Poll: Adidas Slave Shoes

[Palademon]

I'm going to hell for thinking they look kinda cool, aren't I?

 

[Adam Galli]

Is it odd that I equate those cuffs to "My Pet Monster?" Real shackles would be silver-ish, or black. These are cartoony. http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Pet-Monster-The-Complete-Series/10615

That's where the design came from in the first place.

 

[Ragsnstitches]

I find it offensive for unrelated reasons.

https://www.oxfam.org.au/explore/workers-rights/adidas

As dry and downplayed as that link is, Adidas HAS been caught in child labor scandals in the past, and it made me pretty ticked to see these shoes with that in mind.

This here... same point of view as me. I didn't quite grab the "slavery" tone of these shoes, but I definitely thought of child labour and Chinese/Taiwanese sweat shops.

Regardless of the source, these are in poor taste. Not to mention they are offensive to my eyeballs.

 

[Padwolf]

I don't find them offensive, but they are very ugly shoes.

 

[Elate]

I can't believe it's actually reached this point.
Where hip hop culture (and therefore it's clothes) has become so clueless, so vacuous, that it's forgotten about the slave trade?

Maybe you can tell us what the point is of endlessly dragging on and on about a very small event that occurred centuries ago and which nobody alive today has witnessed?

And yes, very fucking small, because there's much bigger historical events with a much larger impact today, like the First World War.

I'm with Daedalus here. Because trivialising this sort of thing brings it closer to being acceptable. I'm not sure how you can't understand this.

Completely disagree, trivializing it makes it more acceptable in terms of not being such a social taboo to talk about. If everyone keeps being scared to even talk about it least they be considered racist, then it'll continue to have such a massive impact and we will never achieve equality.

But no, this just seems like a really stupid design decision, and an ugly pair of shoe's, nothing more. Honestly, when I saw it, chained black people was not what I thought. I thought of the slave children who make the damn things, and laughed my ass off at how they didn't pick this up before they were produced.

 

[ZippyDSMlee]

Anyone who finds them offensive has issues......

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

The only offensive thing about these shoes is how stupid they look. It's a terrible design. And the colors. Jesus Christ.