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  • German car giant Volkswagen pulls 'racist' ad after outcry

    05/20/2020 3:41:24 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 38 replies
    TheLocal.de ^ | 20 May 2020 14:53 CEST+02:00 | AFP
    Germany’s Volkswagen (VW) has pulled an Instagram ad that showed a giant white hand pushing around a black person, saying it was “surprised and shocked” that viewers decried it as racist. The 10-second clip appeared on the firm’s Instagram story on Tuesday to advertise the new Golf car. It has since been removed, but was still circulating on Twitter on Wednesday. The ad shows an oversized white woman’s hand picking up a black man in a suit and moving him around before flicking him into a building and away from the yellow Golf car parked nearby. Viewers were quick to...