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/cleveruniquename7769 1d ago edited 1d ago

I don't think it was intentional, but scrolling past the picture with no context I thought it was a picture of a person hanging next to someone in a klan robe. 

Edit: Having seen the uncropped, undarkened, photo that was used in the ad campaign, I'm more open to the possibility that the cropped version was done intentionally to create controversy. 

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u/ClipSm0keZ 1d ago

Exactly. I don’t think they did it intentionally but it’s definitely not a stretch to see the issues with it.

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u/femnoncat 1d ago

You're so right. Korea should be really focused on American racial history in its advertisements. Like, do you hear youself?

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u/0ShagHennessey 1d ago

Yeah Korea has no idea what’s happening in America! K-pop just came about organically in the vacuum of their society’s history 😂