Discussion: Trolls Attack Old Navy For Tweeting Picture Of Interracial Family

That one seemed like obvious troll to me, especially with a user handle of Cultural Combat.

Using an avatar photo of Stonewall Jackson to boot.

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I can’t tell you how I hate that word. It makes my skin crawl, as do those who would you use it, as they are avowed white supremacists and segregationists.

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It takes a brain to see more than just color… And insight to know you lack both, racists

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That is a very handsome couple with a beautiful child. I for one am delighted at the prospects of a totally interracial society. Everyone wins IMO

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Fear of a Black Planet, that’s all this nonsense is. :wink:

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Here’s the thing: I kind of wonder if this sort of stuff is a somewhat cynical attempt to be hip, not to mention get a lot of free coverage for your sale. You send out a tweet with an interracial couple and your 30 percent off text, knowing that bigots will blow up over it online. You know these folks are old, unhip folks who don’t shop with you anyway, so, as the blow up starts to get coverage, your brand looks even hipper in the eyes of the youth market you’re aiming for, who, for the most part, couldn’t care less about these sorts of racial issues. Not to mention your little tweet which cost basically nothing to create now has millions of impressions, massive reach and is being debated about all over the place, where people see ā€œTake 30% off your entire purchase!ā€ on TV networks and blogs and newspapers, etc., all of which is free to you.

To be clear, I don’t really care that Old Navy is using bigots in this way, but let’s dispense with this fiction that Old Navy didn’t know exactly what it was doing.

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A gorgeous woman is a gorgeous woman. They’re probably just jealous that they don’t have a chance with her, even if she’s not part of the master race.

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Indubitably!

Just google ā€œgod separated the racesā€, combine that with ā€œreligious freedomā€ laws, and you can see that some of the pieces are in place for that.

What they needed was a test case arguing that discrimination against mixing of the ā€œracesā€ is not prohibited discrimination on the basis of race. Yeah, sounds pretty ridiculous, but so did the notion that a for-profit corporation has religious beliefs. The chance of winning a case like that died with Scalia, so nobody is likely to push one. The ā€œreligious freedomā€ laws are going to be shredded anyway.

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Old Navy = hipster? Hmm…they’re kinda just a stepping stone to Gap, which is a stepping stone to J.Crew. Pretty mainline teen/college clothing.

What is an acceptable place for 13-25 year olds to buy clothes, in your opinion?

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It’s only been a half-century since the Supreme Court held that interracial couples have a Constitutional right to wed. You have to give these other people some time to adjust to that.

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Honestly, why wouldn’t this be allowed, or even encouraged?

That’s how this crap is written - broadly and begging for a fight.

So basically this is about not segregating models at a photo shoot?

(We get stuff for the kids at ON sometimes because usually they grow out of it before it falls apart)

Maybe it was all photoshopped - no darkies were touched in the shooting of this advertisement, which had to be done because of the Hillary Clinton Political Correctness Act, which was rammed down our throats in 2017, and then backdated 2 years.

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Exactly why we need to focus on Hillary v Trump. We must work to flush the repub haters down that bathtub drain they so love to talk about.

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We went out one night with a woman who was going to school with my wife. I knew she was a Republican and had heard some things come out of her mouth that were on the edge of racist, but she always backtracked when I would ask her to explain, feigning confusion. On this night, she was bemoaning how sad her life had become and how lonely she was as a single mother.

With a couple of drinks in her, she pointed at the bartender and said, ā€œI’ll bet I couldn’t even get him to screw me.ā€ He was a super fit African-American in his early 20s who probably could have been a Taye Diggs stand-in, but with hair. She was a middle-aged woman who was not svelte and dressed like a JC Penney’s ad, circa 1989. I’m not trying to ā€œfat shameā€ her or mock her, but you can just see this is a guy who spends a lot of time in the gym, eats healthy and, frankly had nothing in common with this woman. I was confused. She’s educated and makes good money and she’s not an unattractive person, but, being a bit naĆÆve, I guess, I couldn’t figure out what she was saying. ā€œEven him?ā€

It wasn’t until later that night that I realized she’d meant, ā€œI’ll bet I couldn’t even get a black guy to screw me,ā€ as if black dudes are just waiting around for white women to deign to sleep with them. We don’t go out with her anymore.

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What the hell are you talking about? You sound insane. It’s Hillary v Trump. You sound like a repub.

If they hate the racial aspect of this photo they’re gonna love it when they find out that everyone in the photo is gay.

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People who use the word ā€œcuckā€ or ā€œcuckoldā€ don’t really leave much doubt about what’s in their Pornhub search history do they?

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I dunno, I’ve seen more than a few good looking black guys who were with women whose only possibly positive feature was being white.