GOP Uses Stock Photo of Asians in Latino Outreach Site

[Stuart G]

Source: Think Progresss

RNClatinos.com, the Republican National Committee’s new website aimed at Latino voter outreach, uses a stock photograph of Asian children as its banner picture.

The stock photo found on Shutterstock is listed with tags including “asia, asian, cheeks, children, cool… interracial, japanese… thailand, together, trendy.” But the words ‘hispanic’ or ‘latino’ are nowhere on the page.

The GOP has been making a concerted effort to reach out to Latino voters this election season — but, by any account, this particular effort was less than successful.


Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/06/14/499995/asian-children-gop-latino-stockphoto/

[louis-t]

1. Oh God, they are soooo stupid.

[XemaSab]

2. All look same!

[elleng]

3. Think anyone will notice?

[Stuart G]

4. I think someone will notice...oops someone did...

Great research by someone.
Latinos will love this one..

I like this from the story at Think Progress:

The GOP has been making a concerted effort to reach out to Latino voters this election season — but, by any account, this particular effort was less than successful

[Art_from_Ark]

5. None of those kids looks Japanese to me

And I went to the Shutterstock web site and typed in the search words "cool, interracial, japanese, thailand" and didn't get any picture that resembled the one depicted in the link.

[Ms. Toad]

7. Copy and paste the phrase from the article

into the search bar (asia, asian, cheeks, children, cool… interracial, japanese… thailand, together, trendy), delete the elipses, and the first image which comes up is the one used on the website.

ETA - even with the limited phrase you used, I still get the same image first

[Stuart G]

8. Here is the link

http://www.shutterstock.com/s/friends_group_interracial_young/search.html#id=6692878

[Art_from_Ark]

12. I clicked on that link, looked at all 6 pages that came up,

and still did not find any picture that resembled this one in the original link

[TroglodyteScholar]

15. Weird.

It's a direct link to the exact picture.

[Art_from_Ark]

16. Not for me, it isn't

I get 6 pages of pictures, and not one of them resembles the picture in the original link.

I am accessing that web site from Japan, if that has anything to do with it.

[TroglodyteScholar]

24. That must be it.

I'm in the US.

[Make7]

35. Here is the direct link to that picture:

http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-6692878/stock-photo-seven-children-playing-in-the-park.html

Hopefully that works...

[Art_from_Ark]

38. That link does work

Thanks

[bloomington-lib]

19. It works fine for me

[riverwalker]

30. worked for me n/t

[progressivebydesign]

33. love the keywords for that stock photo they used...

"gang" and "thailand" Wow... again, i think that they are outsourcing their tech work overseas. Too many bad moves like this one.

[tpsbmam]

6. ROFLMAO!!!

OMG, "they" really do all look the same to you bigoted morons! Jesus!

Have to rec this one!

[Iliyah]

9. Didn't you know all people of

color look alike?

[Stuart G]

11. OOPS AGAIN...guess what...RNC has removed that picture????

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/14/rnc-latinos-asian_n_1598054.html

short story about the removal, and the error in the first place....

[DLnyc]

22. '"An outside vendor developed the site and it is being corrected immediately," RNC Spokesperson Alex

Probably an outside vendor would also run the country, if Mitt Rmoney manages (aaaakkk!) to get into the whitehouse.

[Grassy Knoll]

10. Teacons are hating this internet thingamagig....n/t

[Stuart G]

14. No creo que Latinos gustan esto. ...gracias....No text...

[jillan]

13. It's too confusing for the GOPers when people are not white.

[GETPLANING]

17. To quote Jon Lovitz,

"I can't believe we're losing to these people!"

[sakabatou]

18. ...

[DallasNE]

20. From The Party Of "They All Look Alike"

What else can you expect.

[EFerrari]

21. Hilarious.

"We need a shot of some brown kids -- here's one."

lol

[Rosa Luxemburg]

23. Complete morans!

[CreekDog]

25. Republicans probably found that by doing a Google search

for "Democrats".

[EFerrari]

26. They're screwn. Actual Latino groups have picked up the incident on the Twitter.

lmao

[DallasNE]

27. They Could Have Used This Photo

It is even one of their own.

http://www.nndb.com/people/995/000025920/

[jade3000]

28. Maybe they're Asian Latinos

Since Latinos are an ethnicity and Asians are a race in the census, maybe these kids are Asian Latinos? Extremely unlikely, yes, but every year there are a number of Asian Latinos in the census, but I've rarely met any, expect for Filipinos. So maybe the RNC identified these kids correctly. Ok, that's an absolutely absurd long shot. And I'm 95% joking by bringing it up.

[roody]

29. Maybe they will get the Asian Latino vote.

[EFerrari]

31. I have 7 nieces and nephews that are "Asian Latinos"

in three different branches of my extended family.

lol

But I'd still go with, lazy as hell GOP.

[sofa king]

34. Alberto Fujimori is surely for them.

But if he could vote here, he would have stolen the White House for himself long ago.

[progressivebydesign]

32. I firmly believe that RNC and Romney are outsourcing their tech work overseas

there have been far too many mistakes and clueless moves.

[Incitatus]

36. What's the problem?

They couldn't find an actual Latino to work on Latino outreach?

[SpartanDem]

37. Well those brown people all look a like.