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How To Fix Popchips' Racist Ad Campaign

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Ramki Kazhiyur-Mannar: How to make up for a racist ad Anil Dash gets it perfectly right on what we should do, if we wish to get our society and discourse right. Of course, we unfortunately don't. 05/09/2012 Influential
Paul Echeverri: +Anil Dash on +Ashton Kutcher and the PopChips campaign where Kutcher appeared in brownface with a crappy Indian accent -- Dash cogently lays out a lot of issues, including why the baseline 'outrage->crappy nonapology' cycle doesn't fix anything, and tries to find something that might work better. This is solid logical thinking… 05/09/2012 Highly Influential
Laura Little shared this post. 05/09/2012
Mari Huertas: "I wish people would understand the "wow" factor of sensationalizing race is outdated and tacky. The elevated response is to focus on people as multi-faceted entities." Interesting post on the Popchips commercial and its social response by Anil Dash. (FWIW, I sincerely agree with his points in the 'We Can Do Better'… 05/05/2012 Influential
Bethany H. Moore: What a great post! h/t to +Yllona Richardson for sharing it with me. 05/03/2012 Influential
Colin Deeb: It's encouraging to see intelligent discourse on racism in the United States. It's almost impossible to avoid racial bias and stereotypes, so let's own that and start talking about actions instead of words. 05/03/2012
Jennifer Ouellette: +Anil Dash explains what's wrong with that Ashton Kutcher PopChips ad: "I can't imagine I have to explain this to anyone in 2012, but if you find yourself putting brown makeup on a white person in 2012 so they can do a bad "funny" accent in order to sell potato chips, you are on the wrong course. Make some different decisions." … 05/03/2012 Highly Influential
Jared Manning: Note to self: Just because #AshtonKutcher invests in the technology sector, do not assume he has any sense. Pity that #PopChips are tasty, but let's face it, they have about as much substance as Kutcher himself. Society just might survive without them. We could, of course, spend lots of time reflecting on how this offense could have been… 05/03/2012 Influential
Keith Ratner: Note to self: Just because #AshtonKutcher invests in the technology sector, do not assume he has any sense. Pity that #PopChips are tasty, but let's face it, they have about as much substance as Kutcher himself. Society just might survive without them. We could, of course, spend lots of time reflecting on how this offense could have been… 05/02/2012
Abhinav Agarwal: Racist is as racist does. Stupid is as stupid does. 05/02/2012
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