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News & ArtsFriday, May 22, 2009
Crime / Media "Make Peace with the World"
Posted by David Schmader on Fri, May 22, 2009 at 11:20 AM
That's the tag line of the ad campaign for Rasayana tea, which suggests the stress-busting properties of their product could've, you know, preempted the Holocaust.
The campaign was created by the Turkish ad group Art Grup, and considering that Turks have never met (or carried out) a genocide they couldn't deny the existence of, I guess it's kind of a step forward for them to admit that there was even a Holocaust to be preempted.
Added bonus: the featured shot isn't even the most offensive of the series! (It's either this one or this one.)
Thanks for the heads-up, James St. James at WoW Report.
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definitely the last pic is the most offensive. there's no gag involved, it's just a picture of hitler. although offensive might be the wrong word to use, i'm not particularly offended. i just think it's really fucking stupid to associate your product with the least popular person in history.
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Offensive not, bad advertising probably but it depends on the market they are burning up to get into.
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Cause for offense: The idea that the murder of millions was the result of Hitler being "stressed out." If he'd just had this tea, maybe the inherent loathsomeness of Jews (and gypsies and gays) wouldn't have driven him to mass murder.
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@7,
Don't you mean his belief that those people are loathsome? I understand what you're getting at but using the word "inherent" in that statement is very, very bad.
Don't you mean his belief that those people are loathsome? I understand what you're getting at but using the word "inherent" in that statement is very, very bad.
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considering that Turks have never met (or carried out) a genocide they couldn't deny the existence of
Unlike the Americans, who all recognize the existence of the genocides in Vietnam, Iraq, Native Americans, etc? We're currently carrying out a genocide that tops both the Armenian genocide and the Killing Fields of Cambodia in the number of people killed because of their ethnicity.
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It was a Turkish ad firm? Jews should redo the ad using a cartoon of the Prophet Mohammad where Hitler was. NO doubt this Turkish ad firm would be the first to be offended.
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"Turks have never met (or carried out) a genocide they couldn't deny the existence of,". Niiiiice. All Turks deny all genocides. Seriously this is an ad firm. It is not the Turkish National Advertising Team. It is bad ad work though.
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considering that Turks have never met (or carried out) a genocide they couldn't deny the existence of
wtf?? Consider the actual history of the shoah, in which the Greek, Bulgarian, Italian and so many other governments all cooperated with the Nazis and allowed Jews in the areas they controlled to be deported and killed, and contrast that to Turkey, whose lands were the only places in the region which DIDN'T end up being taken over with Nazi gov'ts and collaborating with the shoah - other than Thrace which was under Bulgarian occupation. Saying this is an insult to the Turkish Jews who survived because their gov't held out long enough. Yeah I know maybe if you think of Turkey you only think of the Armenian genocide, and calling that out is important, but don't act like this is simple enough that you can generalize that and say Turkish people must be deniers and/or perpetrators of ALL GENOCIDES. That's racist, intersectionality fail, and stupid.
wtf?? Consider the actual history of the shoah, in which the Greek, Bulgarian, Italian and so many other governments all cooperated with the Nazis and allowed Jews in the areas they controlled to be deported and killed, and contrast that to Turkey, whose lands were the only places in the region which DIDN'T end up being taken over with Nazi gov'ts and collaborating with the shoah - other than Thrace which was under Bulgarian occupation. Saying this is an insult to the Turkish Jews who survived because their gov't held out long enough. Yeah I know maybe if you think of Turkey you only think of the Armenian genocide, and calling that out is important, but don't act like this is simple enough that you can generalize that and say Turkish people must be deniers and/or perpetrators of ALL GENOCIDES. That's racist, intersectionality fail, and stupid.
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