Jesse Jackson less so, but I never respected Al Sharpton. He's probably the biggest idiot of the two.

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I think it's pretty funny.

Why do I think it's pretty funny? BECAUSE IT WAS OBVIOUSLY A MISTAKE.

Jesus Christ. Stop wasting time on being SO OFFENDED by a Chinese couch color which was lost in translation. Why not spend more energy on doing something productive instead of trying to play up your 15 minutes of fame and lawsuits.

I'm all for the Chinese workforce. OVERSEAS IN ACTION.

Yay. Let's throw in another scenario in the machine that creates situations for black people to get offended over. The last good one I remember is the jackass from Seinfeld verbally assaulting the black dudes at the nightclub.

Is she really serious here or is she looking for who, if not all of these people, to get money from?

What color of brown is nigger brown anyway? Negroes come in lots of colors!

Sure... black on black crime is "funny" and makes no sense. But we don't have a bunch of Timothy Mcvaighs now do we?

And dammit OO, I'm going to watch that movie now.

AL Sharpton is the epitome of poserism... Jesse Jackson just tries too hard to be the next MLK.

But what if a Jewish family bought an ash gray couch labeled "holocaust ash"?
Oh shit. :tpg:

^Then everyone's screwed of course!

Not everyone/thing that says prints "nigger" is out to demean black people, but keep in mind that word took about 200 years or more to downgrade from "ultimate insult" to just "nasty insult".

couch people just need to apologize

I have to agree with Klaus. Lord knows if the couch was cracker white, every lame-ass comedian from here to the ends of the earth would be using it for fuel in the equally lame-ass comedy shtick. Double standard much?

It's just a fucking word, and what's more an error that was caused due to translation issues. Oh noes the word nigger was used by accident and I'm black! Time for the lawsuit.

Holocaust-Ash SILVER. You gotta add the "silver" to it. Otherwise people are gonna think they're buying some collapsing gag couch or some shit.

So this lady's actually gonna sue the company over a word? Hahaha sweet. I hope she wins so it'll teach those little Chinese kids to learn to read!

I made fun of child labor. I'm a bad person. :(

I agree that the woman is wrong for suing, especially since it was a friggin accident, but I don't agree with "it's just a word."


It's not like words have meaning, right? Words have no meaning at all!! Hmm www.dictionary.com

Yes, the word has meaning and has the mild potential to traumatize an entire family. Maybe. But to get offended over an obvious mistake that was explained reasonably and satisfactory to the point that they need to sue and make a scene of themselves is ridiculous. The only person at fault here is this mother.

I agree. It's not as though someone said--"Hey, a black person's ordering this. Let's send this one to her."

It was a mistake. And HOW anal is it for people not to want to sit on the couch?

Okay, I just read the rest of the article. The woman wants the people responsible to "own up" to the mistake. THEY ALREADY DID! The software company said--"That's our fault. We apologize. It is regrettable."

So now she wants money that could come 6 months to two years from now? Sheesh!

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Here's the couch. Actually, it kinda is the right color. :milk:

"Nigger brown couch" is the funniest thing I've read in a while. Racism is hilarious, especially when it's not racism.

Actually, if it were "nigger-brown" then she ain't a nigger. :rolleyes:

Nice camera work. Good composition skills.

I dunno, if I bought a couch and it was called "cracker white", I would be on the floor laughing.

What's wrong with her eyes? That's the real issue here.

Hmm. Do I type a furious reply and say how many people here don't seem to 'get' racism? Like how they think theres really nothing wrong with the word nigger, it's just a word, a damn word that black people been plugging for years anyway, damn coons they use it themselves? (even though the spelling is with an a) How people seem to think that every (although some do admitedly) black person who gets offended is just looking for attention and 'overreacting' just 'over a silly little word that school kids and thugs use in the playground'? How if the story was about a woman getting money over the use of the word bitch, they'd be more sympathetic? How people need to stop relying on the media and (lol) start thinking for themselves? How we can all make the world a better place, by Recycling? How only they can prevent forest fires? How to do the level select for Sonic 1?

Or, do I sit back and laugh at the description as 'nigger brown couch'? Lol!

Honestly, I'd just settle for an apology from the couch company, and that they didn't do it again. I doubt I'd try to sue over it. Seems like a dumb mistake from the chinese carpet company that they're going to rectify anyways.

Unfortunely, the word cracker is never going to mean as much to white people, as the word nigger does to black people. It's not just the word it's the history blah blah blah. You all KNOW. Just as if the couch was labled as 'Every Nazi's dream!', the word Nazi would just be enough for Jewish people to get angry.

But if I knew an asian person who was offended by the word 'paki' and he thought he could get money, and he was willing to share with me, I'd say GO FOR IT!

Maybe it's Niger-Brown, the Chinese-to-English dictionary is so stupid.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa...whoa. Hold the phone. Just noticed something here. Is this chick Canadian? Cause, the story's from Toronto. Now, I'm no expert, but the Canadians didn't have slaves. So, like, that whole, "Nigger" issue, I'm thinking, you know, since it's really from the American South, can it really be a big deal for a Canadian black person? Does it have the same connotations? Do English black people, like black people in Britain, get offended by the word "Nigger"? Really?

Also, Sonic 3, it's up-down-left-right, up-down-left-right till you hear the "ding', then you do A+C (i think it's A+C, might be all three...)

Yes, that is true but why not sue? Why not do so much and not only waste money but pump the economy? She sues, she wins, her lawyer gets paid and then the company has to raise prices cause they lost the lawsuit!

It's a win win. LOL.

Either way, the subject is funny to me. It might be racist, funny. It's just cause the asians are like *Scratches the back of his head* Nigger is our way of saying it's a black/brown couch!

Maybe she should have bought a couch from america, LOL!

Oh and about the jew thing, I've seen many people throw around 'that's jewish' regardless if they are jews or not so it's become one of those words no one cares about especially on the net.

And lol @ the jew couch joke.