Yep the company that made the Gringo Mask Zubi’s on their website they have a banner about “erasing stereotypes” and then they create stereotypical mask… just more ignorant liberal hypocrisy. I guess there motto should be “erasing stereotypes on everyone accept Gringos.”

Company Pulls ‘Gringo Mask’ Website

“One may still be able to find the “Gringo Mask,” a product of one of the nation’s leading Hispanic advertising agencies, Zubi Advertising in Miami, on some websites. But they are now missing from the original site.

The free, downloadable cut out had featured a Caucasian male or female face. He with blue-eyes and sandy-colored hair; she with blonde hair with green eyes. The masks were available at www.gringomask.com until recently.”

Gringo huh? Wonder why this stereotype erasing company would make these?

“We chose this mask because of its light-hearted nature and tongue-in-cheek approach, much in the same vein as Jeff Foxworthy’s shtick ‘You Might be a Redneck’ or Carlos Mencia’s ‘beaner’ jokes,” states the GringoMask website “However, we in no way meant to offend anyone.”

Foxworthy is a ‘redneck’, Mencia is a ‘beaner’ but the folks that put the mask out aren’t ‘gringos’ you know kind like blacks can call each other the ‘n-word’ but no one else can, same goes for ‘gringo’ and I’ve yet to be called a ‘gringo’ by another white person and I’ve only been called gringo by Hispanics in a derogatory fashion.

“The site also states, “We understand from your responses that some people might equate the word ‘Gringo’ with an ethnic slur. We do not. It is simply a slang term used to describe Caucasians, and we don’t assign any negative connotations to it.”

Well guess what it’s not yours to decide if it’s a ethnic slur or not - I think if Whites consider it an ethnic slur than it is and this White guy considers it a slur! If that is your opinion that you can decide what’s a slur and what’s not then I have a lot of works I can use on various ethnic groups and then I’ll just say I don’t consider it a ethnic slur so it’s OK.

Here is the gringo mask website…

http://www.gringomask.com/

Now says…

“Thanks to your involvement, the GringoMask has achieved its primary objective to raise awareness of the potential for racial profiling by enforcement of Arizona SB 1070.  GringoMask was not a commercial product or intended to be a long-term project, but a piece of satire to promote discussion and thought.

In addition to raising awareness, the mask was used to promote dialogue between people of different opinions in the hopes of arriving at better solutions than SB 1070, and to show solidarity with Americans of every race and color across the country that found this law unfair in its targeting of a specific ethnic group even if only implicitly.  We chose this mask because of its light-hearted nature and tongue-in-cheek approach much in the same vein as Jeff Foxworthy’s shtick “You Might be a Redneck” or Carlos Mencia’s “beaner” jokes.  However, we in no way meant to offend anyone.

We understand from your responses that some people might equate the word “Gringo” with an ethnic slur.  We do not.  It is simply a slang term used to describe Caucasians, and we don’t assign any negative connotations to it.  In fact, the mask communicates that looking this way will keep you above suspicion of being an illegal immigrant in Arizona, a positive thing not a derogatory one.  We hope everyone will view the mask the way we do…a comical tool to convey a message and raise awareness about an issue that is important to all Americans.  If the campaign has been taken in a different light by some, we sincerely regret the misunderstanding.

Thanks for voicing your opinions and helping to get the dialogue going.
We look forward to a better solution to the illegal immigration problem.”

So what’s the big deal? Why does it matter it’s was all for fun right? Well Wiki says…

“Gringo is a slang Spanish and Portuguese word used in Spanish-speaking and Portuguese countries, principally in Latin America, to denote foreigners, often from the United States or the United Kingdom. The term can be applied to someone who is actually a foreigner, or it can denote a strong association or assimilation into foreign (particularly US) society and culture. The term is often encountered by people from the US traveling abroad to Spanish-speaking countries. The American Heritage Dictionary classifies gringo as “offensive slang,” “usually disparaging,” and “often disparaging.” However, the term can also be used to simply identify a foreigner and does not always carry a negative connotation.”

So are these folks saying I’m a foreigner in my own country? Either this Hispanic company doesn’t know what “gringo” means or it was a deliberate disparaging remark. Perhaps I’ll market some “Spic-Mask” or a “Wetback-Mask” and then ask the question when the Latin community goes ape shit over the word “spic” and “wetback” what is the problema? And I’ll release a statement that “We hope everyone will view the mask the way we do…a comical tool to convey a message and raise awareness about an issue that is important to all Americans.  If the campaign has been taken in a different light by some, we sincerely regret the misunderstanding.” After all I know some regard ‘spic’ or ‘Wetback’ as an ethnic slur – and I can say I do not. That what they said about “gringo” so it’s seems turnabout is fair play. If that works for them then it will work for me. Right? (You know the real answer to that.)

Don’t you love the way people use the word “IF” when they apologize – to me that kills your apology as contrived and empty. “If the campaign has been taken in a different light” … well you called all Whites “gringos” so do tell what light were we to take it in? Flattery?

The reality is I am not offended nor do I care as I do not get upset over words and name calling – but I do grow tire of hypocrisy and you know it and I know it if I sent them a “Spec-Mask” I’d be charged with a hate crime where as a “Gringo-Mask” is a just light hearted fun – it’s bullshit and it needs to be treated as such and the more we point this stuff out the more we can show the hypocrisy of the left and those that think we are unfair.

UPDATE: The folk at MotherJone’s linked this article and in true liberal fashion resorted to name calling and misrepresenting the post since they clearly didn’t make it to the last paragraph above… They claimed I was “outraged” whatever morons – now we’re square. However I did make it to their last paragraph where they reveled how they real are…

But hell, what do I know? I’m a dumb pinko socialist fascist Nazi unpatriotic racist cracker honky. Which makes me about as worthless as a Kenyan Muslim anchor baby.

Yes… yes you are and yes it does. Something you finally got right.