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It's been almost three years since the infamous racist backlash to the Cheerios commercial with the interracial family, and brands are still getting heat when they broadcast images of diversity. But these days, the brands always seem ready for the haters—and as often as not, they use their vitriol against them.
Case in point: the Old Navy tweet below, which was posted Friday and drew the typical small chorus of racist trolls inveighing against miscegenation. The haters were most vocal on Twitter, of course, where anonymity is easier than on Facebook, where the reaction was more uniformly positive.
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