A company behind a new range of Afro style washing up sponges has been slammed for being racist.
Campaigners have attacked British makers Paladone for its latest range of dish cleaning products which caricatures black soul legend Diana Ross as having a brillo pad for a hairstyle.
The offending items, which have just gone on sale across the UK, have been likened to reproducing golliwogs or the Black and White Minstrels by reinforcing negative stereotypes.
Paladone said the range had been a phenomenal success since hitting the shelves.
But its attempts to give the humble cleaning implement a funky 70s disco makeover seems to have backfired.
A company spokesman said: ‘Our range of four washing up sponges are designed to make an everyday chore like washing up more fun.
‘The Disco, Beehive, Punk and Diva have sold hundreds of thousands of pieces. They have been a phenomenal success.’
Each, priced at up to £8, are currently on sale in the UK.
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Racism, all washed up.
Racism, all washed up.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Re: Racism, all washed up.
WTF?
Afros are as worthy of fun-making as bell bottoms; it's not racism! It's mocking the 70s, which is SACRED SPACE. Don't fuck with that shit.
Geez.
Afros are as worthy of fun-making as bell bottoms; it's not racism! It's mocking the 70s, which is SACRED SPACE. Don't fuck with that shit.
Geez.
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Re: Racism, all washed up.
Is it my imagination, or is that dude in a leisure suit?
Treat Gaza like Carthage.
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Re: Racism, all washed up.
bigskygal wrote:It's mocking the 70s, which is SACRED SPACE. Don't fuck with that shit.
GAH!
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Re: Racism, all washed up.
Unfortunately they didn't sell so well in Sweden. The Mistress of Kultur reported they taste bad\
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Re: Racism, all washed up.
$6.50 US dollah for a dish sponge?
You gotta be rich to be this kinda racist. (and Diana Ross has a lot nicer body than that)
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rubato
You gotta be rich to be this kinda racist. (and Diana Ross has a lot nicer body than that)
yrs,
rubato
Re: Racism, all washed up.
I'd buy it just to piss rubato off!
Your collective inability to acknowledge this obvious truth makes you all look like fools.
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rubato
Re: Racism, all washed up.
dales wrote:I'd buy it just to piss rubato off!
You would have failed. I have no emotional reaction to this at all except that it seems stupidly expensive and does not look like Diana Ross.
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rubato