Current Events > Do you consider the brand Aunt Jemima to be racist?

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AirJordan2345
06/17/20 11:05:13 AM
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do you? you know the pancake syrup etc......



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Annihilated
06/17/20 11:06:12 AM
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Outdated, if anything
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cmiller4642
06/17/20 11:07:48 AM
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yes
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Questionmarktarius
06/17/20 11:07:53 AM
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It used to be, which is apparently all that matters.

This is a culture that digs up tweets from a decade ago to discredit and "cancel" someone. Why not dig up old logos from the 1890s as well?
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GrandConjuraton
06/17/20 11:08:53 AM
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It was in the past, but now? No, and getting rid of it just seems a bit silly.

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GoodOlJr
06/17/20 11:11:57 AM
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If you look at the current label in a vacuum its fine

But I never knew about the history until recently, if its such an issue idc too much if it goes away
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FortuneCookie
06/17/20 11:12:06 AM
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Mildly, yes.

I can understand those who feel that she should be replaced. She's been a bye word for decades. Rebranding would be difficult though. If you call her Aunt Jem, there's the problem that "Aunt" is what the South called older Black women when they couldn't give her a title of Ms. or Mrs.. If they call her Grandma Jemima, you have the dated personal name. Either option would still tie into the origin of her as a minstrel character.

Maybe they could rebrand the syrup after the parent company? Quaker Oats Syrup?

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Solid Snake07
06/17/20 11:12:19 AM
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Yeah

People have definitly gone after more innocuous things

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ssk9716757
06/17/20 11:13:34 AM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
It used to be, which is apparently all that matters.

This is a culture that digs up tweets from a decade ago to discredit and "cancel" someone. Why not dig up old logos from the 1890s as well?

>literally has racist origins
>somehow not racist anymore

lol ok

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The Wheelman1
06/17/20 11:14:26 AM
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I never even about it being racist.

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J E S U S
06/17/20 11:16:01 AM
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You gonna cancel uncle Ben too?

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Timohtep
06/17/20 11:16:10 AM
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Currently in a vacuum I'd say no. But you can't really look at stuff like this in a vacuum
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Questionmarktarius
06/17/20 11:16:26 AM
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GrandConjuraton posted...
It was in the past, but now? No, and getting rid of it just seems a bit silly.
Pepsico has almost certainly crunched the numbers, and likely discovered that the bulk of the existing customer base for the current brand of mediocre pancake mix and syrup was probably told to quit eating pancakes by a doctor several years ago.

There's an opportunity for easy "look how woke we are!" marketing, while the potential lost customers isn't a particularly large number anyway. Gillette already demonstrated this a couple or three years ago.
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EndOfDiscOne
06/17/20 11:17:58 AM
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As a black woman I don't think this is offensive

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Questionmarktarius
06/17/20 11:18:43 AM
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ssk9716757 posted...
>literally has racist origins
>somehow not racist anymore

lol ok
Meanwhile, at Volkswagen...
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Austin_Era_II
06/17/20 11:19:36 AM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
Meanwhile, at Volkswagen...

Checkmate

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ssk9716757
06/17/20 11:20:35 AM
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Questionmarktarius posted...
Meanwhile, at Volkswagen...

if a Volkswagen looked like a caricature of a Jewish person, sure

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coolboy11
06/17/20 11:20:39 AM
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I always wondered how the fuck Aunt Jemima somehow was still around as a branding.

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CADE FOSTER
06/17/20 11:21:40 AM
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washington redskins is still around this country is founded on racism
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averagejoel
06/17/20 11:24:39 AM
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GoodOlJr posted...
If you look at the current label in a vacuum its fine

But I never knew about the history until recently, if its such an issue idc too much if it goes away
a significant part of the problem is that people think it exists in a vacuum

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Questionmarktarius
06/17/20 11:28:01 AM
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coolboy11 posted...
I always wondered how the fuck Aunt Jemima somehow was still around as a branding.
For the same reason Sugar Bear is still the brand logo of a breakfast cereal that excised "sugar" from the name well over thirty years ago.
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GoodOlJr
06/17/20 11:39:50 AM
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averagejoel posted...

a significant part of the problem is that people think it exists in a vacuum


If you read my posts sometimes I come off as right wing or an edgelord

I dont have much of an issue with this decision, I agree with a lot of what im reading

Another brand im thinking of is "stubbs" its a bbq rub with a black man on the label

Afaik its a recent brand, and a real person so its different right?

https://www.stubbsbbq.com/en-ca
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Alexhander
06/17/20 12:16:37 PM
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I mean the mascot is literally a mammy

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Zikten
06/17/20 12:17:08 PM
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never thought about it much before but after learning on the true origins and history of the mascot, yes
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MaxEffingBemis
06/17/20 12:19:22 PM
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Its racist yes but the real issues is how Quaker Oats completely screwed the lady and other models out of royalty checks

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ScazarMeltex
06/17/20 12:21:28 PM
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J E S U S posted...
You gonna cancel uncle Ben too?
Are you aware that Uncle Ben is just the male version of Aunt Jemima. Uncle and Aunt were the terms used to refer to older black folks in the jim crow south. Much like calling young black men "boy".

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Questionmarktarius
06/17/20 12:22:41 PM
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ssk9716757 posted...
if a Volkswagen looked like a caricature of a Jewish person, sure
If we're going to dig into the past of a logo that's been blandly generic since 1989, may as well remember that Volkswagen was literally started by literally Hitler.
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Alexhander
06/17/20 12:25:45 PM
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"dig into the past"

when is this guy not arguing in bad faith

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eston
06/17/20 12:26:04 PM
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cmiller4642 posted...


yes
lol old timey racism was so laughably over-the-top

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Austin_Era_II
06/17/20 12:27:59 PM
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She talks like vegy <____<

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cmiller4642
06/17/20 12:34:10 PM
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eston posted...
lol old timey racism was so laughably over-the-top

But that's really how people viewed black women in that era.
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eston
06/17/20 12:35:17 PM
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cmiller4642 posted...
But that's really how people viewed black women in that era.
Oh I know, it's just so brazen compared to the racism we're used to. I can't help but laugh

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GameGodOfAll
06/17/20 12:36:06 PM
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Austin_Era_II posted...
She talks like vegy <____<
lol

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pogo_rabid
06/17/20 12:36:27 PM
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"oftener"?

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Oderus Urungus
06/17/20 12:49:20 PM
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It's just an old version of more often.
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pogo_rabid
06/17/20 1:17:54 PM
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Fuckin oldies

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SocialistGamer
06/17/20 1:19:22 PM
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cmiller4642 posted...


yes

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Sheiky-Baby
06/17/20 1:22:22 PM
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Might as well buy one now before the change, as it will become a collector's item down the line.
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L0Z
06/17/20 4:50:13 PM
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Rip aunt jemima. The current one on the bottle was one proud woman of color that made pancakes and waffles enjoyable. Its definitely not the same as the fat uneducated woman from the old ads that could be construed as racist.
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BlingBling22947
06/18/20 6:45:23 AM
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Uh I guess that racism is over, guys.

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Muflaggin
06/18/20 7:32:11 AM
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Literally being offended by pancake syrup. This world man.
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TheBiggerWiggle
06/18/20 7:39:14 AM
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Muflaggin posted...
Literally being offended by pancake syrup. This world man.


Did you miss the discussion about the origins of the mascot or are you just a dumbass?

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coh
06/18/20 7:39:51 AM
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Why would I be offended by the image of a black woman?
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VTBM
06/18/20 8:32:26 AM
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I don't see how removing a person of color solves racism. So are we also going to ban Uncle Ben, Looney Tunes, Disney, countless other things? Will they remove the Quaker Oats guy because he represents the start of "institutionalized" racsim?

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averagejoel
06/18/20 10:02:40 AM
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VTBM posted...
I don't see how removing a person of color solves racism. So are we also going to ban Uncle Ben, Looney Tunes, Disney, countless other things? Will they remove the Quaker Oats guy because he represents the start of "institutionalized" racsim?
where was anyone talking about banning anything?

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DevsBro
06/18/20 10:04:20 AM
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cmiller4642 posted...


yes
Is this the most recent evidence you can find?

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Timohtep
06/18/20 10:11:53 AM
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VTBM posted...
I don't see how removing a person of color solves racism. So are we also going to ban Uncle Ben, Looney Tunes, Disney, countless other things? Will they remove the Quaker Oats guy because he represents the start of "institutionalized" racsim?

Nothing was banned, and the protests were not about that. Stop trying to attach the current movement to PR moves put out by megacorporations to save face and get free marketing
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SH_expert44
06/18/20 10:13:04 AM
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cmiller4642 posted...


yes
If this is racist, why is Vegy allowed to post like that?

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