‘Super racist’ pool safety poster prompts Red Cross apology

Perhaps it’s my White Privilege™ showing here but I didn’t see anything inherently racist at first until it was pointed out. Now, I can totally see the subliminal racism at play here.

I’m willing to give some benefit of the doubt here that the designers didn’t purposefully say, “hey let’s design this poster where vaugely/overtly POCs are doing bad stuff while the lilly white are the good guys” so much as it ended up that way – either from unconscious bias or through coincidence.

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