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Should ginger-bashing be considered a hate crime?
daddy66
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Persil advertisement. Recreational prejudice, an acceptable norm? I can't see how Persil got away with airing this advertisement.
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daddy66
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The message is quite obvious - and out of order.
young ladies have a tough time wether they are ginger or not
if they had used a brown or black haired girl for the ad no one would have said a thing
its almost like you dont want ad companies to employ ginger people.....thats more gingerist than the stupid point you are trying to fabricate justification for
signed,
a redhead
Not .... sure ..... if ..... serious .......
Me neither. You never know with DS.
Are you trying to get me to recreationally mock persons afflicted with a stutter?
However, I do think people make unfair comments about ginger people that -- while are often meant jocularly -- are a bit below the belt.
sticks and stones .......
never....its a visual metaphor or something
… will break my bones but words will never hurt me, tell that to a cop at your door when he knocks after a posting on FB.
The advert gives passive agreement that it is alright to carry-on with apparent jocularity. Children are meaner than us and the school is fairly useless, private or state, in quelling it.
If you think that advert is prejudiced you have too much time on your hands my friend.
Indeed, I had to watch it twice because I thought I had missed something.
This is one of those scenarios that if no redheads appeared in adverts the OP would probably shout discrimination from the lack of redheads on TV.
It probably didn't even enter the advert maker's head that 'a ginger' was being bullied in this ad. All I saw was a little girl like any other, in an advert.
I think more 'isms are spawned from overzealous, well-intended people than genuine discriminators.
What if one of those throwing the paint was a carrot top ?
Sorry for the gingerphobic language
Too true.