How long have interracial couples been producing offspring? Long enough that anyone upset by Cheerios’ new commercial — which features an adorable “mixed” girl and her parents — to be considered out of touch or down right racist.
BuzzFeed reports that Cheerios had to scrub and disable comments on the 30-second commercial posted to its YouTube channel. Let’s just say the internet racists came out of the woodwork!
Click here to view Cheerios’ new “Just Checking” ad.
“Throughout all of human history, race-mixing and multiracial/multicultural societies have never, not even once, occurred ‘naturally,'” one commenter wrote. “It has always been the result of conquest, group A being forced by group B. The systematic decline of western economies has lead to lower white birth rates. Massive non-white immigration leads to loss of land, resources and opportunities for whites. Encouraging whites to race-mix leads to loss of white genetics. It’s not about one Cheerios commercial.â€
The ad, which debuted on Tuesday, had nearly 5,000 likes and over 700 dislikes on Friday.