Posted on 04/10/2016 6:06:29 AM PDT by HomerBohn
Gap actually apologized for an ad that people called racist because it features a white model leaning on a black model — and, apparently, that’s saying that all black girls “can do is bear the weight of White [sic] girls.” Here are just a few of the Tweets expressing the outrage over the ad:
(Read tweeted comments at link)
And here is Gap’s apology: “As a brand with a proud 46 year history of championing diversity and inclusivity, we appreciate the conversation that has taken place and are sorry to anyone we’ve offended,”
Gap spokeswoman Debbie Felix said in a statement to Fortune. So . . . why did Gap apologize? Because someone was offended, of course! These days, whenever someone gets offended, it seems as though it’s just automatically expected that the offender will apologize, no matter how ridiculous the offended person or group’s actual complaint may be. And, usually, “offenders” fulfill that expectation — regardless of the reality of the situation.
I understand that Gap’s apology was intended to make people feel better, but the fact that it said sorry is more of a cause for outrage than that ad itself. After all, apologizing for ridiculous complaints only prompts more. The ad features four girls from the traveling circus company Le Petit Cirque.
Couldn’t the GAP have just said, “Bite me! It is depicts an act of friendship.”?
They are trying to make money. Kids want to be like the kewl kids.
Ya sur, massa Roosevelt! Sho 'nuff, massa!
Ouch. That's gonna hurt some widdle #BLM activist's feelers...
Might want to put some socks and boots on before you go.
Racists always see the world thru their racist heart.
There are other photos from the shoot that had a black girl leaning on a white girl....so what?
That’s racist!
Dear Lord, the two girls in the middle are sisters!! Their mother was an actor on Grey’s Anatomy, and the sisters are performers in a youth cirque company. Mom’s not too happy with how the media has turned two loving sisters into a circus show about racism.
Adults today are idiots. “Leave them kids alone!”
Idiots with racism on the mind 24/7 will see it wherever they go.
We won’t survive them either.
I don’t refer to myself as left-handed. I prefer the term sinister.
I was thinking the same thing, height-ism, wee shorties vs the giants as I like to call them. I used to take the abuse for years of being called short, etc., the offenders did not like it a wee bit when I began to tell them that they as giants were very insensitive to the feelings of others. lol
The children in the ad are beautiful and perhaps this is how the world looks without racism, a world of equality looks, we lean on each other no matter our height or race. Of course differences ideology is another matter...such as those who want to continue to live and those whose sole goal in life is to murder others as per their ....ideology...
So did nuns in the catholic schools in the early sixties.
I need safe space...
Professional bowlers have a distinct advantage over righties due to the lack of wear on their side of lane. You owe me 79 eleventy quadrillion dollars for the pain I'm experiencing as a righty. Even though I'm a lousy bowler. So there.
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