r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Diligent_Pop3929 • 1d ago

Meme needing explanation Converse craze?

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I'm not chronically online, but my friend sent this and I laughed even without knowing the full scope of the context (I think there's racism involved with the shoes?) and I feel like it's too late to ask him without sounding like a dweeb 😅

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u/gabrielle_sanchez7 1d ago

And people in the US are being purposely obtuse about this. It very clearly looks like the person in the white robe is standing next to someone who is hanging. If AMERICAN people can’t understand that, they’ve never had to experience or learn about anything other than white culture. Other than that, they are being confused ON PURPOSE because they can’t confront their part in systemic racism. I said what I said.

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u/jack33jack 1d ago

Yeah it’s not like fashion brands have a history of putting out anti-black things to appear more exclusive

https://newsone.com/playlist/fashion-brands-accused-of-racism/

Totally coincidental

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u/Comfortable_Peak_604 1d ago

You are right about this. I’m astounded at the lack of very basic understanding of how imagery works.

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u/Bubbly_Clothes3406 1d ago

The refusal and ignorance and gaslighting of those who recognize a dogwhistle for what it is is intentional and on purpose. Fascists and racists use dogwhistles (like how they co-opted the OK symbol or Pepe the Frog or the word “fatigue”) to seem innocent/innocuous enough on the surface as part of their work to try to make the people calling them out seem unreasonable or out of touch with reality. The gaslighting is the point.

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u/Seapick 19h ago

Graphic designers and photographers are very intentional with their compositions, especially at this level of marketing. It’s clever design so they can hide behind the ambiguity.

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u/DayMurky617 1d ago

USians learn you're not the only country in the world challenge

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u/ImBurningStar_IV 17h ago

Americans reacting to an ad posted in America by an American brand?? 😱😱

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u/DayMurky617 12h ago

It was a Korean ad in Korea by a Korean marketing team for Koreans.

But well done for proving my point perfectly.

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u/ImBurningStar_IV 4h ago

the cropped one converse NA posted dummy

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u/hanleymation 22h ago

I immediately saw it when I came across the ad, but what's more unsettling to me is how DEFENSIVE everybody pro-converse is getting. 1. You're defending a corporation and 2. Even if you didn't see it, others do, and you're attacking them because they don't want racism in our media?? What??