For
this week’s topic, I will be writing about Abercrombie & Fitch. It’s been
over a decade since the incident with the Asian discrimination t-shirts. I have
never owned an Abercrombie & Fitch merchandise nor will I ever, unless they
come out with a design that shows they were wrong to assume Asian Americans
would find their history amusing, that they comprehend how underprivileged
minorities are, and if they actually consult Asian Americans or do a study to
determine how a product will affect the consumers. Seriously, research is
crucial for everything. According to the article by Strasburg, she quotes
Hampton Carney saying, “We poke fun at everybody, from women to flight
attendants to baggage handlers, to football coaches, to Irish Americans to snow
skiers.” I can’t bring myself to agree with this statement. I feel like
whenever I see any of these groups, I think there is some sexualized component
or masculinity. However, I don’t see any of that in these t-shirts..png) |
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That
was just some background information to my real point. About a week ago I got
an invite to an A&F event for a free hoodie. I saw A&F, assuming that
was Abercrombie and Fitch, I ignored it. However, I decided to check it out
today and to my surprise it was a straight up scam. All of the posts were about
people claiming this to be a scam. I continued reading to find out how people
knew. One way was how the page only had three posts, the A&F was not the
official Abercrombie and Fitch page, and all the comments accusing the page of
being a scam. One of the posts shared a link to an article about how Facebook
could not regulate the false advertisement and scams. A few of the posts were
about how the account could be scammers, hackers, or false advertisement by the
real Abercrombie and Fitch. Unfortunately, we will never know because
Abercrombie and Fitch would never say they purposefully created a fake account
and neither would a scammer. This kind of reminds me of how subcontractors in
the commodity chain would exploit workers who complained to the company which
the company claimed to have no part in the hiring. I continued to scroll down
the posts and found an interesting YouTube video. The guy talked about fake
likes and fake accounts. I think that everyone should read the articles and
watch the video to realize how scammers, hackers, and exploiters of likes work
and act.
Charles, Craig. “First 1,000,000
Participants Will Get a FREE Facebook Hoodie Event – Facebook Group Scam.” thasnonsence.com.
21 July 2011. Web.
Strasburg,
Jenny. “Abercrombie & Glitch/ Asian Americans rip retailer for stereotypes
on T-shirts.” Hearst newspapers. 18 April 2002. Print.
Veritasium.
“Facebook Fraud.’ Youtube. 10 February 2014. Web. 23 November 2014. < http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVfHeWTKjag .
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