NONSENSE, THEY CAN’T BE RACIST, THEY’RE NOT WHITE: Racist laundry detergent ad in China sparks outrage on social media. “The advertisement for Qiaobi washing powder circulating various online platforms on Friday shows a black man whistling at a young Chinese woman. Acting as if she’s about to kiss him, she puts a detergent capsule in his mouth instead, shoves him into her washing machine, and sits on the lid while the machine gets to work. When he reemerges, he’s no longer black, but a ‘clean’ Chinese man. . . . The commercial, reportedly shown at Chinese cinemas earlier in May, is a spin-off from an Italian advertisement, which shows a white man being forced into a washing machine and a black man emerging out of it, followed by the slogan, ‘Colored is better.'”