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Uncle Bens Rice and Mrs. Butterworth are now deemed racist.


This got me thinking, what other foods, items, toiletries, etc. are now considered racist?

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Good point, shaved head, white, clearly a racist.

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He's a nazi skinhead from East Germany. Case closed.

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Already been covered in a different thread.
And pointless and vacuous, so I hope you have fun with it.

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That sucks because apple cider vinegar doesn't clean as well, and it smashed in my window and stole the tv.

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I don't see why Mrs. Butterworth would be lumped in there. She's not a real woman and I don't believe her race was ever identified. The commercial from the 70's had a white lady doing the voice acting.

I believe the Minnesota Vikings logo needs to change since actual vikings did not have horns on their helmets. After some research, I learned that viking horned helmets became popular after the costume designer for a Wagner opera used horned helmets but there's no evidence of horned viking helmets.

I'm also mad about Marvel Comics using Thor in their comics. They took a deity and made a comic book character out of him. Thor is part of the cultural fabric of Germanic/Scandinavian people and Marvel Comics made a mockery of him.

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You mean they took a defunct deity that had been downgraded to mythology.

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I’m gonna miss uncle Ben. He was a standup guy.

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What about the Brawny paper towel guy? Women can use paper towels too right?

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Y’all are forgetting the most bigoted/racist products. Paper goods which consist of paper towels, toilet paper, napkins, paper plates, plasticware, etc. Most are all WHITE! Should the WHITE House be colored (uh oh colored bad!) in different colors? Are we RACIST when we purchase WHITE appliances? If we do we should be made to cover them if a Black person visits. After all s/he may be offended! Don’t purchase WHITE vehicles! Oh dear! I’m going to have to repaint my house! It’s WHITE! 😱 We WHITE folks need to get as dark as we can from the sun, tanning beds, topical tanners, etc. All of these seem to be good solutions to the RACIST problem...trouble is...I’m too *niggardly* to do anything about the problem!



OK, so the above sounds trite and silly, but I’ve had it up to here! What it boils down to is:

I’m offended if you’re offended! Too damn bad! So...bite me!

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The Brawny paper towel guy? TOXIC MASCULINITY!! He needs to go lol.

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I personally thought those people on the covers were founders or owners seeing their faces on it. I've had Uncle Ben's only once for the rice which was pretty good. Well now that they're gone I guess it's only whites that own all these companies, oh wells.

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HERE ARE A COUPLE OF LIKELY TARGETS...

ESKIMO PIES..(ESKIMO IS OUT OF DATE AND DEROGATORY TO THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE)

LAND O LAKES BUTTER..(NATIVE AMERICAN WOMAN)

CREAM OF WHEAT..(SAME AS UNCLE BEN)

CHIQUITA BANANAS..(OBJECTIFIES WOMEN AND PERPETUATES LATINA STEROTYPES)

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