Topic on Talk:Her Child, but Not His

On the grounds that it is racist. Not "might be" - is.

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Yes. Vote to remove

Vote no.

I can't put my finger on what, but there's something in the original image that mildly annoys me. I don't like the facial expressions in the image, hence the yes vote.

Admittedly, it does reference a common racist cliché. That said, it's still a perfectly valid illustration of the point of the trope. I'm loath to kill something simply on the grounds of being in bad taste, but I won't oppose it. That said, I'd prefer we had something better to replace it with if we did remove it.

Well, I found a replacement, but the tropers voted down its use. Hence this vote to delete the racist cliché without a replacement.

As mentioned, it does reference a common racist canard, albeit one that can be grounded in a fair degree of truth, hence my divided opinion. Overall, I'm not going to go to the wall over it, and if the community really wants to remove it, then I won't stand in their way.

Considering the other proposal to replace got shot down, I don't think there will be another viable option for quite a while. It already took a long time to find the previous image. I don't think a new option will come along any time soon.

The point is that the kid resembles neither of the supposed parents and instead obviously resembles a third, very different person. So I say no, because I strongly believe it's not racist.

If they were humans instead of milk bottles, would your belief be the same? Why or why not?

Voting no.

Voting to remove.

While the image can be seen as racist when extrapolating cartoon bottles into human beings, it is probably one of the less offensive images that show the point of the trope across. I'm holding my vote until suitable image replacements are proposed.