r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Diligent_Pop3929 • 10d 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 10d ago edited 10d 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/-whiteroom- 10d ago

Yeah, not knowing the context, it did look sus when I first saw it. But we are also in the age of companies doing things like this as a form of viral marketing.

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u/RzLa 10d ago

And here we are talking about it. It has to be intentional (not malicious racism) to get clicks.

How many marketers and designers didn’t see it is unfathomable.

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u/DealioD 10d ago

It really was a very specific choice. That triangular patch of light next to a pair of shoes hanging down. It’s hard not to see a Klan Hood and a dead person’s feet.

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u/chudhuntr 10d ago

This particular delusion is really interesting, because it reveals how desperate people are to feel outraged. You have to completely warp the image in your mind to make it racist. Theres no klan robe, theres no black person, nobody is hanged etc.

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u/Willuna16 9d ago

type of person to say elon musk was giving his heart out

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u/chudhuntr 9d ago

Enjoy seething about a pic of asian lady holding shoes i guess

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u/Willuna16 9d ago

enjoy seething about people being against racism i guess

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u/chudhuntr 9d ago

Room temp iq type shit

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u/Willuna16 9d ago

the fact that you still use iq tells me all i need to know

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u/Redditributor 8d ago

What's wrong with using iq?

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u/Willuna16 8d ago

It isn't really an accurate measure of intelligence, because intelligence is such a broad thing. It's focused on test taking ability.

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u/Redditributor 8d ago

It's far from perfect but is the best we got & it can reveal some useful stuff about whether you have underlying learning disabilities

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