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Elle: Ivory & Ivory
Uh, is there such a thing as anti-retro-tokenism?
Thanks Jason for the submission. You can see the original article here that outlines what they did to this Aishwarya.
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Category Archives: ebony-and-ivory
According to this let’s-buy-more-gas pamphlet from the American Petroleum Institute, you’re all a bunch of racists.
Thanks to Ahistoricality! The pamphlet is here![Warning: PDF] Original stock is here![Warning: They can't do reflections] Via ThinkProgress![Warning: hippies]
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My brain says “no way” but my gut says “yes!” (My gut wins, largely through its size advantage.)
Thanks to Chris! This came from here!
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Oh good! A Polish website that isn’t full of racial hang-ups! Let’s try out the Polish-language version of the site…
D’OH!
Original site is here! Thanks to prakobieta!
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It looks as though you’re localizing some marketing images.
Would you like to:
- Use the original American images?
- Hire a local photographer?
- Clumsily get rid of the black guy?
Thanks to everyone who sent this in! Discussion on reddit is here!
Reader Captions:
Yeah, I agree with Kevin, the first thing I noticed was the macbook in a Microsoft ad! that’s hilarious. by Chad
omg, his neck, it’s broken, why is no one calling for help???
But even photoshop disasters aside, a *Mac* is in the middle of the photos and the Windows monitor isn’t even plugged in.
Looks like this was a stock photo very awkwardly pieced together. by Rai
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What a great way to show that your city has no racial hangups or weird stuff going on!
Thanks to Josh and everyone else who sent this in! More here!
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You usually expect to find retro-tokenism in corporate reports, not on the back of the new $2 bill.
Thanks to AF!
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It isn’t often that we feature the US military-industrial complex on PsD, not least because it has the web deployment skills of a meringue.
Regardless, somewhere, deep in the bowels of this [Warning: criminally defective] site, lies this beautiful example of retro-tokenism.
Props to Z. Happy holidays everyone.
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