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21-07-2016, 11:36 AM | #1 | |||
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An Italian restaurant in New Mexico has come under fire for a punny billboard playing off the Black Lives Matter slogan amid nationwide outcry over the recent fatal shootings of black men by police officers in the line of duty.
Paisano’s in Albuquerque posted “Black Olives Matter, Try Our Tapenade” on a marquee last week advertising one of its specials and reportedly posted a picture of the sign on social media. People on the restaurant’s Facebook page called it “offensive,” “tacky and hideous” and “in very bad taste.” The restaurant has since taken down the sign and removed the photo of it from social media. “What is happening in America saddens so many, even all the way in the southern hemisphere,” one wrote. “I love a good joke, but there are things that you just don’t joke about.” Another added: “As a woman of color I find your posting offensive and in very bad taste. You simply wish to rub salt in an ugly festering wound which evil minded people refuse to allow to heal. The civilized world No longer has any tolerance for your hateful public display of what passes to you as humor. Young men and women are dying have a shred of humanity.” Still, the owner said he has no regrets. “I think it shows an interesting state of affairs of where our country is that people, first of all, can be offended by a statement about a vegetable,” Camuglia told KOB. “Black olives matter, and it does matter in our tapenade.” ---------------- Funny or disgraceful? |
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21-07-2016, 11:38 AM | #2 | |||
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Terrible, all olives matter.
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21-07-2016, 11:51 AM | #3 | ||
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Grotesque.
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21-07-2016, 11:52 AM | #4 | |||
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#BlueOlivesMatter
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21-07-2016, 12:04 PM | #5 | |||
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Why get outraged? Nothing is surprising. It's pretty obvious black peoples problems don't matter. They just tolerate black people when they entertain.
Where is the thread on Charles kinsey then who was on the floor with his hands up, minding an autistic patient but was still shot anyway? If all those people that have protested over the years were white there would have been some sort of reform.
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21-07-2016, 12:14 PM | #6 | |||
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21-07-2016, 12:31 PM | #7 | |||
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The victim said he asked him why he shot the officer replied, I don't know.
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21-07-2016, 12:33 PM | #8 | |||
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Green olives are nicer
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21-07-2016, 12:37 PM | #9 | |||
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I hate olives
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21-07-2016, 12:39 PM | #10 | |||
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Poor guys are under so much stress right now I feel sorry for therm on every shout. |
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21-07-2016, 12:40 PM | #11 | |||
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21-07-2016, 12:44 PM | #12 | |||
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It is a bit 'insensitive' - and that is compounded by the fact that it has been devised and erected by a MEXICAN resaurant.
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21-07-2016, 12:46 PM | #13 | ||
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It's just a pun fgs.Soon all humour will be banned.
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21-07-2016, 12:53 PM | #14 | |||
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I'm all for humour Paul, but I think the restaurant could have been more aware of how many people are sensitive now in the USA over this issue. I think they are gambling on the inevitable controversy bringing them masses of free publicity - but my fear is that it may bring them far more than that, and none of it good.
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21-07-2016, 12:55 PM | #15 | |||
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They are not parodying the deaths of anyone but just the rather pompous and self-righteous BLM movement
I think they are more than fair game to be lampooned |
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21-07-2016, 01:18 PM | #16 | ||
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21-07-2016, 02:47 PM | #17 | |||
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If he shoots accidentally when he's not even close range and the person has their hands up then he should quit. and cops have always been under stress, if they can't work under pressure quit.
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21-07-2016, 02:47 PM | #18 | ||
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This forum makes me quite uncomfortable lately. Seriously. And I actively enjoy satire / controversial humour. It's the responses that bother me, more than anything else. There's a sentiment behind a lot of them that is just plain ****ing worrying, if I'm being totally honest.
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21-07-2016, 02:48 PM | #19 | |||
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It's only ridiculous to people like you who hasn't had similar experiences.
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21-07-2016, 02:50 PM | #20 | |||
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21-07-2016, 02:51 PM | #21 | |||
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21-07-2016, 02:52 PM | #22 | |||
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21-07-2016, 02:54 PM | #24 | |||
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No olives matter they're vile
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21-07-2016, 02:54 PM | #25 | ||
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