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Anil Dash (pronounced /ɑːˈniːl ˈdæʃ/, born in September 1975) is an early and influential blogger who began his weblog in 1999. Full Article
It's like if rat droppings were found in a bag of Popchips
One of the initiative takers of this campaign was the writer Anil Dash who wrote
It's a hackneyed, unfunny advertisement featuring Kutcher in brownface talking about his romantic options, with the entire punchline being that he's doing it in a fake-Indian outfit and voice. That's it, there's seriously no other gag.
We need to change the way companies respond to the constant stream of racist and sexist advertising campaigns that they launch in the media
I think this company doesn’t want its culture to be racist, and they can best demonstrate that by showing how they learn from examples where it happens despite their best efforts
I think we can attack the process by which these broken, racist, exploitative parts of our culture are created. The people behind this Popchips ad are not racist. They just made a racist ad, because they're so steeped in our culture's racism that they didn't even realize they were doing it
Hey, startups that are helping @aplusk get richer, can you tell him that racist brownface ads aren't cool?
I think the people behind this Popchips ad are not racist. I think they just made a racist ad, because they're so steeped in our culture's racism that they didn't even realize they were doing it
It was kind of a secret handshake thing ... It was so transgressive that it could only happen on the web. And it was something that was a bit of a hazing ritual, an induction ritual that you went through and now you're part of web culture.
That sounds like San Francisco
