I mean it is TOTALLY obvious. You are just being intentionally oblivious in missing this nice little Klansman walking around with his human pinata, like they do.

torrid said:

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The mental gymnastics involved, just wow.

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You're being asked to participate in the follies of psychosis.

Esteban du Plantier said:

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Even if you accept that the cropped photo has imagery that appears someone is hanging, why does everyone jump to 'black kid being lynched'?

My immediate thought was emo kid that hung herself.

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Quite a few people think lynching must involve a black victim. Same mindset as those who shout "racist" anytime someone says anything negative about Mexican illegals. They do not understand the meaning of the words.

Nike owns Converse.

You would think they would move away from caring about the woke mob's cries of racism, but they keep bending over backwards to appease.

Their share price speaks for itself.

Would this be too much for a Halloween costume?

Kashchei said:

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Apparently the Chief Marketing Officer at Converse is black, so if he didn't see a problem with it...

Edit: Or at least was as of May

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Is it Clayton Bigsby?

The supply of racism simply cannot keep up with the demand. Realize how many people make a living off of keeping racism and the "need to fight it" alive.

Also the last lynching in the US was in 1981. Both perps were convicted, one was executed the other got life. Family sued and got $7 million in 1980s money. Few of the people outraged about this were born then.

Oh good grief.

Zachary Klement said:

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One has to have a very...creative mind to see that and think lynching. What in the world.

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It's nothing creative. It's Pavlovian. These people have been trained that anyone with light skin holding anything black is racist.

agdoc2001 said:

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There were 4,743 lynchings reported over an 86 year period spanning 1882-1968 which equates to 55 per year. For context, 445,000 black babies were aborted last year.

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Between 1882 and 1968, 3,446 blacks and 1,297 whites were lynched.

Since 1968, nearly 100,000 more Whites have lost their lives to Black Murderers than Blacks to White Murderers.

The real epidemic is black on white violence.

Yet all we ever hear about is fake stories like this.

Black on white violence gets zero news coverage.

Ben Crump is calling on his all star cast of victims. Lawsuits coming soon.

To show how old I am. Wearing a pair of black Jack Taylors was a status symbol while playing pickup games.

I don't want to say this type of stuff is turning me into a "Racist" per se. But I am so fatigued and annoyed that I would definitely consider myself "insensitive". I give zero f***s and my filter has almost gone away entirely.

I still spread love in the world and am kind to people of every race, aknowledging that most of them are good, but there is a disproportionate amount in certain demographic groups that are just absolutely grinding. Zero patience or sympathy for them.

This is what happens when people constantly look to be offended about anything/everything

ATX_AG_08 said:

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agdoc2001 said:

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There were 4,743 lynchings reported over an 86 year period spanning 1882-1968 which equates to 55 per year. For context, 445,000 black babies were aborted last year.

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Between 1882 and 1968, 3,446 blacks and 1,297 whites were lynched.

Since 1968, nearly 100,000 more Whites have lost their lives to Black Murderers than Blacks to White Murderers.

The real epidemic is black on white violence.

Yet all we ever hear about is fake stories like this.

Black on white violence gets zero news coverage.

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To both of yalls points, at the absolute height of the Ku Klux Klan, they lynched something like 144 black people a year, nationwide.

That's like a few summer months in Chicago alone.

It's awful regardless, but just offering a bit of perspective.

This feels like 9th grade english class all over again.

- But miss, where does it say that the kids glasses represents rational thinking?
- It's symbolism.
- I don't get it. Seems like the rational kid just happens to wear glasses and that they are in no way related. And if that's what the author meant, why didn't he just say it?
- You just don't GET IT. That's what he meant because that's my interpretation. You got all the symbolism answers wrong. Here's a 50 on your test. Have your mom sign in and bring it back tomorrow.
- Can I sign it and have it symbolize my mom's signature? After all, I'm wearing glasses right now and you aren't.
- Go see the principal.
- <mumbling under my breath as I leave the classroom> She wears glasses too, so I think she's going to be on my side.

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This feels like 9th grade english class all over again.

- But miss, where does it say that the kids glasses represents rational thinking?
- It's symbolism.
- I don't get it. Seems like the rational kid just happens to wear glasses and that they are in no way related. And if that's what the author meant, why didn't he just say it?
- You just don't GET IT. That's what he meant because that's my interpretation. You got all the symbolism answers wrong. Here's a 50 on your test. Have your mom sign in and bring it back tomorrow.
- Can I sign it and have it symbolize my mom's signature? After all, I'm wearing glasses right now and you aren't.
- Go see the principal.
- <mumbling under my breath as I leave the classroom> She wears glasses too, so I think she's going to be on my side.

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Happy Gilmore did it better.

I would have called this thread "The left loses it again"

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To show how old I am. Wearing a pair of black Jack Taylors was a status symbol while playing pickup games.

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By sixth grade, in 65, you wouldn't get caught dead in black high tops! Begged coach to get us white low quarters in the 70s. High tops were for queers

torrid said:

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Would this be too much for a Halloween costume?

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LOL....Let me tell ya about Halloween circa 1982 at Clute Intermediate school.

There was a guy in our class, nice guy, wouldn't hurt a fly. But he LOVED Dungeons and Dragons.

We were allowed to dress up for school that Halloween, and he shows up in flowing white robe, tall white pointed hat.....

His last words before the door on the locker he was stuffed into slammed shut were "But I'm a HOLY CLERIC..."

First it was a rope and a knot, now an abstract image. What next standing next to a tree?

The entire ad is fine. The way it was cropped is the issue. I get the imagery that they think is there, but I do think it's a little blunt out of proportion as usual. Also, if it hadn't been in black-and-white, I don't think it would've evoked the same thing. It was a dumb crop.

doubledog said:

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First it was a rope and a knot, now an abstract image. What next standing next to a tree?

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hear that folks?

It's a racist dog whistle!!!!!


/s

Yup.

AOC’s narrative about Black People being lynched in America is officially a HOAX. Each of the 10 people she claimed were lynched was investigated and here’s what they found

- 9 were suicide
- 1 was murder by a black perpetrator

ZERO White People involved in any of the cases… pic.twitter.com/lv8umLaYOP

— Wall Street Apes (@WallStreetApes) September 23, 2026

CascadiaAg said:

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I mean it is TOTALLY obvious. You are just being intentionally oblivious in missing this nice little Klansman walking around with his human pinata, like they do.

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It's almost as if some people are trying way to hard to deny that, in this country white people would hang black people for being black. The same people would not allow the lynched person's family to collect the body, it had to stay hanging in order to 'teach a lesson'. No doubt, it happen in the north and south, but that doesn't erase anything.

The thing about this whole incident I find to be so telling is that Converse markets to the black demographic. It is a significant sector. That means their marketing folks are at least familiar with the demographic. High-level marketing folks signed off on this, as with any ad campaign, so they apparently thought the shock value was higher than what it might cost.

Amazing.

Watermelon Man said:

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CascadiaAg said:

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I mean it is TOTALLY obvious. You are just being intentionally oblivious in missing this nice little Klansman walking around with his human pinata, like they do.

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It's almost as if some people are trying way to hard to deny that, in this country white people would hang black people for being black. The same people would not allow the lynched person's family to collect the body, it had to stay hanging in order to 'teach a lesson'. No doubt, it happen in the north and south, but that doesn't erase anything.

The thing about this whole incident I find to be so telling is that Converse markets to the black demographic. It is a significant sector. That means their marketing folks are at least familiar with the demographic. High-level marketing folks signed off on this, as with any ad campaign, so they apparently thought the shock value was higher than what it might cost.

Amazing.

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Who is denying the existence of lynchings? Multiple people on this thread have even posted some numbers on how common it was. What's being denied is the narrative that lynching blacks by whites STILL happen. When in fact they dont. More blacks have been killed this year alone by black on black gun violence and abortion, than were ever lynched in the US.

It was posted earlier that the marketing manager is black. Why would he approve this? Furthermore, why dont they have a woman running this department?!?!

Watermelon Man said:

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CascadiaAg said:

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I mean it is TOTALLY obvious. You are just being intentionally oblivious in missing this nice little Klansman walking around with his human pinata, like they do.

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It's almost as if some people are trying way to hard to deny that, in this country white people would hang black people for being black. The same people would not allow the lynched person's family to collect the body, it had to stay hanging in order to 'teach a lesson'. No doubt, it happen in the north and south, but that doesn't erase anything.

The thing about this whole incident I find to be so telling is that Converse markets to the black demographic. It is a significant sector. That means their marketing folks are at least familiar with the demographic. High-level marketing folks signed off on this, as with any ad campaign, so they apparently thought the shock value was higher than what it might cost.

Amazing.

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What in the hell are you even blathering about? Shock value? Of what, some chick holding shoes?

Watermelon Man said:

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CascadiaAg said:

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I mean it is TOTALLY obvious. You are just being intentionally oblivious in missing this nice little Klansman walking around with his human pinata, like they do.

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It's almost as if some people are trying way to hard to deny that, in this country white people would hang black people for being black. The same people would not allow the lynched person's family to collect the body, it had to stay hanging in order to 'teach a lesson'. No doubt, it happen in the north and south, but that doesn't erase anything.

The thing about this whole incident I find to be so telling is that Converse markets to the black demographic. It is a significant sector. That means their marketing folks are at least familiar with the demographic. High-level marketing folks signed off on this, as with any ad campaign, so they apparently thought the shock value was higher than what it might cost.

Amazing.

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Cost?!? Lol. This doesn't cost black people anything.

You know what's an even bigger threat and real cost to black people?!

Other black people.

Y'all kill the hell out of each other and yet focus on a fictional threat like some non existent white supremacist that might hang you.

AgGrad99 said:

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It was a public ad, so I think it's ok to post it.

I'm not sure how you look at this and think 'lynching'...it would have never crossed my mind. But they got the Good Good treatment and pulled the Ad.

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It doesn't but the left must be fake outraged at all times.

Looks like we need to add another "K" to the KKK brand = KKKK

Watermelon Man said:

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CascadiaAg said:

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I mean it is TOTALLY obvious. You are just being intentionally oblivious in missing this nice little Klansman walking around with his human pinata, like they do.

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It's almost as if some people are trying way to hard to deny that, in this country white people would hang black people for being black. The same people would not allow the lynched person's family to collect the body, it had to stay hanging in order to 'teach a lesson'. No doubt, it happen in the north and south, but that doesn't erase anything.

The thing about this whole incident I find to be so telling is that Converse markets to the black demographic. It is a significant sector. That means their marketing folks are at least familiar with the demographic. High-level marketing folks signed off on this, as with any ad campaign, so they apparently thought the shock value was higher than what it might cost.

Amazing.

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"It's almost as if some people are trying way to hard to deny that, in this country white people would hang black people for being black…Amazing"

I'll tell you what's amazing.

Congratulations on saying one of the dumbest things I've heard today.

FFS. It was a poorly designed ad, but it's more in the crop. If you see the whole ad together, it makes sense. As a graphic designer, I would think they would see it a little easier, but if the ad had been in color, nobody would probably be saying anything.

It's just the left has to constantly be in victim mode and a tie everything into slavery. And then get mad at people who had nothing to do with this ad or slavery for that matter to further that victimhood.

Nobody's denying anything. But sometimes people just go and look for things that aren't really there.

And it's interesting. You didn't even mention AOC and Presley, pushing all these black lynchings coming back around when they were all suicides, except for one where the black boyfriend hung his black girlfriend.

But funny people just skip over that. I mean you went out of your way to connect these two things. Amazing.

I remember last year when Serena Williams went into this over-dramatic whine about cotton decorations in vases at an event she went to. Started rambling on about slavery and cotton, and how horrible that they would do that. When many of the cotton pickers in this country were also white.

She was so triggered about cotton being in a floral arrangement that she brought up slavery again, 163 years on. But yet, I bet she wears cotton clothing all the time.

We are exhausted by the left's constant need to push racism and victimhood at every damn turn. And you're doing the same.

You know if people wanted to be like the left and push constant victimization mode maybe you should change your username. I mean watermelon has been tied into racism, right? Rules are rules.

Amazing.

agdoc2001 said:

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There were 4,743 lynchings reported over an 86 year period spanning 1882-1968 which equates to 55 per year. For context, 445,000 black babies were aborted last year.

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How can one find time to be upset about that when there are real issues in our world today?

Like this Chuck Taylor's ad!