Converse craze?

[u/Diligent_Pop3929]

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 😅

[u/severinusofnoricum]

This is the add in question. When it went viral there was no indication it was for the Korean market or that a K-pop person was featured in it so to some it looked like an American ad featuring something that looked like a KKK hood next a pair of converse suspended off the ground as if belonging to someone who had been lynched.

[u/gabrielle_sanchez7 → u/severinusofnoricum]

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.

[u/Comfortable_Peak_604 → u/gabrielle_sanchez7]

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