Lavender Took ([info]lavendertook) wrote,
2009-04-05 03:00:00
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WTF? Fail, Nestea, fail.

I just googled and found this gem of an ad poster that I saw plastered to a DC bus shelter on New York Ave this afternoon proclaiming:

Nestea Red Tea: Tasty and foreign, like we bottled an exchange student.

Consuming the colonized Other liek whoa. Exotification is the fun way to be racist! I guess they're counting on the negative press to sell their new product, but it's made my reaction to their brand an "ewwww!" that isn't going to go away any time soon.

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[info]supergee

April 5 2009, 09:25:01 UTC 3 years ago

Desperate play for the cannibal market.

[info]browngirl

April 5 2009, 12:03:26 UTC 3 years ago

*goes from furious to falling down laughing*

[info]monkey5s

April 5 2009, 18:30:30 UTC 3 years ago

AR AR AR! [info]supergee FTW!

[info]lavendertook

April 6 2009, 02:47:37 UTC 3 years ago

Heee! Pretty much.






[info]claudia603

April 5 2009, 13:40:08 UTC 3 years ago

wow.

*is stunned*

Squicky!

[info]lavendertook

April 6 2009, 02:50:50 UTC 3 years ago

I was very WTF? as I drove past it. I wonder if they're just targeting cities and college towns with the ad or putting it all over.

[info]mews1945

April 5 2009, 15:28:55 UTC 3 years ago

Not just racist. Stupid.

[info]timwb

April 5 2009, 17:05:23 UTC 3 years ago

Yep.
Ewwwww.

[info]frodosweetstuff

April 7 2009, 13:02:27 UTC 3 years ago

That's very off-putting. In more ways than one...

[info]acrimonyastraea

April 7 2009, 13:49:27 UTC 3 years ago

Holy shit! WTF are they thinking?
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