GOP Uses Stock Photo of Asians in Latino Outreach Site
Source: Think Progresss
RNClatinos.com, the Republican National Committees new website aimed at Latino voter outreach, uses a stock photograph of Asian children as its banner picture.
The stock photo found on Shutterstock is listed with tags including asia, asian, cheeks, children, cool
interracial, japanese
thailand, together, trendy. But the words hispanic or latino are nowhere on the page.
The GOP has been making a concerted effort to reach out to Latino voters this election season but, by any account, this particular effort was less than successful.
Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/06/14/499995/asian-children-gop-latino-stockphoto/
louis-t
(23,297 posts)XemaSab
(60,212 posts)elleng
(131,143 posts)Stuart G
(38,449 posts)Great research by someone.
Latinos will love this one..
I like this from the story at Think Progress:
The GOP has been making a concerted effort to reach out to Latino voters this election season but, by any account, this particular effort was less than successful
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)And I went to the Shutterstock web site and typed in the search words "cool, interracial, japanese, thailand" and didn't get any picture that resembled the one depicted in the link.
Ms. Toad
(34,101 posts)into the search bar (asia, asian, cheeks, children, cool
interracial, japanese
thailand, together, trendy), delete the elipses, and the first image which comes up is the one used on the website.
ETA - even with the limited phrase you used, I still get the same image first
Stuart G
(38,449 posts)Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)and still did not find any picture that resembled this one in the original link
TroglodyteScholar
(5,477 posts)It's a direct link to the exact picture.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)I get 6 pages of pictures, and not one of them resembles the picture in the original link.
I am accessing that web site from Japan, if that has anything to do with it.
TroglodyteScholar
(5,477 posts)I'm in the US.
Make7
(8,543 posts)Hopefully that works...
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)Thanks
bloomington-lib
(946 posts)riverwalker
(8,694 posts)progressivebydesign
(19,458 posts)"gang" and "thailand" Wow... again, i think that they are outsourcing their tech work overseas. Too many bad moves like this one.
tpsbmam
(3,927 posts)OMG, "they" really do all look the same to you bigoted morons! Jesus!
Have to rec this one!
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)color look alike?
Stuart G
(38,449 posts)short story about the removal, and the error in the first place....
DLnyc
(2,479 posts)Probably an outside vendor would also run the country, if Mitt Rmoney manages (aaaakkk!) to get into the whitehouse.
Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)Stuart G
(38,449 posts)jillan
(39,451 posts)GETPLANING
(846 posts)"I can't believe we're losing to these people!"
sakabatou
(42,176 posts)DallasNE
(7,403 posts)What else can you expect.
EFerrari
(163,986 posts)"We need a shot of some brown kids -- here's one."
lol
Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)CreekDog
(46,192 posts)for "Democrats".
EFerrari
(163,986 posts)lmao
DallasNE
(7,403 posts)It is even one of their own.
http://www.nndb.com/people/995/000025920/
jade3000
(238 posts)Since Latinos are an ethnicity and Asians are a race in the census, maybe these kids are Asian Latinos? Extremely unlikely, yes, but every year there are a number of Asian Latinos in the census, but I've rarely met any, expect for Filipinos. So maybe the RNC identified these kids correctly. Ok, that's an absolutely absurd long shot. And I'm 95% joking by bringing it up.
roody
(10,849 posts)EFerrari
(163,986 posts)in three different branches of my extended family.
lol
But I'd still go with, lazy as hell GOP.
sofa king
(10,857 posts)But if he could vote here, he would have stolen the White House for himself long ago.
progressivebydesign
(19,458 posts)there have been far too many mistakes and clueless moves.
Incitatus
(5,317 posts)They couldn't find an actual Latino to work on Latino outreach?