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user-name-1985 t1_ja90dd3 wrote

Reply to comment by WiseChoices in Rights to 'Crying Indian' ad to go to Native American group by Slavic_Dusa

I only knew about it from retrospective/nostalgia shows on TV in the late 90s.

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WiseChoices t1_ja913t2 wrote

It hit people like a wave of reality.

Everyone was talking about it.

Many things changed because of it.

A history making image.

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user-name-1985 t1_jaa27b7 wrote

Even though the native guy was played by an Italian actor?

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nethermead t1_jabacpe wrote

Even though the ad campaign was bought and paid for by the plastics industry that wanted to preemptively shift the moral responsibility of cleaning up their shit to the regular joe so that they wouldn't have to foot the bill and could happily keep pumping out cheap plastic bags and bottles that now clutter the oceans as vast floating islands of semi-toxic flotsam?

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