Clorox Bleach Accused of Racist Tweet

[PreachTony]

http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/09/technology/clorox-emoji-tweet/index.html

In its tweet, Clorox seemed to be commenting on why bleach wasn't included among the hundreds of other household items that Apple had added to its list of emojis. But on social media, offense was taken.

"You need to clean up your PR person. Put some bleach on your distasteful marketing ideas," tweeted @DriNicole. "Black emojis were added today. Saying this implies you'd rather the emojis be only white, by adding bleach."

After taking down the tweet, Clorox followed up with an apology: "Wish we could bleach away our last tweet. Didn't mean to offend - it was meant to be about all the [toilet, bathtub and red wine] emojis that could use a clean up."

This is just silly. So because Clorox, a bleach company, questions why bleach wasn't included as an emoji, they are obviously racist? After all, if racially diverse emojis were released, and a bleach company wants to have their product included, they must obviously want all emojis to be white.

If Clorox's tweet offended you, then you were going out of your way to be offended.

 

[Zaac]

Seriously? Over emojis?

I guess I can see how some folks would take offense considering the new emojis. And I'm glad she explained the comment for the folks who didn't understand.

But geesh. There's enough real stuff taking place to deal with that there's no need to be going off half-cocked about a slight that wasn't a slight.