Some folks upset about this Old Navy ad.

[edbermac]

This Old Navy ad featuring an interracial family has caused a racist internet troll to invade. When Old Navy released the ad on Friday, the awful people of the internet took to to Twitter to tell Old Navy their opinions on the whole ordeal:

http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/05/old-navys-interracial-ad-is-upsetting-trolls.html

Checked the Mary Whittier Twitter page, hardcore racist.

[broiles]

1. Wow what a beautiful family!

[pnwmom]

6. That's what I'm thinking. I wonder if they're a real family or just models?

[Odin2005]

40. The kid is super cute!

[Aristus]

2. To hell with the trolls. I hope Old Navy knows them for what they are, and keeps supporting

these kinds of advertisements.

Whether they are a real family, or posed models, they represent something beautiful and wonderful.

[Agnosticsherbet]

3. Some people get upset way to easy.

[awoke_in_2003]

4. Other than the fact that the man seriously needs

to learn what a razor is, it's a great picture. I really like the interaction between the "father" and "son". I put those in paranthesis because I don't know if they are truly related. The kid looks happy.

[Chellee]

22. NOOOOO!!!!!

What are you doing!?! That's the best part!

Seriously, men need to forget what razors are. Just put them down. Walk away.

-Chellee, beard lover.

[awoke_in_2003]

29. I was listening to a commercial from a hair removal place

And the spokeswomen said "hey men- women don't like your chest hair". Funny, that is the first thing my wife noticed. She had a thing for Tom Selleck growing up.

[Chellee]

34. Good for her.

I don't understand this waxing frenzy being aimed at men. I suppose advertising execs think it makes men look younger, and subsequently, their product more trendy.

Don't do it, men of America!

Well... unless you're a world class swimmer, and removing all your body hair is the difference between the annals of history, and being forced to introduce yourself at office parties by saying, "Yeah, I was on the Olympic swim team... No, no I didn't win."

I guess that would be a reason. Otherwise, for the love of God, leave it alone.

[awoke_in_2003]

36. And I used to sport a nicely trimmed beard

but then I started getting too much gray. I have gotten into straight razors and making my own lather with shaving soap and a badger brush. I like the old fashioned ritual of it all.

[Chellee]

38. Well, I disagree about the gray.

Gray in a man's beard can be very attractive. But if you enjoy the process of shaving, more power to you.

[awoke_in_2003]

41. I am 48

and getting close to the top of the hill. I may grow it out this winter. The wife mentioned she'd like it back, but summer is upon us (at least here in Texas)

[shanti]

32. +1

yay for beards!

[GulfCoast66]

35. Your beard-centric post

Is very insensitive to we beard challenged!

😀😀

I need to find the sarcasm thingy everyone uses.

And while they are models not a real family I love what they represent.

[Chellee]

37. How about just a goatee?

Or the scruffy, 'I didn't shave all weekend' look? Can you pull off either one of those? Because those also work.

(BTW, the sarcasm thingy is after the ellipses in the smilies section.)

[GulfCoast66]

44. I wish!!

More like a 14 year old with grey hair😳. Maybe not that bad. On the bright side, the wife hates facial hair. The "I did not shave all weekend" look translates to I had no sex all weekend! I guess we are right for each other.

[hunter]

25. I haven't let a razor anywhere near me for at least two decades.

I'm not fond of the "teenager with acne" look I always end up with.

[awoke_in_2003]

28. I used grow beards from time to time

Too much gray in it now.

[ronnie624]

5. "Miscegenation"?

You mean there are people who actually use that word, as if they're saying something?

[Liberal_in_LA]

10. Lol. Yeah.. and this

Old Navy HATES White babies!
It takes a White mother and a White father to make a White baby.
Stop #WhiteGeocide

[truebluegreen]

31. Geocide? Are they killing the planet now? nt

[sofa king]

43. Yes.

(Yes, white people are killing the planet.)

[progressoid]

11. ...

[SheilaT]

7. I'm sure they are all models, but that's not the point.

There are lots and lots of interracial families out there. It's what being human is all about.

I only wish that I personally knew, better yet were friends with, more African Americans, Asians, Native Americans. Alas, I only know or can count as friends, a very few. I see that as a failure on my part. It is so easy to stay within my own group.

A woman I went to high school with many long years ago (we've already had our 50th) had three children. At least two of them married African Americans, and I'm quite fascinated by looking at her FB postings. I've seen her at reunions in recent years, and it feels as if it would be incredibly rude to bring up anything at all about her grandchildren's not being as lily-white as she is. She is clearly every bit as proud of them as any grandmother is of her grandchildren, and I'm happy to be smacked up alongside the head here to understand that race isn't the most important issue. It's family. It's connections. It's living a good life. It's loving one another. THAT'S what matters. Not skin color. Or shape of the eyes. Or anything else.

[basselope]

8. What bathroom does that child use?

The white one or the colored one?



Fucking idiots.

[drm604]

14. What if you're both transexual and interracial?

Do you have to hold it in until you get home?

[Eleanors38]

33. Worse, what jail will they be thrown in?

[progressoid]

9. Good god. She is stunning.

I suppose the other two are as well.

[ProfessorGAC]

30. You Suppose?

The kid is cute as a button and the guy is what most guys wished they looked like!

[Liberal_in_LA]

12. Thw "white genocide" people getting feedback here

https://mobile.twitter.com/hashtag/WhiteGeocide?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

[MisterP]

15. geocide, eh? what else are you supposed to do with a Death Star?

[drm604]

13. I see couples and families like this all the time;

just about anytime I go somewhere where there are lots of people.

Some people seem to enjoy finding reasons to hate, and the stupider the reasons the better as far as they're concerned.

[uponit7771]

16. +1

[laundry_queen]

17. I know so many interracial couples

and children and it's so common where I live that I can't even believe this is still an issue anywhere. Actually, I can believe it's an issue in some places...my SIL is black and my brother and her went on vacation to Mexico last year where they ran into some Americans (we are Canadian) and my brother said there was this guy that kept staring at them, so he went up to him to talk to him (and ask him why the staring) and the guy was like, "are you guys together?" my brother said, "yes, we're married." The guy was shocked, "Wow, that's crazy. That just doesn't happen where I live!" My SIL told him that it's no big deal where we come from and the guy was shocked and kept saying he couldn't believe they were together, and how weird it was. He was asking my brother if his family was upset about it. "Um, no, never." After awhile the guy kept going on and on about how he just couldn't believe they were together and my brother (who was getting pissed off) finally said to him, "Dude, get over it, it's 2015" My SIL said it was the only time she ever felt judged, and they have traveled a lot. She said this guy was from some midwestern state, but she couldn't believe that he hadn't seen an interracial couple before, it seemed just bizarre how he reacted.

My daughters have so many interracial friends and I have cousins and other family members, like it's just a non-issue...every time this comes up because of some tv ad or photo, I'm still shocked anybody is so racist as to comment on it. Effed up people.

[bemildred]

18. Lucky guy. I have a family like that right next door. nt

[left-of-center2012]

19. My brother married a Japanese woman 50 years ago

It was 1966 and I was a high school student in city of 20,000 in western, PA when he brought her home to meet his family.
People would stop on the sidewalk and gawk at them as they walked down the side walk together.
A white guy and an Asian woman together! Shocking!

Guess some things, for some people, never change. Sad.

[Wounded Bear]

20. Good to see commercial ventures recognizing reality...

It's not like inter-racial families are a new thing. Damn, they're selling clothes, not doing social engineering.

[bigwillq]

21. Some folks are offended by everything.

Nice pic, I say.

[Photographer]

23. Lovely ad. k&r

[47of74]

24. Meanwhile the internetz have responded....

They've been shutting down these racist stooges...

Racist trolls were no match for the outpouring of love that followed after Old Navy tweeted an ad portraying an interracial family.

On Friday, Old Navy tweeted an ad featuring an interracial couple to promote its Thank You Event sale.

Some disapproving social media users responded to the ad with racist nonsense, as Jezebel reported. “This miscegenation junk is rammed down our throats every direction,” wrote one Twitter user. “Interracial couples are a fraction of US marriages. Who is the target demo,” wrote another.

Fortunately, there are much better people in this world. Those people decided to fight back against the ignorance by showing their support for the imagery. Some even shared photos of their own interracial families.

[rock]

26. They look like America

Which I'm for.

[CompanyFirstSergeant]

27. Wow. A DU thread from the 1960s.

About racism. About how racist some people were back then.

What a blast from the past.

So glad we've come so far in my life time.

Who would even notice a family of diverse backgrounds today?

Oh, wait? DU was not around back then.

This is a thread posted from..... today.

Oh, shit.

Never mind.

[Odin2005]

39. These idiots should stay away from my part of Minnesota.

Lots of mixed White-Ojibwe families, here. They would have an aneurysm.

[kwassa]

42. Colorwise, this is my family.

And the boy is a girl in ours.

We are cuter, of course.

(hah!)