{"id":4099,"date":"2010-06-14T07:06:39","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T11:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=4099"},"modified":"2010-06-14T07:06:39","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T11:06:39","slug":"hallmark-gets-attacked-for-racist-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/06\/14\/hallmark-gets-attacked-for-racist-message\/","title":{"rendered":"Hallmark gets attacked for “racist” message"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometimes a company will innocently create a message that is completely misunderstood. Hallmark is having an attack of the “racist” accusers, based on someone mis-hearing the term “black hole” as “black whore”:<\/p>\n

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The bad news? Rather than stand up to this idiocy, Hallmark looked at its bottom line and figured a PR war with the NAACP wasn\u2019t worth it. The card\u2019s been yanked from the market. The good news? The clip\u2019s destined to be a viral hit and big media outlets like FNC have already picked up the story. (A segment ran within the past hour or so.) I hope the outrageously outraged enjoy the widespread derision they\u2019re going to draw for it. The best news? If this is what the L.A. NAACP now considers a priority for direct action, Los Angeles must be completely racism-free. Three cheers for progress. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

H\/T to Jon (my former virtual landlord) for the link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sometimes a company will innocently create a message that is completely misunderstood. Hallmark is having an attack of the “racist” accusers, based on someone mis-hearing the term “black hole” as “black whore”: The bad news? Rather than stand up to this idiocy, Hallmark looked at its bottom line and figured a PR war with the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,73,13],"tags":[99],"class_list":["post-4099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-randomness","category-usa","tag-racism"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-147","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4100,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4099\/revisions\/4100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}