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In reply to the discussion: Racist Dairy Queen ad [View all]Orrex
(66,757 posts)1. Dark-skinned man with balloons. This plays into the decades-old racist belief that dark-skinned men are pawns of Big Helium
2. White, possibly middle-aged woman wearing a white sun hat. Maintains the racist stereotype that white people wear hats in the sun.
3. Dark-skinned man riding bumper cars with a dark-skinned boy. What could be more pointedly racist than having a fun time at an amusement park?
4. Long-haired white funnel cake vendor throwing a fist-pump. Need I say more? Classic!
5. Two fair-skinned young women sitting in a teacup. This is clearly a throwback to the days of the British empire and its stranglehold on tea production around the world (around as in "spinning around"
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Duh.
Also, that DQ entrance clearly isn't handicapped-accessible. What if that's the only point of access?!?