TfL's new rapist minicab advert
asdf wrote:
On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 04:48:17 -0800 (PST), John B wrote:
I see the rapist minicab driver is still white ... has Boris sacked
any of Ken's racist Labour cronies since he took office at all?
Are you a) actually incapable of thinking the above through; b)
unaware that racists traditionally stereotype black men as rapists;
or c) a racist who stereotypes black men as rapists? Because I can't
see any other explanation for why you'd even find this
controversial...
The reason this is controversial is that almost everyone depicted in
TfL's publicity is black or Asian, *except* when they are some sort of
criminal (fare dodger, rapist, etc) in which case they are invariably
white.
Thank you. Nice to see I'm not the only one still awake.
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