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How not to celebrate MLK Day rule (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
submitted 10 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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[โ€“] FakeGreekGirl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 10 months 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.

[โ€“] prole@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months 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