While the Fox newscasters’ reasons for opposing the crayons are stupid, I would say that the marketing for these markers, which necessarily equates skin tone with culture is, in fact, problematic. If you know anything about how the modern concept of race was formed - that is, concluding outward characteristics like skin color were reflective of a particular civilization, culture, and intellectual capability - then you will have a problem assigning colors to cultures.

this is a great idea, where were these when i was a kid and drawing? how is this “p.c.?”

I had no idea his was a teaching tool. I could have sworn this was for those kids who like art and don’t want to have to mix a bunch of different colors to get to the right tone.

These types of markers & crayons have been sold by educational supply companies for well over a decade; I saw them at stores and in catalogs when I did my time as a teacher in the early nineties. I’m not sure if Crayola was making them then.

pendejos…

This is ridiculous, but Fox News is ALWAYS ridiculous. I wish I had these when I was a kid. Drawing accurate portraits would have been much easier.  Furthermore, any art store will sell colored pencils, markers, pastels, what have you, in sets like this.

Who freakin cares?? There had to be a news report on them?? I use these in my preschool class and the children love them! They are not replacing anything… we still use all the traditional colors. These just enhance the children’s coloring choices! I don’t get what the fuss is about.

This is a good thing because lots of my characters are white as, well, paper.

Guys, they had an Asian woman express dislike for them. That makes it okay. No, you know what, there are lots of different skin colors, and these allow kids to represent them more realistically. WE CAN’T ALLOW OUR KIDS TO REALISTICALLY REPRESENT OUR WORLD! Replacing the rainbow? Give me a break you fear-mongering asswipes.

They have had those for at least 10, maybe 15 years.

I draw comics and I would love to have people colored markers. These people aren’t thinking past their damn racism to see this is helpful when you want to draw someone and have it actually look like them.

was there a skin color that wasn’t already represented in a box of crayons? I hate Fox but they’re not wrong

Fox is upset because they’re not labelled “Quadroon”, “Octoroon”, and “Mustefino”.

The very end was too much-
“somehow we all turned out ok”
“yes we did”

Let me get this straight:
A corporation revamps their product in order to please a larger demographic, therefore increasing profit… and this is a BAD THING? I thought the folks at Fox News were all about capitalism, supply & demand, etc… But evidently a box of non-racist crayons is enough to make Crayola a bunch of sell-outs, traitors to some kind of deeper ideology held by the majority of Fox viewers…. BREAKING NEWS!!!
Fox News has a new slogan: “Racism Before Capitalism.”
or
“Down With The Capitalist Crayola Pigs! Up With The Racist Tea-Party Proletariat!”

It’s tough finding new liberal conspiracies every day.

Like mentioned above this product has been out for more then 10 years already and is intended as a supplement (not a replacement) for primary colored sets of markers. FOX continues to race-bait while trying to look race-neutral.

“And here to tell us whiteys why we’re right is brown-ish person, Michelle Malkin.”

wtf.. how fucking ignorant and retarded are these people. Actually you didn’t turn out ok, because you think crayons that cover different shades of skin are not needed, and are just out there to make money.. *how dare people other than whites and burnt sienna (whatever race that covers) get their own shade of colouring tools.. don’t you know that you just use blue and carry on with life, you don’t matter!