Aunt Jemima to be Dropped Over Origins in Racial Stereotype

I am offended by MLK statues and the Crazy Horse monument in S.Dak.

 

So, basically boycotting. Is that what you’re calling extortion? Are they threatening violence if their calls for change are not met? Are these companies untitled to our dollars?

 

This classic liberal agrees with a conservative. Only the post modern progs are nuts.

 

It's also been reported Colonel Sanders was recently given a backstory, where he had painful bonespurs which prevented him from joining the actual military, and had to turn to fried chicken and (failed) casinos to make a living...

 

The value of your opinion doesn’t extend to far past your own social sphere of influence. Apparently these companies didn’t find the demands for change stupid, or if they did they new they had something to gain from complying. Likely increasing their customer base, or at least preventing it from shrinking. This is capitalism. Deal with it.

 

Boycotting is not extortion. Don’t know why you feel compelled to insult me for asking a poster to clarify a comment.

 

I kind of doubt that this has anything to do with the sensibilities of their customer base. I think this has a lot more to do with the sensibilities of a small clique of very privileged elites living in a bubble.

I did a search on google to see if blacks were offended by the branding and came up with nothing. I saw many articles from elite whites/blacks who were offended though.

I don't believe removing the branding will harm anybody (except for perhaps Quaker if they get their new branding wrong). On the other hand, it is solving absolutely nothing either. I miss the days when companies concentrated on selling me a product and were not interested in selling me an ideology. It is ubiquitous now. We literally cannot escape these nuts.

You will notice that when elites speak of wealth inequality, it is ALWAYS referred to in terms of race. They will NEVER speak of wealth inequality in terms of the elite versus everybody else. It is brilliant. Ordinary whites, ordinary blacks and ordinary latinos would all be better off if they combined their efforts and told the elites to shove their virtue signalling and do something about the immigration that is eroding all of our wages for the profit of the few.

 

How many are boycotting as a percentage of black Americans and social justice warriors. Single digits?

And how many customers will say bs and change brands over the nonsense?

I doubt changing the graphics on pancake mix will move more of their product.

 

Where are they? I've never heard of anyone in my life suggesting the logo was racist.

 

They've moved beyond threatening, if you haven't been asleep at the wheel yet they've actually done it(burned down Wendy's). Everyone is kowtowing to this terrorist organization, which is enjoying more success than Al-qaeda, and they used freaking airplanes against the World Trade Center.

The difference is the nation's resolve. Bush said we won't negotiate with terrorists, today we say "how much".

 

I mean sure, they exist and there could be any number of reasons you might see more of them than others, but that doesn’t mean it’s all or even the majority.

 

Yet I see his smug, antebellum south looking white ass every time I pass by a restaurant.

So, you racist or nah?

I want it gone.

 

Well maybe you need to slap a FOR WHITES ONLY sign on that puppy and you may have a case for racism.

 

Because you can't point out what is offensive.

 

Do you mean like the "for blacks only" label on Aunt Jemima syrup bottle?

 

Who cares? I can probably count the number of times the OP has uttered the words “Aunt Jemima” in his lifetime on one hand. Talk about more faux outrage.

 

Kinda stupid. I honestly don't see or think anything racist, discriminatory, or demeaning about Uncle Bens Rice with a picture of a handsome Grandfatherly looking black man on it. To me, if it isn't Uncle Bens it isn't rice. I must be a lost cause. I can understand the Aunt Jemima complaint though. Every time I look at it I think of a happy house slave whose sole purpose in life is to serve the master. It always made me a little bit uncomfortable. But the syrup itself is delicious though not as much so as real maple syrup. Well, that's my unqualified opinion. Now I done went and got me a hankering for some Massah's Plantation, Down Home Iced Tea. See ya'll.

 

I know somebody who might be available to replace him in a few months... similar antebellum mentality, but wouldn't be caught dead wearing a white suit or facial hair...

 

Point taken. And I don’t disagree with you about wealth inequality, but it’s just syrup being rebranded. Nothing to get upset about.

 

It most certainly is a form of it. Just as the rich influencing politicians by big financing of campaigns to get policy and law in their favor is *******ned bribery if laws were principled and consistently coherent

When a few can run the show extortion is commonly used. That is as old as the hills.

I didn't intend to insult. Just didn't think you were thinking clearly but driven by knee jerk ideology that IMO requires little thought.

 

I believe that it is possible to be offended by anything. I didn't think it depicted a negative image. There are many products with smiling people on the packaging. Did the image become offensive or is society becoming sensitive? As we become more sensitive, is it really possible to eliminate offensive images?

 

Can’t say I know. If it’s not boycotting, what is it? If it’s not an attempt by the company to boost/keep sales, what is it?
Why get worked up over it?

 

There goes the royalties to the families.

 

Are you offended by Quaker's decision? Feeling like a snowflake?

 

Good luck on your quest!