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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It bugs me bc if you are the “dark kid” on the end you’d feel self consciously about it. And if you are a little girl of color looking at that it would make you feel like yup I’m the dark one  The ad is neutral but society is not neutral so it reinforces cultural biases. [/quote]

I'm not following you.  All five kids look different from each other.  The whole point is that hopefully many different colors of children could look at that landing page and see one child they identify with.  They are trying to sell clothes to all the colors, not just one.[/quote]

Yes but they lined them up by color - so the darkest kid is on the end. They could make the point as easily by not doing this.  [/quote]

Ok.  I just don't understand why having the darkest kid on the end is a PROBLEM.  Yes, that's what it looks like they did in the photo.  Yes, they could do it another way.  But why is the way they did it a problem?  I'm honestly confused.  And yes I am white so I am probably coming at this with bias, I realize that.  [/quote]

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