Racist chocolate ducklings

StereoSound

Everything is racist these days isn't it ? People have nothing else to complain about...

https://news.sky.com/story/waitrose-apologises-for-selling-racist-chocolate-ducklings-after-criticism-11688611

Cina

I agree with them. It's a disgrace to call white people fluffy. I'm ashamed enough of my bumfluff as it is.

98q76e12hrflnk

Thats libtards for ya

jimgoose

What a superb name for a band.

Deebles McBeebles

Waitrose eh....100% everyone who complained was white.

mad muffin

Society has gone full retard…

tonycascarino

The world needs a good war to sort out all this tripe

iamwhoiam

I am actually lost . Which one is ugly ?

astrofool

iamwhoiam wrote: »

I am actually lost . Which one is ugly ?

The one that is actually a swan.

iamwhoiam

astrofool wrote: »

The one that is actually a swan.

Still no idea why anyone is complaining !

major bill

Companies are now using it as cheap advertisement, the outrage business is big money.

Best course for people outraged by the outraged people calling it racist is to ignore it.

c.p.w.g.w

mad muffin wrote: »

Society has gone full retard…

Retard is the new n-word so be careful

hairyslug

What 1000s of other options are there?

inforfun

major bill wrote: »

Companies are now using it as cheap advertisement, the outrage business is big money.

Best course for people outraged by the outraged people calling it racist is to ignore it.

You are not wrong there.
Couple of weeks ago one of those twitter warriors in The Netherlands took it upon herself to start protesting some shop for having Israeli wine on the shelves.

Thing went viral, wine got sold out and #tipvanmieke (recommanded by Mieke - mieke being the twitter warrior) was trending.

And this was in the shops:

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

major bill wrote: »

Companies are now using it as cheap advertisement, the outrage business is big money.

Best course for people outraged by the outraged people calling it racist is to ignore it.

Yep. You don't make a mistake of branding your food products "ugly" by accident.

Rhyme

So all those pink-speckled people got insulted? Poor them.

Jurgen Klopp

inforfun wrote: »

You are not wrong there.
Couple of weeks ago one of those twitter warriors in The Netherlands took it upon herself to start protesting some shop for having Israeli wine on the shelves.

Thing went viral, wine got sold out and #tipvanmieke (recommanded by Mieke - mieke being the twitter warrior) was trending.

And this was in the shops:

That is absolutely brilliant

BrokenArrows

People will continue this outrate culture as long as companies keep bending to their will by pulling products off the shelves and apologizing.

They should simply ignore the outrage and it will die off and people wont even remember it in a week.

pleas advice

hairyslug wrote: »

What 1000s of other options are there?

Fup

Fup duck

Fuzzy duck

...

Movementarian

For ducks sake....

DEFTLEFTHAND

major bill wrote: »

Companies are now using it as cheap advertisement, the outrage business is big money.

Best course for people outraged by the outraged people calling it racist is to ignore it.

Is it though?

There's a new expression out there in the business world at the moment, 'Get Woke, Go Broke'.

Hoboo

pleas advice wrote: »

Fup

Fup duck

Fuzzy duck

...

Ducky Fuzz.....brings me back

Your Face

I read this earlier, I nearly spat out my golly bar in disgusted outrage.

Jurgen Klopp

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Is it though?

There's a new expression out there in the business world at the moment, 'Get Woke, Go Broke'.

It's been there a while and it's certainly true for certain chains and brands. I remember a attempt at boycott of Ivanca Trump's clothes brand actually drove up sales

For some reason a fast food place who was found to have simply donated a small sum to the Republican party had some trying to organise a boycott and resulted in massive queues of customers

It happened in regards to ticket sales and viewing figures for NFL too, ESPN tried starting a social justice themes sports show that only pulled circa 30k viewed across the whole US and now have a "sport only" ethos cause they lost a lot of viewers when they decided to drag in all this crap when people just wanted to relax and watch matches

The attempt at Nike boycott over Kapernick by right leaning customers was a waste of time tho when you consider how global they are and the fact every Nike customer outside the US didn't know much about or couldn't give a fiddler's RE the anthem stuff

I would be interested to see Nike US only figures alright tho if it was possible

neris

disgraceful, that theres no white duck. Im offended at been discriminated against

kowloon

How many people actually complained about this? And were they actually outraged or just trolling? I reckon some of the people making claims of things being racist, sexist, homophobic etc. are just trying to cause trouble and are the same people moaning about feminists, liberals and the gay agenda online. I'm not saying there wasn't anyone who was genuinely offended, but there seems to be a lot of people trying to invent a threat when it consists of only a small fringe of morons online.

Jurgen Klopp wrote: »

It's been there a while and it's certainly true for certain chains and brands. I remember a attempt at boycott of Ivanca Trump's clothes brand actually drove up sales

It makes you wonder how aware businesses are of all this and how much they can use people's outrage for cheap marketing. TV and print ads don't have the same reach as before, it's easier and cheaper and reaches another audience if you can make it some sort of political outrage and use ideology to your advantage.

StereoSound

If I walked into a car dealer and bought a white car instead of the black one parked next to it, would that make me a racist ?

kowloon

neris wrote: »

disgraceful, that theres no white duck. Im offended at been discriminated against

The middle one is the white duck.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

DEFTLEFTHAND wrote: »

Is it though?

There's a new expression out there in the business world at the moment, 'Get Woke, Go Broke'.

It's creating the outrage that brings in the revenue. People who don't give a **** will buy the thing whereas the people who do give a **** - the SJW crowd - would probably never have bought it in the first place (for one thing, I doubt it's vegan ).

The business world also plays on the expressing "no such thing as bad publicity."

greencap

kowloon wrote: »

How many people actually complained about this? And were they actually outraged or just trolling? I reckon some of the people making claims of things being racist, sexist, homophobic etc. are just trying to cause trouble and are the same people moaning about feminists, liberals and the gay agenda online. I'm not saying there wasn't anyone who was genuinely offended, but there seems to be a lot of people trying to invent a threat when it consists of only a small fringe of morons online.

Yep.
As someone above said offense is now being used for marketing, and like you alluded to, probably as some kind of counter tactic.

(exaggerate the reality and highlight the pc madness)

There are trolls and advertisers out there engaged in all sorts of madness, counter madness, counter counter madness, false flags, and quick advertising buck games, before it reaches the stupefied public.

its industrial scale, companies, sectors, political movements all competing to bend our minds and turn us into bots for their cause/pockets.

all you can do is adblock and choose content carefully, remain skeptical and know that whatever it is, theres now a good chance its propaganda of some sort.

neris

kowloon wrote: »

The middle one is the white duck.

hes yellow, Father Teds after him

bazz26

This type of advertising reminds me of Father Ted & Father Dougal protesting outside the cinema about a raunchy film where the protest actually brought more people to watch the film and see what all the fuss was about.

kowloon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QepgKVOVfZ8

Atoms for Peace

StereoSound wrote: »

If I walked into a car dealer and bought a white car instead of the black one parked next to it, would that make me a racist ?

It just means you have vulgar taste.

Zorya

The thinking behind the names seems odd. Ugly from the Ugly Duckling. Fluffy..uh, because, ducks are fluffy? Crispy ...because of crispy Peking Duck or something? Hahah it's so random. I would probably look crooked at it to be honest.

Cienciano

Jurgen Klopp wrote: »

It's been there a while and it's certainly true for certain chains and brands. I remember a attempt at boycott of Ivanca Trump's clothes brand actually drove up sales

Maybe very short term. Because sales were right down and the clothing brand closed down
https://www.businessinsider.com/ivanka-trump-brands-online-sales-dropped-in-last-year-report-2018-7?r=US&IR=T

vetinari

Some weird naming alright. Pretty random.
There might be some truth to the theory that this was planned as a marketing ploy.
It's very easy to trigger the anti PC people online these days. It's a surefire way to get publicity.

Yakult

The boys in marketing are goooooooood

Skeleton Key

Is there anything libtards won't lose their **** over?

shamrock55

It's the people who think these things have the problem, if I'd seen this in the shop I'd never connect it with racism, ridiculous rubbish tbh

Snotty

I like the way the idiot on twitter "overheard" someone else being offended by the duck, classic attempt to give some credence to her own stupid opinion by pretending she's not the only one.

There will always be idiots, always have been always will be, the problem here is the media that lap this stuff up. So called journalists actually spend all day scouring social media, they then contact the company for their response and suddenly they have a story for nothing.

suicide_circus

do you know who was honestly offended by this?

nobody.

StereoSound

StereoSound wrote: »

Everything is racist these days isn't it ? People have nothing else to complain about...

https://news.sky.com/story/waitrose-apologises-for-selling-racist-chocolate-ducklings-after-criticism-11688611

Why is it always white getting offended on black peoples behalf? Its just pathetic!

RhubarbCrumble

I'm surprised somebody hasn't found the pale duck 'offensive to albino people'.

Vita nova

I'm always amazed by the inability of advertisers to see how an ad might be misunderstood. There was a similar case last year with a H&M ad that featured a black child wearing a hoodie with the word monkey emblazoned on it: link

RobbingBandit

Ducks in choco face well I never

kowloon

Skeleton Key wrote: »

Is there anything libtards won't lose their **** over?

Weren't you upset about tight trousers in another thread?

RhubarbCrumble wrote: »

I'm surprised somebody hasn't found the pale duck 'offensive to albino people's.

You're running the risk of losing the white chocolate if you do that.

Skeleton Key

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Why is it always white getting offended on black peoples behalf? Its just pathetic!

Its called white saviour complex.

pleas advice

Vita nova wrote: »

I'm always amazed by the inability of advertisers to see how an ad might be misunderstood. There was a similar case last year with a H&M ad that featured a black child wearing a hoodie with the word monkey emblazoned on it: link

'cheeky monkey', grand for a white kid to wear, but put it on a black child and theres a problem?
Who's the real racist here?

i'd love some chocolate now

Woke Hogan

inforfun wrote: »

You are not wrong there.
Couple of weeks ago one of those twitter warriors in The Netherlands took it upon herself to start protesting some shop for having Israeli wine on the shelves.

Thing went viral, wine got sold out and #tipvanmieke (recommanded by Mieke - mieke being the twitter warrior) was trending.

And this was in the shops:

Israel is an apartheid state.