Dunkin' Donuts Ad Campaign: Racist or not?- Page 2

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 9/6/13 at 5:15pm

See the post right above mine.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 9/6/13 at 6:15pm

Well, for me the post above your is Wilmingtom, but since he didn't mention Oreos, I'm thinking you're responding to someone I'm using the "ignore" feature for.

Feel free to clue me in. Or not, as you wish.

[JustAGuy]

Posted: 9/6/13 at 7:01pm

Reg, in an earlier post someone said:

"In a related story, OREO COOKIES have been banned at Columbia University for being Racist."

And posted a picture of someone in an Oreo costume.

I've done a google search for "Columbia Oreo Banned " and have come up empty. The person who posted it did not give a link to the story so that it could be verified or to give context.

Updated On: 9/6/13 at 07:01 PM

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 9/6/13 at 7:10pm

I'll probably regret wading into this, but

The Associated Press noted that skin tone is a big deal in Thai advertising, with one whitening cream selling the idea “that white-skinned people have better job prospects than those with dark skin” and a toothpaste brand assuring consumers that its darker product “is black, but it’s good”.
Media Bistro

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 9/6/13 at 7:13pm

Skin tone is a big deal in a number of societies, including our own. But I still don't think the ad carries the same signifiers for a Thai audience as it would a US one.

JAG, thanks. Yeah, I couldn't find anything either.

[SweetLips]

Posted: 9/6/13 at 7:28pm

There is/was a toothpaste sold in Thailand called Darkie-now called Darlie but still with the same minstrel[sort of] on the packaging.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 9/6/13 at 7:36pm

It said that Columbia University outlawed oreo cookies on campus deeming they were racist.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 9/6/13 at 7:45pm

I don't think it's about forcing American notions of what is and isn't racist on them, anymore than I think that just because Thailand doesn't have the experience of American white on black racism that as a whole an entire country can be ignorant of the racial implications of something that brings to mind the tradition of blackface. But I also don't understand the thinking that the way to advertise a "charcoal" donut is to paint a person's skin black.


Here's the toothpaste commercial Updated On: 9/6/13 at 07:45 PM

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 9/6/13 at 7:46pm

Apparently "Black Man" is a brand in Thailand.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 9/6/13 at 8:01pm

Apparently. That to me seems different from the doughnut ad. Maybe it's not.

Roxy, is that true?

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 9/6/13 at 10:41pm

I have an oreo & you have something different ???

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 9/6/13 at 10:45pm

First response was to Phyllis; second to you.

[Musical Master]

Posted: 9/6/13 at 11:03pm

Where's the racism? I don't see any.

Seriously why are people so ridiculous 24/7?

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 9/6/13 at 11:05pm

I'm still waiting for some info about this Columbia Oreo ban.

[JustAGuy]

Posted: 9/6/13 at 11:08pm

I'll be working there in a couple weeks, Reg. I'll check the vending machines!

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 9/6/13 at 11:12pm

I'll be here.

[CarlosAlberto]

Posted: 9/7/13 at 12:25am

where is all this oreo b.s. coming from?!?!

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 9/9/13 at 9:41pm

Did anyone ever offer any substantiation for this story? Google only leads me back to this thread.

[SNAFU]

Posted: 9/9/13 at 9:58pm

The story came out of a troll's ass it seems.

[suestorm]

Posted: 9/9/13 at 10:04pm

God gosh. It was a joke. Didnt the picture of the Oreo Man make that clear?

Though with Columbias history of lefty radicals. Booing soldiers and welcoming terrorists like the weather underground, Qaddafi and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad I guess its understandable.