Home Depot deletes tweet, calls it ‘stupid and offensive’
The tweet in question depicted a man in a gorilla mask drumming on a bucket, with two black men on either side of him doing the same. It asked, “Which drummer is not like the others?”
We have zero tolerance for anything so stupid and offensive. Deeply sorry. We terminated agency and individual who posted it.
— The Home Depot (@HomeDepot) November 7, 2013
That’s because the “stupid and offensive” item in question was quickly deleted from the company’s Twitter account Thursday afternoon after a wave of complaints such as this one:
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