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If you had asked 10 people on the Never underestimate an old man who plays billiards shirt Additionally,I will love this street in Sweden if there’s anything problematic about the text on this pullover, it’s quite likely a large majority of them would have said “no”. If this pullover was produced and marketed by a small independent Swedish fashion-house, I’d have been inclined to follow the old adage never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained as stupidity. But that’s not who H&M are. They are the second largest clothing-chain in the world. They have over 130000 employees and shops in 64 countries. They sell billions of articles of clothing every year. When they introduce a new garment, especially in a large market like the UK where this pullover was introduced, they’re planning to sell a large quantity of it. And at such scale, mistakes are costly.
It’s a safe bet that before H&M introduces a new article in their shops and on their websites, that article has been through a convoluted process including a proposal as well as multiple lines of review by panels of people whose entire job is to judge likely public perception of new products. The question therefore, is not if a handful of random swedes could miss the Never underestimate an old man who plays billiards shirt Additionally,I will love this racism in this pullover and the fact that “monkey” is a commonly used racist slur in several countries. Nobody who wasn’t there can say for sure if someone did notice and raise the issue, but the way I see it there’s just a few options here and none of them are very flattering for H&M. In this case I agree with Erica. If without exception nobody on their creative teams noticed this frankly fairly obvious thing, then those team are horribly broken and desperately need to get several people who have at least basic knowledge of cultural issues such as racism and sexism on board. Yes that includes having people of different races, different nationalities and different genders on board.
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