By Dustin Rowles | Social Media | May 4, 2016 |
By Dustin Rowles | Social Media | May 4, 2016 |
If you missed it, last week Old Navy released an ad featuring a family with a white father, a black mother, and a mixed-race child. This should not have been cause for controversy. It should not have elicited any other reaction besides, “Awww, look at those beautiful, genetically superior models promoting cheap, single-stitch clothing made in Bangladeshi sweat shops!”
Instead, the ad elicited a reaction straight out of 1946 on Twitter.
.@OldNavy Stop pushing race mixing, you degenerates. #OldNavy #SoniaSyngal #BoycottOldNavy
— End Cultural Marxism (@genophilia) May 2, 2016
@OldNavy you hate white people… we get it how very edgy of you.
— alt~right ultras (@davisiain0) May 1, 2016
.@OldNavy I found the racists pic.twitter.com/1y3vVIfJ0C
— Joey (@viserov) May 2, 2016
Look: There is a Trump supporter among the racist trolls, which shouldn’t be surprising because “Trump” is actual German for “racist troll.”
My feeling — or at least my hope — is that the horrible people above represent only a tiny fraction of the people in this country. Nevertheless, it did provoke the normally quiet and reserved Jack McCain — son of used-to-be-cool-until-he-ran-for-President Senator John McCain — into a response. The MH-60 Seahawk pilot and graduate of the Naval Academy suggested the people above — and those like them — should “eat it.”
To the people upset about the #OldNavy "Scandal" of an a picture of a mixed race marriage, eat it. @Reneeitchka pic.twitter.com/yA5YwbZRcm
— Jack McCain (@McCainJack) May 2, 2016
He also added this, which would be an even better ad for Old Navy or just the Navy itself.
I hope this one burns too, you ignorant racists. Here is us on our wedding day. @Reneeitchka pic.twitter.com/1VSd2gqH9W
— Jack McCain (@McCainJack) May 2, 2016
Jack’s wife, Renee Swift, also added her own thoughts, which could also double as an Old Navy ad:
I was just in @OldNavy this weekend! Bought something for me and my husband. #LoveWins pic.twitter.com/fE5s97yDny
— Renee Swift McCain (@Reneeitchka) May 2, 2016
Also, I think I love Renee Swift.
Wasnt #Cruz droning on about staying in the race just today? That was short lived. GOP shouldnt have put all their eggs in the crazy basket
— Renee Swift McCain (@Reneeitchka) May 4, 2016