"utterly moronic racist nonsense" - Strutt & Parker Notting Hill estate agents advertising

[ViolentPanda]

And says a lot that as soon a couple of people come on here saying that they is no racism they get abuse. Pathetic.

Possibly because racism is insoluble. The only place it doesn't exist is within a monocultural environment. That's straightforward "human behaviour 101" - where there's difference there will be a social hierarchy based on visible difference.

 

[ddraig]

Why is the first part of the thread title in quotation marks?

think as might be wot someone else said, ie a quote

 

[Spymaster]

think as might be wot someone else said, ie a quote

By who? Nothing explaining it in the OP.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Because I've got eyes and brain.

So you saying that you only see racism if you're black. That's racist in itself.

No, genius, she's saying that you, as a white male, would be less likely to distinguish racism, because you're part of a majority.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Why is the first part of the thread title in quotation marks?

To annoy you.

 

[Pickman's model]

Why is the first part of the thread title in quotation marks?

editor

 

[ddraig]

By who? Nothing explaining it in the OP.

from comment on that link

FYI, I’m quoting a black historian in the title. And I see his point.

At best it’s crass and clumsy stereotyping, at worst it’s racist, although I’d agree it’s not intentional – just stupid and insensitive.

 

[editor]

think as might be wot someone else said, ie a quote

By Rocket no.9

 

[snadge]

He dances with shit? Ew!!!

Just trying to irk the grammar police.

 

[Pickman's model]

Just trying to irk the grammar police.

if you want to do that, call them the grammer police.

 

[snadge]

if you want to do that, call them the grammer police.

 

[Spymaster]

from comment on that link

By Rocket no.9

Where's that quote from though?

Clicking on that link just brings up member details for Rocket no.9

 

[editor]

Where's that quote from though?

Clicking on that link just brings up member details for Rocket no.9

From his Facebook page but I won't be disclosing that here for obvious reasons. Why is it so important?

 

[DotCommunist]

I don't need to insult your intelligence; you're doing a fine job of that all by yourself.

People who like to play the prejudice every 5 minutes for no particular reason really are pathetic, and more than that they devalue people who suffer from actual prejudice.

play it like a card?

you've managed to 'you are the real racist' it as well. Top marks bugle.

 

[Spymaster]

Why is it so important?

Well the usual form is to provide a link to quotations to give context to what's being quoted and show it's an accurate representation. There's none of that.

 

[editor]

Well the usual form is to provide a link to quotations to give context to what's being quoted and show it's an accurate representation. There's none of that.

Feel free to PM him.

 

[MrSki]

138 pictured working at their head office & they are all white.
http://www.struttandparker.com/offices/london-head-office/

 

[Treacle Toes]

133 pictured working at their head office & they are all white.
http://www.struttandparker.com/offices/london-head-office/

Everyone else is too busy dancing.

 

[MrSki]

Everyone else is too busy dancing.

I wonder how many companies with a head office in London with over a hundred staff have managed to mirror the racial diversity of the city so well.

 

[Treacle Toes]

If ever there was a good reason for a flash mob dance picket of their offices this is one.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Apparently the agency wants to broaden out from selling flats to astroturfing.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Oh and it's good that's it's been made clear that completely changing the whole setup is a really telling reductio ad absurdum (look it up racists). If they had a white man dancing with a bone through his nose and waving a spear would you say that was racist? No well neither is it if they have a black man doing it then! QED!!!!

 

[Treacle Toes]

Oh and it's good that's it's been made clear that completely changing the whole setup is a really telling reductio ad absurdum (look it up racists). If they had a white man dancing with a bone through his nose and waving a spear would you say that was racist? No well neither is it if they have a black man doing it then! QED!!!!

I would love to deconstruct that ad further...I doubt it would be helpful though...it would prove me a complete racist obviously.

 

[weltweit]

Actually Rutita1 I would welcome a more detailed deconstruction and discussion of the ad, it isn't clear to me what their specific objectives were, personally I doubt they intended to be racist so in that way they will have failed (and I don't hold that any publicity is good) and finally Estate Agents are universally disliked on a par with politicians so perhaps an ad featuring one is also doomed. etc

 

[Treacle Toes]

Look at the ad again, do you see the average Brixtonite on either side of the page?

Every Black person a dancer, male, Mr motivater style/flamboyant, athletic, not too serious ...every White person, male, a suit wearing capitalist/fresh faced business type?

The echoes are seriously deep.

I have framed these points as questions not to condescend but to reflect some of the first things that occur to me.

 

[weltweit]

I don't know who the average Brixtonite is so I have a disadvantage there . My first impression of the ad was simply to wonder what the point of it was? It struck me that they were trying to be funny, because an ad simply saying XYZ are estate agents would have just been too dull although more accurate. My first thought was not though that all black people in Brixton are dancers and all white people estate agents.

 

[fishfinger]

I don't know who the average Brixtonite is so I have a disadvantage there . My first impression of the ad was simply to wonder what the point of it was? It struck me that they were trying to be funny, because an ad simply saying XYZ are estate agents would have just been too dull although more accurate. My first thought was not though that all black people in Brixton are dancers and all white people estate agents.

Notting Hill is not Brixton. Although it doesn't matter where the estate agents are. The ad is racist because it uses a lazy stereotype of black people.

 

[Pickman's model]

Notting Hill is not Brixton. Although it doesn't matter where the estate agents are. The ad is racist because it uses a lazy stereotype of black people.

tbh it doesn't show white people in a very good light either.

 

[Winot]

Someone's been reading this thread.

 

[ddraig]

you can just post the link to the time of the tweet and the whole thing shows up here