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Michigan State University apologizes for gift shop display with dolls of notable black figures hanging from tree
- Thread starter Baji Boxer
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The only way this wasn't meant to be racist is if someone really is that goddamn stupid.
I mean it's Michigan State so I suppose the chance it's the latter isn't 0%, but damn.
(Also I'm firmly on the side of-- it's not just racist, it's incredibly fucked up and someone needs to lose their job over this. This isn't funny in the slightest.)
I mean it's Michigan State so I suppose the chance it's the latter isn't 0%, but damn.
(Also I'm firmly on the side of-- it's not just racist, it's incredibly fucked up and someone needs to lose their job over this. This isn't funny in the slightest.)
WTF... I'm hoping these two MSU students are seriously considering transferring out of MSU. From the linked Business Insider article posted in OP:
Im with those who expected some misunderstanding instead of this blatant bullshit. How the hell?
I'm not one to get shocked easily but that's a shockingly bad apology. The intent was racist and people were hurt and offended because you intentionally hurt and offended them. There should be an apology for that apology.
They could have Nazi flags and Hitler puppets everywhere with banners that read "Heil Hitler!" and this would be their apology:
"We were made aware of an inappropriate and insensitive display at the Wharton Center gift shop which used flags bearing the symbol of divinity and spirituality in Hinduism along with puppets of an influential historical figure and foreign-language banners. Regardless of the intent of the display, its impact cannot be ignored – people were hurt and offended."
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If this is the case that MSU is racist, every person of color should completely avoid MSU.
They appear to be hanging ornaments?... Christmas tree ornaments? who's even making these?
you'd have to be a special type of oblivious to not add up how these would look even in the crafting process. What would you ever display these on?
its just such an odd item to even end up in the gift shop regardless of the display,
you'd have to be a special type of oblivious to not add up how these would look even in the crafting process. What would you ever display these on?
its just such an odd item to even end up in the gift shop regardless of the display,
Times like these I'm glad for social media, expose and shame these fools. So embarrassing, ugh.
Hurts that this is happening, still, and if anything getting worse. :(
Hurts that this is happening, still, and if anything getting worse. :(
^This. Despite social media being a cesspool, it does have positive uses such as virally exposing fucked up shit like this.
I imagined a PR rep for MSU seeing this, shrugging, laughing in a most awkward fashion, and committing seppuku for how unmistakably racist this is.
I struggle to understand what's going through these people's minds when I see things like this.
It's like, how can you be full of such hate. Taking everything else away, it just makes no sense to waste energy on caring so much about a person's skin colour. Like, what's the end goal here?
It's like, how can you be full of such hate. Taking everything else away, it just makes no sense to waste energy on caring so much about a person's skin colour. Like, what's the end goal here?
Before I got to the picture I was like, surely it can't be that blatant. Maybe there are similar tree displays in the store with white dolls on them too and it's just an unfortunate coincidence that hanging dolls from a display shaped like a tree will inherently look bad.
Then I saw the picture and what the fucking fuck dude
The larger dolls though what the fuck. On an ornament the rope typically comes out of the top of the head. Where does it even connect on these, on their backs? Is it even part of the dolls themselves or were they added on by whatever idiot decided to display them like this?
Edit: Clicking through the story and going to the Facebook page the bigger ones are totally ornaments and they're hung from all different kinds of tree displays through the shop. What the fuck dude!!!
Then I saw the picture and what the fucking fuck dude
The small one at the top is a keychain, they're designed to look like they're hand made yarn dolls. My sister got me one that looks like a ninja years ago, they make all kinds of different characters out of them.
The larger dolls though what the fuck. On an ornament the rope typically comes out of the top of the head. Where does it even connect on these, on their backs? Is it even part of the dolls themselves or were they added on by whatever idiot decided to display them like this?
Edit: Clicking through the story and going to the Facebook page the bigger ones are totally ornaments and they're hung from all different kinds of tree displays through the shop. What the fuck dude!!!
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Looking past the display the dolls themselves seem off in the first place. As if theyre designed for this exact purpose
Anyone find a listing for them? I want to see how theyre advertised
Anyone find a listing for them? I want to see how theyre advertised
Black History Month, that special time of a year the racists decide its also time to celebrate the history of dehumanizing and abusing minorites in a spectacular display of idiocy. People need to lose jobs over this and made an example of.
Perhaps this says more about me than anything else but I probably wouldn't have taken a second look at that display if nothing had been pointed out. Well, maybe I would have but only to guffaw at how ugly those dolls are.
There was more than one tree. More than one type of tree.
Louis Armstrong with a scarf. Michelle Obama with a necklace. Add hanging rope and tree display.
This was unmissable with no possible excuse.
And what is this "racial bias training?" - "don't do this again" ?
Louis Armstrong with a scarf. Michelle Obama with a necklace. Add hanging rope and tree display.
This was unmissable with no possible excuse.
And what is this "racial bias training?" - "don't do this again" ?
I honestly find it hard to believe anyone could be that stupid, but there were apparently dolls of white people, too.
From the Facebook comments:
Sounds like a really terrible mistake.
But, the connotations though...
Thanks for the proof. People should take more care sometimes.
But, the connotations though...
I honestly find it hard to believe anyone could be that stupid, but there were apparently dolls of white people, too.
From the Facebook comments:
Thanks for the proof. People should take more care sometimes.
i want to believe they were just trying to repurpose display stuff from christmas or something and were just super ignorant about the whole thing...
but fucking damn that is a REALLY bad look...
but fucking damn that is a REALLY bad look...
How does that exonerate them? If you are so racist that you literally build a symbolic lynching via dolls, then why stop at black people? Why not hang a doll of the guy who stopped slavery as well, or just about everyone who was ever remotely progressive in the countries history.I honestly find it hard to believe anyone could be that stupid, but there were apparently dolls of white people, too.
From the Facebook comments:
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Yup, someone made a conscious decision to do make that AND display that. Hell, there might've been more than one person that "okay'd" the decision. These people need to be dragged outta the building and flogged in front of the whole university.
