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Is your couch racist?

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Originally posted by: BlancoNino
Do they legally have to stop selling the couches? Not that I agree that it's a good idea to sell a couch with the N word on it's tag (obviously bad for business), but aren't their free speech rights?
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free speech doesn't....eh...nvm...its been explained before and people still don't get it.
 
Originally posted by: Turin39789
Originally posted by: mugs
Video isn't loading for me. What did the tag say?
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the color of their couch was listed on the tag as "n-word brown"



My couch is red.
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So it's a brown couch? That doesn't seem like it'd be a translation mistake, because negro means black. More likely someone at the factory thought it'd be funny.

My couch is white. Like me. I like my couches like I like my women - lightweight and easy to fit through a doorway.
 
Originally posted by: pontifex
Originally posted by: BlancoNino
Do they legally have to stop selling the couches? Not that I agree that it's a good idea to sell a couch with the N word on it's tag (obviously bad for business), but aren't their free speech rights?
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free speech doesn't....eh...nvm...its been explained before and people still don't get it.
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I can cut a comedy album and say n***** all I want, but I can't sell a couch with n***** on it?
 
The sofa at home is blue.

Heh, wow. Good one there.
The label was probably made by someone in China who just barely knows English, and they just quick Googled for "brown" and that was a word they found.
Maybe they've got other fun colors:
Colon-pink
Grangrene-green
Corpse-gray

And damn, CNN's got long ads before their videos play.
 
My couch is yellow, and has some dents and chinks in the frame.

Sometimes there's g00k under the cushions that I need to clean out.

It's also leather so when it's nippy in the room, the couch tends to be cold.
 
That video is so horribly setup & fake (real content, fake actors).

The naive little girl didn't know the word, so she took the label and asked her mother what it was? She picked THAT word? Never mind the fact it says "description" "gross weight" "net weight" (which are all big words for a 7 year old), she just naturally gravitated towards "nig*er-brown" and asked her mother what it was? She intrinsically knew it was wrong without prior exposure? 😛

Daughter came to the kitchen afterwards? The mother was in the kitchen just letting new stuff be delivered and didn't even take a glance at them setting it up?

Firsthand lesson in racism?! She wouldn't have even known the difference. It is a word and she was likely trained to act for the camera. Most 7 year olds I know are too busy crapping themselves to pick out words with taboo meaning.

Moore said she's not sure she wants the sofa set in her home.

"Every time I sit on it, I'll think of that," she said.
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ROFLLLLLLLLL

/conspiracy
 
Originally posted by: Flyback
That video is so horribly setup & fake (real content, fake actors).

The naive little girl didn't know the word, so she took the label and asked her mother what it was? She picked THAT word? Never mind the fact it says "description" "gross weight" "net weight" (which are all big words for a 7 year old), she just naturally gravitated towards "nig*er-brown" and asked her mother what it was? She intrinsically knew it was wrong without prior exposure? 😛

Daughter came to the kitchen afterwards? The mother was in the kitchen just letting new stuff be delivered and didn't even take a glance at them setting it up?

Firsthand lesson in racism?! She wouldn't have even known the difference. It is a word and she was likely trained to act for the camera. Most 7 year olds I know are too busy crapping themselves to pick out words with taboo meaning.

Moore said she's not sure she wants the sofa set in her home.

"Every time I sit on it, I'll think of that," she said.
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ROFLLLLLLLLL

/conspiracy
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That's a good observation. One theory - she saw a word she recognized (brown) and wondered what the word next to it meant.

Who knows.
 
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