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Re: Lego called Racist - "Boycott Legos [sic]"
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lugnet.mediawatch
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Tue, 25 Jan 2005 17:54:02 GMT
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In lugnet.mediawatch, Thomas Main wrote:
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”...minorities are often stereotyped.”
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The place this is most evident is the releasing of the NBA sets with black
figures. I know these represent real people and that is why the decision was
made - but it ruined the idea that yellow could represent people of color.
Now we have brown heads for NBA players and one themed set, I believe. I
loved a recent MOC that used the NBA players as pirates, but this was
unofficial. So, yes, as a company, Lego has stereotyped the brown heads as
basketball players and nothing else.
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Keep in mind that caucasian NBA players were also included in flesh tone:
Steve Nash (Canada)
Dirk Nowitzki (Germany)
Pau Gasol (Spain)
Tony Kukoc (Croatia)
... so I don’t believe the stereotype is in the NBA figs (although, they were a
bad idea from inception. Less than half of the NBA licensed figs are still
wearing the same uniform, and some are on their second new team already - what a
mess).
The real problem came with Lando and the SW line in general, IMHO. Lando should
have been a yellow fig, to match the rest of the line at that time, and to
reinforce the idea that yellow was not synonymous with caucasian.
-nk
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| (...) Actually, I think there are some good issues that are raised in this article. (...) There is some validity to the argument that yellow more closely represents light-skinned people. The author oversteps by calling it "Aryan yellow" to be sure, (...) (20 years ago, 25-Jan-05, to lugnet.mediawatch, FTX)
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