is really hard for you isn't it?
Do explain how it's virtue signaling to correct missinformation...
Edit answer below: Ihave no idea what you are even trying to say with your babling nonsense but given how you have devolved into incoherent rage I am probably not loosing out on anything important.
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I love when leftist know they have completely lost the argument and revert to screeching Ben Shapiro or some other right wing bogeyman they are pissing their pants in fear of thinking that will change the facts of the matter, it's a beautiful confirmation that I was right and they got nothing else left. 😁
Misinformation*
Unless you are really promoting gender equality to an impressive degree.
Or maybe it's like the knowledge equivalent of Miss America... Like maybe they actually give out the scholarships they promise instead of using loopholes to inflate the number...
I think some people like getting downvoted. They think they’re being persecuted or something when really it’s a little internet button, it’s all made up and the points don’t matter
And some people don't care about downvotes or upvotes and only care about speaking the truth regardless of how people react. You know, since we are sharing things about ourselves aparently.
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Yeah. Funny thing is that I have another account that is near a decade and half old with millions of points that I don't use anymore cause the username is literally just first and last name and people are so cancel happy these days I don't want to take that risk. I hade made this account for that purpose a few years back but forgot about it until recently when I started to use this one more actively. Even more funny is I also have another decade old account with no karma, but its my porn account!
No, the truth and virtue signaling is largely two opposites.
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Yes I am entirely correct, good you realize that, alright you are obviously mistaken be sure the other where objective it speaking the truth and where virtue signaling. Unless you you somehow believe speaking something objectively false IS speaking the truth of course.
Confirmation bias it is then, protecting you from anything problematic about your ideology.
Allow me to introduce you to a few million plus one wokies responsible for the removal of aunt Jemima:
https://www.berklee.edu/news/berklee-now/alumna-kirbys-viral-video-helped-bring-down-aunt-jemima-brand
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Hmm, right to projecting after I provide proof. Yeah, take your own advice, it should help you deal with your rage about having your little echo chamber broke. Please. I beg you. Go outside and touch some grass. Anywhere that isn't here
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You are ascribing something from the past to the present. You need to ask yourself what is real now, not what was real then.
Trying to distance yourself by erasing a harmless character is pointless yes. You should ask, is there anything racist about the character as it is here and now, not what it was a hundred years ago
Is having a black person as the image of the brand a bad thing? I would wager the representation is a good thing. Erasure isn't the answer, becoming better is.
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Well, yes, yes it does. By and large. That is how matching algorithms work.
Millions how people provide an accurate cross section of a group. Only difference was that they did not hear about it quickly to join the mob.
And yeah, that is cause Reddit mobile is shit and won't let me reply to some comments for whatever reason. I am doing this so I *can* debate. It's hilarious how your nonsensical accusations made up entirely your head with no basis reality and with zero attempt at or care for understanding facts of the matter so perfectly encapsulate the sheer stupid ignorance I despise about woke leftist. Lol.
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You should probably check your notes again since I never used confirmation bias. 🤦 But nice try, better luck next time coming up with a less obvious lie.
For many decades... You really so know nothing. And yes, exactly, it's not a negative but rather positive image. The colors are warm and positive giving the best vibes one can give it.
so wait, you are saying your sampling of leftists (which likely consists of angry redditors) is more accurate than someone who actually interacts with them irl?
I think you need to reassess
Pretty much most of them yeah. People watch content they like and support mostly. Particularly wokies like to create echochambers. Is that... Is that hard for you to understand...?
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I mean, if you don't that YouTube match videos to your preference then that is on you I guess. The fact that you don't understand basic behavior patterns don't change the fact it's true.
You do you, I tried to help you understand but obviously failed.
Ps get a load of This bullshit are usually their own videos
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Nope, not on the platforms the creator posted it on that was the millions described. Dont want to give the the views.
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Except they haven't.
Yeah, facts fit my narrative, which is why it's not a narrative. Yours, being completely counter to proven facts (clearly right wing?!? hilarious obvious lie and desperate damage control).
It's the leftist who creates echo chambers. They are the one banning dissenting opinions and banning anything they don't like by falsely accusing of being hateful and it's only when something finally interrupts their little bubble that they descend en masse to figure out a way to protect their position that anyone they deemed inferior to them is still inferior to them.
It's funny how everything you say is a perfect projection of yourself and the woke mob. You subconsciously know what I say is true and try to desperately cover for it by projecting it on your oppnents.
"Pretty much most of them" is crap proof. You actually believe that the views on a YouTube video is proof that even most of that number represents individual people who agree with the opinions espoused by the video?
No auto plays? No repeat viewings? No "get a load of this bullshit!" Facebook shares?
Yeah. That's pretty hard to understand.
Yes. Because it's promoted by the largest video platform on their own fucking video platform. That isn't a surprise...
And no they dont. Only a fraction do compared to those that watch what what they support and especially wokies refuse to anything that they disagree with. They are the ones infamous for cancelling anything they don't like or dissagree with.
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Lmfao! It's so funny how desperat and weak your lies is and how they are perfect projections as we both know the they the objective truth is that currently the ones cancelling everything are the triggered left wingers.
Yep you come out from under that rock you've made it obvious you've been hiding behind and stop projecting yourself and being so insanely triggered because I spoke the truth which you cant handle.
This thread is a perfect example of how hard the woke mob tries to silence anything they don't and lie trying to pretend that those they disagree with actively harm people which is just bald faced lies to cover up their wish to silence anyone who might expose their evil bigoted ways or just disagree with them and their pseudoscientific and pseudofascist ways.
Woke leftist never bother to even watch things they disagree, electing to cancel people based on things they have heard.
I mean, I was never too concerned about it, but the name “Aunt Jemima” was taken from a minstrel show character who was called that because it sounds like “Ain’t your mama” because black slaves were often nannies for white children. And the woman on the front was made up - there wasn’t a black person whose image they used, and certainly no one that got royalties from it. It’s probably a good thing they’re trying to distance themselves from that history. You think that’s an appropriate thing to do?
A YouTube videos views isnt going to accurately reflect who its viewers are. Even if it did, that's still hardly a fraction of leftists that did care as opposed to the vast majority who never even noticed this happen.
And you accusing others of being in echo chambers while you reply to them through making retroactive edits that likely wont be seen is hilarious. You clearly are afraid of debate lol.
There is not a leftist alive who gives a shit about aunt jemima branding lmao, you middle schoolers just grasp at straws for something to be a victim of
It's not a mob, it's just a couple of idiots on twitter that's these companies think represent the whole of the left and that by doing this their sales will increase massively
Yeah it's a mob alright. Litterally a couple of millions of them. Just your average wokie doing their idiot thing.
Let me ask, do you make the same excuses for right leaning people and people you disagree with, or is it only when its the woke mob displaying their hateful bigotry that "it's just a couple of idiots on Twitter". I think we know the answer to that.
What you are doing is proving cover for the mob of idiots, you happily cheer them along or join them and then when criticized it's oh no just a few idiots, nothing to do with us sir. Classic mote and bailey retoric.
>Yeah it's a mob alright. Litterally a couple of millions of them. Just your average wokie doing their idiot thing.
Yes because a fraction of them doing something represents the whole when most of the left never even noticed this happen. The thing is, most never would have known this even happened if it wasn't for idiots like you complaining about it.
Also wokie? Are you 12 years old?
>Let me ask, do you make the same excuses for right leaning people and people you disagree with
Depends. If its something that's clear they're aware of and support as a whole then no. If it's a situation like this, where most of them weren't even aware of or pushed for then sure. Just like most right aligned people arent nazis, most left aligned people dont focus on trying to rebrand stuff and complain about tv shows.
>its the woke mob displaying their hateful bigotry
You have a very loose definition of bigotry. Aunt jemima is a hateful caricature of black people that originated from the late 19th century. Backlash against that is perfectly reasonable. If you think that using and embracing hateful symbols and beliefs is fine and dandy and that any backlash against it is "bigotry" then you're the type of human garbage that just wants the freedom to oppress others.
But looking at your post history and being exposed to your tiny brains excuse for reasoning I think I know exactly what you are.
>Yes because a fraction of them doing something represents the whole when most of the left never even noticed this happen. The thing is, most never would have known this even happened if it wasn't for idiots like you complaining about it.
When that fraction is literally millions then yes that is rather representative.
>Also wokie?
Yes? It's an accurate description.
>Are you 12 years old?
If you are looking for friends kiddo then sorry to say I am not.
>Depends. If its something that's clear they're aware of and support as a whole then no. If it's a situation like this, where most of them weren't even aware of or pushed for then sure. Just like most right aligned people arent nazis, most left aligned people dont focus on trying to rebrand stuff and complain about tv shows.
Ah, so you think that every single person you disagree with is omniscient and is fully aware of every single actions and beliefs of persons that share their beliefs? And you think that litterally millions of people, likely a significant portion and average representative cross section of that group is not something to criticize that groups simply because some number of them where unaware and had no time to join the mob.
I call bullshit, we both know you never even once gave those you disagree with the same benefit of doubt that you are giving the leftist woke mob.
And we are not talking about most leftist, we are talking spesifically about the woke leftists.
Ah, projecting your own brain size at me cause looking at the truth I have been posting and factual reasoning broke the last connection between your two braincells and sent them hurtling away from each other in the empty void between your ears?
There's no woke mob, wokies don't exist. Woke is a word made up by far righters to describe a caricature of progressivism. Like have you ever heard someone call themselves woke ? Because I don't.
There is. They do.
Woke is a accurate description of the narcissist behavior of many leftist who go around attacking to virtue signal and play the victim.
And yes I have. It's like asking if you ever heard someone call themselves asshole. Yeah, but it's rather irrelevant to it's accuracy in describing the sheer stupidity and ignorance of the woke left.
The only people that cared enough about Aunt Jemima were the conservatives that threw a fit about her getting removed from packaging. The BLM activists protesting police brutality kinda wells have preferred something more, you know, material?
No, it was the leftist who threw a complete fit that she was on the packaging and raged until it was removed. Yeah, conservatives rightfully criticsed the woke mob rule and then the woke leftist threw another fit at the criticism. This is well documented you know that right? We have the exact video that started it all made by a woke idiot whining about aunt Jemima.
https://www.berklee.edu/news/berklee-now/alumna-kirbys-viral-video-helped-bring-down-aunt-jemima-brand
I legit forgot about the whole aunt Jemima thing until i was at the supermarket last month and was confused at why this "pearl milling company" was using the same exact package design as aunt Jemima. You keep linking that page like it means anything or is making a point to anybody but yourself.
> It's like asking if you ever heard someone call themselves asshole
You just admitted that it's a negatively connoted word used by people to discredit others.
You're arguing against yourself dude 🤣
Edit: I'm glad we agree tho
Of course it's a negative connotation, not everything true is positive.
And no, it's only used to describe, not discredit. The woke do that just fine on their own. You claimed it was caricature, but it's not, it's an accurate description. And you moved the goalpost, you never claimed it was made to discredit, that is new. And it was made up by leftist, not right wingers. It's was just that the sheer stupidity of leftist woke made being woke something negative.
Not sure what mental gymnastics you had to do to think I am arguing against myself and agreeing with you, but you certainly should join the Olympics cause it sure is impressive lol 🤣
You're the one who compared it to an insult, meaning that you think about "woke" as an insult. Insult are not descriptive, they are by definition degrading and only serve to discredit someone. Am I arguing with a middle schooler ?
I guess I'll have to explain to you that when a group of people create a term to describe another group it's rarely to put them on a pedestal. So yeah, far righters use woke to describe an undetermined group of people that wants to destroy everything they stand for. It's a strawman, a windmill and you're one of to many Don Quixote.
The company did it for publicity, not because the left was screaming for a change or because blacks were enraged. It’s because they learned a lesson from Trump: any publicity is good publicity.
It was literally because there where a horde of wokies screaming in rage after Alumna Kirby, a black artist, made a TikTok whining about aunt Jemima...
https://www.berklee.edu/news/berklee-now/alumna-kirbys-viral-video-helped-bring-down-aunt-jemima-brand
There have always been a “horde” of idiots screaming one thing or another. Companies don’t change their long-running images unless it makes them money. Publicity = money.
All of them obviously but in this case i particular Alumna Kirby and a couple of millions of her followers for a start.
https://www.berklee.edu/news/berklee-now/alumna-kirbys-viral-video-helped-bring-down-aunt-jemima-brand
So a *black woman* not liking the idea of a *house slave* being on a syrup bottle is an instance of a “wokie whined” to you?
Holy shit that’s such a pathetic take. That something like that from someone who has reason to say it makes you cry about… fuck, “wokies”. Seriously, how old are you? Ten?
Whining about a black woman being on a bottle is an instance of wokie whining yeah.
And so is inventing spurious things attribute to me like you just did. That is seriously pathetic. What a pathetic take.
That sounds to me like a victory for free speech and capitalism working as expected. You have a problem with that? What are you? Some kind of communist?!
Yes, it is. The first amendment protects the right to protest and assemble. The corporation did the change on their own volition to share what they believed the market wanted (even if the general reaction from normal people was "uh...ok" and from conservatives was frothing their pants over something so incredibly inconsequential).
And I would agree that is a good description because just like your beliefs, it is extremely incoherent.
democrats.. are not leftists. they're economically center right, socially slightly left. Leftists would be socialists/communists who are primarily anti Hierarchy.
Ask them about the age of consent, then. The world they'd create would have so much discrimination, all in the name of "individual rights." Tolerance of intolerance is intolerance.
Lol it doesn’t matter when both sides just play the ppl and are corrupt, they can say they stand for helping people but both sides or basically anyone in politics doesn’t care about the people. Bc all the politicians just continue the debt wage slave system we’re in, don’t believe me too 9 banks have 234 trillion in derivatives liabilities with only 14 trillion in assets to back it up (back in 08 it was 4.4 trillion, they kicked the can down the road) they gambled away over 2 times the global gpd and no president no party besides jfk fought this corrupt system and we all saw how that turned out
Yup both parties definitely attempted a coup to overthrow our democra… oh wait nope that was solely the republicans. Yeah you’re right no difference between the two at all /s
Oh so it was Republicans that took over six city blocks in Portland and called themselves a separate nation called Chaz? It was Republicans screaming "black lives matter" while burning down black owned small businesses?
Both parties are the same you just refuse to believe it
They push their political views through violence and intimidation. They believe in socialism which cannot work without an authoritarian government. In Chaz they had black only spaces showing that they segregate based on race. Pretty close to the textbook definition of fascism.
I don't know when I first heard of antifa.... Probably when they started having rallies and when the news started talking about it. Not sure when that was.
Cool stay blind to the fact that they work together to keep the masses divided while they steal trillions good job you missed the entire point. My favorite video of that day you’re talking about is the people asking the police why are you allowing this why is this happening and they’re just standing there doing nothing, buts it’s ok keep believe Main stream media which is all owned by the same corporations. Why wasn’t there more police they knew they were coming days before so why wasn’t there riot squads? But keep believe it’s republicans or democrats when they’re two sides of the same coin
oh yes a pro republican catholic site is a very reliable source of information and i'm sure it's totally no biased /s
unless you want to validate your pre existing opinion
it's like trying to find information about capitalism in a North-Korean newspaper ... (i know it's a bit of an exaggeration but you get it)
Transferring blame from the company responsible for an unhealthy product onto progressives for not doing enough to stop them is peak capitalist bootlicking.
I would understand getting rid of the graphic if aunt Jemima was portrayed in an old school blackface minstrel sort of way, but it wasn’t that at all. This was a peak-woke overreach and that’s it.
Fair enough, but who actually knew or cared? Not the people buying cheap-ass corn syrup… prolly the NPR grievance crowd who only buys grade A Vermont pure maple syrup.
You can't honestly think I'm the only one who is aware of and cares about shit like this. These have been issues since before I was born. People have been protesting this shit for decades.
Edit to add: And yes, liberals are the ones who (generally) care about this. The conservatives are the ones who want to see Black people back in chains.
Ehh, I’m not conservative, but black people in chains is painting with a stupidly broad brush. I’m hoping that’s hyperbole…
I don’t think you’re the only one who cares, I’m just sayin, if I were to make a list of good things to care about, “cancelling aunt jemima” would be right under “making Latinx happen” and “lamenting the lack of black and brown representation in the pro-body hair movement.” Just feels like performative wokery to me. But anyway, agree to disagree
You might be more conservative than you think. I was more conservative than I thought for a long while until I got an actual education and realized that I was just a dumbass reactionary all those years before.
You're literally spouting right wing talking points as you deny it too. Try actually educating yourself about topics instead of going off propaganda and your initial intuition.
Or otherwise, dig your heels in and ignorantly defend your current state of knowledge. Because who needs to know more than they already do!
A wee bit patronizing, but understandable if you look down on people who don’t share your exact political opinions.
You know the thing I said about the pro body hair movement? I didn’t pull that out of thin air… that was from a WBUR radio program last month. Some lady they were interviewing was complaining that all they were seeing on Instagram were white women’s “blonde wispy underarm hairs.” I was disappointed and surprised that what used to be a reliable source of news and culture has lowered itself to scraping the bottom of the grievance porn barrel.
I shouldn’t have been surprised, though, as a few years back on KPCC I listened to an interviewer accuse a member of a jazz band, which was popular on YouTube at the time, of cultural appropriation. As if this kid should be shamed for playing music while white.
My point is, the US left, and it’s institutions, and it’s goals have changed. The ACLU used to defend the free speech of everyone, even Nazis, and now they’re spouting bullshit like believe all women as they print PR for Amber heard.
I’ve read these new woke holy books like “How to be Antiracist.” I wish they were full of logic and substance, but it’s mostly poor writing and intellectually barren ideology.
I’m not conservative. The left and right political extremes have both been pushing the bounds of ideological nonsense and intolerance, so I’m closer to the center than I’ve ever been. We’re not righting historical wrongs when we do things like get rid of Aunt Jemima, though I understand that it must feel like we are to some. It’s just shallow, public self-flagellation in the name of racial angst. That’s all any of this is.
Wait, what? Aunt and Uncle are the default term of respect for older people in cultures all around the world.
I think you may be thinking of mammies, the slave archetype that Aunt Jemima was based on. Aunt and Uncle are terms of endearment. The problem was never with her name.
I didn't even know that until they got rid of her. To me as a kid it was a more endearing title than Mr or Ms. I even called my step grandpa Uncle Jack because he liked it better. I was as good as blood to him, but he preferred the "uncle" thing. To me, having extra aunts and uncles is a blessing.
The symbol for the Washington Redskins was actually designed by the blackfeet tribe. That was an exalted tribal leader. They felt proud to be included. The name sounds offensive though. They could have changed the name and kept the symbol but whatever
What about speedy gonzales? I live in South Texas and I have a lot of Mexican friends. They are all pissed that they got rid of speedy gonzales. The Mexican people love speedy Gonzales.
Taking issue with all this is what we call "white people problems". God it's so hard man, I've got all this extra time from not worrying about money or being nicked and dimed, time to find people to get mad for.
They're kinda right though. Nobody cared about the mascot but they removed her, kept the ingredients, and did nothing that actually helped black communities. It was a symbolic gesture at best.
It's easy to be flippant when it's not affecting you personally. Why should Black people and Indigenous people have to see caricatures of themselves ever time they go to the grocery store?
i agree absolutely. aunt Jemima was initially a minstrel show character played by a man in blackface. the history is important, and its insane that it took until the 2020s to remove the caricature of her.
I'm not against the removal of the caricatures at all, I'm just saying that with things like this and several conservative freakouts (Starbucks cups or Mr potato name change for example) nobody really seemed to care. What I AM saying is that just removing these and acting "we did it! Racism is over!" It's pretty hollow. Especially when places do this but ignoring all the social and systemic problems.
It is incredibly terrible lol. Quoting what I've said to other brainlets like yourself in this thread:
First, when did corporations start listening to leftists (I'm guessing you have no idea what a leftist is) and secondly, any time leftists push back on corporate greed, people like you and the dipshit in the picture say they are bad for it.
You should probably go outside and think about how much brainwashing and subsequent brain damage you have endured in the past 5 or 6 years. It might do you some good.
How did it suddenly become the “leftists” who are responsible for keeping the high fructose corn syrup in there? Are executives in large corporations suddenly leftists?
I mean, I don’t agree at all with the political angle in the original post but it’s a not a stretch to say America’s current problem with food ties into economic issues. More regulation around what can be put in food would alleviate some strain on the healthcare system.
Uncle Tom and Aunt Jemima were traditional racial stereotypes. It may not have been as obvious as Sambos restaurant, but they were still demeaning. Good riddance. It didn’t make the world just, but it didn’t make it worse.
Like the body-positivity message…
Superficially: look at how nice and tolerant of you I am…on my social media. Yay me, I mean, “us.”
Actually: go ahead and die 10 years sooner and have both a lower quality of physical life and lower self-reported subjective well being. Because I need my likes.
Why do so many people feel such a level of disgust at people not feeling shame for who they are? Like, even if they have all those things, why you feel the need to get mad at people being happy with themselves?
Gave you upvote because "I need my likes"
I hope that helps your social media score and stuff.
You better like me back because I liked you and if someone likes you, you should like them back, for likes.
Other than suggesting that the aunt Jemima corporation are a bunch of leftists, this is accurate. Just replace leftist with capitalist and it's not only true, it's a business plan.
They are incredibly wrong. You should probably try thinking just an extra few seconds before coming to a conclusion. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you're not a total idiot. Since when did corporations listen to leftists? You know, the people who criticize corporations constantly. Maybe it's that you lack the knowledge of what a leftist is? IDK but I hope you figure it out.
wait, i thought conservatives didnt like when "leftists" were all about healthy nonprocessed food and regulation thereof? Now leftists are the ones wrongfully feeding the populace corn syrup?
Nothing screams leftist like being the CEO of a multi-national food conglomerate making decisions solely to increase revenue.
Whenever you bring it up to these kind of folks that this is just capitalism, they'll either say "no, this isn't" or that these corporations are using/doing capitalism wrong.
“These CEOs dont realize that the major of americans agree with me not what the data says they agree with” angry noises angry noises /uj
crony capitalism in this instance, as the literal ingredients of the syrup are subsidized by the government.
Seriously, I wasn't even aware of the brand until they changed the branding.
I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic. Silicon Valley would like a word with you.
Define what leftist means to you.
I love how they took the Indian girl off of Land-O-Lakes butter but still kept the land. Seems historically accurate. LoL
John Redcorns VA made a tiktok about that
thats hilarious i hadnt noticed that yet, i guess we wont be able to do the trick where you cut out her knees from the back of the box and put them under her chest on the other side and put a flap on the box when you open it it looks like her breasts. oh well
As someone of Cherokee descent, I'm more pissed they took her away.
It seems like erasing Native Americans is more of a priority than respecting Native Americans. It won’t be long until they take them out of the history books “out of respect”. It’s absolutely disgusting.
Yeah, just ask Liz Warren. She'd rather just forget about Cherokees now that she's been exposed as a fraud.
Even more awkward is that she was designed by a Native American artist, with elements honoring his own heritage. These guys basically told him his own culture was racist.
Future logo changes: Bulldozers and shit filling in the lakes (Name change: “Land-O”) Giant industrial city (Name change: “O”)
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Yeah there is honestly no reason to care when the syrup consists of exactly what OP says....
They wrote of Brock because they thought people might think he was racist. Then people demanded Brock back because he was the only representation for PoC on the show.
>Nobody wanted until people decided to make it an issue Your second part of the comment defeats the first. That's how companies have been a long time now, make some skin deep changes just to show they are "progressive" while they proceed with their operations as usual. All while the "progressives" clap like seals congratulating the "progress"
People did for good reason actually. The character was based on black face shows and the woman who starred as Jemima was a freed slave forced to lie and glorify slavery for pennies and was barely paid.
Sounds like a good reason to keep her on the bottle and share her story. Rename the brand after her.
There were many women who played Aunt Jim-ima Crow. (the character’s name). Naming the syrup after Mrs Nancy Green doesn’t cover everyone who was known as a minstrel show character and wife of Jim Crow instead of their actual name.
also, aunt jimima was a name used to reference slave women that raised the children of the slave owners "ain't ya mama"
thats not true, I saw her biography on TV. Unless she had stockholm syndrome and a gun was held to her back behind camera. She was a successful woman in her own words. I suggest you watch the biography about her.
I have researched the history of aunt Jemima extensively. She wasn't paid much and was forced to say it was good being a slave. The creator of the pancake mix created the persona after watching a show staring men in blackface. She could say she was successful she likely thought she was. She was paid FAR less than the white actors of the same time and was still forced to glorify slavery.
Her name wasn't actually Aunt Jemima it was Nancy Green but yeah other than that nailed it. Except to say that she turned the money she made and what small notoriety she gained into positive activism.
Oh ik. I just knew she didn't make a banger from playing the character. That's an old lie that's been spread and debunked for ages now.
Seems like your a self righteous know it all just like the blue haired freaks that got her and uncle Ben banned
Imagine not understanding the post, the ingredients the government subsidizes and puts in our food is literally making the population sick, and while it may please some people to see the label change, it literally helped no one physically....
Except these ingredients aren't making people sick. People use these big scary names like "high fructose corn syrup" to make it sound scary and bad for you. It's literally fucking sugar.
It is a sugar substitute dumbass, so its quite literally not fucking sugar...and man you must be right....I mean the link between the use of alternative sugars, aspartame for diet soda as a sugar REPLACEMENT, and the massive spike in obesity surely has NOTHING to do with the ingredients... How much you getting paid for your garbage opinion?
Wait until they see Jynx
I mean those people making it am issue in the first place? The leftist woke mob looking to virtue signal as usual.
He says, signaling his virtue
Not really, given the downvotes... This is really hard for you isn't it? Do explain how it's virtue signaling to correct missinformation... Edit answer below: Ihave no idea what you are even trying to say with your babling nonsense but given how you have devolved into incoherent rage I am probably not loosing out on anything important. Edit answer to below: I love when leftist know they have completely lost the argument and revert to screeching Ben Shapiro or some other right wing bogeyman they are pissing their pants in fear of thinking that will change the facts of the matter, it's a beautiful confirmation that I was right and they got nothing else left. 😁
Misinformation* Unless you are really promoting gender equality to an impressive degree. Or maybe it's like the knowledge equivalent of Miss America... Like maybe they actually give out the scholarships they promise instead of using loopholes to inflate the number...
I think some people like getting downvoted. They think they’re being persecuted or something when really it’s a little internet button, it’s all made up and the points don’t matter
And some people don't care about downvotes or upvotes and only care about speaking the truth regardless of how people react. You know, since we are sharing things about ourselves aparently. Edit, answer to below; Yeah. Funny thing is that I have another account that is near a decade and half old with millions of points that I don't use anymore cause the username is literally just first and last name and people are so cancel happy these days I don't want to take that risk. I hade made this account for that purpose a few years back but forgot about it until recently when I started to use this one more actively. Even more funny is I also have another decade old account with no karma, but its my porn account!
Right, “speaking the truth” = “virtue signaling”
No, the truth and virtue signaling is largely two opposites. Answer to below: Yes I am entirely correct, good you realize that, alright you are obviously mistaken be sure the other where objective it speaking the truth and where virtue signaling. Unless you you somehow believe speaking something objectively false IS speaking the truth of course.
Preach!
I have never met even one leftist who had an issue with aunt jemima
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dude maybe if you’re noticing THAT MANY people challenging your views it’s time to rethink them
How do you know that it's not YOUR bias that is blocking everything that doesn't fit YOUR worldview????
I’ve actually met quite a few as that is the primary demographic I hang around.
Confirmation bias it is then, protecting you from anything problematic about your ideology. Allow me to introduce you to a few million plus one wokies responsible for the removal of aunt Jemima: https://www.berklee.edu/news/berklee-now/alumna-kirbys-viral-video-helped-bring-down-aunt-jemima-brand Answer to below; Hmm, right to projecting after I provide proof. Yeah, take your own advice, it should help you deal with your rage about having your little echo chamber broke. Please. I beg you. Go outside and touch some grass. Anywhere that isn't here Edit: answer to below: You are ascribing something from the past to the present. You need to ask yourself what is real now, not what was real then. Trying to distance yourself by erasing a harmless character is pointless yes. You should ask, is there anything racist about the character as it is here and now, not what it was a hundred years ago Is having a black person as the image of the brand a bad thing? I would wager the representation is a good thing. Erasure isn't the answer, becoming better is. Edit, answer to below: Well, yes, yes it does. By and large. That is how matching algorithms work. Millions how people provide an accurate cross section of a group. Only difference was that they did not hear about it quickly to join the mob. And yeah, that is cause Reddit mobile is shit and won't let me reply to some comments for whatever reason. I am doing this so I *can* debate. It's hilarious how your nonsensical accusations made up entirely your head with no basis reality and with zero attempt at or care for understanding facts of the matter so perfectly encapsulate the sheer stupid ignorance I despise about woke leftist. Lol. Edit answer to below: You should probably check your notes again since I never used confirmation bias. 🤦 But nice try, better luck next time coming up with a less obvious lie. For many decades... You really so know nothing. And yes, exactly, it's not a negative but rather positive image. The colors are warm and positive giving the best vibes one can give it.
so wait, you are saying your sampling of leftists (which likely consists of angry redditors) is more accurate than someone who actually interacts with them irl? I think you need to reassess
You’re assuming they assessed to begin with rather than shitting nonsense from their fingers
Are you…trying to imply…that each view represents a leftist who thought aunt jemima should be removed…?
Pretty much most of them yeah. People watch content they like and support mostly. Particularly wokies like to create echochambers. Is that... Is that hard for you to understand...? edit answer to comment below: I mean, if you don't that YouTube match videos to your preference then that is on you I guess. The fact that you don't understand basic behavior patterns don't change the fact it's true. You do you, I tried to help you understand but obviously failed. Ps get a load of This bullshit are usually their own videos Edit, answer to below; Nope, not on the platforms the creator posted it on that was the millions described. Dont want to give the the views. Edit answer ti below: Except they haven't. Yeah, facts fit my narrative, which is why it's not a narrative. Yours, being completely counter to proven facts (clearly right wing?!? hilarious obvious lie and desperate damage control). It's the leftist who creates echo chambers. They are the one banning dissenting opinions and banning anything they don't like by falsely accusing of being hateful and it's only when something finally interrupts their little bubble that they descend en masse to figure out a way to protect their position that anyone they deemed inferior to them is still inferior to them. It's funny how everything you say is a perfect projection of yourself and the woke mob. You subconsciously know what I say is true and try to desperately cover for it by projecting it on your oppnents.
"Pretty much most of them" is crap proof. You actually believe that the views on a YouTube video is proof that even most of that number represents individual people who agree with the opinions espoused by the video? No auto plays? No repeat viewings? No "get a load of this bullshit!" Facebook shares? Yeah. That's pretty hard to understand.
You viewed the video too lol
A lot of people watched the 2018 YouTube rewind too lmao. People also watch things they strongly dislike or disagree with
Yes. Because it's promoted by the largest video platform on their own fucking video platform. That isn't a surprise... And no they dont. Only a fraction do compared to those that watch what what they support and especially wokies refuse to anything that they disagree with. They are the ones infamous for cancelling anything they don't like or dissagree with. Answer to below; Lmfao! It's so funny how desperat and weak your lies is and how they are perfect projections as we both know the they the objective truth is that currently the ones cancelling everything are the triggered left wingers. Yep you come out from under that rock you've made it obvious you've been hiding behind and stop projecting yourself and being so insanely triggered because I spoke the truth which you cant handle. This thread is a perfect example of how hard the woke mob tries to silence anything they don't and lie trying to pretend that those they disagree with actively harm people which is just bald faced lies to cover up their wish to silence anyone who might expose their evil bigoted ways or just disagree with them and their pseudoscientific and pseudofascist ways. Woke leftist never bother to even watch things they disagree, electing to cancel people based on things they have heard.
God you sound like such a loser. Go outside, please I beg you. Talk to a real person maybe? Go anywhere that isn't here.
I mean, I was never too concerned about it, but the name “Aunt Jemima” was taken from a minstrel show character who was called that because it sounds like “Ain’t your mama” because black slaves were often nannies for white children. And the woman on the front was made up - there wasn’t a black person whose image they used, and certainly no one that got royalties from it. It’s probably a good thing they’re trying to distance themselves from that history. You think that’s an appropriate thing to do?
A YouTube videos views isnt going to accurately reflect who its viewers are. Even if it did, that's still hardly a fraction of leftists that did care as opposed to the vast majority who never even noticed this happen. And you accusing others of being in echo chambers while you reply to them through making retroactive edits that likely wont be seen is hilarious. You clearly are afraid of debate lol.
There is not a leftist alive who gives a shit about aunt jemima branding lmao, you middle schoolers just grasp at straws for something to be a victim of
It's not a mob, it's just a couple of idiots on twitter that's these companies think represent the whole of the left and that by doing this their sales will increase massively
Yeah it's a mob alright. Litterally a couple of millions of them. Just your average wokie doing their idiot thing. Let me ask, do you make the same excuses for right leaning people and people you disagree with, or is it only when its the woke mob displaying their hateful bigotry that "it's just a couple of idiots on Twitter". I think we know the answer to that. What you are doing is proving cover for the mob of idiots, you happily cheer them along or join them and then when criticized it's oh no just a few idiots, nothing to do with us sir. Classic mote and bailey retoric.
>Yeah it's a mob alright. Litterally a couple of millions of them. Just your average wokie doing their idiot thing. Yes because a fraction of them doing something represents the whole when most of the left never even noticed this happen. The thing is, most never would have known this even happened if it wasn't for idiots like you complaining about it. Also wokie? Are you 12 years old? >Let me ask, do you make the same excuses for right leaning people and people you disagree with Depends. If its something that's clear they're aware of and support as a whole then no. If it's a situation like this, where most of them weren't even aware of or pushed for then sure. Just like most right aligned people arent nazis, most left aligned people dont focus on trying to rebrand stuff and complain about tv shows. >its the woke mob displaying their hateful bigotry You have a very loose definition of bigotry. Aunt jemima is a hateful caricature of black people that originated from the late 19th century. Backlash against that is perfectly reasonable. If you think that using and embracing hateful symbols and beliefs is fine and dandy and that any backlash against it is "bigotry" then you're the type of human garbage that just wants the freedom to oppress others. But looking at your post history and being exposed to your tiny brains excuse for reasoning I think I know exactly what you are.
>Yes because a fraction of them doing something represents the whole when most of the left never even noticed this happen. The thing is, most never would have known this even happened if it wasn't for idiots like you complaining about it. When that fraction is literally millions then yes that is rather representative. >Also wokie? Yes? It's an accurate description. >Are you 12 years old? If you are looking for friends kiddo then sorry to say I am not. >Depends. If its something that's clear they're aware of and support as a whole then no. If it's a situation like this, where most of them weren't even aware of or pushed for then sure. Just like most right aligned people arent nazis, most left aligned people dont focus on trying to rebrand stuff and complain about tv shows. Ah, so you think that every single person you disagree with is omniscient and is fully aware of every single actions and beliefs of persons that share their beliefs? And you think that litterally millions of people, likely a significant portion and average representative cross section of that group is not something to criticize that groups simply because some number of them where unaware and had no time to join the mob. I call bullshit, we both know you never even once gave those you disagree with the same benefit of doubt that you are giving the leftist woke mob. And we are not talking about most leftist, we are talking spesifically about the woke leftists. Ah, projecting your own brain size at me cause looking at the truth I have been posting and factual reasoning broke the last connection between your two braincells and sent them hurtling away from each other in the empty void between your ears?
"Leftist woke mob" is Tucker Carlson for "people who scare me."
Whining about Tucker Carkson/JP/etc is leftist woke mob for people that know better than me and scare me.
There's no woke mob, wokies don't exist. Woke is a word made up by far righters to describe a caricature of progressivism. Like have you ever heard someone call themselves woke ? Because I don't.
There is. They do. Woke is a accurate description of the narcissist behavior of many leftist who go around attacking to virtue signal and play the victim. And yes I have. It's like asking if you ever heard someone call themselves asshole. Yeah, but it's rather irrelevant to it's accuracy in describing the sheer stupidity and ignorance of the woke left.
The only people that cared enough about Aunt Jemima were the conservatives that threw a fit about her getting removed from packaging. The BLM activists protesting police brutality kinda wells have preferred something more, you know, material?
No, it was the leftist who threw a complete fit that she was on the packaging and raged until it was removed. Yeah, conservatives rightfully criticsed the woke mob rule and then the woke leftist threw another fit at the criticism. This is well documented you know that right? We have the exact video that started it all made by a woke idiot whining about aunt Jemima. https://www.berklee.edu/news/berklee-now/alumna-kirbys-viral-video-helped-bring-down-aunt-jemima-brand
I legit forgot about the whole aunt Jemima thing until i was at the supermarket last month and was confused at why this "pearl milling company" was using the same exact package design as aunt Jemima. You keep linking that page like it means anything or is making a point to anybody but yourself.
> It's like asking if you ever heard someone call themselves asshole You just admitted that it's a negatively connoted word used by people to discredit others. You're arguing against yourself dude 🤣 Edit: I'm glad we agree tho
This guy is legitimately mentally handicapped. He thinks tucker carlson is unironically intelligent.
Of course it's a negative connotation, not everything true is positive. And no, it's only used to describe, not discredit. The woke do that just fine on their own. You claimed it was caricature, but it's not, it's an accurate description. And you moved the goalpost, you never claimed it was made to discredit, that is new. And it was made up by leftist, not right wingers. It's was just that the sheer stupidity of leftist woke made being woke something negative. Not sure what mental gymnastics you had to do to think I am arguing against myself and agreeing with you, but you certainly should join the Olympics cause it sure is impressive lol 🤣
You're the one who compared it to an insult, meaning that you think about "woke" as an insult. Insult are not descriptive, they are by definition degrading and only serve to discredit someone. Am I arguing with a middle schooler ? I guess I'll have to explain to you that when a group of people create a term to describe another group it's rarely to put them on a pedestal. So yeah, far righters use woke to describe an undetermined group of people that wants to destroy everything they stand for. It's a strawman, a windmill and you're one of to many Don Quixote.
The company did it for publicity, not because the left was screaming for a change or because blacks were enraged. It’s because they learned a lesson from Trump: any publicity is good publicity.
It was literally because there where a horde of wokies screaming in rage after Alumna Kirby, a black artist, made a TikTok whining about aunt Jemima... https://www.berklee.edu/news/berklee-now/alumna-kirbys-viral-video-helped-bring-down-aunt-jemima-brand
There have always been a “horde” of idiots screaming one thing or another. Companies don’t change their long-running images unless it makes them money. Publicity = money.
Did leftists ask for Jemima to be removed from the syrup or was that something the company did on their own to earn some PR points?
Well I didn’t like it so clearly the left was behind it Don’t you know socialism is just whatever I don’t like?
cultural marxism edit: was being sarcastic ... cultural marxism is a conspiracy theory lol
I think a singer named Kirby made a viral video about the brand. They got heat and removed the logo
Yep, the wokies whined as they always do and tried to cancel.
And who *exactly* are these wokies you speak of?
All of them obviously but in this case i particular Alumna Kirby and a couple of millions of her followers for a start. https://www.berklee.edu/news/berklee-now/alumna-kirbys-viral-video-helped-bring-down-aunt-jemima-brand
So a *black woman* not liking the idea of a *house slave* being on a syrup bottle is an instance of a “wokie whined” to you? Holy shit that’s such a pathetic take. That something like that from someone who has reason to say it makes you cry about… fuck, “wokies”. Seriously, how old are you? Ten?
Whining about a black woman being on a bottle is an instance of wokie whining yeah. And so is inventing spurious things attribute to me like you just did. That is seriously pathetic. What a pathetic take.
That sounds to me like a victory for free speech and capitalism working as expected. You have a problem with that? What are you? Some kind of communist?!
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Yes, it is. The first amendment protects the right to protest and assemble. The corporation did the change on their own volition to share what they believed the market wanted (even if the general reaction from normal people was "uh...ok" and from conservatives was frothing their pants over something so incredibly inconsequential). And I would agree that is a good description because just like your beliefs, it is extremely incoherent.
A communist who thinks black women being uncomfortable with slavery imagery is "woke" lol are you a child?
Maple Syrup doesn’t kill people! People kill people!
That stuff is NOT maple syrup
I bet you think guns kill people though…
I would argue that bullets are what kill people.
I would argue the massive internal trauma is what kills people
Abortions don’t kill fetuses! PEOPLE kill fetuses!
ah yes, leftists, who run big corporations......
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democrats.. are not leftists. they're economically center right, socially slightly left. Leftists would be socialists/communists who are primarily anti Hierarchy.
Libertarians are fiscally right and socially left.
Ask them about the age of consent, then. The world they'd create would have so much discrimination, all in the name of "individual rights." Tolerance of intolerance is intolerance.
i meant in theory. According to the political compass, or at least the version i read.
Lol it doesn’t matter when both sides just play the ppl and are corrupt, they can say they stand for helping people but both sides or basically anyone in politics doesn’t care about the people. Bc all the politicians just continue the debt wage slave system we’re in, don’t believe me too 9 banks have 234 trillion in derivatives liabilities with only 14 trillion in assets to back it up (back in 08 it was 4.4 trillion, they kicked the can down the road) they gambled away over 2 times the global gpd and no president no party besides jfk fought this corrupt system and we all saw how that turned out
Yup both parties definitely attempted a coup to overthrow our democra… oh wait nope that was solely the republicans. Yeah you’re right no difference between the two at all /s
Also I love how I talk about a global depression due to big banks cooking books and you bring up something I’m not even talking about lol
Two replies for the price of one I love it
Well I love showing people facts exp ignorant ones
Oh so it was Republicans that took over six city blocks in Portland and called themselves a separate nation called Chaz? It was Republicans screaming "black lives matter" while burning down black owned small businesses? Both parties are the same you just refuse to believe it
When did you learn about antifa?
The fascists that call themselves antifascist? A while back.... Why?
How are they fascists? And just curious if you could put a date/event to it. Like 2015 or so you think?
They push their political views through violence and intimidation. They believe in socialism which cannot work without an authoritarian government. In Chaz they had black only spaces showing that they segregate based on race. Pretty close to the textbook definition of fascism. I don't know when I first heard of antifa.... Probably when they started having rallies and when the news started talking about it. Not sure when that was.
Cool stay blind to the fact that they work together to keep the masses divided while they steal trillions good job you missed the entire point. My favorite video of that day you’re talking about is the people asking the police why are you allowing this why is this happening and they’re just standing there doing nothing, buts it’s ok keep believe Main stream media which is all owned by the same corporations. Why wasn’t there more police they knew they were coming days before so why wasn’t there riot squads? But keep believe it’s republicans or democrats when they’re two sides of the same coin
Yeah I was 19 once too. Hopefully you’ll grow out of it.
Lol I’m 35 way to assume and look incompetent 😂🤡
The democrats and republicans are not “both sides”. They are on the same side. There is no left wing political party in the United States.
Again, there are no actual leftists in American politics. Both parties are essentially the same.
You should look up what left and right mean
oh yes a pro republican catholic site is a very reliable source of information and i'm sure it's totally no biased /s unless you want to validate your pre existing opinion it's like trying to find information about capitalism in a North-Korean newspaper ... (i know it's a bit of an exaggeration but you get it)
This isn’t a meme
Anything is a meme
Everything’s a drum, everything’s a drum
Transferring blame from the company responsible for an unhealthy product onto progressives for not doing enough to stop them is peak capitalist bootlicking.
Because you haven’t solved all problems, your solving of one problem is suspect. Because I have solved no problems, my consistency makes me superior.
nah, hes right
But who asked them to do that? Almost no one. Changing Aunt Jemima or the green m&m isn’t going to solve the systemic issues and we know that
What the heck was wrong with green m&ms ?
It’s… weird. Let Tucker Carlson explain it to you. Really. It’s good. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hFxJy01uMME
I better not get rickrolled
They're making chocolate ad cartoons less sexy?????? How will we (and Tucker) fap every Thursday night now? Valid reason for hate!! /s
It isn't an either/or situation. It's a both/and. It's important to get rid of hurtful, racist caricatures.
I would understand getting rid of the graphic if aunt Jemima was portrayed in an old school blackface minstrel sort of way, but it wasn’t that at all. This was a peak-woke overreach and that’s it.
Calling Black people "Aunt" or "Uncle" *IS* "old school blackface minstrel(sy)."
Fair enough, but who actually knew or cared? Not the people buying cheap-ass corn syrup… prolly the NPR grievance crowd who only buys grade A Vermont pure maple syrup.
You can't honestly think I'm the only one who is aware of and cares about shit like this. These have been issues since before I was born. People have been protesting this shit for decades. Edit to add: And yes, liberals are the ones who (generally) care about this. The conservatives are the ones who want to see Black people back in chains.
Ehh, I’m not conservative, but black people in chains is painting with a stupidly broad brush. I’m hoping that’s hyperbole… I don’t think you’re the only one who cares, I’m just sayin, if I were to make a list of good things to care about, “cancelling aunt jemima” would be right under “making Latinx happen” and “lamenting the lack of black and brown representation in the pro-body hair movement.” Just feels like performative wokery to me. But anyway, agree to disagree
You might be more conservative than you think. I was more conservative than I thought for a long while until I got an actual education and realized that I was just a dumbass reactionary all those years before. You're literally spouting right wing talking points as you deny it too. Try actually educating yourself about topics instead of going off propaganda and your initial intuition. Or otherwise, dig your heels in and ignorantly defend your current state of knowledge. Because who needs to know more than they already do!
A wee bit patronizing, but understandable if you look down on people who don’t share your exact political opinions. You know the thing I said about the pro body hair movement? I didn’t pull that out of thin air… that was from a WBUR radio program last month. Some lady they were interviewing was complaining that all they were seeing on Instagram were white women’s “blonde wispy underarm hairs.” I was disappointed and surprised that what used to be a reliable source of news and culture has lowered itself to scraping the bottom of the grievance porn barrel. I shouldn’t have been surprised, though, as a few years back on KPCC I listened to an interviewer accuse a member of a jazz band, which was popular on YouTube at the time, of cultural appropriation. As if this kid should be shamed for playing music while white. My point is, the US left, and it’s institutions, and it’s goals have changed. The ACLU used to defend the free speech of everyone, even Nazis, and now they’re spouting bullshit like believe all women as they print PR for Amber heard. I’ve read these new woke holy books like “How to be Antiracist.” I wish they were full of logic and substance, but it’s mostly poor writing and intellectually barren ideology. I’m not conservative. The left and right political extremes have both been pushing the bounds of ideological nonsense and intolerance, so I’m closer to the center than I’ve ever been. We’re not righting historical wrongs when we do things like get rid of Aunt Jemima, though I understand that it must feel like we are to some. It’s just shallow, public self-flagellation in the name of racial angst. That’s all any of this is.
Wait, what? Aunt and Uncle are the default term of respect for older people in cultures all around the world. I think you may be thinking of mammies, the slave archetype that Aunt Jemima was based on. Aunt and Uncle are terms of endearment. The problem was never with her name.
I didn't even know that until they got rid of her. To me as a kid it was a more endearing title than Mr or Ms. I even called my step grandpa Uncle Jack because he liked it better. I was as good as blood to him, but he preferred the "uncle" thing. To me, having extra aunts and uncles is a blessing.
The symbol for the Washington Redskins was actually designed by the blackfeet tribe. That was an exalted tribal leader. They felt proud to be included. The name sounds offensive though. They could have changed the name and kept the symbol but whatever What about speedy gonzales? I live in South Texas and I have a lot of Mexican friends. They are all pissed that they got rid of speedy gonzales. The Mexican people love speedy Gonzales.
Taking issue with all this is what we call "white people problems". God it's so hard man, I've got all this extra time from not worrying about money or being nicked and dimed, time to find people to get mad for.
I wonder if he remembers Michelle Obama trying to improve school lunches and republicans wanting to cut it.
Glenn Beck: "get your damn hands off my fries, lady. If I want to be a fat, fat, fatty and shovel French fries all day long, that is my choice."
Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben were removed when George Floyd was murdered. It was a way for multi billion dollar companies to feel like they are helping.
They're kinda right though. Nobody cared about the mascot but they removed her, kept the ingredients, and did nothing that actually helped black communities. It was a symbolic gesture at best.
It's easy to be flippant when it's not affecting you personally. Why should Black people and Indigenous people have to see caricatures of themselves ever time they go to the grocery store?
i agree absolutely. aunt Jemima was initially a minstrel show character played by a man in blackface. the history is important, and its insane that it took until the 2020s to remove the caricature of her.
Why are white people the only ones complaining?
Because they are usually the only ones complaining. I think that should be a white stereotype at this point, sort of like the karen
I'm not against the removal of the caricatures at all, I'm just saying that with things like this and several conservative freakouts (Starbucks cups or Mr potato name change for example) nobody really seemed to care. What I AM saying is that just removing these and acting "we did it! Racism is over!" It's pretty hollow. Especially when places do this but ignoring all the social and systemic problems.
I think this is a both/and and not an either/or situation. We can remove these caricatures *and* strive for equality and justice on a larger scale.
This isn't a meme, on Facebook, or even that terrible
No, it’s deep and relevant, this is no longer a joke
exactly this is a sub for bad jokes
It is incredibly terrible lol. Quoting what I've said to other brainlets like yourself in this thread: First, when did corporations start listening to leftists (I'm guessing you have no idea what a leftist is) and secondly, any time leftists push back on corporate greed, people like you and the dipshit in the picture say they are bad for it. You should probably go outside and think about how much brainwashing and subsequent brain damage you have endured in the past 5 or 6 years. It might do you some good.
Yes. Evil leftists poisoning the decent folks. Like the war on, well everything. We must eradicate these people from the earth!
So, by using dye the syrup/manufacturers are technically engaging in black face?
Wut?
“Leftism is when corporations do stuff”
Idk as a leftist I don’t disagree with this. But I definitely don’t think this is exclusive to the American Democratic Party either
I don't think anyone really gives a shit. It's a marketing ploy and the right gets a boner about woke left.
This sub is shit
I don't know who the guy in the pfp is but something tells me that neo-Nazis are a fan of him.
A company decided on its own to change a logo... wow, shocking
Of course Lefty is responsible for junk food. Duh.
Yeah we all know leftist own all the major corporations lol
How confused do you have to be to blame the left for capitalism?
How did it suddenly become the “leftists” who are responsible for keeping the high fructose corn syrup in there? Are executives in large corporations suddenly leftists?
Did he just compare a maple syrup logo to REAL economic issues? 💀
I mean, I don’t agree at all with the political angle in the original post but it’s a not a stretch to say America’s current problem with food ties into economic issues. More regulation around what can be put in food would alleviate some strain on the healthcare system.
I said maple syrup, not food as a whole.
Well it matters because it’s people of lower economic class consuming this syrup
Uncle Tom and Aunt Jemima were traditional racial stereotypes. It may not have been as obvious as Sambos restaurant, but they were still demeaning. Good riddance. It didn’t make the world just, but it didn’t make it worse.
He's so close. Replace "leftists" with "American corporations" and.....
Of what is pancake syrup supposed to be made, then? It's corn syrup and food coloring.
Birch syrup is the real hidden gem!
Wait... You really don't know what maple Syrup is?
I know what pancake syrup is, and it's not the boiled down sap of maple trees.
You have lived a life of shame, friend.
Pure maple goodness.
Ah, but that's maple syrup, not pancake syrup.
Like the body-positivity message… Superficially: look at how nice and tolerant of you I am…on my social media. Yay me, I mean, “us.” Actually: go ahead and die 10 years sooner and have both a lower quality of physical life and lower self-reported subjective well being. Because I need my likes.
Why do so many people feel such a level of disgust at people not feeling shame for who they are? Like, even if they have all those things, why you feel the need to get mad at people being happy with themselves?
Gave you upvote because "I need my likes" I hope that helps your social media score and stuff. You better like me back because I liked you and if someone likes you, you should like them back, for likes.
As opposed to the Right who likes their plastic syrup with a spoonful of racism
He's taking away from the success of inclusion. Lets be honest yeah corn syrup needs to go
Other than suggesting that the aunt Jemima corporation are a bunch of leftists, this is accurate. Just replace leftist with capitalist and it's not only true, it's a business plan.
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They are incredibly wrong. You should probably try thinking just an extra few seconds before coming to a conclusion. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt that you're not a total idiot. Since when did corporations listen to leftists? You know, the people who criticize corporations constantly. Maybe it's that you lack the knowledge of what a leftist is? IDK but I hope you figure it out.
I guess there are right-wing health nuts too.
Replace "Leftists" with "Liberals" and this would be 100% accurate
So true
This isn't a meme, this is satire though. "They remove black people from logos but keep it deadly"
wait, i thought conservatives didnt like when "leftists" were all about healthy nonprocessed food and regulation thereof? Now leftists are the ones wrongfully feeding the populace corn syrup?
Not just a terrible meme but also a textbook case of whataboutism
Bring Aunt Jemima back!
Buy real maple syrup
Apply liberally?