Greetings Dramatards!
It's been stage 6 Loadshedding this fricking week, so I've been very unproductive at work, cuz we've had between 4-6 fricking hours of no power each day. I literally sometimes just sit at the office like a baboon waiting for the power to come on. Our glorious Free State communist leaders were very wise when they used up all our Power Station coal reserves so that they could party uninterrupted during Easter Weekend, now we have to make up for the short fall with a much higher than average power-cutting cuz we used up our Province's allotted coal rations, I'm literally not joking. Luckily, our Capybara overlord coded a much superior site than Preddit, and the Create Post feature saves all your shit before posting, so i can take forever to vomit out wordsoup, and search articles. Typing on my phone is a pain in my butt.
Today I wanna talk about the infamous Clicks Racist Shampoo ad of 2020. Clicks is a Pharmacy chain in South Africa, and filled a niche pretty quickly after public healthcare pharmacies went to the gutter pretty quick once the ANC had their tendrils all over it. Clicks is a pretty good store chain and I get all my glue for sniffing from them. Back in September 2020, the draconian Lockdowns were slowly lifting, after thoroughly destroying the South African economy, and obliterating industry sectors like Restaurant business, in spite of proof that COVID was not even remotely as deadly as advertised, especially against south africans, compared to geriatric 99 year old crippled Italian geezers.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-53998374
https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-in-africa-why-is-the-death-rate-so-low-12236347
It's a story for another Longpost, but so many people were surprised at the fact that South Africans were effectively almost immune compared to their European peers, especially against places like Italy where ambulances had to ferry mountains of bodybags from Rome to cremate en masse - during the 1st 2 months of COVID's explosive spread across the globe. Meanwhile south africans in shanty towns were were licking doorknobs and parting in Shabeen clubs and ignoring State lockdown warnings left and right, and ...... not dying like flies? Why Styven Why
I'll tell you the open secret, basically the healthcare and sanitary conditions of places like Europe are so high that people live much longer lives that they would have, had they been born in places like South Africa were the environment is much more harsh, we are practically near zero good public healthcare, and basically drink raw unfiltered swage like REAL MEN. Basically the wheat had already been seperated from the chaff, and natural selection had already run its course. So when COVID came, most people whom were like 60+ old were those whom had the most robust immune systems on a national scale. Meanwhile places like Italy, with one of the highest elderly populations on Earth, and with a fragile population that has basically been kept alive solely through obescene healthcare, fell over like sandcastles the moment a more deadly than average virus ravaged their ranks. In summary: Euros weak π , Africa Stronk! πͺ
Anyways uhm, so in August 2020, the last of many of the harshest lockdowns were being lifted after 6 months, and it became apparent that the very poor South Africa would desperately need to reactive all of its economic sectors so as not to completely collapse. Many businesses were desperate, even big chains like CLicks, so had started to shit out heaploads of funky quirky ads to lock in lots of peeps as quickly as possible to recuperate their customer base to pre-COVOD levels. So they hired wingnuts to create ads.
And oh boiii, did we get an explosive front row seat to national drama when a galaxy brain intern thought it a good idea to create an ad featuring Black woman's hair as being the before Image of those weight loss Verimark swindler crap, and Hwite woman as the after perfected image result!
https://www.wdkx.com/world-news-protests-in-south-africa-over-racists-shampoo-advertisement/
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-54102625
Very soon many black South African moral busybodies, including the ever infamous EFF and Julias Malema, were protesting & trashing Clicks' shops nationwide. The lockdown had been long, and peeps had energy they needed to expend. The biggest r-sluration was that the stupidity involved here was that Black protestors were destroying Clicks shops, but that the ad wasn't actually MADE by clicks! It was another private company from overseas who created the shampoo, Clicks only housed the brand in their shop lmoa. A bunch of shops got destroyed or firebombed
Of course the TRESemme shampoo company apologized like cucks and pulled the specific brand of offending shampoo, and was we'll make it up to you guys, we'll donate 10k p*ssy pads, plz buy our junk
A bunch of libtards were crying crocodile tears about how terrible this intention DEGRADATION OF BLACK WOMAN's dignity
Our old friend Juju Malema would insert himself into the controversy and add fuel to the fire before Clicks corporate heads could even respond, and started shouting about how this systemic racism wouldn't stand by validating destroying Clicks' shops, again ins spite of the fricking fact that Clicks were NOT responsible for making the ad.
No matter how much non r-slur journolasts tried to set the record straight, black peeps were and nothing could contain their indignity! The protestors demanded the Clicks chain shut down their shops for at least 5 days so that they would lose revenue. The other 90% of Clicks stores not being trashed ignored them because they were pharmacies for people who needed medecine. Watch the video - the stupidity is astonishing.
Some U-tube indignity by the r-slurred commenters of the above video.
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Neighbor is literally homosexual, Asian have the thickest hair in general but even they sometimes have fuzzy hair, gingers have the most dense hair, blondies the thinnest hair.
Hair is not what makes black people unique, itβs their different body types, they have shortest phenotype and tallest phenotype the have phenotype with nose as wide as the face then as thin as finger and etc.
Homos need too be honest with them, hair type and eyes colors is mayo shit like brains is Jewish thing
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wat
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here i google translated it for u
buurman is letterlik homoseksueel, AsiΓ«rs het die dikste hare in die algemeen, maar selfs hulle het soms wasige hare, gemmers het die digste hare, blondies die dunste hare.
Hare is nie wat swart mense uniek maak nie, dit is hul verskillende liggaamstipes, hulle het die kortste fenotipe en die langste fenotipe, die het fenotipe met 'n neus so wyd soos die gesig dan so dun soos vinger en ens.
Homos moet ook eerlik wees met hulle, haar tipe en oΓ« kleure is mayo kak soos breine is Joodse ding
Trans lewens maak saak
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Hells bells that actually sounded coherent, google translate must have become a much much better engine since the last time ive used it
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yeah I'd be willing to bet that Google (and other major translation apps) are going to get extremely good in the next few years due to AI shit, and they've probably already started incorporating it to some extent. Unironically an area where AI can really shine, plus it actually provides a useful service.
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ai is already quite good at contextless translation but a lot of what people care about requires things like "using context to determine what meaning this word has" that mtl is less good at
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No, the Rand is so low that Google can pay a Saffer to manually translate
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describe your hair in detail
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When bushlice try to crawl up my legs they get stuck in my curly shin hair
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Wrong. Australian aboriginals have curly hair too (and sometimes blonde too).
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They do, by showing whatever the standard is not
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Dey got fat goooood hair sistuh
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The EFF should get drone striked for wanting ethnic genocide. Would solve a lot of problems, and I want to hear the burger libs shit themselves in solidarity. Anyway, I love seeing chimpouts over some words on a poster. Really shows the world how mature and wise they are.
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zoz
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zle
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She talks so much about being white but locally at _____'s place she would be considered southern aka non white
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Right? I was actually wondering which angle she was going to come at it from, I was waiting for her to say "as a black woman" or "as a white woman"
I wouldn't necessarily say that she's not white, but it's just funny that she's the same skin tone as someone like Meghan Markle who we have to take seriously when she talks about being a black woman
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So not only did you get extra power for Easter partying you also got paid to write an rdrama post? Sounds pretty sweet man ngl.
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I'd genuinely rather trade power for work/office so I can finish my jobs, I can use candles and Nightlamps at home and read a book at home, but i cant survey with zero elek
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Why would you stay in RSA?
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Why would you stay in Estonia?
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I never experienced a blackout or seen a black person outside of exchange students in Tallinn for one.
Seriously though, canβt you claim dutch citizenship by boer ancestry or something to escape?
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Discount Nordic - opinion discarded
Emigrating is genuinely an immense undertaking, dutch hate us
oof this came out much more mean than i intended it to
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Why do they hate you? White guilt for apartheid?
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Western euros hate us more than the actual black people we've oppressed
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Im in the US. I was a camp counsellor in college for 12 year olds. A kid in my camp was from Johannesburg originally. I was like "oh thats cool!" and he said "oh yeah it was cool having your dad sleep on the couch in the living room with a shotgun next to him with bars over the windows". I didn't ask him about south africa again after that. Needless to say, he enjoyed being in the US lol.
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Surely one of the Anglosphere countries would take you?
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Iβm good friends with a saffa and his family got out bc of euro citizenship but for most ppl they have to immigrate like regular. I think Anglospere immigration is harder than other euro countries but possible if you can get a job to sponsor you.
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I feel like the Dutch would be embarrassed by their redneck cousins
Bong SAers may fit in with Australians though idk
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Oh cool you are Estonian? Used to know one of your fellows, smart and cute guy but very quiet
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Shampoo?
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Nah this time it's the opposite
Euro foreigners who dont live next to black peeps made the ad, and didn't understand how showing Kween hair as "stale" compared to white hair would get you fired in burgerland/Sef-efrica.
They made what they believed was a throwaway ad, only for the unintentional racist undertone to explode in SouthAfrica, a country with a much more extreme racism-tension
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Blacks chimp out everywhere. They create "racial tension" by having the mental faculties of chimps.
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As gloriously r-slurred as I wanted it to be.
Thanks King
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https://x.com/Eskom_SA
Took a look at the twitter of Eskom Its like they are talking to children. Are things actually that dire? #eskomcares
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Is it just me, or do any of you feel like one guy with a few drones could literally push this country back into the Stone Age? I mean, they're practically reverting back to steam power all on their own
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Neanderthals weren't lazy like modern BIPOCs so they'd actually be even worse off than peeps in the stone age because 200 years of white people doing everything for them has made them forget basic shit like how too dig wells.
trans lives matter
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https://x.com/Eskom_SA/status/1646430784570421250?cxt=HHwWhMCz2emEptktAAAA
Fricking IMBO
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Geeat writeup. Love your posts man!
Holy shit I remember going to this place in the early 90s
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They're all over RSA still operating well. All the upper class white & black boomers shop there
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Blacks can't run a civilized country. White people need too make getting out and literally anywhere else a priority. Don't bother with legal immigration, just claim asylum in Europe and destroy you're papers so they can't deport you because they don't know where you're from.
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ur my fav new poster - all bangers
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idk kinda fricked up the caucasians get the normal label imo
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It's objectively the best type tho. I've always had to get my hair straightened when I grew it out, would've been cheaper if I had mayo hair.
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true but let's not call it normal bc then we adnormal ye bb?
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But it is, from their perspective.
If someone irl asked me to describe my hair, I'd just say "normal", cos it's normal to me. Same with the guys who made the ad.
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but they making the ad for both us n them tho so like y make us as adnormal bb?
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Of course yeah, it's def a stupid thing to do.
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PeepeeButtKiss have a black auntie but she has the straight hair. She is older tho so maybe shes from the gen when they still used chem straighteners or somethin idk about all that
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But is it worth destroying businesses over? These idiots trash their businesses, the businesses close and then they b-word that they have no shops around.
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BIPOC i ain't saying that tho i'm just saying don't call me adnormal ffs bc my hair diff than urs tard
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Yes. You sounds kinda dramaphobic, ngl
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Snapshots:
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https://gdc.unicef.org/resource/coronavirus-africa-five-reasons-why-covid-19-has-been-less-deadly-elsewhere:
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-53998374:
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https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-in-africa-why-is-the-death-rate-so-low-12236347:
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https://www.wdkx.com/world-news-protests-in-south-africa-over-racists-shampoo-advertisement/:
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-54102625:
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https://www.unilever.co.za/news/press-releases/2020/tresemme-south-africa-apology-on-recent-images-published-on-clicks-website/:
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https://youtube.com/watch?v=mNf4hhGzAC4:
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https://youtube.com/watch?v=mvMw1VKSqvs:
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great post, king. Interesting tangent about saffer immune systems versus wop immune systems. I always had a bit of a suspicion.
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Im going to sound like a c*nt, but I am glad for the opportunities for time that South Africa is graciously providing you so that you may write more about it.
thanks again @kaamrev
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"If they want physical confrontation, we dare them to open this place"
Imagine protesters saying this in America.
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