A Chinese museum was forced to yank an exhibit comparing Africans to animals — when critics pointed out how “astonishingly offensive” it was,…
A Chinese museum was forced to yank an exhibit comparing Africans to animals — when critics pointed out how “astonishingly offensive” it was, according to reports Friday.
The tone-deaf photo series features images of people and animals — including a young boy next to howling chimpanzee, according to ChannelNews Asia .
Dozens of the photos were removed from the showcase, “This is Africa” at Hubei Provincial Museum in Wuhan, after a video of it emerged online and viewers complained.
“[This is] an astonishingly offensive exhibit,” The Shanghaist website blasted .
Others bashed it for spreading stereotypes about African people.
“China put pictures of a particular race next to wild animals why? Are they the only race to [be] impoverished looking,” wrote one Nigerian Instagram user, Edward E. Duke.
Even as outrage grew, the country’s main social media messaging service was forced to apologize for automatically translating the term “black foreigner” into the n-word, the Washington Post reported .
