Huffington Post’s Generic ‘Brown Couple’ Picture
Iran, India, what’s the difference? Sure, there’s language, dominant religion, political system, history, yadda yadda. But if you’re a Huffington Post photo editor, the countries are effectively interchangeable.
HuffPo first ran the above image in April on a syndicated story about how India’s divorce rate is growing amid as legal and cultural norms become more modern.
It ran the same picture again yesterday with an except of a Time story on how economic problems are undermining marriage in Iran.
Neither of the originating websites used the image.
Where will this young, vaguely ethnic couple be found next? Our money is on Latin America.
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The Fluffington Post. MSM in electronic delivery, but new and improved with 20% more name-dropping and clueless celeb commentary.
I can't even line my bird cage with it.
atlasspanked
Their hypocrisies are a given. A lot of the people on The Huffington Post are of-the-type that can be racist bigots without ever knowing that they're racist bigots. The passionate claims of free speech, equal rights and tolerance are very SELECTIVE - according to which demographic is the most popular.
GiovanniGautham
@schmerd: ooooh. it has been brought.
Wouldn't it be hilarious if we come to find out that the couple in the picure are actually Hispanic (AKA the other "Brown people")?
coyote1284: P.E.T.U.
Like New York and the U.S.A.?
Well, since their license was still good they figured, hey, let's save some money here. But to save money they're moving to only Creative Commons licenses and all of their stories about "the President" will feature pictures of Millard Fillmore.
daveyjonesisdead
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schmerd
Obvious missteps aside you would also never find a woman publicly dressed like that in Iran.
listen. when us brown people have relationship issues, this is the pose we strike. look up p.123 in "How to BE Brown".
botanical
If they're Indian, where are the moccasins and feathers?
@blix: And they can't be Iranian because they're not bonding over a burning American flag.
They could photoshop a bomb into her hands to comemorate the next bombing...cuz brown people bomb things....right?
Mymoustache
They can't be Indian. They're not dancing.
Yeah, that's a problem, but their coverage of Arianna's wardrobe malfunction on CNN last night was awesome.
kneetoe
Oh, yeah, Gawker, like YOU can tell brown people apart!
The Huffington Post: pretending prejudice by liberals is ok since 2005.
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