How Stupid Are They?

[MurphOnMillerAve]

I'd be the last person to ask. Surely.

However, I'll live wild and free and take a chance:
The single individual performing actual labor - and menial, no less - has brown skin (as if singling him out indicates there was a loss of dignity in performing work)????????????????????

[up148]

Stood out like a diamond in a goats *ss. Why would anyone do that? Even in less racially charged times (like today) that is just stupid.

BH

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Stood out like a diamond in a goats *ss. Why would anyone do that? Even in less racially charged times (like today) that is just stupid.

BH

Do what? Don't tell me you are agreeing with me?!

[up148]

Stood out like a diamond in a goats *ss. Why would anyone do that? Even in less racially charged times (like today) that is just stupid.

BH

Do what? Don't tell me you are agreeing with me?!

We've agreed many times my friend. We're not always in opposite corners.

BH

[MurphOnMillerAve]

OK. Good to know.
Now, I'll just wait for the admonishment sure to come later, from the specialist-in-residence.

[Roy]

Still looks like a mall owner's nightmare. They're snorkeling in the fountain! Don't corn kernels have parents that oversee their behavior?

[robert.]

It's racist to make them all yellow and call them ninjas.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Kellogg’s Changing Corn Pops

Bizarre....... The collective intelligence of marketing departments world wide might have finally dropped below that of the HR department

[HONDO74]

The very fact that a major American company was forced to apologize for a racially insensitive corn kernel demonstrates just how perpetually offended and overly sensitive we've become.

I can only imagine what the Social Justice Breakfast Cereal Brigade will do when they discover Cocoa Puffs --- or heaven forbid - Fruity Pebbles.

[webenda]

I'd be the last person to ask. Surely.

However, I'll live wild and free and take a chance:
The single individual performing actual labor - and menial, no less - has brown skin (as if singling him out indicates there was a loss of dignity in performing work)????????????????????

Ditto what BH said. That one was too obvious for all of us. But since you are asking for some kind of feedback, I always considered a company's janitorial staff to have the most important job in the establishment. Who wants to work in a dirty environment? Nothing menial about keeping the place clean.

[rogruth]

I absolutely refuse to apologize for being alive and never trying to offend someone on purpose at least to my knowledge.
Nor do I plan to pay reparations to anyone for anything that happened in the past.
I do not understand where, for lack of a better term, humanity is headed.

[webenda]

II do not understand where, for lack of a better term, humanity is headed.

But know this, that in the last days critical times hard to deal with will be here. For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, disloyal, having no natural affection, not open to any agreement, slanderers, without self-control, fierce, without love of goodness, betrayers, headstrong, puffed up with pride, lovers of pleasures rather than lovers of God.
--Paul, the second letter to Timothy, 3:1-4.

Don't ever follow them, Roger.

"...from these turn away."
--Paul, the second letter to Timothy, 3:5.

[webenda]

The last days?

[MurphOnMillerAve]

The very fact that a major American company was forced to apologize for a racially insensitive corn kernel demonstrates just how perpetually offended and overly sensitive we've become. ...

We 've become?

[MurphOnMillerAve]

I'd be the last person to ask. Surely.

However, I'll live wild and free and take a chance:
The single individual performing actual labor - and menial, no less - has brown skin (as if singling him out indicates there was a loss of dignity in performing work)????????????????????

Ditto what BH said. That one was too obvious for all of us. But since you are asking for some kind of feedback, I always considered a company's janitorial staff to have the most important job in the establishment. Who wants to work in a dirty environment? Nothing menial about keeping the place clean.

Amen. On that point we agree (!!!!!!!!!!!)
But I still do not get why it is "racist" or ethnically incorrect to have that character as a pleasant looking individual with tan skin. Would so-called "White People" have been offended if that character were Caucasian? Would any "White" person have even noticed, let alone complained? I wonder. You see, I had a very similar job, though of even lower - literally - "standing" when I was 19, shoveling out and cleaning a sewer that ran under a steel mill's soaking-pits. It was tremendously hot and dirty work, and certainly felt "menial," but needed. However, since I was interested in earning money to help pay for my education, I left an 85cent/hr. job in an amusement-park cafeteria to take the lowest job in town because it paid "big money" @ $ 2.79/hr. The job was not defined by my race, nor did it define me, nor was I diminished by its required labor. If anything, I was edified and enriched by the job and its earnings.

So, seeing a cartoon character with a pleasant demeanor, depicted working, is not a negative , in my estimation. Not at all. And all the people I know with such a possible appearance have a variety of jobs and work for a living, which to me is a matter of dignity, not shame.

Call me stupid.