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The Random, Meaningless Announcements Thread 3!

Viker

Viker

Your beloved eccentric Auntie Cristal
Somebody woke me up and now the whole world is crap.

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I will never get drunk twice in one week again.
 
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Shadow Wolf

Shadow Wolf

Certified People sTabber & Business Owner
I don't feel like I'm doing better, but these past few days have been the first days I've been sober and not stoned since my brother died. So there must be something getting better.
 
Stevicus

Stevicus

Veteran Member
Staff member
Premium Member
Spain postal service criticized for unequally priced ‘equality stamps’

MADRID — Spain’s postal service is facing backlash this week after issuing a set of stamps highlighting different skin tones but making the lightest ones most valuable.

State-owned Correos España issued a set of four stamps in different skin-colored tones. The darker the stamp, the lower the price. The lightest color costs 1.60 euros ($1.95). The darkest one costs 0.70 euros ($0.85).

The postal service calls them “Equality Stamps” and introduced them on the anniversary of the murder of George Floyd. It said the stamps “reflect an unfair and painful reality that shouldn’t be allowed” and every letter or parcel sent with them would “send a message against racial inequality.”

The campaign was launched during European Diversity Month in collaboration with Spain’s national SOS Racism Federation, a nonprofit group, and featured a 60-second video with Spanish hip-hop star and activist El Chojín.

But while the goal of Correos España was to “shine a light on racial inequality and promote diversity, inclusion and equal rights,” critics are accusing the company of having a tin ear for racial issues and misreading the sentiment of Black people in Spain.
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Antumi Toasijé, a historian who heads the government’s Council for the Elimination of Racial or Ethnic Discrimination, urged the postal service to stop selling the stamps.

“A campaign that outrages those it claims to defend is always a mistake,” he tweeted.

The main thrust of the public criticism was that the darker stamps have a lower value, giving the impression that a light skin color is worth more.
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Any racially aware person would have identified what was wrong with the campaign, it said, adding the blunder proved the need for more racially aware people in decision-making positions at companies.

The campaign also received criticism on social media.

This isn’t the first time the Spanish postal service has sought to make a statement on social issues. Last June, to coincide with LGBT Pride Month, it issued a special stamp and painted its delivery vans and mail boxes in rainbow colors.
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