I’ve seen some pretty distasteful MLK Day ads, but this one…

It’s somehow even worse in the original email. It has a little animation of the chocolates jumping into Dr. King’s mouth.

  • FakeGreekGirl@lemmy.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
    14·
    11 months ago

    Definitely, yeah. But there’s the baseline offensive there always is when Capitalism appropriates its critics and criticisms and turns them into commodities to further profit from, and then there’s… well, this.

    Like, this is an onion of bad choices. There’s layers to this shit.

    • prole@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      9·
      11 months ago

      Like the quote from the rich lady in Disco Elysium:

      Capital has the ability to subsume all critiques into itself. Even those who would critique capital end up reinforcing it instead