[Blacklabcollective] Halloween poster

[Megan Speers]

Chill out I never said anything about banning anything. I think it's an ok
poster but I don't think it's ok to completely write off someone who isn't
white being like, woah wtf is up with this shit?! Everyone in our
collective currently are white and it's not a bad thing to listen
sometimes. White ppl miss a lot of shit that can be racist, intentional or
not... do I think the poster is inherently sketchy? Nah. But I do think
it's shitty to be dismissive of people who have different lived experiences
than me. And Gabe isn't some shitty hipster. I think the poster is fine
overall, but that it probably was an oversight/ not an ideal design choice
to have em wearing white laces n shit as that's a classic nazi skin
signifier.

On Oct 18, 2016 12:16 PM, "Eris Nyx" <erisnyx at hotmail.ca> wrote:

> I don't honestly think this poster is a real problem... But I think we sit
> on polar opposite sides of this discussion Megan. Are we seriously supposed
> to ban anything that might hint at something offensive? Did the racist
> skinheads who set that person on fire wear jack-o-lanterns on their heads?
> Did they wear white jeans? I like kind of doubt it. Are we supposed to ban
> anything with vaguely skinhead aesthetics? I don't like skinheads and think
> they look stupid, but seriously? And IMHO it's hard to distinguish which
> people are Nazi's generally from the general populace?
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> *From:* Blacklabcollective <blacklabcollective-bounces at lists.resist.ca>
> on behalf of Megan Speers <speers.megan at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* October 18, 2016 12:11 PM
> *To:* blacklabcollective at lists.resist.ca
> *Subject:* Re: [Blacklabcollective] Halloween poster
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> That's Gabe, she's very rad. I dunno, I don't think it's ridiculous
> necessarily, I think because I know Laura, I know she wouldn't have put
> nazi skins on a black lab poster, but I guess that's my main issue w
> skinheads irl-- I find it hard sometimes to distinguish which ones are
> Nazis vs which ones are regs, esp cause a lot of non full on racist skins
> still wear vaguely nationalist imagery n stuff... I guess white laces are
> def nazi skin style too so there is that.
>
> On Oct 18, 2016 12:02 PM, "Lindsay Kasting" <l.kasting86 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Okay so I kind of can't help but think think this is pretty ridiculous
>> but apparently someone is quite upset with our Halloween poster. I took a
>> couple screen shots last night when juls brought it to my attention but she
>> has since taken the post down with just that third screen shot that she
>> sent me. Collective thoughts?
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