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KFC gets dragged for ‘berating’ Tsonga culture

Social media is divided on whether #KFCMustFall. Here's why:

Avuya Walters by Avuya Walters
Nov 3, 2020
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Up next on the ‘must fall’ chopping block is KFC.

KFC in hot water over insensitive tweet

The fried chicken fast-food chain has found itself in hot water over a tweet that was not digested well by users on Twitter.

KFC has since deleted the tweet but, unfortunately, not soon enough, as screenshots of it were already circulating on social media. This is the tweet that has cancel culture up in arms:

https://twitter.com/damnuhurt/status/1302791392373223425

Was this a microaggression or are we overreacting?

The tweet from KFC SA’s account was taken as a slight towards the Tsonga culture. The caption, “when you can’t decide on a colour, so you wear them all,” may have been said in gest.

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However, the ill-timing of it makes all the outrage applicable. Lest we forget, it was only a few days ago that we were winded by the blatant ignorance Clicks exposed in that epic website blunder.

Of course, the other side to it is, this was a good play on words in describing the Tsonga participants of Family Feud SA.

What matters most, though, is the sentiment shared by the people, and they were not amused.

Here are some of the reactions we picked out from social media:

As a Zulu person I'd be offended if someone says you couldn't find clothes so you use animals' skin.
But they have a right to free speech so long they recognize it doesn't come free of consequences.#kfcmustfall #KFCVatamba pic.twitter.com/gbkDcCXvDh

— king Keith (@KaConfessor) September 7, 2020

Reason @Clicks_SA and the likes of @KFCSA are undermining us and treating us like half human beings is because of @MYANC we have let them to undermine us for too long that is why racists are taking so much advantage on black people #kfcmustfall #clicksmustfall #EFFMustRise

— #VoteEFF (@SphiweMaseke) September 7, 2020
https://twitter.com/DjNewAfrica/status/1302847045477314562?s=20
https://twitter.com/Krbmadi/status/1302822589698576384?s=20

If you are not offended by KFC joke then you must not be offended by Click’s advert #KFCmustfall

— chri???‍? (@Munangiwa_) September 7, 2020

KFC, following the backlash, quickly deleted the content from social media and did not make any statement.

This is a developing story.

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