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"tone-deaf" Definitions
  1. unable to hear the difference between musical notes

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My father believed that his children could do pretty much anything; tone-deaf himself, he believed that his tone-deaf daughter (me) had potential as a violist (I didn't).
Yet Brazile seems tone deaf about her integrity breach — just as the Democratic Party establishment has been tone deaf about the corrosive effects of servicing Wall Street and wealthy contributors.
The comment struck many at the time as tone deaf.
They are wondering how it could be so tone deaf.
I'm not tone deaf to where I don't get it.
S.E. Cupp: Kaine gave tone deaf, unhinged performance Just wow.
It's astoundingly tone deaf at best, openly offensive at worst.
Appropriation Queen, resplendent in a tone deaf headdress and bindis.
We know that Mr. Trump is boorish and tone deaf.
"Tone deaf" was Scalise's description of the VA chief's remark.
Tone-deaf business decisions like Portal are nothing new for Facebook.
I think she's tone deaf when it comes to cultural stereotypes.
"She just comes off as so incredibly tone-deaf," Cessac said.
And his new tone-deaf comments Monday aren't going over well.
To describe the song as tone-deaf would be an understatement.
Both of us are tone deaf, but I alone would breastfeed.
The United States has been largely tone deaf to these concerns.
Came across particularly tone deaf on #SNL monologue considering today's "climate".
But this time, Hoersdig said, it felt a little tone deaf.
This could be the most tone-deaf IP suit in history.
This could be the most tone-deaf IP suit in history.
After a disastrous 2017 — remember the tone-deaf Kendall Jenner ad?
What if your tone deaf humming could actually sound... pretty good?
Even in Nevada, tone-deaf misogyny still echoes in the chamber.
"He believed that tone-deaf people didn't exist," Ms. Tramontin said.
"Tone deaf doesn't even start to describe it," said one poster.
I&aposm not tone deaf to where I don&apost get it.
Stop being tone deaf and blind to your own internalized colonial mentality.
Well, I'm tone deaf, I can hang adoringly for maybe 10 minutes.
I'm fairly tone deaf, so the first few seconds were pretty painful.
He is totally tone-deaf to what is racism, what is bigotry.
I found the execution to be more than a little tone deaf.
Not surprisingly, Cavallari's tone-deaf comments aren't sitting well with some women.
It's tone-deaf, which is something Ivanka Trump is, almost always, not.
Unsurprisingly, Muñoz's message was universally panned for its tone-deaf, Orwellian language.
Yet they can still seem oddly tone-deaf, even a touch naive.
BUT FLIPSIDE, A LIL TONE DEAF KNOWING THE SPECIFIC CROWD IT DREW.
But flipside, a lil tone deaf knowing the specific crowd it drew.
" In his video apology, Mr. Ivy called his initial statement "tone deaf.
This may make it tone-deaf, but clearly no offense was intended.
The responses have been wide-ranging: outrage, disappointment, and tone-deaf ambivalence.
Rowling also has a track record of making rather tone-deaf proclamations.
Still others complained that the performance was, however well-intentioned, tone-deaf.
The change is tone deaf to today's needs and must be stopped.
Or are people abrasive, tone-deaf and handle conflict without any tact?
From "Grace's" description, Ansari's behavior sounds just tone-deaf, selfish, and boorish.
Oh, and Pepsi outraged everyone with a tone-deaf ad starring Kendall Jenner.
But, in Myanmar, he happened to do so in spectacularly tone deaf fashion.
Ballinger created her Miranda persona — a quirky, tone-deaf wannabe singer — in 2008.
And it's also what an increasingly defensive, tone deaf, and cynical GOP deserves.
Both made startlingly tone-deaf comments that have sparked outrage among their fans.
Instead, her complaint was met with a snarky and completely tone deaf response.
However, many viewers feel the ad is tone-deaf in today's #MeToo environment.
Lim's statement comes across as tone deaf and more than a little xenophobic.
So to have her make a comment like that seems particularly tone deaf.
Either way it's tone deaf and lessons the impact of Kaworu to Shinji.
The tone deaf language he used is laced with racial charge and cringe.
It's completely tone deaf to the current economic realities facing working class Americans.
Critics called his take tone deaf, and said it glorified unhealthy work practices.
Of course, I'm tone deaf—and quickly parried I.R.S.'s tedious tax questions.
While Match is trying to make amends, the statement is still tone-deaf.
U2's repeated insertion into the ceremony was painfully tone-deaf as well.
Possibly just one inquiline lives inside the food truck, a tone-deaf inquiline.
And Silicon Valley, he insists, has been tone-deaf to the American mood.
"The tone-deaf '#40Ounce' marketing is cultural appropriation at its worst," he tweeted.
But workplace problems aren't being helped by a tone-deaf government recruiting campaign.
" She added, "The quotes from Dr. Patterson surpass the category of tone-deaf.
Another day, another awkwardly tone-deaf comment from a Hollywood celebrity about race.
This board has come across as tone-deaf, emotionless and lacking in compassion.
It wouldn't be the first time she's been accused of being tone-deaf.
All of this was variously offensive, tone-deaf, ignorant or, at times, insidious.
Critics of "The Simpsons" were hardly placated and called the scene tone-deaf.
But he was politically tone-deaf, immersed in detail and unwilling to prioritize.
Hillary Clinton is shockingly tone deaf and still playing victim 4 years later.
Many saw the slogan as tone-deaf or a failed attempt at cleverness.
Or, maybe the tone deaf Tesla investors have lost all sense of reality.
Pointing the finger at women in the educational sector is backwards and tone-deaf.
That's why Trump endorsement or no Trump endorsement, Cruz's speech was particularly tone deaf.
But offering it as a potential solution for dealing with harassment is tone-deaf.
Everyone was barking about how terrible it was and how tone-deaf she is.
"That's a profoundly tone-deaf response to allegations of sexual abuse," user @tedgesing wrote.
Spayd was often tone deaf and wasn't very good at listening to her colleagues.
" He added that "I'm tone deaf on politics and that's as it should be.
"It's tone-deaf to the desires and experience of a lot of LGBTQ people."
This reality is compounded by each seemingly tone-deaf public overture from US officials.
Is it tone-deaf that these broadcasts will take place on this specific day?
Most of us are tone deaf anyway, and the world can be off-key.
And enough of it to not spout utterly tone-deaf, regressive noise like that.
"On Facebook's part, this seems tone deaf," said Endre, who works in public relations.
Tone-deaf and out of touch, it characterized the early months of Xbox One.
Many came out calling it tone-deaf, and shortly after, the ad was pulled.
His speech on April 13th was less tone-deaf than that of his predecessor.
Obviously, people are ripping into it ... calling it tone-deaf, laughable and downright moronic.
Zuckerberg's tone-deaf remarks read like 1,000 words of patting himself on the back.
"I encounter tone-deaf family court judges a lot," one expert told the paper.
Rather than an educated and thoughtful appraisal, Cusk's review was dismissive and tone deaf.
"How stupid, how tone deaf, how surreal, how insensitive, how offensive," Navarro told CNN.
He is no political hack for anyone, and not one who is tone-deaf.
That's a question Lara Trump tried to answer in an equally tone-deaf way.
"I think we're getting a little tone-deaf with the word diversity," Brown says.
The Independent offers a hilarious, tone-deaf, and sex-negative opinion of the trend.
Her Democratic primary opponent, DuWayne Gregory, argued that it was tone-deaf and elitist.
"Gender equality advocates and entertainment bloggers have also decried the image as "tone-deaf.
Ballinger-Evans created her Miranda persona — a quirky, tone-deaf wannabe singer — in 2008.
"A lot of FIRE blogs, while well intentioned, can be very tone deaf," Mrs.
It's such a tone-deaf misappropriation of music that it left me feeling litigious.
Some people on Twitter laughed Cruz's tweet out as a tone-deaf unforced error.
Mr. Curbelo disavowed the demonstration, but cast Ms. Mucarsel-Powell as politically tone-deaf.
The internet called the tone-deaf Facebook CEO a "heartless millionaire" for using a
"Omfg this is tone-deaf af," one person tweeted in response to PETA's post.
"There's a point where concessions become tone-deaf to the market," Mr. Miller said.
Some social media users praised the tweet while others criticized it as tone-deaf.
Not every such plot is successful: a few feel tone-deaf or overly cynical.
Many people on Twitter criticized the president for statements they perceived as tone deaf.
All of this was either spectacularly tone-deaf or purposefully manipulative and agenda-driven.
To seek harmony in a noisy society is to come across as tone-deaf.
Nevertheless, Smith won and then launched into an acceptance speech that seemed tone-deaf.
"Sometimes Silicon Valley can be a little bit tone deaf," said a former Fiber staffer.
On Monday, the Senator's Twitter account made a tone-deaf request for more Twitter followers.
Even the most tone-deaf reporter knows saying any of that is a no-no.
" She called men who do this "utterly tone deaf" and "systemically part of the problem.
Politely, Mr Niedzviecki admits that his defence of cultural appropriation was "a bit tone deaf".
" Or what I, as a tone-deaf pop music fan, might call the "minor sad.
But if Clinton's initial comment was politically tone-deaf, Gabbard's response was a deafening scream.
And he repeats that process throughout the movie, with increasingly tone-deaf, pointlessly squirmy jokes.
They're untethered and tone-deaf to the existential issues we're facing in this very instant.
Under similar circumstances President Obama got a pass for just being a little tone deaf.
The New York Times Arts section Twitter account shared a tone-deaf tweet this afternoon.
Another cringe-worthy moment for an administration that often appears tone deaf on social issues.
For an episode that feels so feminist elsewhere, it still rings a little tone-deaf.
And certain to-dos can feel not just tone-deaf but even lacking in compassion.
"Sometimes we see our right-of-center leaders becoming a little tone deaf," Onwuka said.
Soon enough, even tone-deaf politicians will notice just how unpopular identity politics has become.
It's an annoying imposition and somewhat tone-deaf, considering Cole just got out of rehab.
"It's a huge step backward and demonstrates that the party remains tone deaf," Mayes tweeted.
"It's a lesson to how to be tone deaf to the American public," he said.
Despite her good intentions and charitable efforts, Lohan's tone deaf approach to assistance is obvious.
That's why the Chinese response to the president's two-week reprieve is so tone deaf.
Throughout this hot summer of civil disobedience, Hong Kong's leaders have been astonishingly tone-deaf.
And it's not as though Valley folks are tone deaf to the problems of inequality.
The other is insecure, withdrawn, and a mite tone-deaf to the world around him.
Her anti-cyberbullying initiative, given her husband's history, is naive and tone-deaf at best.
The consensus is in: He's aloof, Jupiter-like, tone-deaf, devoted to coddling the rich.
" Mr. Takano, in his own response, called Mr. Wilkie's letter "shockingly tone-deaf" and "outrageous.
In a typical tone-deaf move, Adrian proposes to Alice right after a big fight.
And this isn't the first time she has made headlines for being utterly tone-deaf.
But Francis, 80, also repeated language that some have criticized as insensitive or tone deaf.
"People on Twitter railed on the tech investor for being "needlessly divisive" and "tone deaf.
"You never want to put that image out there — that's tone-deaf," Mr. Codey said.
"It was so tone deaf and I think telling of this guy's mindset," she said.
To feel like you're kind of tone-deaf to something is not a good feeling.
Maybe these aren't tone-deaf mistakes at all, but intentional messages to right-wing supporters.
Ballinger created her Miranda persona â€" a quirky, tone-deaf wannabe singer â€" in 20163.
Booker's "West Wing"-inspired soliloquy came off as tone deaf given the current political environment.
Can CRISPR earn the public trust, squandered in the tone-deaf, insular rollout of GMOs?
But without some context, Trump's video can come across as tone-deaf, with some absurdist undertones.
Instead, the guy doubled down and made the romance genre even more shallow and tone deaf.
Trump's jacket as tone deaf, with some suggested that she may even be "trolling" her husband.
The Gold's Gym Dreamland's tone-deaf attempt to rectify the situation also rightfully drew further ire.
Public/Media: Kendall Jenner's Pepsi ad is the worst most tone-deaf public relations effort ever.
Twitter immediately pounced on the Times cover as tone-deaf at best, and racist at worst.
"Neil Portnow you are tone-deaf AF," one Twitter user said in reaction to the comment.
A rebuke to Conway, whose comments Taub called "awfully arrogant and tone deaf" in an interview.
The brand recently released an extremely tone-deaf commercial, which caused quite a stir on Twitter.
And in tone-deaf tweets that proclaim a small group of men the "future" of anything.
"People on Twitter also criticized the sale, with one person calling it "tasteless and tone-deaf.
Because saying something tone deaf will always reverberate more on our current internet than something thoughtful.
He's concerned that the museum is becoming tone-deaf to the realities of the surrounding communities.
DeGeneres' emphatic support of his return to the Oscar job was also seen as tone deaf.
Kylie Jenner&aposs recent Instagram story has sparked accusations of hypocrisy and "tone deaf" fashion choices.
That approach, which once seemed strident and economically tone deaf, has seeped into everyday food culture.
The prime minister has been heavily criticized for his tone-deaf interactions with fire-ravaged communities.
Others criticized it as tone deaf to the devastation methamphetamine has increasingly wrought on the state.
Facebook's decision to move into the dating space may strike some as brazen or tone deaf.
Some attendees, however, found the allusions to opium bars and Asian courtesans to be tone-deaf.
Director Prashant Singh and scriptwriter Sanjeev K Jha are tone-deaf in their treatment of the subject.
The playful intent — the brand tried to frame the event as "#PancakesVsWaffles" — struck some as tone-deaf.
"I found this decision to be incredibly tone-deaf, to put it mildly," Helwani said on ESPN.
Which is not to say that Uber isn't trying to act more responsibly and less tone deaf.
The imagery Spotify uses to reach out to its "gamer" audience is equally dated and tone-deaf.
And having this convo right after Kim talks about counting her calories is a little tone-deaf.
She doesn't even realize how tone deaf this is bc she's been rich her whole life lol.
While reputation had some catchy singles catchy, it was also widely criticized for being extremely tone deaf.
Is it just me, or is this ad that popped up on my Snapchat extremely tone deaf?
Rihanna is not happy with Snap for the tone-deaf ad the company let run on Snapchat.
At first, choosing to highlight this part of the game in a trailer seems exploitative, tone-deaf.
It's a fraught question, with steampunk radicalism and tone-deaf steampunk blusterappearing to exist side-by-side.
Airbnb's similar efforts, included a tone-deaf ad campaign in San Francisco last fall, have often backfired.
But did Humphrey lose because he was a liberal, or because he ran a tone-deaf campaign?
And it's certainly not the first time Ivanka has presented herself in a particularly tone-deaf way.
He said the brooding antihero embodied by Batman comes off as a tone-deaf relic in 2017.
He appeared callous, tone deaf, amateurish — everything the political pros had hoped and feared he would be.
Graham's single most tone-deaf argument to sell his bill was drawing an analogy to welfare reform.
According to Nintendo Japan, he enjoys afternoon naps, eating, and singing songs though he is tone deaf.
Regardless of her apology, Steinem's strangely off-kilter and tone-deaf statement had already done its damage.
The answer was a pretty emphatic FUCK NO. "Tone deaf if we're being diplomatic," one commenter wrote.
That either she is the most tone-deaf image maker in the administration or its most Machiavellian.
We are tone deaf to the underlying drivers of things like campus protests and expropriation without compensation.
From a certain angle, Mr. Ramasar's role in "Brahms-Schoenberg" was an odd, tone-deaf casting choice.
Some have continued posting as if nothing is happening, only to receive backlash for appearing tone deaf.
It's just the latest case in the fashion world's long tradition of tone-deaf branding and promotion.
But, if it did, it could give even the most tone deaf new confidence in their abilities. 
Ten hours after starting the game, its repetitive nature and tone deaf narrative caught up with me.
Often, people believe they are tone deaf because they have been told that they are, she said.
In this environment, calls for healing sound like a tone-deaf salve to deeper calls for rupture.
On Sunday, the Ivanka Trump brand posted a painfully tone deaf tweet just in time for the holiday.
In a normal free market, a crappy product combined with tone-deaf public relations would lead to failure.
Even given the benefit of the doubt, Hiddleston comes across as tone-deaf, braggy, and un-self-aware.
As several people on social media have already pointed out, the ads are obviously and egregiously tone-deaf.
After a disastrously tone-deaf launch, the business side of the service has been plagued by executive changes.
Some alleged she mishandled the Nassar scandal, and called her "tone deaf" to the severity of the crimes.
But Pepsi's new ad takes the cake for the most tone-deaf display of hollow "woke"-ness yet.
This mattress company's spectacularly tone-deaf ad for a "twin towers" sale is not one of those cases.
The tone-deaf posts only fueled criticism that Ivanka has yet to speak out against her father's policies.
When it comes to race—historically, the most difficult issue in America—Trump can indeed seem tone-deaf.
Even after Driver's backlash, Damon continued to make comments that read as tone-deaf in the current environment.
We're protesting a government that's tone deaf to people that still go to jail because of marijuana prohibition.
They may be tone-deaf when it comes to recognizing the suffering of their currently incarcerated family members.
Trump is either incredibly tone-deaf or naively oblivious to a tremendously large concern to all of Florida.
Some of the answers were so tone-deaf, for a minute I thought it might be a parody.
But between the trailer itself and this interview, this looks like a trailer for a tone-deaf game.
We're also seeing the same tone deaf, bubble dwelling antics that remind us how hypocritical modern Hollywood remains.
May's tone deaf response to the tragic fire that destroyed Grenfell Tower should have been a sacking offense.
That's why Veronica's response to Cheryl's snap decision to drop Nick's charges comes off as so tone deaf.
Kendall Jenner hasn't exactly been in hiding since her appearance in Pepsi's disastrous and excruciatingly tone-deaf advert.
Read more:An activist shareholder is urging Victoria's Secret parent to update 'tone-deaf' brand image to boost sales
") to Conner4Real's incredibly tone-deaf attempts to be edgy ("Fuck me like the US government fucked Bin Laden!
And last year he fluctuated between tone-deaf and hostile when asked about issues that affected African Americans.
That's just reality, no matter how tone-deaf it may be to put Kane out there like this.
"The fear right now is that if you are tone-deaf, the damage could be significant," Diamond said.
He stumbled and growled his way through a poorly written, tone-deaf, petty, intemperate, belligerent and insensitive harangue.
Americans tend to ignore — or, more accurately, be tone-deaf to — the fact that China is an autocracy.
In October, one of the company&aposs ads was derided for being tone deaf, Business Insider previously reported.
Over the past couple of days, Mr. Maduro and his allies were characteristically tone deaf about the strife.
And there will be the tone-deaf, unaware people"—she seemed to mean élitists—"on the other side.
Starr International's attempt to recover more money for shareholders struck many critics at the time as tone-deaf.
Never in my lifetime have US politicians been so tone-deaf to the aspirations and hopes of Europeans.
Apart from the tone-deaf choir, there are an amateur orchestra, a junior orchestra and the children's choir.
Yet here we are, obsessively watching this video because it's so tone-deaf that we can't look away.
The apps' constant chipper questions and reminders were mostly tone deaf and annoying, but occasionally they were comforting.
Altman does not begrudge Zuckerberg his billions, nor does he find his comments on cash handouts tone deaf.
Still, Tehran appeared tone-deaf to not one, but two unifying summit communiques urging it to change its behavior.
Instead, they wrote more than 4,000 astonishingly tone-deaf words examining The Birth of a Nation's future awards chances.
At least that's what The Hollywood Reporter editor Stephen Galloway argues in a tone-deaf column published this morning.
Peppered with tone deaf racist and sexist stereotyping, QD games (unsurprisingly) come from a predominantly white male creative studio.
The company was criticized for the tone-deaf response from its CEO, prompting a new hashtag on Twitter: #DeleteUber.
His tone-deaf apology, disastrous treatment of women's issues, and defense of repressive Chinese government crackdowns kills his campaign.
For someone who has been a vocal proponent of LGBTQ+ rights, he made a pretty a tone deaf comment.
South Koreans are relieved that their careers no longer hinge on jangling a tambourine for their tone-deaf bosses.
I think I'm tone deaf to my own voice or something, I can't tell if it's good or not.
"It certainly speaks to how tone-deaf the academy is in thinking about sexual violence and predators," she said.
The fun continues when Jonas makes tone-deaf noises as he "works" on his vocal cords for an audition.
Totally tone deaf to the social issues players are kneeling about, and clumsily  navigating a changing societal landscape. 2.
Another scheduled event at Louisiana State University was subsequently canceled after faculty caught wind of the "tone-deaf" presentation.
Honestly man, I was tone-deaf when I was younger but it's good to laugh at how I started.
Update 12:30 ET: The CEO of United has followed up with an awful, tone deaf statement. [Courier-Journal]
Skydance's move to announce his hiring less than two weeks later was widely viewed as insensitive and tone deaf.
In life, some of us are forced to endure poetic ironies: A tone-deaf child born to accomplished musicians.
Dean was unhelpful to say the least during the 2016 cycle, making news for tone-deaf and reckless remarks.
Problematic. Suspect. Tone deaf: All descriptors about Mark Flood's work left behind in comment sections, according to the artist.
The casting choice was tone deaf in the way that many others have been throughout the history of cinema.
As tone-deaf corporate maneuvers go, few are less popular than paying out bonuses in a time of crisis.
Two days after posting a tone-deaf Bachelorette tweet, former Bachelor star Leah Block has issued a formal apology.
Pepsi has apologized for the ad that many have called "tone deaf," and even offered an apology to model.
We would also be tone-deaf not to think about the backdrop of what's going on in our country.
The video quickly drew blowback from some community leaders and members who described the governor's comments as tone-deaf.
Exposed to hostile voices on the campaign trail, he has seemed at times unsure, tone deaf and gaffe prone.
He was, at best, tone-deaf to the specific grievances and issues faced by people of color and women
That's why you are tone deaf and taking "look at me in my shades" pics on a private jet.
The "napalm girl" incident reminded many insiders at Facebook of the company's often tone-deaf approach to nuanced situations.
But Paul's first apology didn't placate the growing anger and was criticized as being tone-deaf and self-praising.
Esquire writer Gabrielle Bruney called the comments tone-deaf, and many fans on Twitter seem to support that notion.
"Any time I leaked, it was out of frustration with incompetent or tone-deaf leadership," the former official said.
His initial dismissal -- particularly given the post-Harvey Weinstein world in which we now live -- feels deeply tone deaf.
" Chris Brown's lawyer, Mark Geragos, also told US Weekly, "They should change their name from Snapchat to Tone Deaf.
It was the tone-deaf established political parties on both sides that enabled Donald Trump to capture the throne!
But some people thought it was a bit tone-deaf to promote fundraising efforts with a see-through top.
Mr. Temer, the president, has been chided for what some have called a tone-deaf response to the crisis.
She rarely ventured outside scripted Conservative settings, and when she did she was ill at ease and tone-deaf.
But most of this movie, which is almost entirely in English, is taken up with tone-deaf humanist tales.
Only the tone-deaf insensitivity of Lam, the city's chief executive, pushed Hong Kongers into open revolt in June.
"Although I have great respect for my colleagues, not having women on the committee was tone-deaf," she said.
For them to come in and dictate her birth plan is so inconsiderate and emotionally tone-deaf — it's just beyond.
I think it&aposs politically tone deaf because, as you say, Karen, everybody should be rooting for some success here.
Hong Kong's many stakeholders have openly worried the city's leaders are tone deaf, and simply not up to the task.
" Anti-Defamation League President Jonathan Greenblatt put his thoughts on the action's timing more succinctly: "I think it's tone deaf.
Today's rejoinders to criticism of these policies from many establishment Democrats underscore how tone deaf the party elites have become.
YouTube told him he could turn them off in his settings, but the response was totally tone deaf, he said.
Trump seemed tone-deaf in cheering the Brexit vote in Scotland last month at his luxury golf course, experts added.
This both preserves Uber's cashless philosophy, while also blunting criticism that its tone deaf to the concerns of its drivers.
But there is one group whose tone-deaf and buffoonish input I will perversely miss, and it is Silicon Valley.
Related: Amy Schumer Posts & Immediately Deletes Incredibly Racist Tweet But then came an awkward moment: Chelsea's tone deaf #BlackLivesMatter joke.
Iron Fist debuted this past spring, though is received negative reviews for its poor storytelling and tone deaf racial representation.
In an era where women's accusations are consistently doubted and dissected at every step, this showing reads as tone deaf.
Some felt the sentiment was tone deaf and failed to address the myriad problems Nigerians face on a daily basis.
For someone who has been singing for 22018 years, Madonna's VMA tribute speech to Aretha Franklin was exceedingly tone-deaf.
A number of fans called the response tone deaf and questioned why Lisa, often the show's moral center, voiced it.
His wife sparked controversy the next day with her jacket that was criticized by many as tone deaf and insensitive.
Mario Batali takes the cake -- or, in this case, pizza dough -- for most tone deaf response to sexual battery allegations.
Pepsi has apologized for the ad that many have called "tone deaf," and even offered an apology to the model.
We asked friends and co-workers about the most jaw-droppingly ridiculous/tone-deaf/harmful/awful advice they've ever received.
They ended up with a confusing mess that fails to lift the stereotype of EDM promoters as tone-deaf bros.
Up until the end, that trailer just seemed like a tone-deaf trailer that used violence in a tawdry way.
The oversight seems particularly tone-deaf when the entire comic industry has been loudly criticized for their lack of diversity.
"How stupid, how tone deaf, how surreal, how insensitive, how offensive," Trump critic and Republican strategist Ana Navarro told CNN.
Context matters, and many felt that his tone-deaf gender humor was an especially bad look given the personal history.
Cole issued a more respectful remembrance later in the day but did not apologize for the first, tone-deaf tweet.
Others also criticized Bono's tweet as being tone-deaf, saying the suppression of athletes' voices allowed Nassar's abuse to continue.
This version of the story is a little cutesier and less tone-deaf than the one she told in 2016.
Reid apologizes, saying her "insensitive, tone deaf" comments were a "ham-handed way...to call out potential hypocrisy" from Crist.
Some people might think his take here is no more ridiculous than Pepsi's explanation for the immensely tone deaf spot.
"How tone-deaf," Ashley Kempson, a Metro rider and 32-year-old event planner from Arlington, Va., said this week.
His friends should have warned him that "Apropos of Nothing" is incredibly, unbelievably tone deaf on the subject of women.
His friends should have warned him that "Apropos of Nothing" is incredibly, unbelievably tone deaf on the subject of women.
I think she is at times tone-deaf, and not feeling, lacking a true understanding of what genuine love is.
David Turner, a spokesman for Mr. Northam, criticized as "tone deaf" Mr. Gillespie's decision to campaign on Thursday with Gov.
It seems tone deaf for candidates to continue to invite people into situations that could prove physically dangerous, even fatal.
Prior administrations have worried that cheerleading Wall Street is tone-deaf since it hardly represents the fortunes of Main Street.
" —Fare (@farenet) December 5, 2019The journalist Matteo Bonetti also expressed outrage, tweeting: "Tone deaf, ignorant & with the usual racial undertones.
But after decades of tone-deaf comportment and complaints now emerging from women about his behavior, Stallman's time was up.
"People who keep referring to Black voters as 'the establishment' are tone deaf and have obviously learned nothing," she said.
Time, of course, would render this remark rather tone-deaf for C.K., and Davidson relishes in the comedian's #MeToo reckoning.
United drew quick criticism for its initial response to the Sunday evening incident, with many people calling it tone deaf.
The New York Times has written about this, about how in some ways these events, they're becoming increasingly tone deaf.
Others also criticized Bono's tweet as being tone deaf, saying the suppression of athletes' voices allowed Nassar's abuse to continue.
Using that term to describe the situation makes our community seem rather tone deaf to other societal problems around race.
He is, in some ways, the embodiment of today's N.F.L.: rich, bold, distracted, insecure and more than a little tone-deaf.
Meanwhile, the businesses that would buy Bodegas™ probably don't care about tone-deaf branding, unless customers actively protest the machines.
A single tone-deaf Tweet can be all it takes to bring anger about this bleak financial reality to the surface.
Congressman, not only is that just completely tone deaf, but she talks about wages -- wages are up 3% under this President.
We're always surprised (but also, not so surprised) when a brand makes a tone-deaf misstep for the sake of sales.
"We're not tone-deaf to some of the concerns in our community where this could be potentially race-related," he said.
But is it the real deal, or a scheme designed to highlight the shallow and tone-deaf stereotype of Silicon Valley?
Victoria's Secret model Devon Windsor is facing harsh backlash for her tone-deaf comments on racial diversity in the modeling industry.
Hilary Duff may have just won the award for worst Halloween costume of 2016 — or at least the most tone-deaf.
Whenever The Division tries to portray its characters as heroic, their work and mission somehow noble, it's a tone-deaf travesty.
We'd also love for celebrities to stop wearing tone-deaf get-ups and pretend like they've never read a freaking newspaper.
Jack Dorsey, known for making tone-deaf statements on the platform he co-founded, is in the middle of another controversy.
Maybe it was just that it seems kind of, uh, tone deaf to have a playful time with an outright bigot.
And despite multiple delays, it seems to be exactly as tone-deaf and poorly-considered as security and legal experts expected.
Activists, celebrities and Americans of every political leaning united in roasting Kendall Jenner's tone-deaf answer to centuries-old racial tensions.
For what it's worth, I thought the inclusion of the painting was a curatorial misstep—tone-deaf to say the least.
Still, Ashlee thinks she's tone-deaf, and needs to bone up on several issues if she wants to rep the community.
"That sounds crazy racist," I told her, just imagining the tone-deaf jokes being delivered by the white-as-hell Krakowski.
It all started with a tone-deaf tweet from former Bachelor contestant Leah Block, who competed on Ben Higgins' season 20.
Millennials were not pleased with Blyth's rejoinder and have tweeted their frustration about her perceived "tone deaf" comments about millennial finances.
"How stupid, how tone deaf, how surreal, how insensitive, how offensive," Trump critic and GOP strategist Ana Navarro said on CNN.
As the political drama intensifies once again, many Brazilians wondered aloud how their elected representatives could prioritize such tone-deaf legislation.
It seemed odd at first, even tone deaf, for the two candidates to have chosen to end their races in Manhattan.
Bluff, unwieldy and tone deaf, it ran at a slightly surreal angle to the sentiments expressed in the safe space post.
MSNBC's Morning Joe on Wednesday featured a tone-deaf discussion of Hillary Clinton's tone, which you can watch in full here.
Some campaigns are questioning how long they can continue to send email solicitations or run online advertisements without seeming tone-deaf.
They're all delicious choices for dinner tonight—and all culturally tone-deaf things to feature on a Black History Month menu.
Whether or not you think that award was merited, the Navy and specifically Navy legal leadership came across as tone deaf.
There's a lot of speculation about the president being tone-deaf to facts, but there's not much disagreement about the tone.
Brands and marketers across the ad industry are adjusting campaigns so as not to appear tone deaf during the coronavirus pandemic.
Some viewers found the response tone deaf, and criticized the choice of Lisa, often the show's moral center, to voice it.
David, her regular sugar daddy, is an emotionally tone-deaf married man who has sex with her two days a week.
His tone-deaf comments about being unable to use TurboTax certainly did not make him more relatable to non-billionaire Americans.
That way you can make sure it is coming across as a humble inquiry, not a presumptuous and tone-deaf demand.
Notably, the South China Morning Post called the film "tone-deaf" in its review, and others deemed it a propaganda film.
"He is totally tone-deaf to what is racism, what is bigotry," Schumer said in an interview with CNBC's John Harwood.
Others said Bono's tweet was tone deaf, saying it was the suppression of athletes' voices that allowed Nassar's abuse to fester.
Past fumbles, a little plagiarism and tone-deaf Anita Hill hearings aside, he owns his mistakes, apologizes, moves on and grows.
As media report on closures, postponements or incidence, they will be sensitive to any pitch that comes off as tone deaf.
No matter how many times we seem to go over this, celebrities can't stop, won't stop with the tone-deaf Halloween costumes.
" The company's website pitches the item with what some consider "tone-deaf" words: "Keep the border safe today, tomorrow and on Halloween!
It's one thing to be tone deaf about how the country is feeling and how it should be addressed by its candidates.
Portal delivers some neat tricks, including impressive camera tracking and AR stories, but it mostly feels like a tone-deaf PR nightmare.
He gathered peers to discuss what it means to be black in the office and the tone-deaf comments they have heard.
It even garnered the attention of the punditocracy in a spectacularly tone-deaf piece by David Brooks for The New York Times.
Lohan is being criticized for a tone-deaf Instagram post she dedicated to the people of Turkey and Nice earlier this week.
" GOP strategist Matt Mackowiak said Price's jet travel and interest in an executive dining room, when informed of it, appeared "tone deaf.
By now I should be used to marketers pillaging the English language for profit, but this is tone-deaf even for tech.
But some of his immediate reactions to the Orlando tragedy -- including a self-congratulatory tweet -- came off as tone deaf, or worse.
But the choice of words here is just so ill-advised...and tone-deaf and objectifying and marginalizing and condescending and disempowering.
Yes, the defense ends up sounding as tone deaf as when people claim having Black friends shields them from inadvertent racist comments.
These moments are frustrating and tone-deaf and stand out because the rest of the game is so well-done and charming.
Ivanka has often been criticized amid national crises as "complicit" for her public silence, and "tone-deaf" for her social media choices.
The commercial's faced immediate backlash since being released on Tuesday, with many labeling it "tone-deaf," a "complete disaster" or much worse.
Along with the deaths, Mr Fico's tone-deaf response further angered the public and brought frustrations over Smer's politics to the surface.
But how tone deaf is Facebook to launch a video- and audio-recording device the same year as its numerous privacy crises?
In the 2018 holiday season, luxury fashion brands appear to be competing with one another for worst case of tone deaf racism.
Days Gone is sincere in its reverence of this object, and the relationship it symbolizes, but it's also a little tone deaf.
Even the debut of its camera-enabled Facebook Portal product was tone-deaf, announced the same week as its data breach. Coincidence?
At least this ad commenting on social issues wasn't overwhelmingly viewed as tone deaf and tasteless, like other companies' attempts have been.
Trump's post has been criticized as tone-deaf amid an ongoing crisis involving the U.S. government losing track of 1,500 migrant children.
It's worth asking why Ivanka's brother and father made such tone-deaf remarks if her portrayal of their company culture is accurate.
This would be a particularly tone-deaf move on Russia's part, considering that the anniversary of the 1944 deportation is this week.
Some scholars see that approach as a missed opportunity, or even a tone-deaf reflection of Romania's troubled relationship with its history.
Trump's comments on Saturday were immediately denounced by many Twitter users, with political observers across the spectrum as opportunistic and tone-deaf.
It's hard to dispel the idea that as first lady, she was tone deaf about domesticity, however understandable her frustration seems now.
That included some who wrote about Hillary Clinton using gendered and tone-deaf language, like Walker Bragman… This article received widespread attention.
Meanwhile, governments of various political persuasions continue to act tone deaf, ignoring the heavy toll global economic changes are exacting on millions.
This offensive response was in no way surprising: The White House's response to hate crimes is quite typically tone-deaf and insulting.
Steinbrenner continued to say remarkably stupid and tone deaf things, and at one point straight up said it was about selling tickets.
Critics at the time also called that event "tone-deaf"; it featured flaming trash cans and burned-out cars as party backdrops.
The starting point is often the birth lottery […] It really pains me when smart people are both tone deaf and color blind.
CMOs are fearful that consumers will punish them if they appear tone deaf in a time of social distancing and economic uncertainty.
Is the holiday a benign celebration of national pride or a tone-deaf party that should be recast or moved from Jan.
"They are so tone deaf," said Sarah Emerson, 43, as she walked in front of St. Andrew's, a Catholic church in Dublin.
That is, even by Trump's lowered standards, an incredibly poor and tone-deaf response to what, honestly, is a very easy question.
"Your recently deleted tweet might just be the most tone-deaf 9/11 'brand' tweet to ever be posted," one woman responded.
"There was a worry that "Jojo Rabbit" could have been tone-deaf, a la the James Franco/Seth Rogen comedy "The Interview.
Despite the media trying to portray her as a "tone deaf" immigrant, her intelligence is on display no matter what she tackles.
But Democrats derided the education spending blueprint for the 2018 fiscal year as tone deaf to low-income and working-class Americans.
Just this week, Pepsi was excoriated for a tone-deaf commercial that invoked the imagery of populist protest to sell soft drinks.
"It's hard to understand how we waited so long for such a tepid, timid, and frankly tone-deaf response," one employee said.
Trump has also come under fire for remarks that many viewed as tone-deaf or hostile toward the suffering of Puerto Ricans.
Its titular startup evokes the real "empathy machine" genre of VR, which ranges from serious psychological experiments to tone-deaf poverty tourism.
The idea of turning traditionally victimized groups into the privileged victimizers, however, feels too cute at best, and tone-deaf at worst.
It also indicates that NBC is tone deaf to the nation's heartbeat, which clearly is intensely focused on all matters political today.
While that may seem to be a common-sense recommendation for an administrative body, it's a politically tone-deaf, potentially counterproductive suggestion.
"I also remain extremely disappointed in official responses that are as tone deaf and insensitive as the initial bad act," she said.
Ms. Araujo said that the photo in which Ms. Meirelles is sitting, surrounded by baianas, was insensitive — or at least tone deaf.
And it was hard not to feel for this gay man of biracial origin who remained haunted by his tone-deaf cruelty.
Since the event, critics have taken to Yelp, Facebook, and elsewhere online to express their extreme displeasure with the tone-deaf promotion.
The first was how politically petty and tone-deaf it was for Trump to bash Obama in the same breath as Assad.
To the Editor: David Brooks's column struck me as particularly tone-deaf to the realities of being a young person in America today.
They could appear tone-deaf or even racist at times, but many black voters felt as though they had no options Not anymore.
Still, the manner of the note is tone deaf at the least, and possibly offensive to the millions who died during the Holocaust.
It's hard to overstate how tone deaf this request from the Vatican is in the context of growing Catholic anger in the pews.
Ivanka had the temerity to post a picture of herself with her young son on Instagram, prompting charges that she was tone-deaf.
Commentators viewed Trudeau's statement as gushing and tone-deaf -- one that ignored the Cuban leader's human rights abuses and record of political oppression.
Coming in the aftermath of a highly successful Women's March on Washington, congressional Republicans seem to be particularly tone deaf in this regard.
In December, celeb chef Mario Batali apologized for his exploits with a tone-deaf link to a recipe for pizza dough cinnamon rolls.
" To add insult to injury, Gershengorin posted a photo of the project on social media, along with the expertly tone-deaf caption "#makingchicagogreatagain.
Of course, the Conner parents' willfully conservative politics also lends itself to jokes that will feel tone deaf to its more liberal viewers.
Most recently, it was her tone-deaf comments on historically Black colleges and universities that tipped off her fan base to her deficiencies.
You've since deleted the post and I hope that this means you realized how tone-deaf the idea was in the first place.
On Wednesday, CrossFit said it would offer the winners of each category a handgun as a prize, which strikes some as tone-deaf.
The two are more negative images of each other than opposites, with Jenna's self-aware fakeness cutting through Liz's tone-deaf self-righteousness.
B.V. Release date: July 28 Here's another high-profile film about a real event that was slammed for its seemingly tone-deaf approach.
But the spot quickly devolves into a tone deaf play on gender stereotypes, a cringeworthy mashup of 21st century tech and 1950s sensibilities.
And she and Schumer stepped in it together in an embarrassingly tone deaf Lenny newsletter interview to promote the latter's book in 2016.
The only conclusion that makes sense in this case is that America's corporate leaders are just too tone deaf to get it. Why?
Politcal commentator Britt McHenry told Fox News the move is "stunningly tone deaf," especially since her past narrow-mindedness was exposed so recently.
I can have respect for people's meditation, but it was the most tone-deaf series of things that you ever want to see.
And nobody is clamoring for the 2020 candidate to give politically tone-deaf, damaging speeches to Wall Street bankers for six-figure salaries.
"I'm aware of the irony, but Twitter marketing is either disconnected from reality or extremely tone-deaf with their Oscars ad," said another.
"He's emblematic of a generation of Japanese politicians who are tone deaf to this kind of issue and out of touch," Cleveland said.
But, again, that video and that tone deaf response made a lot of people feel like they have forgotten that these are customers.
"Are we tone deaf / Keep sweeping it under the mat / Thought we could do better than that / I hope we can," Perry sings.
While many people seem eager to purchase the products, others on Twitter have criticized Jenner for being "tone-deaf" and "flaunting" her wealth.
As a woman of color, I have found the two of them to be similarly tone deaf when it comes to sensitive issues.
A top House Republican aide says the "ridiculous, tone-deaf unforced error" over the Office of Congressional Ethics was caused mainly by haste.
And, that's precisely what she's done on Instagram after Pepsi's advert featuring Kendall Jenner was mocked around the world for being tone-deaf.
Tellingly, Stoller saddles his prose with tone-deaf subordinate clauses when he uses odious events and characters as positive reinforcements of his thesis.
If ever there were an object lesson in the consequences of asserting a legally justified – but utterly tone-deaf – argument, this is it.
It would be tone-deaf to conclude that virtual reality has some magical properties that can mend the deep wounds of Canada's history.
Maybe she's a little bit tone-deaf and sometimes misses the mark a little bit, but [this is] not such a bad transgression.
Still, their plot lines have been criticized for being nostalgic for a bygone era and tone-deaf to the changes in modern Britain.
The problem with these populists is not that they are elevating irrelevant issues, but that they can be tone-deaf to other issues.
But now we're just talking about people being tone deaf on social media and which is (sigh) hardly a COVID-19-related phenomenon.
Still, the "kitchens" comment isn't the first time Kasich has come under fire for saying something arguably tone-deaf about women's gender roles.
One of the big lessons of Amazon's HQ2 debacle, at least from my perspective, was that the company can be weirdly tone-deaf.
The public-relations firm Weber Shandwick sent a memo to its employees telling them not to send out tone-deaf pitches to reporters.
One character's heartfelt monologue about a near-brush with HIV, resolved easily by his unimpeded access to PEP medication, is particularly tone-deaf.
For example, Burberry's Chinese New Year campaign in 2019 featured stoic, heavily stylized family portraits, which Chinese netizens found creepy and tone-deaf.
They did not and have not sought approval before hawking the latest fad for a quick buck or a tone-deaf crowd motivator.
Corona beer released a hard seltzer ad that some people are saying might be tone deaf given the current tensions regarding the virus.
"And we've had it with your pretentious, tone-deaf assertion that you are in any way truth- or fact-based journalism," Loesch continued.
His follow-up piece, an attempt to dampen the firestorm he created, continues to be tone deaf to American politics, policy and history.
They arrived just when the most tone-deaf and offensive of all Kipling's poems, "The White Man's Burden," was about to be published.
Most significantly, the memo warned against sending "tone deaf" pitches for clients, which include Royal Caribbean Cruises, AB InBev, Chevrolet, IBM, and ExxonMobil.
Twitter users accused Dorsey of being tone deaf in his tweets, which come amid violence against the Rohingyas, an ethnic minority group in Myanmar.
But bumping utility — real practical needs — higher up on the priority list could help ring in a new Apple era that's less tone deaf.
This awful Duff-saster was also particularly tone-deaf right now, as native populations are currently intensifying their protests of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
It's a rather tone-deaf screw-up from Trump, who has (very) recently turned child care into a major policy proposal for his campaign.
She is tone deaf, sings her own hooks, and has all the rhythm of a Canadian goose being fed, slowly, into a wood chipper.
Critics have called her remarks tone-deaf or worse given Mississippi's long, ugly history of lynching and suppressing the voter rights of African-Americans.
And it's a problem for the economists who sound tone-deaf when they explain that the recovery is finally going great — except for wages.
Nevertheless, his latest intervention, first reported by the political blog Guido Fawkes, suggests that the Labour Party leader is, at best, politically tone deaf.
It's easy to tweet something sassy about Melania's absurd platform or Ivanka's tone-deaf contradictions and move on; believe me, I've done it, too.
"I get that it's tone-deaf to do it in Myanmar, but I think the outcry was a bit much," one entrepreneur told me.
But it's important that Saint John doesn't become the sole voice and face of Uber when outrage over the company's tone-deaf wording occurs.
Employees were particularly irked with Chen and what they viewed as his tone-deaf and inappropriate response to a clear violation of user privacy.
Sorry, but Amy Schumer isn't backing down from defending her tone-deaf "Formation" video — not so long as she has the Bey card, anyway.
I am aware that many people believe my statement was tone-deaf for implying that undocumented people work solely as housekeepers, nannies, and landscapers.
In the fifth episode of season 2, "Marionettes," Whelan plays Patricia Campbell, the assistant to the journalist who critiqued the queen's tone-deaf speech.
Hamza said the response from the Obama administration felt particularly tone deaf, given what he suspects was a chemical attack in Aleppo late Wednesday.
Some felt the sentiment was tone deaf and failed to address the myriad problems Nigerians face on a daily basis, including mass youth unemployment.
Schwartz, who witnesses the argument during what was meant to be a positive business meeting, clearly looks panicked over his friend's tone-deaf defense.
Critics accused him of being tone deaf as Myanmar stands accused of carrying out a mass genocide and crimes against an ethnic minority group.
And it's left the companies appearing tone deaf and seemingly unable to reconcile their values with the messy nature of being political in 2017.
With only six episodes released to the press, only time will tell if Iron Fist can bounce back from such a tone-deaf moment.
This isn't only bad news for Democrats who have signed up for at least two more years of tone-deaf outreach and counterproductive strategizing.
The ensuing discussion (downloadable here) was so officious and tone deaf that one Rob Zacny realized he need never listen to this show again.
And when, in response to being pressed on the issue, Cage responded in a defensive and tone-deaf way that doesn't inspire confidence either.
But in the early stages of the general election, exposed to hostile voices, he has seemed at times unsure, tone deaf and gaffe prone.
Some people are not pleased with Jenner's upcoming product launchOn Twitter, many people criticized Jenner for "flaunting" her wealth in a "tone-deaf" manner.
In the letter, Barington's CEO, Read more: An activist shareholder is urging Victoria's Secret parent to update 'tone-deaf' brand image to boost sales
On the scale of Donald Trump's outrageous campaign moments, a tone-deaf Cinco de Mayo tweet falls somewhere near the bottom of the list.
Murrill appeared unprepared for predictable questions, made tone-deaf arguments, and even argued with Ginsburg about the history of the Supreme Court's feminist jurisprudence.
The industry is scrambling to deal with a labor shortage, but some say a tone-deaf government recruiting effort can't overcome serious workplace issues.
Even when the script doesn't trip over gumball wedding rings and tone-deaf karaoke scenes, the direction drains the story of specificity and feeling.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo issued a World Refugee Day statement so tone-deaf that it would be funny if it weren't so tragic.
"The restraint, I think, is because the industry's savvy and they're not tone-deaf to the tenor of things," the industry insider told me.
"I do feel it's a bit tone deaf," said Nicole Martins, a professor at Indiana University Bloomington, who focuses on media and body image.
In the first eight months of her push toward the presidency, Hillary has been consistently tone-deaf on our issues on the campaign trail.
"Brands are being very sensitive not to be tone-deaf at this time," Vickie Segar, the founder of the influencer-marketing firm Village, said.
" Takano, in his own letter to Wilkie last month, called his comment on Goldstein's claims "shockingly tone-deaf," and said Wilkie's letter was "flippant.
And each star failed to understand the gravity of the word and its relationship to black pain, responding in tone-deaf, defensive non-apologies.
This week, Serie A unveiled a new anti-racism initiative featuring three paintings of chimpanzees, provoking a heated backlash that it was tone deaf.
I bet you mean well, but you don't get to decide what's "embarrassing" or "tone-deaf" about her work unless she reports to you.
"It's a tone-deaf representation of dislocation of East Nashville, and [Thomas] exhibits strong cognitive dissonance on some very, very serious issues," he said.
Heineken is the latest brand to pull a Pepsi with a tone deaf advertisement that many—including Chance the Rapper—are accusing of being racist.
At the risk of sounding overly PC, however, her phrasing and eagerness to lump her heterosexuality into her national identity feels insensitive and tone-deaf.
As a result of his tone-deaf pledge, many in the tech world called for his removal from company boards and other high-level positions.
Then, they'll try and tell you how you could do all these things better, which can sometimes come across as tone-deaf, condescending, or controlling.
KIM KARDASHIAN DEFENDS BRAIDS, CLAIMS SHE'S 'NOT TONE DEAF' Meanwhile, FLOTUS' office denies that the controversial coat had any political meaning in the first place.
The party comes just weeks after the Kendall's "tone-deaf" Pepsi advertisement was released and immediately pulled after the firestorm it received on social media.
Also, the incorporation of corporate sponsors, while huge in terms of ally visibility, seems tone-deaf in light of the real issues facing LGBTQ people.
And using over 800 words to celebrate that fact as if it's a remarkable event is tone-deaf, specially in the context of the march.
OK, it's only Monday, but this tweet by NZ Police already takes the booby prize for social media fail of the week. Tone-deaf. pic.twitter.
By comparison, Pepsi, another company caught in a public fiasco (its tone-deaf commercial featuring protests and Kendall Jenner), hasn't seen much change at all.
Colbert's joke was particularly tone deaf, especially when the LGBTQ community is bracing for a historic discriminatory executive order rumored to be signed on Thursday.
It all just feels a bit tone-deaf, so we reached out to Mozilla to get a better grip on what the organization was thinking.
But it sounds tone-deaf if you're part of the majority of America, which isn't enjoying the escalating affluence inside the bubbles along the coasts.
He went on to reveal plenty more tone-deaf and sexist views (at a colloquium on gender and physics, no less) before being summarily suspended.
Scarlett Johansson "Ghost In The Shell" Film - 2017 The "twist" that Mira is actually Motoko becomes even more tone-deaf when you consider the details.
" Jenner was working abroad when the ad was released and immediately met with a firestorm on social media, with many calling the commercial "tone deaf.
On social media, critics called Trump Jr.'s remarks an "international embarrassment" and as "tone-deaf" as Marie Antoinette's infamous "Let them eat cake" comment.
One part of Nike's 'Be True' collection is argued by some to be the most tone-deaf of 2018: choosing to feature the pink triangle.
Tone deaf (vic's fault), factually suspect (jumped out of nowhere) & inappropriate (should have walked up to xwalk; may cite the driver), clearly caused a stir.
This insensitive and tone-deaf ad, which may light of domestic violence, was only pulled after Rhianna and other celebrities took to Twitter to protest.
Or Robert De Niro, who drew groans in 2011 for some tone-deaf jokes about deporting the event's waiters, along with Spanish actor Javier Bardem.
" Those two tone-deaf comments result in a party-wide argument and Reggie is shoved into Addison, leading the two guys into a "little tiff.
Several criticized as "tone deaf" an April Fool's tweet from the billionaire that joked his company, which has $10 billion in debt, was "totally bankrupt".
" Istvan, in response to the accusation of 'tone deafness': "I think that when James talks about me being tone deaf, I am 100 percent guilty.
She also had a green shirt on that seemed like it might be a play on Melania Trump's tone-deaf "I Really Don't Care" jacket.
It was Minton's first major public appearance since she was ruthlessly mocked on Twitter for a tone-deaf Instagram she posted of herself in August.
Team Ivanka's "let them eat Popsicles" moment was yet more tone-deaf fodder for the case that the Trumps are a family of overindulged idiots.
However, perhaps no ad managed to be so thoroughly tone deaf as the smug, saccharine, and stupid Airbnb ad known only by its hashtag -- #WeAccept.
In fact, the Mike And Dave Need Wedding Dates star took on his apolitical attitude head on with "Adam Gets It," a tone deaf bit.
Most important, his behavior suggests he is tone-deaf to the widely held belief among southern Nigerians that he promotes a northern Sunni Muslim agenda.
With the media following closely behind, the mayor came off as both aloof and tone deaf to the pain and anger of local black residents.
Now, she's taking her former network to task in response to a tone-deaf joke about bisexuality made on one of its current hit shows.
Was President Obama tone-deaf in Buenos Aires when he danced the tango while Brussels burned (this after setting a new diplomatic tone in Cuba)?
Much worse, this financial privilege creates power dynamics that lead to too-frequent cases of investors sexually harassing founders or tone-deaf ideas like Bodega.
But it quickly pulped the test posters; other campaigns about courage in a crisis provoked public outcry, as many people found the messages tone-deaf.
Even so, the various expressions of grief were tone-deaf, feeding back ultimately into the same tedious cycles that have hindered narrative progress all season.
Maybe some use of symbols is insensitive or tone-deaf, but we shouldn't try to take these symbols out of circulation, or police their use.
The NAACP is furious with Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones -- claiming his comments about sitting players who "disrespect the flag" are tone-deaf and misinformed.
Social media users criticized Ms. Streisand's comments as tone-deaf and said they were tantamount to telling sexual assault survivors to just get over it.
The undergraduate-ish thesis, that we need to break our reliance on the classics, felt tone-deaf at Ojai, which abandoned the canon long ago.
I had seen such A.I.-produced clips before — Facebook's tone-deaf year-in-review montages are a recurring blight — so I was not expecting much.
It's not that many in the Democrat Party leadership in Washington are tone deaf, it's that in all too many cases, they just don't care.
But hunting for rules and (perhaps) the small satisfaction of finding tone-deaf friends and relatives in breach of them seems like the wrong tack.
If you haven't heard the criticism so far, the general idea is that this fake TV husband is pretty freakin' tone-deaf with his gift.
But, something he said over the weekend -- at a party fundraiser at his Mar-a-Lago resort -- struck me as particularly tone-deaf and dangerous.
Insatiable was torn apart and labeled a tone-deaf attempt at satire, with critics giving the series a measly 10 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
In this way, the game subtly instructs the player on rhythm theory, training even the most tone-deaf person to sync themselves to a beat.
Facebook topped its assistance with an apology after CEO Mark Zuckerberg appeared as a cartoon avatar in a tone-deaf VR tour of the destruction.
On Tuesday's episode of Desus & Mero, the hosts talked about Trump's tone deaf tweets and his "many" Puerto Rican friends who are definitely not imaginary.
Every hair is in place, her outfits are expertly coordinated, and she doesn't say the downright tone-deaf, racist, sexist, and transphobic things her father does.
Encouraging cities to throw sweeteners at a multinational run by the world's richest man was spectacularly tone deaf at a time of growing anxiety about inequality.
"In Nazi Germany, they were keeping the Jews from leaving the country," Sessions said, drawing a contrast that was criticized on Twitter as being tone deaf.
No matter how seemingly wholesome (woke soap, anyone?) or unbelievably tone deaf (Sunny D's faked mental health crisis), the response is usually a resounding SILENCE BRAND.
This extreme lack of diversity has been called "tone deaf" in an election year where civil rights is even more of a major issue than usual.
But in this day and age of tone-deaf Pepsi commercials and the like, you can never be too sure where a brand may misstep next.
And today's It girls — from the Hadids to the Jenners — continue to be met with criticism via social media, one tone-deaf editorial after the next.
Bee chose to target Ivanka because the president's daughter shared a tone deaf photo of herself hugging her child at the same time this story broke.
Oh and by the way, the same kind of tone deaf clinging to losing strategies and beliefs is very evident in our presidential election right now.
But every so often there come certain songs with messaging that is just downright tone-deaf, which does more harm than good for the LGBTQ+ community.
While the tweet might have been well-intentioned, many Twitter users found it to be tone-deaf given the stakes and subject matter of the debate.
The woman who designed and is selling the tone deaf 'fuck what people say' gun motif shirt is not only a popular influencer but a mother.
Bill Dobbs, a longtime gay activist and one of ACT-UP's founding members, supports the rising backlash against the gay establishment for its tone-deaf alliances.
For those keeping score at home: The jacket was still tone deaf, but now we know that "just a jacket" explanation was actually just a lie.
That's because it seemed a little tone deaf, considering that black people are disproportionately arrested for weed crimes, and vastly underrepresented in the legal weed industry.
Reinforcing how tone-deaf the industry is on diversity, the Academy scheduled the awards show on February 773, 2016, at the end of Black History Month.
If you somehow missed Pepsi's new tone-deaf commercial featuring Kendall Jenner, never fear: Stephen Colbert is here to take you through it frame by frame.
To be fully transparent, I don't get the version of peer pressure that is presented in this show, so I may be a bit tone-deaf.
The 2018 Emmys were criticized for presenting tone-deaf jokes on diversity, and the 2019 Golden Globes directors' nominations appeared to snub female directors once again.
But while many people seem eager to purchase Jenner's latest creation, others are calling the makeup mogul "tone-deaf" and accusing her of "flaunting" her wealth.
But one can detect other motives, too: a tone-deaf attempt at self-branding, a neurotic attempt to thank your host, a need for constant scrutiny.
This is, in short, another landmark in tone-deaf, scrambling disarray for what was supposed to be one of the most prolific congresses in modern history.
His suggestion to "meditate, don't medicate" on "FRIENDS" is extremely tone deaf especially when multiple artists have died from substance abuse over the past calendar year.
Instead, as a long evening reached its end, she was tone-deaf to how much she'd alienated the people watching her with everything she'd done wrong.
Her tone-deaf statements, comparing protesters to errant children, for example, have only fed outrage and pushed the financial centre deeper into political and economic turmoil.
"This could be the most tone-deaf IP suit in history," tweeted Mark Lemley, director of the Stanford Law School Program in Law, Science and Technology.
"This could be the most tone-deaf IP suit in history," tweeted Mark Lemley, director of the Stanford Law School Program in Law, Science and Technology.
Whether or not Ronaldo is a "great champion" — as Juventus put it in the club's tone-deaf response to the allegations — does not make any difference.
PR pros are adjusting their media plans in an environment consumed by coronavirus coverage so they don't appear tone-deaf, avoiding anything overly commercial or promotional.
The Boulder school district and, ultimately, the state of Colorado condemned the offer as a brand-building exercise that was tone-deaf at the very least.
President Trump's best chance for re-election lies in getting Democrats to approach complicated, tender issues with a tone-deaf, incoherent stridency that approaches his own.
Nathan's prose is drab and primitive, but nobody is as tone-deaf as his English professor, Maggie Daley, who is focused on her student's literary failings.
The idea of Facebook -- that Facebook -- trying to sell consumers on putting its camera and microphone in their homes seemed tone deaf, to say the least.
He is one Republican who knows that he risks alienating independent voters in the Sunshine State if he is seen as tone deaf on gun control.
Paps got Kendall Wednesday at a Paris airport, where she was predictably tight-lipped about the backlash she and Pepsi got for the tone-deaf ad.
Though our Star Spangled Banner is more like the Cerulean Monologue, that doesn't mean designers are completely tone deaf when commenting on what happens beyond the runway.
PST Monday (after, y'know, being up for three goddamn days), none of us can unsee this tone deaf post, with copy that read: Blessed Be The Emoji.
Young women have also been the ones to call out Clinton's own complacency on her criminal justice record and on her tone-deaf attempts at Latino outreach.
As far as tone deaf displays of wealth go, The Ellen Show served up a doozy with a segment posted to YouTube on Wednesday starring Bill Gates.
But McConnell's use of an obscure parliamentary rule to prohibit Warren from speaking against the nomination on the Senate floor made Republicans look like tone-deaf bullies.
With her recognition of the greats that come before her, she moves on to the crux of her argument: I'm tone-deaf, and hopefully you are too.
Susan Collins, a Republican senator from Maine, announced Friday in a long-winded, tone-deaf speech that she'd vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court.
An interview between ABC Melbourne radio presenter Red Symons and podcaster Beverley Wang became the subject of controversy on Friday, after Symons' tone deaf comments about race.
" He also added, "No pun intended, but I think the county is being tone deaf to recognize opera as a form of cultural art but not Skrillex.
A tone-deaf Biden once said that young people -- not specifically black -- who think these days are as hard as the 1960s have no right to complain.
Then on the steps of the courthouse he declared, "My client did not invent the casting couch," in a bizarrely tone deaf attempt at declaring Weinstein's innocence.
Of course, it's unlikely that any of these tone-deaf decisions or oversights will lead to more than a few handfuls of users to quit the platforms.
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In April, Kendall faced criticism for starring in a Pepsi ad that critics said was a tone-deaf attempt to co-opt a movement of political resistance.  
Clinton's team, notably her husband and some prominent supporters, were making tone-deaf attacks on Mr. Sanders, who has proved a tougher opponent than they had expected.
But you have to be very politically tone deaf not to notice that promoting those policies haven't really helped any Republican win the White House since 1988.
Facebook's color-blind and tone-deaf approach to content moderation must be overhauled to adopt an intersectional model shaped by more context of who is often victimized.
But in recent months, both have sparked the ire of their fans with tone deaf comments concerning race and rape that have startled and alienated longtime fans.
Cheryl's blackness comes into a question in a rather harsh confrontation with Tamara, and she starts to notice that Diana's liberal ways come off rather tone-deaf.
Last year, some people were outraged by a tone-deaf fundraiser where CEOs strapped on virtual reality headsets to "get a glimpse" of living on the streets.
When feminism fails to be intersectional — and fails to be inclusive of marginalized groups like the trans community — it can become tone-deaf, excluding, and even transphobic.
It's kind of hard to make gestures like cancelling a potentially tone-deaf panel land when you're also helping a major defense contractor polish up its image.
But, in the midst of Black Lives Matter protests, Kendall Jenner's tone-deaf Pepsi commercial, and immigration bans, Guerrilla has the edge when it comes to relevance.
And as an example, I have attempted to be pretty nuanced on the disability issue—Zoltan is tone deaf… We have to sensitively engage around these issues.
Flocka tells us why Colin Kaepernick's movement could've influenced the halftime show ... and says the NFL is just plain tone-deaf ... disrespecting so many players and fans.
You can enter an excuse that ranges from the comical (you've just dropped serious money on an improv class) to the tone-deaf (this isn't an issue).
To audiences in the United States, the film's title — and the poster of a grinning Mr. Sy dressed nattily as Chocolat the clown — might seem tone deaf.
"Kennedy is an establishment pick, which is tone deaf after the 2016 rejection of the Bush and Clinton dynasty," a Democratic lawmaker told The Wall Street Journal.
The complexity of frustration, anger and sadness can't be accurately conveyed on twitter, and I regret my tone-deaf attempt at sarcasm in the wake of it.
Parker's initial tone-deaf reaction in interviews about the story only fanned the flames, but you wouldn't have known it from the crowd at the Winter Garden.
Having Beth Ann's dad point a gun at Darius later — and playing the moment for laughs — feels like a beat from a different, utterly tone-deaf show.
Over the weekend, House Speaker Paul Ryan received backlash for what critics called a tone-deaf tweet about being a father to his family on the holiday.
In a particularly tone-deaf suggestion, OMB urged federal workers to contact their "personal attorney" to sort out the legal and financial challenges presented by the shutdown.
Of course, Clinton is far from the first political candidate to come under fire from critics who say their attire is tone deaf or out of touch.
Sergey's proposed app — he's given it the tone-deaf name Virtual Grave — would keep users' online presence thriving after their physical selves have passed from the world.
His request could come off as tone-deaf to some, given that so many Americans are struggling to afford the skyrocketing cost of housing without government help.
But to many in attendance, his remarks came off as tone deaf, and his inability to read the room foreshadowed sweeping changes that would soon transform Etsy.
Employees say they have filed complaints about Barney Harford, above, the chief operating officer, and have been troubled by tone-deaf comments he has made about race.
At the time, the Indian National Congress, now the leading opposition party, was in power, and it was severely criticized for its slow and tone-deaf reaction.
Fast fashion has produced tone-deaf products for years, passing them off as a rounding error given the enormous volume of items the companies generate each year.
A handful of tone-deaf reviews and polemics are mentioned, including a notice in this newspaper that found her emphasis on black lives "narrow" in its focus.
"An entity would have to be tone deaf to not understand that the United States had become a hostile place for Huawei to do business," he said.
Expectations that the travel ban will be its first and last result are wishful thinking — thanks to the Supreme Court's tone-deaf and morally obtuse judgment Tuesday.
Stuart Blaugrund, the Dallas lawyer who represented the Land Grab Opponents, said in an interview that Mr. O'Rourke was "tone-deaf" to the appearance of a conflict.
Far more employees were willing to speak out on Slack about how the message was tone deaf, not well thought out, and overall negative views toward leadership.
Walker added that the incident with Pam Northam indicated to her that the Northams didn't grasp the implications of their behavior, which she said was tone deaf.
Clinton's rejoinder to Mr. Trump that "America never stopped being great" was tone deaf to millions of ordinary Americans struggling with debt, police brutality and pervasive inequality.
The past week brought intense focus on Kelly's tone-deaf dismissal as "politically correct" of the idea that African Americans take offense at white people in blackface.
Had Yenta Law been in place they would have been dragged out of the theater by their tone-deaf ears and shipped directly to Bedford Hills Correctional.
They seem bad, sure, but only ordinarily so — tone-deaf and mean — when we encounter them on a trip to France to visit their son and daughter.
Mark Zuckerberg admits using hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico as the backdrop to roll out Facebook's new 360-degree virtual reality technology ... was a super tone-deaf idea.
Some critics are upset with the UFC -- claiming the organization is tone deaf putting Hardy and Ostovich on the same card because of Hardy's past domestic violence issues.
So I think to step back now and have Democrats almost gleeful when the talks got called off, it is a -- they are tone deaf again politically speaking.
The line of wines was met with backlash on social media with some accusing the marketing of the wine as being tone deaf due to the show's content.
" The ad's been yanked and the company issued an apology, albeit pretty tone-deaf: "We sincerely apologize for offending people with this image of a printed hooded top.
For instance, a troll might argue about the color of the sky by insisting it's red, and remaining intentionally tone-deaf in response to any attempts at correction.
The NRA has turned being tone-deaf into an art form, and now they've gone and incurred the wrath of Amy Poehler and some fellow Parks & Rec alums.
Its failure to send a senior executive to a congressional hearing, over Russian use of tech platforms to meddle in the presidential election in 2016, was tone-deaf.
The ad was quickly slammed for appearing "tone deaf" due to Brown's conviction for assaulting Rihanna in his car in 2009 while the pair were in a relationship.
And yet, the studio's persistent refusal to get out of its own way (and drop its toxic, tone deaf narratives in favor of quality storytelling) continues to baffle.
The fact that he would say that just shows how tone-deaf and clueless he is about what he did and the impact it had on women. #ThisIsRapeCulture.
But when presenter after presenter hit on the same tone-deaf sentiment, it started to feel like the awards show was giving itself a tongue-in-cheek pass.
As if that weren't bad enough, they throw in some reveals that make the film's racial dynamics seem even more obnoxiously tone-deaf than the marketing had suggested.
Even famous ones like Lupita Nyong'o, Terry Crews, and Aurora Perrineau received targeted, tone-deaf denials, and blatant inaction, in the case of the latter of the two.
Though no one has taken legal action yet, Brown's lawyer released a statement to Us. "[Snapchat] should change their name from Snapchat to Tone Deaf," the statement reads.
Some say it's tone-deaf of the party to promote yet another heir to a dynasty when there are marginalized voices in the wings waiting to be heard.
During that 2013 interview, Saldana said she found the uproar "disappointing," but the audience could say the same for the tone-deaf way producers have approached this project.
After handing out personalized "Fuck you's" to Gordon and Albert, the men barrel on with their tone-deaf chat, explaining Cooper is in federal lockup in South Dakota.
Stripping funds from military communities, which have smaller local tax bases because their land is supporting the nation's armed forces, would be both perverse and politically tone-deaf.
After her tone-deaf "liberals can't even shoot straight" reaction to the GOP baseball game shooting, a lot of people have a bone to pick with Caitlyn Jenner.
Others said Bono's tweet was tone-deaf in the wake of the Nassar scandal, saying it was the suppression of athletes' voices that allowed Nassar's abuse to fester.
A number of other brands have been mocked for tone-deaf 9/11 tweets over the past 18 years, with many accounts now avoiding tweeting in remembrance altogether.
Simplifying the administrative burden physicians face daily comes up on every single survey of physician dissatisfaction that exists and yet Washington has been tone deaf on that issue.
Beijing might have told Hong Kong's consistently tone-deaf chief executive, Carrie Lam, to quietly remove the bill from the docket altogether, weeks or months down the road.
A preoccupation with their own woes over Brexit perhaps explains why senior EU officials appeared tone deaf to Spain's separatists -- who, it should be remembered, are EU citizens.
"Every rape is not a gender-motivated hate crime," Justice Shirley Werner Kornreich wrote in her decision— a statement that some have criticized as dismissive and tone-deaf.
Unfortunately, exploitation under the female gaze happens all the time—from female directors casting one dark skin model to fill a diversity quota to tone deaf Pepsi commercials.
As she was exiting Deadspin, she wrote about the tone-deaf and poorly considered changes the site's new parent company, G/O Media, had brought to the newsroom.
On another trip to Texas, her choice of footwear — stiletto heels — as she headed off to meet with hurricane victims also seemed insensitive, or at least tone deaf.
Robert Weissman, the president of the Washington-based group Public Citizen, said Mr. Obama's corporate speeches seemed jarring and tone deaf at the onset of the Trump era.
Paranoia and anger reigned on both sides, though, and the emotional crux of the story lies in the arrogant, tone-deaf and eventually criminal behavior of the Rajneeshees.
Such comments strike many as tone-deaf and lacking empathy, exposing a weak spot for a government already battling to tackle gang violence, impunity and a stagnant economy.
"It's completely tone deaf to discourage this type of activity," said Quentin James, 30, a founder of the Collective PAC, an organization dedicated to electing more African-Americans.
This isn't just tone-deaf and in bad taste for a man who has basically admitted dodging the draft -- it's self-important to the point of self-parody.
Raul Reyes: Buttigieg's tone-deaf answer highlighted a problem Now that the field of presidential candidates is shrinking, the dynamics of the race are coming into clearer focus.
The founder's recent tone-deaf remarks regarding free speech, Holocaust denial and what should remain on Facebook's news feed ought to be at least an amber warning, too.
Trevor Noah, the host of "The Daily Show," called the speech "powerful," but also "tone-deaf" because of Ms. Streep's dig at football and the mixed martial arts.
Italian soccer's racism problem might be worse than anyone thought, at least if its spectacularly tone-deaf new anti-racist campaign — featuring chimpanzees — is anything to go by.
But, he said, it was only when he found a choir for the tone deaf that he knew he had found a place where he would feel comfortable.
In a Black History Month roiled by tone-deaf scandals in politics and fashion involving blackface, shoes and balaclavas, you may have missed the one about mammy jars.
Yet the frequency of Kelly's gaffes — adding to her long history of tone-deaf and racially offensive remarks — are a constant reminder of the "it factor" she lacked.
It's resulted in attempts to reach out to black voters that, while hilariously tone-deaf, are distinct from Trump's efforts to reach out to, say, Latinos or Muslim Americans.
We would also be tone deaf not to think about the backdrop of what's going on in our country — things like Charlottesville and Ferguson, the protests in the NFL.
The network was scolded for being tone deaf when it brought Reid in to discuss a racist tweet that Roseanne Barr recently sent about former Obama aide Valerie Jarrett.
Last April, Jenner faced controversy for starring in a Pepsi ad in which she appeared as a protester, which many interpreted as tone-deaf during a politically fraught time.
In his tone deaf tweet about gratitude and meditation, the CEO of a company that facilitates and thrives on frivolous, toxic speech online was touting the benefits of silence.
After years of escalating privacy disasters and tone-deaf management, is a shiny keynote and a push poll really enough to convince people Facebook is good for the world?
Hickenlooper's question prompted audible groans from the audience, who interpreted it as a tone-deaf response to the historic lack of women in politics and in the White House.
It's that through its tone-deaf portrayal of Mumbai and its culture, Coldplay and Beyoncé inadvertently reveal what they think about consumers of pop music: not a whole lot.
Not allowing me to sign-in to Fortnite Switch with my Epic account because it's linked to PS4 is tone deaf and points more to fear than market dominance.
Fast forward to present day, a variety of people from Lena Dunham to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s daughter have weighed in to call Jenner's Pepsi ad tone-deaf.
Many saw Zona MACO's decision to go ahead with its planned openings of its photo and antiques fairs the same day as the earthquake as tone deaf and insensitive.
It's an especially tone-deaf move, given that his viewers are mostly teenagers, the demographic who can apparently be peer-pressured into eating Tide Pods in the first place.
And Brennan has laid bare the kind of tone-deaf jargon that leads people to hate Silicon Valley and the new push-button future that tech companies have promised.
Yulín Cruz's T-shirt appears to have been in response to Trump's tweets about her on Saturday, as well as his spectacularly tone deaf visit to the island yesterday.
"You can come to a singing and totally be tone-deaf, and we will never hear you because we sing so loud," said Kelso, who is based in Atlanta.
But many have pointed to Trump's tweet as tone deaf and opportunistic in light of the tragic death, and criticized him for misspelling Dwyane Wade's name in the tweet.
Its initial, somewhat sarcastic responses implied that it couldn't quite gauge the severity of the response, effectively downplaying the concerns of the community who found the sign tone-deaf.
Moonlight's historic win is one of the many reasons why Variety's post-Oscars cover — featuring Moonlight director Barry Jenkins and La La Land's Damien Chazelle — feels so tone deaf.
"Let me know if she wants to meet Lee...they sound like they would have a lot in common #ihavetimetoday," Lindsay tweeted in response to Block's tone-deaf tweet.
The timing of this event honoring a convicted rapist as a Hollywood darling is offensive and tone-deaf, to say the least, but it's not just about bad optics.
Metallica's famously tone-deaf attack on Napster users resulted in a meme poking fun at the band's wealth, using a similar lyrics-based approach to the Fat Axl pictures.
For instance, the Kendall Jenner Pepsi ad where she seemingly stops a confrontation between police and a Black Lives Matter protest with a Pepsi can was extremely tone-deaf.
"The fact that you can't find prosecutors that don't have an 'I'm with Her' T-shirt on to staff your special counsel office -- it's just tone deaf," Gowdy added.
Lawrence M. Noble, the general counsel at the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center, said the Clintons had been "somewhat tone deaf" about how their relationship with donors would be perceived.
But with the single's success being partly attributed to its infamous removal from Billboard's Country charts, his exclusion from every country category is notable and a little tone-deaf.
"Heathers": Paramount Network's adaptation of the 30-year-old dark comedy yielded a nasty series that was utterly tone-deaf, turning kids from historically bullied groups into the bullies.
Redirecting billions of dollars of military construction funds that support the housing, health, educational and infrastructure needs of military service members and their families is misguided and tone deaf.
It's not that he was openly offensive; more that the bit just felt tone-deaf, especially given the current movement to unravel the systemic gender imbalance in our culture.
Gallego blasted Trump's remarks and behavior as a tone-deaf response to residents still facing widespread power outages, severe flooding and a lack of running water and food supplies.
We all refused to go because holding a premiere mere weeks after 9/11 with the city still smoking felt like the most insensitive, tone deaf, disrespectful idea possible.
While Harden does check off every mark on the list that the Rockets decided warrants MVP consideration, the tweets came off to many as forced, tone-deaf, and embarrassing.
When Pepsi released its astonishingly tone-deaf protest-themed ad earlier this week, there was a single question on everyone's mind: How on earth did that ad get made?
My last note on Celine because I have more important things to dedicate my rage to - what a day to present such a tone-deaf, ignorant, belligerent, narcissistic show.
It's pretty incredible that the folks at Prada were this tone-deaf because it's hard to imagine how they didn't see the wave of criticism that would befall them.
Tester said it was tone deaf to require senators to congregate at the same time Americans are being told that self-isolating is a matter of life or death.
That could prove to be prudent for the final outcome, but it's hard to overstate how tone deaf the timing is given the growing Catholic anger in the pews.
Both the revamped Davis Cup and the hilariously tone-deaf "Hunger Games"-meets-Belle- Époque Majesty Cup are the brainstorm of the soccer player Gerard Piqué's investment group Kosmos.
The memo was sometimes tone deaf, clinical, insensitive (in, well, a stereotypically male sort of way), understating the ways in which self-selection and sexism can shape an industry.
When NBA star Dwyane Wade's cousin was killed recently in yet another act of senseless gun violence (also in Chicago), Trump's response was predictably self-serving and tone deaf.
Nadella, for his part, has modeled a growth mindset from the top of the organization, not least in his response to his tone-deaf comments about gender and compensation.
" Pence's comment also comes across as slightly tone deaf given the role WikiLeaks played in distributing the stolen Democratic National Committee emails, even though these emails were not "classified.
One of the primary criticisms lobbed at Tyson's tone-deaf take was that a lot more is done to prevent the deaths he cited than to prevent mass shootings.
Tone deaf, in a period defined by police brutality and racial discrimination, the MCA in Denver's spring exhibitions meditate on violence through a lens harkening back to Jim Crow.
Mr. Tusk, who now acts as a "fixer" for technology companies looking to break into regulated markets, said that Amazon's response to local opposition was a tone-deaf misstep.
Those statements are not only tone-deaf, they also reflect the way most privileged people who have never encountered the justice system react when confronted with its awesome power.
Watch out, Lucas, or Kanye-collaborating artist Vanessa Beecroft will co-opt your appearance for a tone-deaf performance piece that views race as nothing more than an aesthetic choice.
Despite whatever intentions Kendall may have had when agreeing to take a bunch of money to star in the tone-deaf ad, being political isn't part of her family's brand.
In December, after the first batch of blog posts was revealed on social media, Reid apologized to the LGBTQ community for "tone-deaf and dumb" comments about then-Florida Gov.
As tone-deaf, duplicitous, and just plain wrong as the tech world often is, there's still a good chance that it started to read the room over the last year.
The line resonated as being particularly tone deaf, especially after Thiel spent much of his speech preceding the Q&A talking about how average Americans were having a difficult time.
Clinton and establishment Democrats and Republicans have been acutely tone deaf about the new and rising tolerance the voters have had for nastiness in this new social media dominated world.
Kendra joked she might get shot for trespassing -- a legit concern, to be honest -- but the tone deaf move came when she loudly celebrated, and posted it on social media.
FROM COINAGE: How Kylie Jenner Could Become a Billionaire Kendall notably came under fire earlier this year when she appeared in an ad for Pepsi that many considered tone-deaf.
Without being vague enough to drive lawyers like Ken White crazy, though, the ACLU's statements would have seemed totally tone-deaf and non-responsive to the controversy raging around them.
In the hilarious clip, Ryan (Hall) schools tone-deaf talent agent Elizabeth (Kate Walsh) on some of the words that are definitely not okay for white women to say — i.e.
Now, Johansson is following up that statement (which was accused of being "tone-deaf" by many, including multiple transgender actresses) with one that suggests she now understands the above backlash.
Ryan Leaf is blasting Ohio State for its new football campaign centered around the word "Silence" -- saying it's stupid and "tone deaf" in the wake of the Urban Meyer scandal.
And being just weeks after Kendall's Pepsi controversy when her advertisement was pulled for being deemed as "tone deaf," the model still didn't appear to be in the best spirits.
What came out was an easy singalong, the kind of track that even the tone-deaf could clap along to, given that the claps themselves were part of the song.
But when St. Felix asked Kanye West's former longtime creative director if he had heard anything about Leaving Neverland, Abloh's response came off as more than a little tone deaf.
Bella Thorne's bf is leaping to defend what might seem indefensible, and demanding Rob Lowe back off his girl ... despite her totally tone deaf comment about the deadly Montecito mudslides.
This gaffe is just another on a never-ending list of public remarks that show the president and his team's tone deaf, misinformed, flippantly hateful approach to leading this country.
Culturally speaking, Marinescu—who immediately reads as a Bucharest cosmopolitan—running in Teleorman was the equivalent of a Brooklyn hipster running in rural South Carolina, maybe even more tone deaf.
Latino-focused digital media site Mitú to called the festival "just another example of the Pacific Northwest's tone-deaf, casual racism" before it even began, but things only got worse.
The company may be hoping that the effort is more successful than one ill-fated slogan attempt that was criticized as being tone-deaf toward alcohol's role in date rape.
Scarlett Johansson recently said that she's entitled to play any role onscreen, one year after she was lambasted for a "tone-deaf" reaction to her casting as a transgender man.
We would also be tone deaf not to think about the backdrop of what is going on in our country — things like Charlottesville and Ferguson, the protests in the NFL.
Twitter's Jack Dorsey was accused of being "tone deaf" after posting glowing messages about a trip to Myanmar without mentioning the violence and persecution being faced by the Rohingya minority.
The video sparked wide backlash for its allegedly tone-deaf treatment of suicide and mental health in a country where suicide rates are higher than most in the developed world.
Last week, Trump was criticized for posting what some considered a "tone deaf" tweet about the construction of the private White House tennis pavilion as concerns about the coronavirus escalated.
I never learned to play it because I'm really tone-deaf, but I feel connected to my ancestor because I think on some level, we share the same artistic genes.
"Supporting due process for any allegation is not tone deaf, I think it is allowing things to be investigated and a mere allegation not be the determining factor," Sanders said.
Democrats insist that the GOP confidence is tone-deaf and could prove politically disastrous, particularly if new evidence emerges against Kavanaugh, or if his accusers appear to be treated poorly.
If this is a heavy-handed attempt to modulate expectations, it's coming across a tad tone deaf to a soccer world that's grown accustomed to La Roja dominating other countries.
Still, the International Olympic Committee, the United States Olympic Committee and U.S. Soccer, along with other sports federations, have reacted in an unhurried way that critics have viewed as tone deaf.
With his stolidly Soviet instincts he may be tone-deaf to the new Russian mood-music which tries to mix Orthodoxy, communism and secular geopolitical dreams in a single harmonised chant.
There were stories of people who had these experiences and came back with different skills — they were tone deaf before and came back with perfect pitch, or had sudden language fluency.
The virtual trip was immediately called out for being tone deaf—it was hard not to, watching their cartoonish avatars excitedly discuss a new Facebook feature amid the post-hurricane destruction.
But this bullshit sob story, where we're supposed to feel bad that these people lost a tiny portion of their livelihoods because they both acted like scumbags, is astonishingly tone-deaf.
Back in March, Oscar Munoz, United's CEO, was named "Communicator of the Year" for 2017 by PRWeek US, but his tone-deaf response to this scandal was roundly mocked on Twitter.
That stupid hat probably won't "make Somalia great again," but it will certainly remind people around the world that Americans can be both racist and tone-deaf at the same time.
At best, Corbyn appears tone deaf to the feelings and sensitivities of British Jews, many of whom now regard his party as not only hostile to Israel, but also to Jews.
At the same time, white people need to understand that even when they aren't using the term as an act of overt racism, it is still tone-deaf, insensitive, and appropriative.
Some people pointed out how, especially in the current climate, the light-hearted riff seems not only tone deaf, but also seems to discount the experiences of Black women and girls.
In 1995, Rei Kawakubo's menswear collection felt especially tone deaf when she sent models down the runway in Holocaust victim-inspired outfits, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the camp's liberation.
A couple of weeks ago at New York Fashion Week: Men's, Japanese label N. Hoolywood draped models in oversized, quilted fabrics, paired with equally tone-deaf accessories that resembled trash bags.
"Silicon Valley has been a little tone deaf," Case, who co-founded venture capital firm Revolution, told CNBC's "Squawk Alley " on Thursday, from the Code Conference in Rancho Palos Verdes, California.
But in spite of his noble intentions, the Night Manager star was roundly criticized on social media by observers who found his remarks self-indulgent, tone-deaf, or just plain awkward.
And, as it continues to produce seemingly tone-deaf editorials, many wonder if Vogue can figure out how to become relevant to a young, savvy, culturally open-minded, 21st century audience.
Comey, who once famously described himself as "politically tone deaf," has been careful with his statements about the rumored probe, refusing to confirm it even to lawmakers in a classified setting.
The rant that Hannah launches into about her unique and brave journey to be a single mother is probably supposed to be egregious in how tone-deaf and myopic it is.
By failing to acknowledge that, Turner's father wrote an incredibly tone-deaf letter — one that perpetuated many of the tropes that define rape culture today, particularly the erasure of actual victims.
Melania Trump's getting destroyed on social media for wearing what most would consider a tone-deaf jacket ... considering she wore it on her way to visit child detention centers in Texas.
"I don't want to be a tone deaf CEO; while the company is doing fine, it is absolutely obvious that a big chunk of [people] have been left behind," Dimon said.
Cops in the town of Port Hope, Ontario, have launched a "Blue Lives Matter" campaign that critics argue is tone-deaf at best and an egregious form of appropriation at worst.
They would also be tone deaf, he says, if they didn't consider the backdrop of what's occurring in the country, such as the protests in Charlottesville, Ferguson, Missouri, and the NFL.
"To claim Donald Trump is being attacked, playing the victim, this a man that is not only tone-deaf, but temperamentally and completely unfit to be commander in chief," Benenson said.
The president's remarks about the cost of the natural disaster and his Hurricane Katrina comparison angered Democrats, who accused him of offering a tone-deaf response to residents who are suffering.
"That was tone-deaf to the Nth degree," said Melissa LaBonte, a political science professor at Fordham University who is a member of Campaign to Elect a Woman U.N. Secretary General.
Many Twitter users criticized the reality TV star's themed party, saying it was tone-deaf considering the restrictive abortion policies that have been signed into law by some states this year.
And the decision to keep the show's catch phrase, "Gentlemen, start your engines—and may the best woman win!" felt especially tone-deaf among contestants who don't all identify as men.
Usually in a singing challenge the girls that are tone deaf or can't carry a tune can squeak by performing a rap or some sort of poetry slam spoken word thing.
That remark, and other missteps, led to an outcry among victims of sex abuse and their supporters, who considered the pope tone-deaf on an issue that has jeopardized his legacy.
Critics have called her tone deaf, saying she needed to be held accountable for what happened while Nassar was employed as a sports physician at the university from 1997 to 2016.
On "Yikes," he says "sometimes I scare myself" and makes a tone deaf mention of Russell Simmons getting "#MeToo'd," in a way that implies that he feels Simmons has been victimized.
He can hardly say such things while there is so much suffering caused by his shutdown of the government without further exposing himself as cruel, out of touch and tone deaf.
"It's imperative that we don't write off moments like these as merely tone deaf, and move on," she said, "because without proper attention they perpetuate dangerous and harmful stereotypes and prejudices."
Brew Dog received a fair amount of online backlash after promoting a Pink IPA ("a beer for girls") that was meant to be sarcastic, but came off feeling a bit tone deaf.
For this police department to make a joke out of something that has caused real fear, derision, and permanent consequences in communities is, at least, tone-deaf and, at most, super offensive.
On the slightly-less disappointing side you've got Acclaim, Boss Hunting and Tone Deaf all posting Remi, Baro, Sampa The Great & Allday pretty damn often (mixed in with a few rarer picks).
After commenters criticized Linton for being "tone-deaf," she lashed out at one by calling her "adorably out of touch" and boasted about how much she and her husband pay in taxes.
Now the British actor, who won Best Actor - Mini-Series or TV Movie for his role in The Night Manager, has taken to Facebook to address criticism after his "tone deaf" speech.
The letter points out that they hoped in a year when the Academy was addressing the #OscarsSoWhite controversy, that they would not be so "tone-deaf" to the depiction of their community.
Amy Schumer will make an appearance on Charlie Rose this Friday, and a new preview clip shows Schumer reacting fully to the tone-deaf and offensive remarks made by comedian Kurt Metzger.
According to the resident, their program director was tone-deaf about what they should and should not include on the surveys, advising them not to air their dirty laundry out in public.
Donald Trump Jr. is being criticized as tone-deaf after he praised the "smiles" of India's poorest citizens during his controversial visit to the country to promote his family's real estate projects.
While such a delayed and seemingly tone deaf reaction from the President of the United States may shock some, Trump's Irma tweets aren't much different from his early tweets on Hurricane Harvey.
Over-the-top, overly dramatic, tone deaf, and unintentionally funny, those ads, though separate from D.A.R.E., have, like that program, become emblematic of the "war on drugs" from the 1980s and 1990s.
But at a time when women's rights — including right to access abortions — is being all but outlawed by controversial measures in several states, some have found Hurd's selection tone-deaf and offensive.
The tone-deaf posters, unsurprisingly, gained a lot of attention on Twitter — and even inspired the hashtag, #SCPGoodGirl, in response to how school administrators described a female student wearing an "appropriate" dress.
While some have valid concerns, this piece was so arrogantly, ignorantly tone deaf and offensive that I had to point it out — and the decision to publish it in the first place.
Naming Serena Joy—who, despite being a layered character, is fundamentally a rape enforcer—after a wine alongside the women who suffer most in Gilead, was another mind-boggling tone-deaf move.
It seemed completely tone-deaf that his campaign tweeted out a photo of him, in the midst of this storm, sitting at a table with his advisers without one woman in sight.
" He added that Democrats, going forward, had to be "attentive to inequality and not tone deaf to it," and had to reach out to "folks that are in communities that feel forgotten.
Perhaps the most shamelessly self-serving and tone-deaf moment for Starr comes in a segment that began with Schad asking about Pepper Hamilton's finding that the school engaged in victim-blaming.
One sympathizes with Oppenheimer as he tries to keep track of all these loose marbles, but his chronicle of the Kardashian Kids carries unpleasant racial overtones to which he appears tone-deaf.
Indeed, everything about this particular congregation's posture indicated that it would be willing to listen to Trump, even as he has so often sounded tone deaf when it comes to black America.
But sensitivity readers have become far more prevalent in children's publishing in recent years, following a cascade of controversies over books that some readers found racist, homophobic or otherwise culturally tone-deaf.
"Politics is a blood sport and an opponent who is either desperate or tone deaf or who actually believes negative stereotypes will be willing to throw them at you," Ms. Parker said.
Sanders pushed aside the idea that the president's decision to wish Porter well and tweet about false allegations could be seen as "tone deaf" in light of the accusations levied against Porter.
The ad, which showed Ruiz tirelessly vlogging a year's worth of Peloton workouts after her husband gifted her the stationary bike, was called sexist, tone-deaf and alarming, to name a few.
Barington CEO James A. Mitarotonda described the company's brand image as "outdated and tone-deaf" in the letter and said that it failed to align with evolving attitudes toward diversity and inclusion.
At a community meeting in January, one parent, Gina Nortonsmith, said that the program had good intentions but was "ill considered, tone-deaf and potentially damaging," according to The Daily Hampshire Gazette.
Other Twitter users lashed out, making fun of Ryan for what they considered his tone-deaf tweet about the relatively small amount of money the woman was getting from the tax bill.
Her prose is clunky and a little tone-deaf, starting with that title, which is both overwrought (isn't it enough to be a tastemaker, without also being "extraordinaire"?) and a little misleading.
" An editorial cartoonist for Yediot Ahronot captured the prime minister's tone-deaf self-involvement, depicting him gleefully asking Israelis pondering the smoldering wreckage of their home: "Did you hear about the Golan?
This is part of what exacerbated the abuse problem for sure — because they were often tone-deaf to the concern of users in the outside world, meaning women and people of color.
The movie is so clueless and tone-deaf to the suffering of everyone involved in Afghanistan, on every side, that it contours its narrative to the emotional beats of this sheltered woman's life.
But for a company that is seemingly fucked, and has had its share of deeply tone-deaf mishaps, it'd be in its best interest to work towards a more diverse and inclusive workforce.
Kim Kardashian West is defending her most recent beauty look, claiming she "didn't see backlash" and is "not tone deaf" for sporting Fulani braids to the 2018 MTV Movie & TV Awards on Sunday.
There's not much more to say, other than maybe to point out that in addition to the inappropriate and very tone-deaf racial mapping it also reduces Marley's legacy to a pot joke.
The tone-deaf art project comes in response to the #DeleteUber campaign, which resulted in the termination of hundreds of thousands of the ride-hailing company's accounts since the start of the year.
As the post-Weinstein fallout consumes Hollywood, spreads through other industries, and provides hope that we may be headed toward actual (maybe) systemic (maybe) change, I Love You, Daddy isn't just tone-deaf.
Of course, as Kendall Jenner can attest to, this wouldn't be the first time that the brand has been called out for a marketing scheme that was perceived as offensive and tone deaf.
He takes full responsibility for being insensitive and tone-deaf to the fact that his physical gesture could and did put Dr. Ballard in the untenable situation of not knowing what he intended.
She demurred when I asked her about this, saying that to use the lightest emoji, her closest match, felt like an expression of white solidarity which seemed tone-deaf in these fraught times.
Batali reportedly made the footwear switch a few months back -- before he was canned from his TV gig and later issued a tone-deaf apology for his "wrong" behavior -- and hasn't looked back.
That may be the case, but her remarkably tone-deaf defense ignores the bigger issue: outside of Silicon Valley, distrust of tech companies runs deep, and incidents like this only reinforce those misgivings.
He brought the full-on Trump charm with him, slinging jokes and comments that were tone deaf at best, given the dire situation in the island nation and his handling of it all.
But Gilead's tone-deaf pricing strategy also fails to take into account the fact that without the Department of Veterans Affairs, the drug at the center of this debate would not even exist.
I truly hope we've seen the last of the tone-deaf institutional 'conceptual' performances we witnessed this past year, so vitally and dazzlingly called out by the Mongrel Coalition Against Gringpo and others.
The Russian Foreign Ministry, in its outrage over the blockade and in pointing righteously to Jaroslaw Kaczynski's recent visit to Russia to mark the anniversary of the plane crash, is profoundly tone-deaf.
In Brussels last month, Pompeo parroted the "America First" view with a tone deaf and arrogant speech in which he ticked off a confusing and often contradictory laundry list of problems with multilateralism.
Commentators pounced from all corners, criticizing him for his "ghetto gaffe," or what they perceived to be his tone-deaf portrayal of poverty as a uniquely black phenomenon, something whites just don't understand.
When she first announced the products, some people criticized Jenner for "flaunting" her wealth in a "tone-deaf" manner, though she defended the launch by saying she would donate some of the profits.
What they're saying: Critics blasted the cover as tone-deaf to the actual forces for change in Saudi Arabia, while the magazine says it is a celebration of progressive changes in the country.
What we're hearing: A top House Republican aide says haste was the cause of the "ridiculous, tone-deaf unforced error" when the GOP attempted in trying to cripple the Office of Congressional Ethics.
His statement — "I never thought I would see McCarthyism come to Martha's Vineyard, but I have" — is so tone deaf that it's hard to believe that he would say it on the record.
But this strategist also warned against reading too much into that -- it would be tone deaf to raise small dollars now, given the economic stress many people on Sanders' list are currently experiencing.
The series' producers certainly could not have anticipated how tone-deaf the premise "self made" would seem in today's cultural climate, where daily we are reminded of how interconnected we are to others.
The current critic recently published a tone-deaf rant arguing against the removal of a city-owned, historically racist sculpture in San Francisco that has offended Indigenous people and their allies for decades.
The billionaire entertainment mogul is just one of the many celebrities and wealthy people who have come under fire for seemingly flaunting their wealth or being generally tone-deaf amid the coronavirus pandemic.
They say the leader has been tone deaf and needs to be among those held accountable for what happened while Nassar was employed as a sports physician at MSU from 1997 to 2016.
But some of Ms. Verma's critics argued that it was another example of poor judgment, saying putting in the claim for tens of thousands worth of personal jewelry was at best tone deaf.
"This whole electability conversation I think is super tone deaf," said Representative Lauren Underwood, who became the first woman and first person of color to represent her majority-white Illinois district last year.
While many ads delighted and inspired us this past decade, other marketers from Pepsi to Peloton ended up with egg on their faces with ads that were racist, sexist, or just tone-deaf.
Instead, they felt that Ms. Conway, who serves a president who has been known to make racially charged or tone-deaf statements, had shown disrespect while she was among dozens of black leaders.
He called the first Africans brought to Virginia 400 years ago "indentured servants," and though there is debate about whether he was technically correct, it was a tone-deaf statement that drew criticism.
And it would become very clear that anyone who thinks blackface is entertaining is not only tone deaf, but truly racist and should not be rewarded with a political position of any kind.
Earlier this week, ESPN launched a fantasy football segment that was about as tone deaf as it possibly could have been, which portrayed black NFL players as purchasable items at a predominantly white auction.
"I was tone deaf and I now own a record label and I'm signed to Sony as an artist and I can sing acapella like a bitch ass so f— with me," she said.
But at a time when tech culture is trying diligently to correct its overwhelmingly white male demographic and calling for diversity as a necessary infusion of fresh perspective, this argument feels especially tone-deaf.
But Marvel's decision to flip Rogers, and now apparently Magneto, has sparked ire in fans and writers who believe the company is being tone-deaf about both the characters and the current cultural climate.
A new ad from President Donald Trump's campaign that decries Democrats, the media and career politicians as his "opponents" and "enemies" — and some are criticizing it for what they say is tone-deaf timing.
And the existential risk conversation can come across as tone-deaf and off-puttingly academic, as if it's no big deal if merely hundreds of millions of people will die due to climate change.
It's been exactly a year since Donald Trump's infamous "taco bowl" tweet, and now it seems former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee is trying to one-up the president in the tone-deaf tweets department.
The largest bank in the United States deleted a tweet posted by its Chase Bank Twitter account Monday after several people — including Democratic Senator and presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren — criticized it as tone deaf.
Powell's promise to act "as appropriate" was not meant to signal a rate cut, he said, but was merely meant to show the U.S. central bank was not tone deaf to rising trade tensions.
MARGARET MCGIRRGreenwich, Connecticut I appreciate The Economist taking on this issue, but the idea that "#MeToo needs a path towards atonement or absolution" is a bit tone deaf ("#MeToo, one year on", September 27th).
" Meryl Streep, who earlier this month attacked new U.S. President Donald Trump in a Golden Globes awards speech, earned a record 20th Oscar nomination for playing a tone-deaf singer in "Florence Foster Jenkins.
AdWeek ran an article by David Griner titled "Jack in the Box Just Launched One of the Most Tone-Deaf Ads of the #MeToo Era," saying the stunt celebrates sexual jokes in the workplace.
HanA**holeSolo's creation is classic Trumpery: it shows the President figuratively wrestling the media to the ground, yes, but with a dash of self-aware humor that the left is oddly tone-deaf to.
"Frankly, I think the decision to make Wendy Williams one of the hosts of the weekly spots framing commercial breaks for RuPaul's Drag Race's weekly broadcast is tone deaf, untimely and incorrect," Alaska writes.
Despite progressive moments, like Hari Nef walking the runway for Gucci or Ashley Graham making it into the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, it can be defiantly tone-deaf to the way the world looks.
This time proves equally clumsy and tone-deaf, as Harrison tries to draw not-really-accurate comparisons between Arie and Jason Mesnick, the former Bachelor who's still married to his own runner-up, Molly.
That may explain why one high school, a 10-minute drive from the scene of the massacre, ditched an assignment for students that explored the shooting in what some consider a tone-deaf way.
But any sense of allyship or semblance of care for people (other than white men) was destroyed by the team's tone-deaf statement followed by unhelpful comments from Crosby, the game's most recognizable star.
Ronny Gal, a securities analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Company who follows the pharmaceutical industry, said drug companies have generally been "tone deaf" when it comes to raising the price of their monopoly products.
Senator Elizabeth Warren has already kicked off that debate, and it would be the tone-deaf candidate who wasn't alert to the increasing anxiety among the public over the power Silicon Valley giants wield.
It's an amusing twist that Lydia, who means to be a do-gooder, is really a classic carpetbagger, tone deaf to the needs of the town she once did everything she could to escape.
"In the current political environment, it looks tone deaf to have an all-white, all-male ticket," said Jennifer Lawless, a professor at the University of Virginia and an expert on women in politics.
CHARLES B. STROZIER Brooklyn To the Editor: George Yancy's complaint that his inclusion on a "watchlist" of professors who allegedly promote a leftist agenda is intended to shame him into silence is tone-deaf.
But it comes off as a little tone deaf to slurp up data as intimate as health care records without informing patients, at a time when data privacy concerns are more heightened than ever.
Handler's reputation on race is spotty, and following previous attempts to address that through comedy—such as in 2016's tone-deaf Chelsea Does Racism—she seems to be trying on a new approach.
After watching Ford's testimony, Kavanaugh's belligerence and Republican senators' tone-deaf reaction to it all during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, my mother felt emboldened to share with me another traumatic incident she experienced.
And his tone-deaf refusal to acknowledge the victims of the alleged abuse all but confirms that his defense, at its core, is not of Porter or Sorensen at all, but rather of himself.
The controversy over Parscale's tone-deaf comments comes as some Trump advisers have raised concerns about the campaign manager's business activities and the perception Parscale has been profiting from his close ties to Trump.
Because Scott Pruitt is tone deaf to the views of the vast majority of Americans who favor strong public health protections and understand that environmental protection and economic growth can go hand in hand.
Many onlookers slammed Jacobs's appearance alongside Pence as insensitive and tone-deaf in the wake of the shooting on Saturday in Pittsburgh that killed 11 people and wounded multiple others, including four police officers.
Observers were quick to point out that launching a new feature like dating, which comes with all kinds of privacy expectations and implications, is either bold or tone deaf, depending on who you ask.
Obama rode modest economic growth and the GOP's tone-deaf business class pandering to reelection, and took his second-term oath hoping that the party's massive resistance would give way to more level-headed partisanship.
"When we all get together for Christmas, everybody goes around and sings '12 Days of Christmas' and everyone has to sing a certain part, even if you're tone deaf, which is always entertaining," Bilson says.
DHILLON: Right, the problem here is the FBI leadership and DOJ leadership for that matter appear to be tone deaf to the bias that is very evident in the staffing of all of these investigations.
It indeed felt at the time as if the entire country was outraged by what had happened—until a couple of members of BuzzFeed staff tweeted tone-deaf responses to the traffic the letter generated.
But for all of that sly and sneaky marketing, McDonald's is now dealing with the fallout from a very tone-deaf ad that was meant to be sentimental, but fell flat, if not downright offensive.
Update: Ganni has responded to criticism its fall 2019 fashion show was "tone-deaf" for displaying photos of women in underdeveloped countries by award-winning National Geographic photojournalist Ami Vitale as models walked the runway.
Dave was out with his pal, John Mayer, Wednesday night -- hitting Craig's and Delilah in WeHo -- when we asked him about Olivia calling him "tone deaf" for his jokes about Louis C.K. and sexual harassment.
CHRIS DALY Yucaipa, California I appreciate The Economist taking on this issue, but the idea that "#MeToo needs a path towards atonement or absolution" is a bit tone deaf ("#MeToo, one year on", September 29th).
Their chat, in a cemetery, goes on a little long (about 15 minutes in an hourlong episode), and includes a tone-deaf transgender joke, but the were-lizard is a walking, talking epiphany for Mulder.
Following an outpouring of outrage over L.A. Times magazine The Envelope's tone-deaf cover photo of actors "shifting the focus" in Hollywood that featured only white (and mostly blonde) women, Jessica Chastain is speaking out.
Trump has portrayed Muslim immigrants as potential terrorists and called Mexicans rapists and criminals; his appeals to black voters have been tone deaf; maybe he's not a white nationalist, but white nationalists sure love him.
And increasingly, that response is taking the form of unofficial guerrilla pride events, meant to counter what many see as prides that have grown tone-deaf, lacking in diversity and divorced from their original spirit.
While the pair was forced to live their respective Liberian and Vietnamese cultures first in America, leading to some tone-deaf childhood moments, their brother Ramon (Daniel Zovatto), who was born in Columbia, never did.
Or at least that its PR needs fixing — given he made "Fixing Facebook" his "personal challenge" of the year this year — proof, if any more were needed, of his incredible capacity for sounding tone-deaf.
Here are just some of the many comments from angry and appalled people watching the live stream, wondering how the U.S. State Department could be so upbeat and tone deaf at a time like this.
The episode, "Partnerships in the Night," has its culturally tone-deaf moments ("Swami Tommy with his hot mommy") — but when the dialogue mercifully stops and the music plays, the resultant dance sequence is actually adequate.
The ideological divisions in the U.S. are a big source of strife these days, but releasing a movie like The Hunt just a month after the summer's spate of grisly shootings would've been tone-deaf.
North's appointment was ripped by gun-control advocates who called the move symptomatic of an NRA tone-deaf given his role in the arms-trafficking scandal that engulfed the White House in the Reagan administration.
In an age when the income gap is becoming a gulf, showing clothes for the 1 percent while using the 99 percent as a backdrop could have seemed tone-deaf and smacked of noblesse oblige.
The result was not just an embarrassing, tone-deaf loss of profit for the studio, where uproar about whitewashing and trans-erasure on social media added insult to the injury of a meager opening weekend.
Congress passed a $36.5 billion disaster relief package Tuesday that includes funds for the affected Caribbean territories, but many have criticized the Trump administration's response to the crisis, describing tone-deaf antics and poor management.
When the news of his hiring came out, Fowler publicly criticized the move, and since then, women who worked in the same Uber division under Gangadhar have complained of tone-deaf messages from Cruise recruiters.
Trump, who has proved tone-deaf on issues of LGBTQ equality numerous times, failed to acknowledge that across the world--and particularly in the US--HIV/AIDS advocacy has often been tied to LGBTQ rights.
Louis C.K. had been making surprise appearances at the venue sporadically since the end of August after having disappeared from the public eye, setting off a debate about whether his comeback attempt was tone deaf.
Second, mocking the Venezuelan opposition comes off as tone-deaf in the context of Venezuela's struggle between democracy and authoritarianism, as well as the profound humanitarian crisis that is affecting, among other countries, Brazil itself.
In a 2015 essay in Tin House, the novelist Claire Vaye Watkins portrayed Mr. Elliott as a tone-deaf misogynist — and made the case that his "professional sexism" exists on a continuum with sexual violence.
Post-9/11, post-Charlottesville and post-El Paso, comic irony is not only tone-deaf and uncool, but also complicit with the kind of evil that flourishes outside the solipsistic bubble of Jerry's apartment.
While the recommendations mirror standard guidance issued by public health officials such as the World Health Organization, some drivers have complained aspects of the memo are tone-deaf coming from the notorious gig-economy giant.
The culture got political (and global) in a way that seemed to move beyond her interests or purview, and Wurtzel's tone-deaf comments about 9/11 tellingly got the movie version of Prozac Nation shelved.
This was especially apparent on Thursday, when Trump posted a remarkably tone-deaf tweet about trucks "pushing snowflakes aside," then followed that up with another using a photoshopped image to smear former President Barack Obama.
For years, the Fed had professed to be data dependent when in fact it was basing much of its decisions on models-based analyses that often seemed tone-deaf to the reality on the ground.
Even the more than $60 million spent by outside groups in 2012, including Crossroads GPS, attacking Brown and outspending the incumbent by five-to-one, wasn't enough to overcome Mandel's self-inflicted tone-deaf wounds.
My issue is not with Ivanka, but with the insensitivity of the maneuver, and how utterly tone-deaf it was to the business of the working session — the well-being of Africa's 1.6 billion people.
In issuing the statement, Kuchar clearly hoped to put an end to the bad tidings that had sullied his image and cast him as a tone-deaf American with a let-them-eat-cake attitude.
"I was just so awestruck — it seemed like the most tone-deaf thing in the world to me," Lapis, a Twitter user who criticized the brand online and declined to provide her last name, told me.
Countries like Uganda and -- very sadly -- my country Nigeria, are reacting against reality with pernicious legislation and a tone-deaf law enforcement apparatus, and resolutely locating themselves on the wrong side of the universe's moral arc.
Regardless of the overall effect the monarchy has on the country, it's clear that not everyone appreciates its existence, and the royal family may have less leeway to make mistakes or come off as tone deaf.
Mark Zuckerberg responds to his tone deaf virtual reality tripIn October, Zuck and Rachel Franklin, who is on Facebook's social virtual reality team, showed off Facebook Spaces in a livestream, transporting themselves into devastated Puerto Rico.
They sends pieces down the runway that warrant backlash and a public relations clean-up — one that often consists of a tone-deaf apology from the designer and credit to the creator(s)...after the fact.
She was building up the sort of celebrity equity that nothing — not a disappointing reunion album with No Doubt, not a video whose tone-deaf "cowboys and Indians" theme resulted in an internet backlash — could diminish.
His two attempts to write about art, a monograph on Michelangelo's sculpture of Moses and a book on Leonardo da Vinci, are fascinating works in themselves, but tone deaf in terms of what makes art significant.
Whatever substantive points Kaine made about Trump's unpreparedness -- and there were many, and they were important -- were totally overshadowed by Kaine's tone deaf, overly caffeinated, unhinged performance, especially when contrasted with Pence's calm and composed one.
Given that protests have become a huge part of America's social climate in the wake of violent injustices against people of color, often at the hands of law enforcement, the ad was tone-deaf, at best.
Though Sperry previously circulated a free poster celebrating the Women's March, his works at Art on Paper seem tone-deaf in a year when the objectification and oppression of women has been on such flagrant display.
In one email, Clinton supporter Stuart Eizenstat described a conversation in which Ron Dermer, Israel's ambassador to the US, complained that the Obama administration was "tone deaf" about the "existential threat" that Iran poses to Israel.
After Parkland, when students were asking for solutions and got tone-deaf platitudes and unpopular promises to arm teachers from the administration instead, she could have made an impact by at least meeting with survivors. 3.
It's also because the feminist moment of her candidacy has been spoiled by campaign surrogates like Gloria Steinem and Madeleine Albright, whose tone-deaf comments about why women should support Clinton have alienated voters, including progressives.
One restaurant has issued an apology after what many have called a tone-deaf promotion during the testimony of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford in the confirmation hearing of Judge Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court.
While yes, first responders and hospital staff should be thanked and praised for their hard work in wake of the shooting, congratulations here are completely tone deaf considering 17 people lost their lives in the attack.
But it also managed to sound horribly tone-deaf in its response last month when it shoehorned ride completion numbers into its apology statement as if any metric could justify its failure to ensure passenger safety.
He has in the past hired Vanessa Beecroft—an even more controversial Italian artist, who recently caused an outcry over her tone-deaf fetishization of blackness in a New York magazine interview—to stage his shows.
It's kind of hard to go completely tone deaf on something as major as your personal financial security, which is tied up, for many people, in their feelings of safety, emotional security, even their personal relationships.
Perhaps there's enough water under the bridge at this point, but it feels similarly tone-deaf as the "Give the People What They Want" ads the company ran when it announced its new safety check system.
Unfortunately, there are still loads of other companies trying to sell tone-deaf products to women—like that BIC Cristal For Her Ball Pen or Flat Tummy Tea Co's new appetite suppressing (non-FDA approved) lollipops.
Democrats have turned to the party patriarch as fatigue with the Clintons has set in, a factor exacerbated in recent days by former President Clinton's tone-deaf comments on Monica Lewinsky and the "Me Too" movement.
When Kylie Jenner wore her hair in cornrows in 2015, it sparked a debate, but it also was the catalyst for a slew of tone-deaf pieces about the "new hair trend" the Kardashians had started.
While criticism of the governments' lavish spending and tone-deaf politics soared privately and in the West, media agencies in Saudi Arabia and the Emirates, which channel official policies, published reports praising their governments' cultural campaigns.
That includes coming across as defiant, as Bill Gates did defending Microsoft in the heat of his firm's '90s antitrust battle, or tone deaf, like the auto executives who flew private to D.C. seeking a bailout.
That would appear to be the animating principle behind "This Ain't No Disco," the tone-deaf, cliché-clogged rock opera that opened on Tuesday night at the Linda Gross Theater in an Atlantic Theater Company production.
And being tone-deaf on the treatment of women memorably hurt Ms. McCaskill's Senate opponent in 2012, Todd Akin, who led in some polls until he said that women who suffer "legitimate rape" rarely get pregnant.
"We all refused to go because holding a premiere mere weeks after 9/11 with the city still smoking felt like the most insensitive, tone deaf, disrespectful idea possible," Beckinsale captioned two photos from the event.
" Mitarotonda said that "Victoria's Secret's brand image is starting to appear to many as being outdated and even a bit "tone deaf" by failing to be aligned with women's evolving attitudes towards beauty, diversity, and inclusion.
Considering how much she's thought about tone-deaf cosmopolitan elites seeming hopelessly out of touch, she would have done well to heed the moral of her own book: When changing lanes, check your blind spot first.
Those particular changes struck Senator Andrea Stewart-Cousins, the leader of the Senate Democratic Conference, and the only female leader in either chamber of the Legislature, as tone-deaf amid the clamor of the #MeToo movement.
When Louis C.K. stepped onstage unannounced Sunday night at the Comedy Cellar, just nine months after admitting to sexual misconduct, he set off a furious debate over whether his comeback was too soon or tone deaf.
Critics say the school's leader of 13 years had been tone-deaf and needs to be among those held accountable for what happened while Nassar was a sports physician at the university from 1997 to 2016.
Last month, one of the country's highest-ranking soccer officials was accused of trying to conceal racist chanting rather than address it, and a powerful newspaper was criticized for its tone-deaf coverage of the issue.
The latest trigger: the unearthing of Corbyn's disapproval, expressed on social media in 2012, of the painting-over of a mural depicting a crude caricature of Jews and his tone-deaf response to the resulting outcry.
When Romney went on about how 47 percent of Americans pay no federal taxes, he may have been off by a couple of percentage points and he certainly was being politically tone deaf (he later apologized).
By seeking to create the idea that he is the de facto nominee -- and to do so by leaning on endorsements from politicians -- strikes me as a somewhat tone-deaf approach to our current political times.
That disastrous first month of the general election — the news cycle–hijacking inflammatory statements; the self-obsessed, tone-deaf response to the Orlando shooting; the pathetic fundraising haul; the firing of loyal campaign manager Corey Lewandowski?
"What happened Saturday was an unfortunate display, and rather tone-deaf to what the impact really is," Derrick Johnson, the president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, or NAACP, told MSNBC on Monday.
This narrative, transplanted into a brown neighborhood in a city that is defined, predicated on, and commodified around Indigenous identity, can be read as tone-deaf at a moment in this country when decolonial narratives are prominent.
"For years, we have struggled with an EPA that was not only tone deaf to the needs and concerns of rural America, it was downright adversarial," Pat Roberts, a Republican senator from Kansas, said in a statement.
Fed Chair Jerome Powell's promise to act "as appropriate" was not meant to signal a rate cut, he said, but was merely meant to show the U.S. central bank was not tone deaf to rising trade tensions.
But the company continued to get dragged online for being tone-deaf to the history of black people in the US. The company did not answer BuzzFeed News' questions about the ad and how it was created.
This, especially in 2017, was remarkably tone deaf: we had no need to see more extreme forms of modern racism acted out on screen when it was all around us on the news and in social media.
Such a galling, tone-deaf attempt to capitalize on Japanese cultural identity must have stood out to Haruomi Hosono, who was known to cover the song in concert with Tin Pan Alley as far back as 1976.
And in part simply because of its setting in Brazil, it avoids the most tone-deaf parts of dystopias like The Hunger Games, where science fiction is just developing-world disasters happening to well-groomed white Americans.
Roseanne, the revival, had traces of a good show, but it was dominated by the overwhelming presence of Barr, who, in the years between the cancelation and the revival of her show, only grew more tone deaf.
"Despite being at ground zero of the #MeToo movement, Netflix appears to have gone completely tone-deaf on the realities of sexual exploitation," said Dawn Hawkins, executive director of the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, told Indiewire.
Scooter brand Lime struck an especially tone-deaf tech note trying to fix this problem after an update added a security alarm  that bellowed robotic threats to call the cops on anyone who fumbled to unlock them.
For all the good Facebook has done in the wake of Hurricane Maria, CEO Mark Zuckerberg sending his cartoon avatar to the ravaged streets of Puerto Rico on Monday afternoon stands out as a tone-deaf misstep.
Buhari's "Change Begins With Me" campaign, which includes a push against widespread corruption, has proved somewhat ill-fated, with some Nigerians criticizing it for being tone-deaf and failing to address their needs during a biting recession.
Numerous left-leaning journalists — as well as leftist presidential candidate Mike Gravel — pointed out that Booker's comments were, at best, tone-deaf as more than 12% of Americans live in actual poverty, according to the Census Bureau.
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"This administration seems to be completely tone deaf to civil rights history," said Thomas Saenz, president of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and one of the attorneys who defended DAPA in the Supreme Court.
Detractors took issue with the tone-deaf racial allegory (if you think having Will Smith yell "fairy lives don't matter" sounds cringeworthy, you're already ahead of the filmmakers) as well as its muddy visuals and predictable plot.
The truth is Republicans are too chicken to be any of those things and too politically tone deaf to see why their cowardly decisions to "play it safe" are producing negative results for them at every turn.
Then, there he was, tossing out paper towels into a crowd like they were T-shirts at a baseball game, which sent Twitter and the media into a tailspin of criticism about how tone-deaf he was.
But to her growing list of critics, including the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU) and rising anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, she is seen as stubborn and tone-deaf to the concerns of ordinary Germans.
He says that, for instance, when Meryl Streep gave her anti-Trump speech at the Golden Globes and criticized people who watch football and mixed martial arts, it struck people in his writer's room as tone deaf.
As time goes on, unless you have hooks for hands and are completely tone deaf, you are, as much as you're willing to spend time developing your own style, whatever the starting point, going to be amazing.
Barbara BellantonioEast Meadow, N.Y. To the Editor: The Editorial Observer says Hillary Clinton's recent tone-deaf comments will hand Republicans a sword in the midterm elections, but it hands over another sword when it says that Mrs.
With the Republican side of the judicial committee consisting entirely of white men, the visuals of the hearing will not be great for the G.O.P. And the risk of a tone-deaf moment going viral seems high.
Firmly danced by Kevin Jackson and Jill Ogai, it isn't a particularly egregious specimen of the manhandling pas de deux — the woman shows a little spine — but its mediocrity almost makes its tone-deaf inclusion more baffling.
Yes, the media mogul is aboard the "Rising Sun" cruising the Caribbean Sea, where, unfortunately for him, he has WiFi, and decided to drop a pretty tone-deaf anecdote to the world ... considering the pandemic and all.
Tone-deaf Hamilton administrators speak of helicopter parents as being part of the problem, reminding me of the class of 2019's orientation, when an administrator described us as "lawn mower parents," clearing obstacles for our kids.
A little over a year ago, when Amazon's phony "search" for a site for a second "headquarters" was revealed to be a sham, I noted that for a rich tech giant the company seemed surprisingly tone-deaf.
The president's reference to slavery being abolished and using it as a comparison at the university left some in the audience feeling as though the comment was "tone-deaf," according to sources who spoke with the Globe.
On the one hand, you had Gervais' cynical, who-cares-about-inclusion stance and a deeply narcissistic, tone-deaf Quentin Tarantino acceptance speech for his movie -- "Once Upon A Time in Hollywood" -- that largely silenced women's voices.
They say the school's leader of 13 years had been tone deaf and needs to be among those held accountable for what happened while Nassar was employed as a sports physician at MSU from 1997 to 2016.
When President Trump walked out of the G-20 session on Africa in Hamburg, Germany in July, substituting in his daughter Ivanka, I called it utterly tone-deaf to the well-being of Africa's 1.6 billion people.
T. Barnum fashion to New York for the first time, seemingly with no sense of how tone-deaf the whole display was — from bustier to thigh-high boots, from fire-and-brimstone embroidery to NASA puffer coats.
Proving that tone-deaf hypocrisy regarding women's health care is endemic to the Trump administration, Vice President Pence cast the tie-breaking vote in the Senate the day after he spoke on a panel for women's empowerment.

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