Comments on: Hypersensitivity (Lego Edition)

By: furelise

furelise — Thu, 23 Mar 2024 08:47:55 +0000

So maybe the message is that it ain’t only “white anglo-saxon protestants” that are racists, that racists can also be *black* and *Muslim*….shapes of racism less acknowledged by society-and-media-at-large.

By: AlienSphere

AlienSphere — Wed, 22 Mar 2024 23:05:22 +0000

So what do you see in the mirror?

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By: ReidBlog

ReidBlog — Wed, 22 Mar 2024 20:48:03 +0000

uble in LEGOland…

It’s hard out here for a red LEGO, when everybody but you fits in…

By: dorkafork

dorkafork — Wed, 22 Mar 2024 19:21:14 +0000

I’m sorry, has there been a lot of racism against Danes lately? I could have sworn the Danes were in the news recently. But for some reason I thought the Danes were being accused of racism. But maybe you’re right. Maybe it is counterintuitively arguing not to be racist towards Danes at a time when Danes are being widely accused of being racist. Coincidence!

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The Mahablog » Bloggy Goodness — Wed, 22 Mar 2024 17:57:47 +0000

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By: Will

Will — Wed, 22 Mar 2024 17:51:10 +0000

“And again: if the Danes were the target, why is the Lego the piece being excluded?”

It is not being excluded. The message is that racism takes the well known and easily identified shapes we are all familiar with(the puzzle pieces that all easily fit together), but can also manifest in shapes that to do not fit together with what we could normally recognize as racism. Reading a message about Denmark into this is certainly possible, but it seems a bit of a stretch to me.

By: scubajim

scubajim — Wed, 22 Mar 2024 17:41:25 +0000

It is a poor poster. It CAN (and probably was ment to) say that Denmark is racist and by implication that the LEGO company is racist. (no evidence of either) The irony is the poster is communicating a racist position against the Danes! If the UN wanted to they should have taken the high road on the poster.

The poster is also poor because no matter how hard the lego piece tries it could never work with the puzzle pieces. (or visa versa) If you think about it the lego piece isn’t a different piece but a whole different species!

They should have replaced the lego piece with a blue (or some other colored) puzzle piece. Then the puzzle piece could have a chance of fitting in. Sure it would have a different exterior color, but that is okay. Isn’t the point we are all human and even though we may have some differences (eg skin color is an easy to spot difference) we should not exclude or discriminate. By making the other piece blue it would be difficult to say that the blue piece was representative of a particular human race. (If it was yellow, or white, or brown, or red someone might interperate that the poster was about a particular race.) People would concentrate on the simple idea that yes, that blue piece could be included in the whole puzzle and it should be. There wouldn’t be any potentially “hidden agenda” and the message could come across more effectively.

I’m an engineer not a graphic designer or marketing person. If I could think of it then there is no reason that the UN’s highly paid marketing people and graphic designers couldn’t have thought of it and used it. In my mind that clinches it. In my mind that is evidence that they had a not so hidden agenda against the Danes.

The UN is SUPPOSED to take the high road and be a powerful diplomatic force. All I have seen is that they are rife with corruption and nepotism. Time to stop wasting funds on the UN.

By: Roberto Pera

Roberto Pera — Wed, 22 Mar 2024 17:41:22 +0000

Well…if it was not racist why did the UN remove it? Just to please a “bit paranoid” blogger? come on!

By: Sissy Willis

Sissy Willis — Wed, 22 Mar 2024 16:01:23 +0000

It reminds me of the hysteria on the part of Michelle and other bloggers I admire over the “Crescent of Embrace” grove of trees that was part of the Flight 93 Memorial design.

By: PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts » One More Lego Comment (Or, Please Explain the Other Legos)

Wed, 22 Mar 2024 15:32:19 +0000

[...] movement at the UN (the following is based on a comment I left at Elephants in Academia). The previous posters, and the usage of Lego characters on the UNHCR web site prove that the poster-making folk [...]