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Spain's New Postage Stamps Were Meant To Call Out Racism. Instead They Drew Outrage
NPR ^ | May 28 2021 | AP

Posted on 06/08/2021 11:07:56 AM PDT by xp38

Edited on 06/08/2021 3:25:25 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

MADRID — Spain's postal service is feeling a backlash from its attempt to highlight racial inequality.

State-owned Correos España this week issued a set of four stamps in different skin-colored tones. The darker the stamp, the lower the price. The lightest color costs 1.60 euros ($1.95). The darkest one costs 0.70 euros ($0.85).


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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: spain; stamps; unintentionalhumour
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To: xp38
"The main thrust of the public criticism was that the darker stamps have a lower value, giving the impression that a light skin color is worth more."

BHWAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAAAAAAAAAA...cough cough gasp...BWHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAAA!!!!

41 posted on 06/08/2021 1:40:23 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (Eric Coomer of Dominion Voting Systems Is The Blue Dress.)
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To: Oshkalaboomboom
"Spain has the second largest number of unmarked mass graves in the world. They still have people living with neighbors who tortured them during the Franco years and even the current government refuses to help families identify relatives who were tortured, murdered and dumped in mass graves. So naturally they have a massive overreaction in the opposite direction and try to prove how progressive they are."

Frankly, somewhere along the decision line there was likely an Old Spaniard who saw the contradiction, smiled, then decided to let the stupid childish mush-headed Millenials underlings who constructed this garbage out of race theory burn baby burn...

42 posted on 06/08/2021 1:44:05 PM PDT by StAnDeliver (Eric Coomer of Dominion Voting Systems Is The Blue Dress.)
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To: BenLurkin

Yep

These idiots are going to keep this going until they have everyone stirred up

Sheer stupidity


43 posted on 06/08/2021 1:52:48 PM PDT by SaveFerris (The Lord and Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com)
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To: xp38

Idiocy is strong in the Spanish Postal Service and government. Juan Carlos saved Spain from the Spanish Generals after Franco’s death. Who will save Spain from its government today?

I traveled there often during Franco’s time and post Franco. I am old. It has become a lovely nation I enjoy greatly. I and my Mexican wife speak Spanish. We really like Spain greatly. I fear it is succumbing to insane political correctness.

This is sad.


44 posted on 06/08/2021 2:13:18 PM PDT by cpdiii (Texan Coonass Cane Cutter Deckhand Roughneck Geologist Pilot Phamacist & much more education)
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To: xp38

You can’t expect Spaniards to know US history....
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I suspect that the not so hidden agenda (and it isn’t just Spain) is to pick up on what the Dem-Rats are saying/doing about blaming American whiteys for anything that can be construed as a racism issue so that the light doesn’t get shone on THEM. It was the Spanish after who were the first country to make extensive use of slaves when setting up colonial labor forces in the Americas. By 1550, they had killed off plenty of the indigenous people they had enslaved so the sugarcane plantations were replenished with African slaves... In Cuba for example, slavery existed right up to the end of the 19th century.


45 posted on 06/08/2021 2:16:16 PM PDT by hecticskeptic
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To: xp38
The postal service calls them "Equality Stamps" and introduced them on the anniversary of George Floyd being killed by a police officer in Minneapolis.


46 posted on 06/08/2021 2:32:23 PM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (Terror is a political weapon, and its purpose is to force capitulation. — Adolf Hitler,)
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To: Texas Eagle

We don’t. Progressives have been cleansing history books for over 100 years now.

Very few Americans, even conservatives, know that the Empire vetoed abolitionist laws put on colonial governors’ desks in the early 1770s.

We beat out almost the entire world on abolition. That tyrant stole it from us.


47 posted on 06/08/2021 2:52:38 PM PDT by ProgressingAmerica (Public meetings are superior to newspapers)
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To: xp38

I’ll take the cheap ones.


48 posted on 06/08/2021 10:06:00 PM PDT by Impy ("Burn them all!!" - King Aerys II Targaryen, I share the sentiment )
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To: DuncanWaring

He was joking about the feminist adage that a woman allegedly earns 70 cents for every dollar a man earns. $20 x 0.70 is $14.


49 posted on 06/08/2021 10:27:13 PM PDT by Gideon7
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To: Gideon7

I guess that could explain it.

What he actually should have said is $8.4 - 70% of 3/5 of $20.


50 posted on 06/09/2021 5:10:09 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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