Given centuries of offensive racist tropes associating black people with monkeys ought to have informed the entire chain of product developers, copywriters, marketers and merchandisers at H&M about how offensive that item of clothing on a black kid would be. So the faux pas (it was one) is inexcusable.
It justifiably requires a commensurate response. But what would constitute a commensurate (and concomitant) response? Was the EFF's trashing of several H&M stores around the country, one? Was the EFF's response either justifiable or commensurate? Was it even consistent with what it claims?
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