@house*of*paws wrote:
@tdl_collectibles wrote:I had this print ad pulled down for being offensive. I made no mention of Aunt Jemima in the title or description and just had it listed as "Mills Branch Buckwheat Flour Ad 1927" or something to that effect and I wasn't selling it for any more or less than any other add I listed from that 1927 magazine.
Yet there are hundreds of other items online, including empty boxes of Uncle Bens Rice and bottles of actual Aunt Jemima still active if you search for that term.
It's all random bots and/or people being petty when we are in a world right now with much larger problems than a 94 year old piece of paper offending someone.
This is an actual listing on eBay right now below which should violate expired goods policy as well but that's where we are right now with how uneven things are.
It’s not just the ‘Aunt Jemima’ image that became banned … but images of any grinning woman in a slave costume, which many would consider an offensive oxymoron. Anyway, that’s my guess.
^^^^ "slave costume"?? Exactly what does a slave costume look like? There are photos and depictions of slave labor from across the world wearing different "costumes" (clothing) from the ancient slaves building pyramids in Egypt to modern children caught up in the international sex slave trades. Shouldn't antiquities or art depicting any slave of any nationality or ethnic background or culture also be banned? Slavery is abhorrent regardless of which race is enslaved.
