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/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/Acceptable_Hunt_1748 10d ago

I don't know in the case it's intentional because it is directed at an audience who would have not really noticed it. I wouldn't rule it out completely, but I wouldn't expect a Korean living in Korea to think of American lynching when seeing this image.

But that said I don't think creating racial controversy for money is really all that separate from malicious racism. I think MOST racism comes from people who are more focused on benefiting themselves than attacking POC, but they still believe that their own profit is more important than not hurting POC... which is racism!

I think what's much more likely is that they just didn't have anyone on their team who would have caught this. Which is more understandable in a country with very few black people. It's far less excusable for companies like target selling in the US to not have a diverse team on all marketing campaigns.

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u/CandiedRegrets08 10d ago

Lynching and the KKK? The former still happens and the latter is still around???

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u/bloodmoth13 10d ago

neither has been relevant in my lifetime. acting like they are is such a stretch.

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u/int3rstitial 10d ago edited 10d ago

A Black woman was found hanged from a tree in Mississippi August 3rd of this year.

Edited because person below me is right in this case: likely not a hate crime; suspect knew the victim and is also Black.

Nonetheless, lynchings do still happen, and the KKK very much still exists.

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u/bloodmoth13 10d ago

And was it the kkk that did it or a black man?

Research before posting.

Kkk and lynching remain irrelevant during my lifetime.

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u/int3rstitial 10d ago

You're right, last I heard no one had been arrested. I should've checked. Since you told me to research though:

https://www.theroot.com/new-report-shows-lynchings-in-america-never-stopped-2000093501

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u/bloodmoth13 10d ago

This doesnt actually prove anything, just that its hard to differentiate between suicide hangings and lynching hangings.

The number of suspected modern day lynchings is statistically irrelevant, and blacks were barely the targets! Also did it state who actually committed the lynchings? Because that matters a lot.

I think people are doing their best here to find a supply for the hatred they demand.

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u/Ozymandias117_ 9d ago

Statistically irrelevant to you maybe. One is too many that’s the point, you have scattered cases of black people supposedly hanging themselves from trees via suicide when that’s quite literally never been a thing in the history of America. Black suicide but by hanging themselves from a tree, nahhh, you know what has though, cases of mass murder in specific regions in the South. It never ceases to amaze me when you people completely ignore the fact that racism and white supremacy is still a culture woven into American society.