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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.

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[–] [email protected] 108 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

I also find the image of companies using Martin Luther King's image to advertise and make money pretty distasteful because it erases his history and message and replaces it with advertising and capitalism

FUCK CAPITALISM

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago

He was killed once he started advocating for socialism. Just makes it more obscene.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Especially given his outspoken anti-capitalist views.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year 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