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Clorox bleach tweet: People are hypersensitive and incredibly stupid (1 Viewer)

jonessed said:
Ilov80s said:
What you guys are missing is that release was a big deal for a lot of black people. It had been satirized and complained about for awhile that all those emoji faces were white. A lot of black people were very excited about the addition. This wasn't just some random update.
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:lmao:
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I don't think it was racist, just dumb. Hey there's a big release where finally everyone isn't white, let's use that to try and sell our product that makes everything turn white.
 
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Bucky86 said:
:lmao: People are ####### stupid
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There were an incredibly small amount of people that were genuinely offended. 95% of the story is reaction are people saying, "if you were offended by this, you should drink bleach" or "I don't get what was supposed to be offensive."
 
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shadyridr said:
With no context and all the hype about racially diverse emojis I can see how that tweet can be misconstrued. Were they being racist? Of course not. Should they have provided context? I think so. The article provides context making their "mistake" seem harmless but their original tweet did not and thats what people were reacting towards.
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No people were being hypersensitive idiots.

 
shadyridr said:
With no context and all the hype about racially diverse emojis I can see how that tweet can be misconstrued. Were they being racist? Of course not. Should they have provided context? I think so. The article provides context making their "mistake" seem harmless but their original tweet did not and thats what people were reacting towards.
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This is weird.

 
NCCommish said:
shadyridr said:
With no context and all the hype about racially diverse emojis I can see how that tweet can be misconstrued. Were they being racist? Of course not. Should they have provided context? I think so. The article provides context making their "mistake" seem harmless but their original tweet did not and thats what people were reacting towards.
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No people were being hypersensitive idiots.
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I am guessing your lack of punctuation has deeply changed what you meant to say here.
 
I still don't get what was potentially "offensive".

Can someone explain this to me. I have nothing planned for Sunday and would love to be outraged

 
comfortably numb said:
I still don't get what was potentially "offensive".

Can someone explain this to me. I have nothing planned for Sunday and would love to be outraged
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Emojis are little cartoon faces that many ppl 35 and younger use when tweeting/texting. They have always been white only. Many black have complained about this. SNL satirized it. Think like why is there only a white Barbie or something. Apple released an update that finally included emojis of various skin colors (a long with other random objects). Clorox wanted a bleach emoji (weird in and of itself). Some people misread it as "hey we finally have non-white faces, where is the bleach to make them white again?"
 
If you posted here or anywhere else complaining about our socuety being overly sensitive, you got reeled on another predictable media fishing trip.

 
AAABatteries said:
Wait - those emojis were white? I always thought they were Asianed.
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I thought yellow was just yellow. I don't think I ever assigned a race to it. White people aren't yellow anyway.

Is this microaggression now rectified?

 
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I would like to think that most reasonably sane people read that comment from Clorox and figured they meant a bleach bottle emoji, to be used when someone has stumbled across a sight that can't be unseen.

 
Bleach is clear though. Its a chemical. It's neither black nor white. It is the absence of color. Seriously? What is offensive?

 
Ilov80s said:
comfortably numb said:
I still don't get what was potentially "offensive".

Can someone explain this to me. I have nothing planned for Sunday and would love to be outraged
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Emojis are little cartoon faces that many ppl 35 and younger use when tweeting/texting. They have always been white only. Many black have complained about this. SNL satirized it. Think like why is there only a white Barbie or something. Apple released an update that finally included emojis of various skin colors (a long with other random objects). Clorox wanted a bleach emoji (weird in and of itself). Some people misread it as "hey we finally have non-white faces, where is the bleach to make them white again?"
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Ahhhh

thanks, helped a lot

people are stupid

 
Insein said:
Bleach is clear though. Its a chemical. It's neither black nor white. It is the absence of color. Seriously? What is offensive?
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It removes color and will make things white that used to be white but got dirty or colored by mistake.
 
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