Poll of the Day > Conservative Outrage after Crayola creates a RACIALLY DIVERSE BOXSET!!!

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Outrage after Crayola released a new 24 pack of crayons, pencils and markers with shades that represent a DIVERSE range of SKIN TONES called "Colours of the World" with newly formulated drawing tools representing 40 global skin tones ensuring children can draw themselves accurately..

Crayons, which were created in 1903, historically contained blue, black, brown, green, orange, red, violet and yellow

But conservatives were quick to react calling it WOKE GARBAGE as one said "too many left marketing people in that organization" as others called it a great idea and just what they needed

Are you bothered by this?

https://i.imgur.com/g8xhfRO.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/6GxmLRe.jpg

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Even as a white person, I've never really felt like I could accurately represent my skin colour with the crayons available in a standard box. This should be useful for pretty much anyone that's trying to draw a human.

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Why would someone be bothered by them released more colors? I mean, I think it's a bit stupid to release a box containing just skin tones as it's useful only for coloring people, but that's not the issue here.

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Full Throttle posted...

Are you bothered by this?

No, and anybody who is needs to rethink their priorities

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Modern conservatives were those kids who would have the Crayola 64-pack with the sharpener in the back and wouldn't share any, even the colors they didn't like and never used. And now they're trying to prevent even more colors from coming out so they can continue to monopolize their hold on the crayons. We need to fight back!

I think itd be pretty disappointing to get that over the standard boxes as a kid but i do zero drawing/coloring at this point so i have no reason to care.

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TheFalseDeity posted...

I think itd be pretty disappointing to get that over the standard boxes as a kid but i do zero drawing/coloring at this point so i have no reason to care.

No it wouldnt. You could draw and categorize people based on skin color. What fun! /s

I don't know why this would be an issue at all

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This is like when lego created flesh colored minifigures.

It's like a thing that had nothing to do with race suddenly has race introduced and it's awkward

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Im confused why youd be upset by this? Like the reason

Muscles posted...

I don't know why this would be an issue at all

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https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/manufactured-outrage-and-aggressive-conservatives,5373

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No white-color crayon? Not very inclusive for albino people...

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That's awesome I would say.

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My first thought is that I'm not bothered by this even a little, but thinking about it a bit more, isn't giving something like this to children reinforcing the idea that skin color is very important and something they should be paying a lot of attention to? Maybe that's the way early education is heading, idk, but it seems to be the reverse direction of a post-racial world.

But, my next thought is that I still don't care. If someone wants to buy this crappy, limited crayon box in what appears to be a thinly-veiled marketing ploy from Crayola, more power to 'em.

It's weird, the amusing and silly kind of weird, not the questionable and disturbing kind of weird.

Yay_Everything posted...

My first thought is that I'm not bothered by this even a little, but thinking about it a bit more, isn't giving something like this to children reinforcing the idea that skin color is very important and something they should be paying a lot of attention to? Maybe that's the way early education is heading, idk, but it seems to be the reverse direction of a post-racial world.

When the only thing the color of a person's skin means is what crayon to use, the world will be a much better place than it is now.

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Are crayons even good for coloring artwork? I've never used anything other than colored pencils since I was like 10

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They're Crayons so... whatever? It's just releasing colors -- probably even ones they've already done -- with new marketing. I don't imagine there's much controversy at all.

adjl posted...

Even as a white person, I've never really felt like I could accurately represent my skin colour with the crayons available in a standard box. This should be useful for pretty much anyone that's trying to draw a human.

And have you cared about accurately representing your skin tone? >_>

Yay_Everything posted...

My first thought is that I'm not bothered by this even a little, but thinking about it a bit more, isn't giving something like this to children reinforcing the idea that skin color is very important and something they should be paying a lot of attention to? Maybe that's the way early education is heading, idk, but it seems to be the reverse direction of a post-racial world.

Well, besides reinforcing race as being significant, there's the sub-issue where it reinforces in-group racism where even within the groups darker shades are discriminated against.

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adjl posted...

Even as a white person, I've never really felt like I could accurately represent my skin colour with the crayons available in a standard box. This should be useful for pretty much anyone that's trying to draw a human.

Was actually coming in here to say something along these lines. As a kid before I learned I sucked at drawing and stopped I loved to do it and I always found it annoying that it was really hard to get realistic skintones for people.

Of all the anti-woke culture things people COULD argue about... ... why this? This legitimately might be the most benign progressive action ever

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Zeus posted...

They're Crayons so... whatever? It's just releasing colors -- probably even ones they've already done -- with new marketing. I don't imagine there's much controversy at all.

And have you cared about accurately representing your skin tone? >_>

Well, besides reinforcing race as being significant, there's the sub-issue where it reinforces in-group racism where even within the groups darker shades are discriminated against.

We can talk about race without reinforcing racism.

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This shit has existed for like 30 years
They used to be under the label "multicultural"


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ReturnOfFa posted...

We can talk about race without reinforcing racism.

That's not "talking about race" that's actively trying to distinguish minute differences in skin tone to an absurd degree, which reinforces implicit thoughts and bias regarding skin tone.

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Zeus posted...

That's not "talking about race" that's actively trying to distinguish minute differences in skin tone to an absurd degree, which reinforces implicit thoughts and bias regarding skin tone.

Pffff what's wrong with distinguishing minute differences in colours? I think we can celebrate every shade will observing a wider degree of shades for skin tones...in crayons. You started off your first post in this topic in a pretty agreeable way, but had to make it...your weird racial theories.

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If people want it, more power to them.

Personally I would break down those 24 crayons into 4 different crayons. The pinks, almonds, browns and dark browns. Then fill the rest of the pack with blues and greens and yellows and reds and oranges and purples and the like. To me this sounds like a much more fun box of crayons!

That seems like a waste of money when they could have also thrown in the RGB wheel too to make a full pack.
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24 colors ain't enough.

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I thought they already did a skin tone pack before. I remember one.

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Jen0125 posted...

I thought they already did a skin tone pack before. I remember one.

They do one whenever one of the tour groups accidentally falls into the crayon moulds

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Full Throttle posted...

others called it a great idea and just what they needed

I agree. Now we can stop calling the races by the wrong names. There aren't any black people, they're deepest almond people. Though I expect problems if you do call someone deepest almond but they're actually extra deep golden. I'm starting to understand why progressives hate people with colorblindness. This is already proving to be quite educational.

This raises another question for me. Which ones get called nazis? Is it just the extra light almond? Or are they going to appear much more tolerant with the inclusion of very light and light races?

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FLESH CRAYONS

buy them you woke children!

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Not bothered.

its a clever marketing tool by crayola to generate more revenue by repackaging crayons that already existed and calling them by diff names.

bet this box costs more too.

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Good. I distinctly remember as a kid in elementary school not having a crayon or colored pencil to give a color to white people. I'd have to ask one of the kids who had those giant box sets for "peach" and even that was still an odd color sometimes.

I just had another thought and I'm starting to feel sorry for progressives. They must be very frustrated being so woefully inarticulate every time they try to explain what they want top achieve. No wonder they seem so hate filled. Now that I see their racial agenda conveyed as box of crayons I'm begining to comprehend it and build a mental frame work around it far better that I could before.

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Why would it bother other than if crayola released troll version that was based on the early warner bros cartoons. I mean isn't the point of an art medium to allow for diverse color palettes to raise ones awareness of the differences in similar objects?

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SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

I just had another thought and I'm starting to feel sorry for progressives. They must be very frustrated being so woefully inarticulate every time they try to explain what they want top achieve. No wonder they seem so hate filled. Now that I see their racial agenda conveyed as box of crayons I'm begining to comprehend it and build a mental frame work around it far better that I could before.

I was about to post in defense of you saying I haven't seen any angry conservatives and TC could easily be making it up.

It's a box of crayons for different skin tones so they don't have to mix yellow and brown.

And progressives aren't CEOs of hasbro.

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"Now that I see their racial agenda conveyed as box of crayons I'm begining to comprehend it and build a mental frame work around it far better that I could before."

This is a good quote.

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Yellow posted...

And progressives aren't CEOs

Tell that to the entire tech industry.
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Revelation34 posted...

Tell that to the entire tech industry.

I'm going to stay on topic about the whole skin colored crayon thing so we don't get smug over a tangent.

Skin colored crayons are an objectively good force in the world and we have been complaining about not having enough skin colored crayons since we were 4 years old

And I as a progressive did not make this decision, and if I did it wouldn't be for the same reason Hasbro would, which is to make money

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Zeus posted...

And have you cared about accurately representing your skin tone? >_>

"Cared" in the sense of "my life is appreciably worse for never having had this opportunity"? No. "Cared" in the sense of "found it mildly annoying that it was basically impossible to get anything better than a rough approximation of almost anyone's skin colour"? Yes. In practice, I never went deep enough into drawing to ever make it worthwhile to buy a box of crayons dedicated to more accurately matching skin colours, but I'd nonetheless consider having the option to do so to be a positive thing.

Zeus posted...

Well, besides reinforcing race as being significant, there's the sub-issue where it reinforces in-group racism where even within the groups darker shades are discriminated against.

Acknowledging that race exists hardly reinforces it as being significant. No one's truly colorblind: everyone can see racial differences, they just don't matter beyond that simple visual difference (and medical concerns and the occasional other practical issue, but obviously those aren't particularly relevant to crayons). Using a crayon that more closely matches somebody's skin colour isn't reinforcing the significance of race, it's just drawing what you see.

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Zeus posted...

And have you cared about accurately representing your skin tone? >_>

This statement feels like confirmation that Zeus has never used a box of crayons in his entire life

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SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

I just had another thought and I'm starting to feel sorry for progressives. They must be very frustrated being so woefully inarticulate every time they try to explain what they want top achieve. No wonder they seem so hate filled. Now that I see their racial agenda conveyed as box of crayons I'm begining to comprehend it and build a mental frame work around it far better that I could before.

imagine viewing crayons that simply show to children that there are different skin colors an example of a progressive agenda

what is the counter view?

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I think this is hilarious. Idk why. But Im definitely not bothered by it. I dont know why anyone would be...
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Yellow posted...

and we have been complaining about not having enough skin colored crayons since we were 4 years old

Who's this "we"? I certainly never complained when I was a kid.
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Yellow posted...

I was about to post in defense of you saying I haven't seen any angry conservatives

I don't see myself as a conservative so I wouldn't be one to know how that group thinks. I was just going to accept that some people were upset by this. Maybe I'm gullible that way and should require more proof of that claim. I'm still embarrassed it took me so long to realize Full Throttle made up that qannon thing he kept claiming people were afraid of.

Yellow posted...

And progressives aren't CEOs of hasbro. We hate CEOs. That's the problem they're trying to address.

I wouldn't assume they are. Maybe someone in the marketing department is and they convinced the higher ups this is what people want.

Yellow posted...

This is a good quote.

Thank you.

Mead posted...

what is the counter view?

Prior to seeing this marvelous box of crayons I thought races were made up of people. As people they had attributes that were more significant than what race they were part of. It was hard for me to understand how race was significant at all. But seeing them as crayons I realize that how their color differs from one to the other is the only attribute they have. So the counter view is where I started out, seeing them as people. Once I stop seeing them as people I understand the progressive ideology a lot more.

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SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

I don't see myself as a conservative so I wouldn't be one to know how that group thinks.

Continues to post how progressives think.

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SKARDAVNELNATE posted...

Prior to seeing this marvelous box of crayons I thought races were made up of people. As people they had attributes that were more significant than what race they were part of. It was hard for me to understand how race was significant at all. But seeing them as crayons I realize that how their color differs from one to the other is the only attribute they have. So the counter view is where I started out, seeing them as people. Once I stop seeing them as people I understand the progressive ideology a lot more.

Mead posted...

what is the counter view?

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HelIWithoutSin posted...

Continues to post how progressives think.

No, that's still quite foreign to me. I said I was gaining a better understanding of it than I had before.

Mead posted...

what is the counter view?

Seeing them as people. I thought I said that.

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Blightzkrieg posted...

This statement feels like confirmation that Zeus has never used a box of crayons in his entire life

being a russian operative meant to divide, he cant risk getting drawn into american culture, ok?

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Its just more colors. What the fuck is woke about it?
I swear anything that isnt radically white oriented is woke.

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