IainC
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365BlackLike the unique African Baobab tree, which nourishes its community with its leaves and fruit, McDonald's has branched out to the African-American community nourishing it with valuable programs and opportunities. 
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Yegolev
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My people need a place to go!
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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schild
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Congratulations on making the African Baobab tree the new international symbol of racism, McD's.
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bhodi
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No lie.
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Could they be any more condescending? Who thought this was a good idea?
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gryeyes
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Some white folks in marketing?
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Draegan
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365Yellow next?
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schild
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As I told Bhodi on IM, it's not that I'm bothered by this being racist: Which it clearly fucking is.
I'm bothered by how this stuff comes to fruition. Some asshole in marketing/PR came up with this stupid shit so they could just leave it up and never have to do anything for half their employees in February and all it's going to do is sour the company with the entire black community.
The only way to cap this is if they gave out coupons that only black people could use.
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Draegan
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The only way to cap this is if they gave out coupons that only black people could use.
That would be awesome to watch. |
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gryeyes
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Offering layaway for African Americans would be pretty bad.
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Surlyboi
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eat a bag of dicks
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Next they'll be offering watermelon shakes and dark chocolate brownies "for the brothas"
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Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something. We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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schild
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Next they'll be offering watermelon shakes and dark chocolate brownies "for the brothas"
MASSA IS COMING |
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LK
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I like the word choice "rooted" in the slogan at the top.
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AutomaticZen
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That first black family looks like someone is pointing a gun at them. The only way to cap this is if they gave out coupons that only black people could use. Hell yeah. That'd be the delicious icing on this misguidedly shitty cake. |
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Surlyboi
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eat a bag of dicks
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OH LAWDIE! IS DAT SUM CHIKKIN MACNUGGATS?
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Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something. We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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Yegolev
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You know, I can't remember when McDonald's wasn't targeting black people, maybe back in the eighties? Maybe? I don't get what they are going for here.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Surlyboi
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eat a bag of dicks
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I'm here to tell you, the chicken mcnuggets is comin' home to roost, y'all...  |
Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something. We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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Khaldun
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As I told Bhodi on IM, it's not that I'm bothered by this being racist: Which it clearly fucking is.
I'm bothered by how this stuff comes to fruition. Some asshole in marketing/PR came up with this stupid shit so they could just leave it up and never have to do anything for half their employees in February and all it's going to do is sour the company with the entire black community.
The only way to cap this is if they gave out coupons that only black people could use.
I agree. This kind of stuff bothers me less for some ideological reason and more for what it says about how big institutions function (whether they're companies or civic organizations). There is just something really wrong with organizational life at this point, because this happens a lot: some middle-manager folks get anxious that they don't appear to be doing anything important, so they enslave the lower-level worker bees to do the nitty-gritty work for some dumb idea that they've sold to the other middle-managers by using a lot of PowerPoint and trendy b-school jargon. Then it's handed to the higher-ups, who give it a check mark so they can get back to fucking their mistresses and shopping for $10,000 faucets for their CEO bathroom. Then some other middle manager gets handed the clean-up after the dumb plan goes boom. The CEO gets interrupted again so he can issue a statement of regret, some money gets handed to non-profits, and b-school professors get to add a new case study that will let them generate new jargon to be used in service to the next dumb plan. The original planners have, unless they're *really* stupid, by this time managed to collectivize and anonymize responsibility for the dumb plan, so nobody is really held accountable. Maybe a worker bee or two will get shitcanned; occasionally the VP who was the first fool to checkmark the middle-manager's plan will be given his golden handshake and move on to another organization or maybe if it's a recession like now, end up an unemployable executive. |
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HaemishM
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the Confederate flag underneath the stone in my class ring
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Lakov_Sanite
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I'd kill for a good watermelon shake right now.
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Azaroth
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Yeah, that'd be awesome.
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Trippy
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I'd hit it.
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01101010
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You call it an accident. I call it justice.
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Wow... could they have picked a worse tree to represent? I showed this to a few friends from all ethnic backgrounds and everyone of them said without reading what the site was about, that was some kinda lynching tree in the deep south.  |
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TheWalrus
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Should have gone with a ficus.
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Yegolev
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Needed to be a tree that white people would recognize as African.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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schild
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I could not find out anything about the Baobab being used for lynching. It was however used as a shitter and prison back in the day.
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Yegolev
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That's because baobab don't grow in the southern US.
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Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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voodoolily
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Finnuh, munnuh, muhfuh, I enjoy creating new written vernacular, s'all.
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That's because baobab don't grow in the southern US.
This. |
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Sir T
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Go on, buy that burger FOR THE CHILDREN!!!
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Hic sunt dracones.
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Tale
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sıɥʇ ǝʞıן sʞןɐʇ
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« Last Edit: September 19, 2009, 07:10:21 PM by Tale »
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LK
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Wow they are going all the way with this.
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"Then there's the double-barreled shotgun from Doom 2 - no-one within your entire household could be of any doubt that it's been fired because it sounds like God slamming a door on his fingers." - Yahtzee Croshaw
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Sheepherder
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You stay classy McDonalds.
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dusematic
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Holy shit. Everyone I showed 365 black to thought it was a joke site. Inspirasian is really pushing it. Wow. Pretty floored really.
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Oban
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I like how the black one is black and the asian one is yellow.
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Triforcer
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How is this racist or bad? I don't get it. It could have been a bit more subtle in its language, but I don't see the issue.
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All life begins with Nu and ends with Nu. This is the truth! This is my belief! At least for now...
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Lantyssa
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Why do they need to exist at all?
My first thought on the 'inspirasian' design was that some weaboo (and I hate that word) thought of every Asian thing they could, as if it's one singular culture, and made a website out of it.
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Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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