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I wonder if the shadow noose is intentional.

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I think it’s meant to be a top-down shadow of his arms + gun, but just ends up looking like a noose

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I wish the noose wasn’t there. It’s unrelated to the incident, and it’s a method of murder associated with black people, not CEOs. Make it a guillotine or just a normal shadow.

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I think it’s meant to mean that the CEO looks like just a guy there, but from the shadows he is really actively threatening the life of the guy shooting at him.

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The grip of oppression is tight as a noose, but when they kick out the chair, heads will hang.

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That weird shadow looks nothing like a noose to me other than like a vague shape of a straight line meeting a closed shape that isn’t really that round or noose-like.

That’s extremely vague and wouldn’t fit with the rest of the art; everything else looks like what it is, cars, people, so it the shadow was suppose to depict a noose, why doesn’t it look like one?

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It looks like a guitar to me

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8 points

Yeah, it’s not associated with black people outside the US. It’s how serfs or common criminals are dealt with historically.

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But this incident is very related to the US.

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12 points

Associated with black people… and centuries of executions prior that had nothing to do with color.

A noose over a tree I could see being more racial - kkk killings etc - but hanging is more of a “common persons execution” historically

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So then why is it in the picture? Wouldn’t say this was a ‘common person’s death’. In fact, it’s the opposite. To me the imagery doesn’t match. And no matter how I agree with the larger sentiment, I’ll never wear anything with a noose on it.

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I just figured it was a reference to the CEO being a murderer.

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10 points

It is a normal shadow for this scene. The light source is a street light directly above the shooter.

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8 points

Didn’t know Saddam was black

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9 points

He’s normally a type of reddish/orange when I see him lying down in all those memes.

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45 points

You wot m8, we’ve been hanging people for millennia

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6 points

In the US specifically, there is an association with lynching. Lynching was the preferred method of white towns for dealing with any black person they felt stepped out of line or committed a crime from about 1865-1965. This article provides a good run down.

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Yeah, pirates come to mind when I think about the noose.

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19 points

I kinda feel like what they’re going for is a “shoot the rope” thing with that shadow.

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Agreed. It reads as the “shooter” killing a mass murderer whose noose/shadow kills all those it touches.

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6 points

Either that, or the knot are his massive balls

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2 points

probably

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1 point

A price as cheap as lifesaving healthcare.

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