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rogue_pixie
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Racist Ice cream?
#4059644 - 04/15/05 04:12 PM (18 years, 11 months ago) |
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Offbeat News Friday, April 15, 2005 Group Says 'Nogger' Ice-Cream Ad Racist
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - A Swedish rights group cried foul over advertisements for a liquorice ice-cream, saying the posters for "Nogger Black" were racist. Not only could the name of the ice-cream bar made by GB Glace cause offence, but the posters, with graffiti-style text, lampooned black culture, the Center Against Racism said. "The GB Glace company may not be racist, but the ads they use give new life to racist stereotypes," the campaigning group said in a statement. GB Glace, a part of Anglo-Dutch group Unilever, said it did not believe the ice-cream, or its advertising, was racist. However, it was considering withdrawing another advertising campaign due in May. "Even if the word 'black' in the logo is inspired by graffiti, we don't see anything wrong with that, nor about alluding to black culture or hip-hop," GB Glace spokeswoman Petronella Warg said. "We certainly had no intention that the name, 'Nogger', would be associated with any negative word." A chocolate version of the Nogger ice cream, with a nougat center, has been on sale in Sweden for decades. _________________
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Psychoactive1984
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Let's PC the world!!!!
I'm gonna call an African American a nogger and see if they take offense.
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rogue_pixie
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I'd like someone to please explain to me why liquorice ice cream called nogger could possibly be perceived as being racist! Am I missing something!?
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Psychoactive1984
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gives the ACLU something to do? Beats me.
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rogue_pixie said: I'd like someone to please explain to me why liquorice ice cream called nogger could possibly be perceived as being racist! Am I missing something!?
Your kidding right?
A liquorice (black) ice cream called "Nogger Black"....1 letter away from "nigger"....
Cannon fodder for the ACLU
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TinTree
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It's called Nogger because it has fucking nougat in it, and they've used that term for years. Thank you, PC fucktards.
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Edited by TinTree (04/16/05 01:34 AM)
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Re: Racist Ice cream? [Re: TinTree]
#4061328 - 04/16/05 12:49 AM (18 years, 11 months ago) |
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ACLU stands for American Civil Liberties Union, this article is reporting from Sweden about a Swedish group being upset. what exactly does the ACLU have to do with this?
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TinTree
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Excuse me. See edit.
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What would it have to do with the ACLU even if it were in America, unless they refused to sell i to black people?
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Hahahah funny thread
The real noggers eat chocolate ice cream.
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Re: Racist Ice cream? [Re: kronnyQ]
#4061916 - 04/16/05 08:35 AM (18 years, 11 months ago) |
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They should make a really disgusting jellybean and color it balck. That would be racist.
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Baby_Hitler said: What would it have to do with the ACLU even if it were in America, unless they refused to sell i to black people?
That's what I was thinking.
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Re: Racist Ice cream? [Re: Learyfan]
#4062098 - 04/16/05 10:28 AM (18 years, 11 months ago) |
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So many idiots in this forum...
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The_Green_Glow
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Re: Racist Ice cream? [Re: pleco]
#4062255 - 04/16/05 11:32 AM (18 years, 11 months ago) |
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I dont think thats racist at all. If it was 'black nigger ice cream' then start complaining, ya know, I mean come on?
we must prohibit any word close to anything offensive! it may cut our dictionaries in half, but it is for the best!
nagger and nogger are bad! and nugger of course as well, and negger lets not forget negger... oh and nygger....
if it isnt the actual word, then forget it, I mean DUH
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Baby_Hitler
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Nutter Butters are homoerotic.
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Baby_Hitler said: What would it have to do with the ACLU even if it were in America, unless they refused to sell i to black people?
They'd misconstrue the shit out of it for their own ends.
http://www.aclu.org/RacialEquality/RacialEqualityMain.cfm ... It's as much as a possibility as is that the makers of said icecream were making racist ice-cream. (It was a joke if you didn't realize it)
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Can I get a scoop of chocolate chink?
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Re: Racist Ice cream? [Re: Silversoul]
#4073777 - 04/19/05 06:19 PM (18 years, 11 months ago) |
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My (ex, whorebag) girlfriend and I were in some ice creamery in Pittsburgh with a rude black lady as our ice-cream scooping technician. I was pretty stoned and I asked for some "white" ice cream. We thought it was funny. Aunty Jemima didn't laugh, but for 4$/hr I'm sure her "putting up with white peopels shit" quota was pretty low.
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Re: Racist Ice cream? [Re: SoopaX]
#4073940 - 04/19/05 06:55 PM (18 years, 11 months ago) |
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dude it's cool, they can have their ice cream. no negros hit up my chocolate chip cookie dough & strawberry blended goodness
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Re: Racist Ice cream? [Re: zSDMF]
#4075065 - 04/19/05 10:56 PM (18 years, 11 months ago) |
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is this really how far we've (d)evolved? humans are worse off than I previously thought.
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