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Salomon Skis is RACIST!

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fucking_you_hard
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I have always been a huge salomon fan but is this ABSURD! In light of the Treyvon Martin shooting, Salomon decided to release their new Suspect model skis... this is disgusting and flat out insulting to the black community and hoodie-enthusiasts everywhere.


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R.I.P TREYVON, WE WON'T FORGET!
Apr 4 2012 8:57PM
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WI_Personallty
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Okay for your info they released the ski design months before the trayvon case and how is having a sillhoette of a guy whearing a hoodie hating and racist?.
Apr 4 2012 10:23PM
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XtRemE11
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so stupid, this whole thread is stupid, the whole trayvon thing is stupid, that kids getting way too much attention. fuck this
Apr 4 2012 10:57PM
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fucking_you_hard
Posts: 59 - Karma: -5
BECAUSE THEY'RE CALLED THE SUSPECTS! DO I HAVE TO SPELL THIS OUT FOR YOU IDIOTS?!
Apr 4 2012 11:41PM
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kstanz
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Im going to have nightmares
Apr 4 2012 11:48PM
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Canepski
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Apr 4 2012 11:57PM
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DIX~
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10/10 would read again
Apr 4 2012 11:58PM
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specialSAWce
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i really truthfully honestly can't tell if you're super committed to a terrible troll or if you really are dumb, they pay people to make the graphics and they have been putting that graphic on the ski for months they can't just change the graphic because some kid got shot wearing a fucking hoodie everyone fucking wears hoodies, i saw dale talkington wear a hoodie with the hood up one time, why isn't there an issue with that? you're honestly either the most committed person ever or the dumbest person ever, i'm gonna assume dumbest until evidence proves otherwise
Apr 5 2012 12:01AM
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DIX~
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It's obviously a good troll if he's gotten this many people to respond, including you
Apr 5 2012 12:05AM
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specialSAWce
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i'm aware of how good it would be if it was a troll, and the whole taking steve step seriously thing makes me think theres a good chance its a troll, but at the s ame time its something a really dumb person would do too, sorry steve but you're not a person to be taken seriously on the internet
Apr 5 2012 12:07AM
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STEEZUS_CHRI5T
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Apr 5 2012 12:29AM
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Stose
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haha i lost so hard
Apr 5 2012 12:38AM
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snomaster
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Apr 5 2012 1:18AM
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skifoo
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take a look at OPs name. Reminds me of another guy namedd "fucking".. He used to troll people hard also..
Apr 5 2012 1:33AM
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aj_everly
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Apr 5 2012 2:14AM
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Errl
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obvious troll is dreadfully obvious
Apr 5 2012 2:18AM
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SteveStepp
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Apr 5 2012 2:32AM
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specialSAWce
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success
Apr 5 2012 3:11AM
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fucking_you_hard
Posts: 59 - Karma: -5
aw well isn't this cute? you both are getting along despite your ideological differences. why don't you guys just suck each others dicks off and get it over with. quit distracting my message you fucking shit eaters.
Apr 5 2012 3:23AM
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captainEMERICA
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Hello friend,
I understand what you are saying. Correct me if I am wrong but you think that the graphic is offensive to members of the african american community because its called the suspect and the graphic depicts someone wearing a hoodie whilst Treyvon Martin was wearing a hoodie the day he was killed. Alright. Well it seems to have been proven that the graphic was designed long before the shooting occurred. Also it is simply a silhouette, you cannot tell if the person in the hoodie is black or white or asian or latino. For all we know it could be a goat wearing the hoodie.
Why are you so up in arms about this? A ski named the suspected created before the shooting with a graphic designed before the shooting vaguely connects to a tragic incident. I can't speak for Salomon, so don't quote me on this, but I feel the thinking behind the graphic is that often times people who commit crimes and are suspect wear hoodies. Are all hoodies off limits now? Is anyone wearing a hoodie racist?
Tragic things happen. Its a fact of life. And we are yet to know the facts about what happened that day. Here is a suggestion: if you don't like the ski because of what you think of the graphic, don't buy it. There is no need to try to get people up in arms about it? Whats the point? Get Salomon to pull the ski? Get them to not make money off it? Well people who share your view point won't buy it, and if enough people think that, then Salomon won't make money and that will be that. I am sure the company is not full of racists and bigots.

Thank you for your time.
Paul

P.S. If this is a troll thread then slap my ass and call me sally. But I don't really give a shit because I am bored and don't want to go to sleep.
Apr 5 2012 3:44AM
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Flying~Squirrel
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the guys name is fucking_you_hard. youre getting fucked hard.
Apr 5 2012 4:27AM
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84891jnf92048
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you are all idiots and have been trolled.
Apr 5 2012 7:08AM
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avocado.
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The most racist thing in this thread is the title.
Apr 5 2012 7:26AM
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coldcuts69
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fuck you.
Apr 5 2012 7:54AM
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BieberHole69
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Wow, anyone taking the time to type a legitimate response to this kid is wasting their time. Y'all been trolled. Hard.
Apr 5 2012 9:28AM
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snocompton
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youre such a bad troll op
Apr 5 2012 12:24PM
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BskiP
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Oh its totally racist! considering that the ski graphic was designed anywhere from 1-2 years before they were seen at SIA to the public. and since Salomon is a French company that doesnt give a shit about what is happening in the news in the US anyways. Salomon hates black people. So does george bush. and kermit the frog.
Apr 5 2012 12:38PM
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howlongcanausern
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alias's always have such crisp opinions
Apr 5 2012 12:45PM
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84891jnf92048
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HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA you suck
Apr 5 2012 12:45PM
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uosdwiSrjewoH
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hahahaha, such a successful troll, cus only the best trolls make people realize they're being trolled, yet still feel the urge to write a paragraph about how stupid the post is.
Apr 5 2012 12:49PM
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tomPietrowski
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The graphic has nothing to do with that. The london riots were more of an influence for the ski.
Apr 5 2012 2:01PM
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wilksker
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And you are the illegitimate child of a 5 dollar prostitute. go screw a goat you rat bastard!
Apr 5 2012 3:04PM
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84891jnf92048
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true!
Apr 5 2012 3:19PM
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casual
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ns has zero sense of humor. all you guys giving these heated rebuttals need to get your head out of your asses. this is clearly a parody and poking fun at how butthurt everyone is about "professionalism" in skiing.
Apr 5 2012 5:34PM
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Broseph_Stalin
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Haha came here to post this. Inb4 henrik & Phil
Apr 5 2012 5:53PM
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lands11
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So I'm 99% you are trolling, but if you aren't then you are just dumb. I see the point you may be coming from, they call it a suspect and put a graphic of a man in a hoodie on it. That's not racist, that's called stereotyping. You are taking it that they are implying "suspects" wear hoodies, which like I just said, is stereotyping.
Apr 5 2012 5:54PM
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SpookyCat
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Apr 5 2012 6:13PM
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-emile-
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its a conspiracy
Apr 5 2012 7:03PM
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aj_everly
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this
Apr 5 2012 7:23PM
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Orrin
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OP is right. What a shocking realization!
Apr 5 2012 7:24PM
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.peter
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Are you stupid? If that has anything to do with the shooting then it is in support of bringing the shooter to justice and the hoodies don't make you a criminal campaign. That would make Salomon skis anti-racis. Use your brain.

... But really, do you know how long that graphic has probably been planned for? It's almost certainly a coincidence.
Apr 5 2012 11:17PM
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rareison
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maybe it would be racist if the other ski had skittles graphics on it
Apr 5 2012 11:33PM
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-emile-
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skittles and arizona
Apr 6 2012 12:17AM
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mr_hartl
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its black steve!
Apr 6 2012 3:58AM
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Ski_Alot
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what goin on in this thread... OH LAWD
Apr 6 2012 10:24AM
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NinetyFour
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Buddy. My local ski shops has had a pair for like a month you dumb fuck. Just because you found a picture on the Internet for a day doesn't mean salomon is trying to insult this guy. Salomon probably had this topsheets decided and likely had a huge number of them built long before the Trayvon incident......
Apr 6 2012 10:33AM
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HalfandHalf
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I dont think you understand...
Apr 6 2012 11:45AM
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HalfandHalf
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I dont think you understand...
Apr 6 2012 11:45AM
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Lolocaust.
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Apr 6 2012 3:38PM
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Dr.Dickless
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This thread is racist because the OP is assuming that only African Americans wear hoodies

as a white male i am offended
Apr 6 2012 3:51PM
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RockwellNixon
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your being racist if you think that its racist...they wanted an URBAN theme...what do people wear in the city when its cold?.....FUCKING HOODS...why? because a graphic with someone with a hat on would look stupid..the fact that you would assume a ski company would deliberately make a racist is the dumbest thing i have ever heard. i wear a hood...so does every fucking person in the world, so how is wearing a hood make him black? thats racist...jesus would someone delete this post? oh and the ski model the suspect has been called that for 5 years...
Apr 30 2012 9:29PM
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