Did Qantas Support A "Racist" Twitter Contest, Or Are Its Followers Overreacting?

It’s often hard to predict how your audience will react to something you tweet. You think you’re sharing something insightful, but they laugh at it and call it silly. Or, in the case of Qantas, an Australian airline, you think you’re supporting a fun contest but your followers call “racism”.

Qantas has apologized and removed a picture from its Twitter feed that offended a number of its followers over the weekend, many of which thought the photo was racist in nature.

The photo was of two rugby fans at the Bledisloe Cup, posing with Fijian-born Radike Samo.

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