A Kmart blogger has been accused of being "racist" and a "white supremacist" after posting a photo of the budget department store's white quilt cover.

Claire, whose Instagram handle is @thekmartlover, uses the photo-sharing platform to post photos of her favourite Kmart items. Last week, however, she found herself at the centre of social media storm over a post regarding the store's white waffle quilt cover.

When sharing the item with her followers, Claire wrote "white is right" as part of the caption, and it was this choice of words that  incited a furore which saw her denounced as "racist".

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Although Claire - who boasts over 111,000 followers on the social media platform - has since changed the post's caption, over the weekend she revealed how she has been affected by the abuse in a tearful Instagram Story.

"I’m not racist. I was purely talking about a bloody doona cover and it does hurt. It hurts me. I put in time to this page. It’s my page," she said.

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"I don’t get paid to tell you where an item is from. I don’t get paid to give you a swipe-up link. I don’t get paid to show you what it would match with and so many of you ask things like that and I give you my view on it."

She also proceeded to share a photo of herself on the white bedspread, writing "Just a girl on a bed in what she considers a cool outfit sharing her love for home styling and fashion. Unshowered, heavy eyes from a bad headache, no make-up. Nothing more, nothing less."

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"This week I have been trolled for having too many hats and contributing to landfill. This week I have been trolled as being racist for saying ‘white is right’ about the depicted doona cover. This week I have been trolled for having too many clothes and that I should donated more, that I am wasteful, not thoughtful and that I should influence people in a far better way," the Tasmanian woman continued.

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"I could stay quiet as some of you have suggested and not respond to any of these remarks but that is not me. I am strong. I am independent and I am taking a stance against this small minority of society that feel this behaviour is ok because it is not. I am using my voice for those that do not feel strong enough to have a voice. I am using my voice so that hopefully this changes the mindset of one person out there that has thought about writing something negative in any online forum. I am using my voice so that hopefully one less person becomes a victim to self-harm and/or suicide due to online trolling. This behaviour is not ok, it is not tolerated and it is time for it to stop."

Online retail giant Amazon has removed a racist shoe description after a complaint from Labour Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom, David Lammy.

Lammy took to Twitter to share a screenshot of the product description for the show on Amazon. Alongside the image he wrote, "Just buying brown brogues tonight leads to this racist micro aggression. Is it 2020 or 1720? Please ⁦⁦@amazon⁩ take it down."

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According to the Independent, the shadow secretary of state for justice had highlighted a separate incidence of racism that he had faced on Twitter on the same day.

His tweet lead to an outpouring of support on social media.

"What a horrible day you’ve had. I’m so sorry. Please know so many of us are totally appalled by the tweet and this. We stand with you x" wrote one commenter.

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Another Twitter user wrote, "They could easily stop this by automatically rejecting product submissions with offensive words."

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A third added, "This is horrible, David. I just tried to search for the item, so I could report & join you in asingk Amazon to take the ad down. I couldn't find it, so hope that means they have already done so. It should never have been put up in the first place."

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David Lammy later followed up the tweet with a second, stating that the product had been taken off Amazon.

"Thank you @amazon for taking this down now but given the item has been on sale since March what systems do you have in place for reviewing descriptions and not allowing offensive terms to be posted in the first place? This is not the first time." He wrote.

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The Independent also reported that the product, which was being sold by a company based in Sichuan, China has since been removed from Amazon.

Regarding the incidence of racist abuse that Lammy was also faced with on Twitter yesterday, the Home Secretary Priti Patel wrote on the social media platform;

"I am sorry you have faced this awful racist abuse @DavidLammy.

"I have asked the @metpoliceuk to keep me updated on their investigation.

"As I have said before, @Twitter must take decisive action against this sort of vile content much faster."

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Straight off the back of the recent H&M scandal involving the now infamous 'racist' hoodie, another company has taken it upon themselves to deliver a blunder to defy the ages. Firstly, though, before we look at the products in question, we need to talk about this recent trend in companies doing something absolutely ridiculous and stupid and then being shocked at the moment people get offended. Initially, there was the now infamous Pepsi advert that involved Kendall Jenner solving the issue of racism in America by simply handing a cop a can of Pepsi in the middle of a protest. Understandably, there was an outpouring of laughter across social media with many questioning the logic that went into the advert. Such was the abuse, Kendall ended up crying and apologizing for her part in the commercial. [[youtubewidget||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73P9STckPLw&vl=en]] Then came the H&M hoodie. If you're not aware of this story; H&M released a hoodie that said "coolest kid in the jungle" and had a young black child model it on the website. Unsurprisingly, despite the mother of the boy saying she had no issue with the top, people believed that it was racist and the fall out involved high profile celebrities such as The Weeknd pulling their partnerships with the fashion house. [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/SeanOR95/status/950378114701516800]] Now, however, we have the creme de la creme of PR blunders. Take a look at this monstrosity: [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/Queen___Grace/status/954410312316346369]] Twitter user @Queen_Grace tweeted a picture of a white baby wearing a bib carrying the logo "SLAVERY GETS S**T DONE." But while the bib may have seemed bad enough to be a one-off piece bought by parents have the worst sense of humor, it turns out that there is a whole bunch of merchandise carrying the exact same logo. [[facebookwidget||https://www.facebook.com/chabella.don/posts/1806720216019221]] Even more shockingly, the clothing was being sold on Amazon via a third party seller. Obviously, after becoming aware of the attention that the clothing was receiving online and receiving various complaints, Amazon has reportedly pulled the items from the website. In a statement, a spokesperson for the company said: “All Marketplace sellers must follow our selling guidelines and those who don’t will be subject to action including potential removal of their account. The products in question are no longer available.” [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/Danparkinson7/status/956497634088374272]] David Westlake, chief executive of Internation Justice Mission (IJM) UJ weighed in on the debate, saying: “Children [who more than likely made the t shirts] the same age as those modeling the T-shirts will be forced to work long hours for no pay in desperate conditions where starvation, beatings and sleep deprivation are common." But the most crushing review of the clothing came from Jakub Sobik from Anti-Slavery International (ASI), who told Reuters: “If it is meant to be funny, it fails miserably.” Simple but effective from Sobik. In all honesty, this has to be the worst blunder yet. How anyone ever believed that these products were a good idea is beyond me.

OK, the ad isn't racist. Like, not at all. 100% fake news. Here's why. Dove has been accused of racism for an ad they put on Facebook, a single photo showing a black woman becoming white. [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/chasityscooper/status/916811618541031425]] Wow, looks pretty shockingly racist, right? A photo of a black woman becoming white? This is pretty insane, isn't it? Well, yes, it is. If this was the full ad, it would be pretty blatant racism, showing a black person becoming white as a result of using Dove. But that's not the full ad. Yeah, the ad is not a photo. It's actually a video. So many Twitter users and outrage peddlers use this single image to show that the Dove ad is blatantly and unforgivably racist. But those people are quite literally just propagandists who are not showing you the full context of the ad, because they want to evoke a visceral emotional response, and actually knowing the context of the full ad contradicts their agenda. Below, you can watch the actual ad, the full ad, not the single screengrab that does look very racist, but the full video that was used on Facebook by Dove: [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/najrowland/status/917401048523960320]] [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/Megan_CH_103/status/917392153826996224]] See why half-truths spreading on social media actually are often fake news and undermine progressive causes? The full ad shows a black model turning into a white model into a South Asian model, and it loops back into the black model, for an endless rotation between bodies and shades of skin color. The ad is trying to show diversity. The only mistake they made was the order of the models. If the white model turned into the black model, then there would be no outcry. Dove just made a mistake because they didn't realize that thirsty Twitter personalities would screencap half the ad and act like it literally just showed a black woman becoming white. Tired of this fake news, man, I'm tired of it. I'm tired of these cycles of outrage based on total misreadings, and the outrage coming from the same people who claim to be 'woke' and 'enlightened' despite never trying to understand the context for anything. It gets really tiresome. Dove Tweeted: "An image we recently posted on Facebook missed the mark in representing women of color thoughtfully. We deeply regret the offense it caused." But it doesn't really matter. People are throwing out their Dove products or boycotting Dove because the optics are already done and over with. Apologizing does nothing - the mob has already pinned you down as a bad guy. You're done. [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/ClemsonCutie/status/916733254874615813]] At the end of the day, it's just really dumb. It's just a very illiterate-educated society, the educated illiterates who have attended university and now work at media companies, who are just as bad as the Trump supporters they loathe when it comes to the facts. Nobody wants truth and context, they want immediate emotional catharsis. And as long as that is the case, these cycles of outrage and apology are our new politics. Congratulations, you broke the brain of civilization.  

A white supremacist has been fired from his job at a hotdog restaurant after Twitter users began to name and shame alt-right supporters that were involved in the deadly Charlottesville rally that happened over the weekend. The rally has been described as "the largest hate-gathering of its kind in decades in the United States" by the Southern Poverty Law Center, and attracted thousands of followers from several neo-Nazi groups such as the Ku Klux Klan and other far-right organizations. The rally turned fatal when a horrific attack on anti fascist protestors was carried out by alleged white supremacists, James Alex Fields Jr., who deliberately drove his car into a crowd of people, killing one and injuring 19. As the effects of the rally continue to be felt around the world, with many taking to Twitter to the cascade the white supremacists involved, one user called @YesYoureRacist began getting to work naming and shaming the individuals who had been photographed waving torches and allying themselves with the violent, racist hate groups. One of the first to be exposed by the account was Cole White, a worker at Berkeley's Top Dog restaurant, who has now lost his job as a result of being outed by Twitter. [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/YesYoureRacist/status/8964231739198244784]] A spokesman for Top Dog told reporters that the restaurant would be releasing a full statement soon but that "for now, we feel it is imperative to let you know that Cole White is no longer employed by Top Dog LLC". The restaurant also reached out to @yesyoureracist, and thanked them for bringing Cole's actions to their attention and again confirmed that he had now left the company, their message read: "Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We apologize for the delayed response, however we have been inundated with inquiries regarding the incident involving one of our employees that attended the rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. "We will be releasing a statement on our website tomorrow. "For now, we feel it is imperative to let you know that Cole White is no longer employed by top dog, LLC." [[twitterwidget||https://twitter.com/YesYoureRacist/status/896713553666871296]] The restaurant also confirmed White's termination through a sign that was stuck to the door of the establishment in Berkeley: "Effective Saturday 12th August, Cole White no longer works at Top Dog," the restaurant says on the sign. "The actions of those in Charlottesville are not supported by Top Dog. We believe in individual freedom and voluntary association for everyone." The rally, which was attended by neo-Nazis and other hate groups, initially intended to protest the planned removal of the statue of Confederate general Robert E Lee from Emancipation Park, however it quickly turned into a race war. Now, some of those who were pictured at the event are being outed by online vigilantes who are aiming to identify and shame them, like Cole White. So far there has been multiple protestors that have been named, and judging by the activity on the account, that number is set to keep on rising throughout the weeks that follow. What do you think, is it fair that someone like Cole White has lost his job? Or is he merely practicing freedom of speech?