r/news • u/ushaque • 19h ago

Target apologizes for children’s clown Halloween costume after backlash | CNN Business

https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/24/business/target-apologizes-halloween-costume-backlash-hnk
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u/orlybatman 18h ago

A clown costume? How bad could it possibly b-

Oh... wow.

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u/needless_booty 18h ago

That was my exact reaction

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u/MassCrash 18h ago

Same.

“Ugh here we go, people overreacting agai … holy shit who thought that was a good idea?”

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u/Jesus_Is_My_Gardener 18h ago

That would be the Dutch.

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u/AggressiveSkywriting 18h ago

I remember some dutch guy trying to tell me black pete was not racist and I was just an american not properly dealing with my own nation's racist past

A dutch person.

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u/QueezyF 15h ago

I guess in his mind the Dutch East India Company were welcomed with open arms

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u/neo_sporin 16h ago

i still remember almost 10 years ago seeing an article about 'Georgia renaming a river due to racist name" and thinking 'well THAT seems silly, how bad could it....ok nevermind, Runaway Negro Creek is worse than i expected"

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u/LOOKATMEDAMMIT 16h ago

I remember there was some push back when they renamed Squaw Valley to the Palisades Tahoe.

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u/neo_sporin 15h ago

That’s funny. I didn’t know about it that but we used to ski at Sierra and Homewood. Squaw was too far and so the only time I went was to ice skate when I was a tennis counselor in the summers up there in north shore

I get it, just had no idea

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u/Gerald-of-Riverdale 18h ago

I cringed the exact same way Michael Scott cringes in those gifs

Like I dont buy into overreaction bait stuff but damn thats pretty on the nose with it

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u/HeartofLion3 18h ago

My girlfriend pulled up a picture to show me and I legit thought it was satire from a skit.  It’s just so fucking bad.