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Originally Posted by y.winter
Making a connection between the Dove ad and the old soap ad is a populist move from internet-nation. With the latter being an explicitly racist ad, and the first one just a pure interpretation of a few people online.
Does racism exist? yes. Shouting "RACISM!" about every little thing and looking at things and thinking how can they be offensive - well that's exploiting the equality message as far as I'm concerned.
If the Dove black-to-white(-to-other-woman-but-let's-not-ruin-the-racism-illusion) woman is racist, then I don't want to begin with the black-man-to-white-woman/woman-to-man/latin-to-asian in this ad:
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I'm not saying I think it's racist, I was just saying you would think a big company like Dove would have thought it through better, having said that though I think maybe TS is right and it could have been a calculated move
