Posted 12:17 PM by magnu231
America: Exclusive Home of Racial Tension

One of my favorite hockey blogs, off wing opinion, had a link to a story by the Guardian (or at least the guardian blog) on the at least distasteful, and possibly racist new PSP ads. There's nothing new in the story, and everyone's seen the pictures. But here's my favorite quote from the post:

Importantly perhaps, the ads are for the European release of the white PSP and are appearing on billboards in Amsterdam rather than in the US where racial tension remains a fraught issue.

Because Amersterdam has no racial tension. And neither does Europe. In fact, the US has the exclusive pattent on it. Oh, and in other news, Le Pen in France and a bunch of neo-nazis in Germany have been bemoaning the "impurity" of their world cup teams, and in the Germans' case, actually threatening some of the black players on their country's team. But anyway, the point is, that unfortunately, I see ads like this proliferating in the next few years. If one is sufficiently edgy/offensive, instead of being ignored, their ads will be widely disseminated and discussed all over the web, with people who are upset by them not upset enough to boycott, and people who aren't intrigued by the product being advertised. I see this as a harbinger of things to come.

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