Whose tiny minds?

Those who see it as an issue?

Those who thought this was a good idea in the first place?

Those charming people who still refer to people with darker skin as 'monkeys,' and believe they have recently come down from a tree?

Those people who have darker skin and get called monkeys by those who still view it as a socially acceptable thing to do and have to somehow accept it as 'banter'?

Oh another race thread by fan of censorship of others views Hrolf. I would offer a view, but like half a dozen others today, I suspect anything I say however benign will immediately be deleted.

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Good taste?

This is an item of clothing for kids featuring the word monkey.
Are you suggesting that any reference to monkeys should be banned?
Anything else while we are at it?

H&M are in the business of making money by getting people to buy stuff from them; in the same way that the Premier League makes money by getting people to watch games (because TV companies will give them oodles of money based on the fact that advertisers will give them oodles of money for a 30-second slot during half time.

If, accidentally or on purpose, they offend and alienate a slice of their potential customer base, it hurts their business. Something as tone deaf as this H&M commercial did just that so, in order to preserve its market share, the company apologized.

This isn't censorship or political correctness run amok. This is just a business trying to maintain its appeal to as many people as possible so as to suck in as much of their spending money as possible. It's the free market in action in its purest form.

Now, you (Hrolf) or anyone else has the right to withhold your business from H&M and to let them know exactly why you're doing so. H&M in turn will make a pure, commercial, business decision as to whether the loss of your custom - and that of like-minded individuals - outweighs the loss of custom they would have suffered without pulling the ad and issuing the apology.

Conservatives love a good boycott. Go for it and see how many s***s H&M gives!

We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.

How about not using the word "monkey" to describe anything that isn't a monkey?

We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.

With this, I agree but it still relates to attitudes that prevail among the hard of thinking.
By perpetuating this kind of thinking, everyone is making a rod for their own back. We need to move past this retrograde thinking.
This is people trying really hard to be offended by something that was not intended to offend.