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How not to celebrate MLK Day rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 7 months ago by FakeGreekGirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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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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[-] x4740N@lemmy.world 108 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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

[-] jopepa@lemmy.world 37 points 7 months ago

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

[-] prole@sh.itjust.works 20 points 7 months ago

Especially given his outspoken anti-capitalist views.

[-] FakeGreekGirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 7 months ago

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.