Yes, you are that smart, and you always were. First Amendment, yo!

From the BBC article, which is a bit of a trip:

If these men want kids so much why don’t they go and make one with a woman that wants the same or adopt one or pay child support.

We got to those results because men don’t like being what to do or how to act, and instead of just using common sense and respect a lot of you still like to hear yourselves pontificate and focus on why it’s so hard for you, and how can we still make this easier for you. You shouldn’t need “example scenarios” to know…

I just don’t understand what’s so hard about it.

More likely someone did and was ignored - or like the store assistant who recognised it as blackface, ‘no longer works here’.

As a teacher who often deals with 12 year old boys, this is an EXCELLENT litmus test

They did, but they were in the wrong pay bracket for anyone to care about their thoughts. 

I dunno, I’ve been in some planning meetings where a shocking number of people expressed doubt about an idea that still somehow got approved.

Ten bucks says some woman did and everyone just talked over her

Putting POCs in the room for only purposes like this is just another way of asking/telling/forcing marginalized people to educate their oppressors about their racism. It shouldn’t be their job to explain racism to their white peers.

Yeah, I’m all on board for responses like “this is what happens when there aren’t POC in the room,” but it can’t end there. You’ve got to actually make the room a place where the POCs are listened to and feel valued and supported enough to raise these kinds of objections and be confident that they’ll be heard and…

This stuff had a million sets of hands and eyes on it during the design and approval process. In that time not one person saw this and said “Uh, guys.....maybe we have a problem here....”

Ah, understood and thanks for clarifying - I read your response quickly and thought you were referencing a designer or someone at Prada I wasn’t familiar with. What you said makes a lot of sense. 

I got that part of the story, but made my point inelegantly. When this crap happens, someone inevitably says “how could this decision get made and no one said anything?” or “this is what happens when there aren’t POC in the room.” As someone who has been the POC in the big room where stupid/racist/sexist decisions get…

BOYCOTT

Yeah, when people say they don’t see race, what they REALLY mean is they don’t see racism.

Don’t you get it, they didn’t say anything because they don’t even *see* race.

Well, there was that guy who isn’t around anymore. Don’t think that only happens in the one Soho store.

Whenever I see stuff like this, I’m baffled that not one person mentioned that it may be a bad idea when it was being developed.