GOOD magazine is a Los Angeles-based “magazine for the global citizen.” The magazine’s Twitter profile has over 930,000 followers, and yesterday morning, GOOD’s Twitter decided to tweet this out:
The reference to Mexico’s September 16 Independence Day holiday as being “less douchey” than Cinco de Mayo, led you to a story called, “Put on a Fake Mustache for Mexico’s Independence Day.” The story’s juxtapositioning of details was ridiculous (“Independence Day is a celebration of sombreros and silliness in Mexico, but it recognizes an important spirit, one of pride, joy, and resilience.”), and as expected, reaction on Twitter to the “less douchey” text was negative:
@good choose your words wisely. Be careful.
— Alejandro Gómez (@alexserver) September 16, 2014
@good you claim to be for global citizens but this is incredibly witless, ignorant, and perpetuating insulting and offensive stereotypes
— Iván (@wincorrigible) September 16, 2014
@latinorebels @good all they had to do was step outside into the street & ask a Mexican what's wrong with all that. They're based in LA FFS!
— ƊUßHÈ (@dubhe0ne) September 17, 2014
@latinorebels @good totally agree very insulting to a group of people who are rightly sick of being insulted.
— hel (@HelFKiernan) September 16, 2014
Just put a mustache on it! That's the solution, right? @latinorebels @good @laloalcaraz @AndreaLeon
— basilisa alonso (@basilisaalonso) September 17, 2014
Others also commented on the actual story:
@latinorebels @wincorrigible @good it's not just the tweet, the story is a joke.
— Catie Waters (@CatieWaters) September 16, 2014
@CatieWaters @good "Independence Day is a celebration of sombreros and silliness in Mexico.." I'm sure @ConsulMexLan @ericgarcetti will like
— Luis C. Arellano (@contigogp) September 16, 2014
Last night, GOOD tweeted us the following:
@laloalcaraz @AndreaLeon @latinorebels You're right. Bad choice of words. Awkward attempt to give props to 16 Septiembre.
— GOOD (@good) September 17, 2014
It was kind of an apology, we think. So we asked them this:
@good so will you do anything about it? or is it just a tweet? thanks for responding, btw @laloalcaraz @AndreaLeon
— Latino Rebels (@latinorebels) September 17, 2014
@basilisaalonso @good @laloalcaraz @AndreaLeon 🙂 hopefully the editors at Good can provide a response with more context
— Latino Rebels (@latinorebels) September 17, 2014
GOOD has yet to tweet back anything else.
Nonetheless, Gustavo Arellano won the Internet yesterday with his reply about it all:
@good @laloalcaraz @AndreaLeon @latinorebels Why does the flag of Italy have a mustache?
— GustavoArellano (@GustavoArellano) September 17, 2014
