{"id":13956,"date":"2020-06-24T01:36:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T22:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/red-bull-employees-leak-offensive-image-from-internal-meeting\/"},"modified":"2020-06-24T01:36:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T22:36:00","slug":"red-bull-employees-leak-offensive-image-from-internal-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/red-bull-employees-leak-offensive-image-from-internal-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"#Red Bull employees leak \u2018offensive\u2019 image from internal meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Red Bull employees leak \u2018offensive\u2019 image from internal meeting<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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June 23, 2020 |<\/span> 6:36pm <\/p>\n

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\n Red Bull employees leaked an image of a slide from a February marketing meeting that some workers deemed offensive and \u201cracist\u201d amid heightened tensions at the caffeinated beverage giant.<\/p>\n

The slide showed a repurposed map meme that described India as \u201ccall centers,\u201d China as \u201cthey make our stuff,\u201d and Africa as \u201czoo animals come from here,\u201d according to a report Tuesday from Business Insider.<\/p>\n

Employees told BI that a colleague complained about the slide to human resources but nothing came of it. The leaked slide comes after more than 300 Red Bull staffers signed a June 1 letter to company leaders to protest what they called the brand\u2019s \u201cpublic silence\u201d regarding the Black Lives Matter movement.<\/p>\n

The controversial slide was shown at a meeting of Red Bull\u2019s US culture marketing team in Detroit in February. It was a variation on a meme called \u201cthe world according to Americans\u201d showing a simplistic world map to make the point that Americans are ignorant and racist when it comes to other cultures. In the Red Bull version of the slide, India is described as \u201ccall centers,\u201d the Middle East as \u201cevil-doers\u201d with an arrow indicating \u201cbombs go here,\u201d and Africa as \u201czoo animals come from here.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cRed Bull rejects racism in any form and we do not condone language or behavior that indicates otherwise,\u201d a company spokeswoman said. \u201cWe acknowledge we have work to do. We stand with the Black community and we focus on action.\u201d<\/p>\n

But employees said Red Bull\u2019s marketing team was warned not to use the meme by staffers and that advice was ignored. The slide in question wasn\u2019t meant to be a joke, they said, offering that many of the 100-plus attendees were \u201cshocked or offended by the image.\u201d<\/p>\n

Red Bull, which is an international conglomerate with a publishing house and sponsorship network that funds everything from European race car drivers and soccer teams to NBA stars, is headed up by co-founder and CEO Dietrich Mateschitz, an Austrian billionaire who has expressed right-wing political views on other matters.<\/p>\n

Although employees did not claim Red Bull emulated Mateschitz\u2019s views, they did chalk up the company\u2019s lack of response to its European leadership, which is \u201cinsensitive\u201d about cultural issues. Some employees said that top brass at Red Bull viewed the Black Lives Matter movement as a \u201clocal\u201d or \u201cUS-only\u201d issue when arguing that the brand should not weigh in.<\/p>\n

Although Red Bull has refrained from making further statements, the brand did post a blacked-out photo on its Instagram for #BlackoutTuesday\u201d on June 2.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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