Tesco's offensive card

topper75 · 15-12-2009 02:10PM #1

What were they thinking!!? I can't knock the lady's analogy.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/1215/tesco.html

Tesco has apologised after complaints that a Christmas card it sold was offensive to people with ginger hair.
The card in question shows a child with red hair sitting on the lap of Santa Claus under the banner: 'Santa loves all kids. Even ginger ones.'
Davinia Phillips, whose three children all have red hair, was enraged when she saw the card at one of Tesco's stores in northern England.
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'It's discrimination, pure and simple. I have shown it to a lot of friends and they are all disgusted by it,' she said.
'I just don't find it funny at all. If it had been about a black child or an overweight child the store would have been shut down by now.'
Tesco said the offending card had now been withdrawn from all its stores.
'It is never our intention to offend any customer and we are sorry if this card caused any upset,' a spokeswoman said.

SV · 15-12-2009 02:10PM

lmao, I want that christmas card!

Graham_B18C · 15-12-2009 02:11PM

Santa loves Ginger kids??? Who'd of known

Lockstep · 15-12-2009 02:12PM

You just know she's the kind of woman who watches Eastenders with her finger on the speed-dial button for Joe Duffy. Just in case anyone says anything offensive.

WindSock · 15-12-2009 02:14PM

I agree it's offensive. I would be disgusted if I had to hang a picture of a ginger kid on my wall.

DOC09UNAM · 15-12-2009 02:14PM

OP's a liar.

Nobody loves ginger kids.

Photi · 15-12-2009 02:14PM

topper75 wrote: »

What were they thinking!!? I can't knock the lady's analogy.

http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/1215/tesco.html

LIES!!

aidan_walsh · 15-12-2009 02:16PM

Soon to be removed from Tesco, every birthday card that makes any form of joke of the recipients age.

Dragan · 15-12-2009 02:18PM

In fairness, I understand the poor mother's plight, she has 3 ginger kids.....that would ****ing kill anyone's buzz.

ejmaztec · 15-12-2009 02:19PM

Her three kids must be more pissed off with her than she is with the card. They must be getting a right doing at school, or wherever their ginger heads are on display.

Schism · 15-12-2009 02:21PM

I wonder will there ever be a time when people stop getting personally offended by this kind of thing and maybe, just maybe try and laugh it off.

topper75 · 15-12-2009 02:21PM

So 'Santa even loves black-skinned kids' would be equally high-larious, yeah?

DOC09UNAM · 15-12-2009 02:23PM

topper75 wrote: »

So 'Santa even loves black-skinned kids' would be equally high-larious, yeah?

racist post is racist.

Wertz · 15-12-2009 02:23PM

So it's official, ginger truely is the last ethnic minority. I expect all of boards mods to be up to speed on this matter and to issue strict rulings against members that post any anti-ginger sentiment or "jokes".

Lockstep · 15-12-2009 02:23PM

topper75 wrote: »

So 'Santa even loves black-skinned kids' would be equally high-larious, yeah?

No. They have souls.

Dragan · 15-12-2009 02:23PM

topper75 wrote: »

So 'Santa even loves black-skinned kids' would be equally high-larious, yeah?

Yes.

Although, that wasn't the original card.

Lux23 · 15-12-2009 02:24PM

I bet he still doesn't love Stephen Higgins from the apprentice!

AnonoBoy · 15-12-2009 02:24PM

Meh.

Ginger jokes are like Mary Harney jokes. Old hat.

stovelid · 15-12-2009 02:25PM

Davina, your children don't have red hair.

This is red.

They have ginger hair.

And possibly ginger freckles as well.

OK-Cancel-Apply · 15-12-2009 02:26PM

It's a disgrace. Kids have enough **** to deal with already in school. For some weird reason, children do get picked on for being redheads in the UK. A card like this could serve to 'legitimise' the bullying they go through.

Schism · 15-12-2009 02:27PM

topper75 wrote: »

So 'Santa even loves black-skinned kids' would be equally high-larious, yeah?

Yeah because ginger people have gone through years of persecution, hardship and mistreatment too. It's just a joke.

abouttobebanned · 15-12-2009 02:28PM

wow...I never thought I'd be saying this...never thought I'd be so politically correct...

But I agree with the woman...I think other kids seeing something like this would encourage them to believe that it's okay to pick on kids with red hair...Christ, where and when was it decided anyway that having red hair was such a point of ridicule?

Graham_B18C · 15-12-2009 02:28PM

OK-Cancel-Apply wrote: »

It's a disgrace. Kids have enough **** to deal with already in school. For some weird reason, children do get picked on for being redheads in the UK. A card like this could serve to 'legitimise' the bullying they go through.

And rightly so, if we can't pick on Ginger Kids, who can we pick on?!

Mossy Monk · 15-12-2009 02:29PM

She was offended by it and then proceeded to show it to all her friends. What a ****

Gran Hermano · 15-12-2009 02:31PM

Dragan wrote: »

In fairness, I understand the poor mother's plight, she has 3 ginger kids.....that would ****ing kill anyone's buzz.

In defense of the mother, anyone can make a mistake - but to have 3 of them... has she no shame.

DOC09UNAM · 15-12-2009 02:34PM

OK-Cancel-Apply wrote: »

It's a disgrace. Kids have enough **** to deal with already in school. For some weird reason, children do get picked on for being redheads in the UK. A card like this could serve to 'legitimise' the bullying they go through.

obviously, they're ginger.

stovelid · 15-12-2009 02:36PM

Well, if her kids didn't know that Santa hates ginger kids, they sure do now. The bad kids in their playground will have a field day too.

Perhaps she should have just kept them away from Tesco until January.

bladespin · 15-12-2009 02:38PM

They sell hair dye too, maybe give a pack free with each card, problem solved

Lockstep · 15-12-2009 02:39PM

Ah c'mon guys.

Let's tell a joke to lighten the mood;

What does a ginger miss most about parties?
The invitation.

Schism wrote: »

Yeah because ginger people have gone through years of persecution, hardship and mistreatment too. It's just a joke.

THere's a link between the two.
Rearrange the letters of ginger and see what you get....

DOC09UNAM · 15-12-2009 02:41PM

kickoutthejams wrote: »

Ah c'mon guys.

Let's tell a joke to lighten the mood;

What does a ginger miss most about parties?
The invitation.

THere's a link between the two.
Rearrange the letters of ginger and see what you get....

reggin?

_Roz_ · 15-12-2009 02:41PM

That's pretty hilarious, but you really do need the right sense of humor - I wouldn't fancy being a ginger kid - my eight year old cousin for example, who is gorgeous and highly intelligent (unlike his stupid little brother) - and seeing that card in a shop.

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