The ACLU has apologized for perpetuating “white supremacy” after some on Twitter took offense to a tweet featuring a white baby.

In a tweet on Wednesday, the ACLU posted a photo of a child wearing a “free speech” onesie with the text, “This is the future that ACLU members want”:

This is the future that ACLU members want. pic.twitter.com/bAIwuheEco — ACLU National (@ACLU) August 23, 2017

Instead of noticing the shirt the baby was wearing, some people immediately took offense to the tweet including a white baby:

A White kid with a flag?! — Nyasha Junior (@NyashaJunior) August 23, 2017

I actually thought someone retweeted a 'white genocide' account onto my timeline. https://t.co/X6SGsxwjPh — joe prince (@joeprince___) August 23, 2017

What? All blond folk! I don't get this silly post. The future ACLU wants is a little blond kid??? — SavageFem (@SavageNancy) August 23, 2017

Now I see why you worked so hard for the neo Nazis in Charlottesville — Kokoa (@kokoa96) August 23, 2017

Anthropologist Michael Oman-Reagan suggested he would rather have a future featuring black characters from science fiction films:

In response to the uproar, the ACLU thanked its Twitter follows for bringing attention to the fact that "white supremacy is everywhere" -- apparently even in merely posting images of white babies:

When your Twitter followers keep you in check and remind you that white supremacy is everywhere. pic.twitter.com/Qx5D5hbKWy — ACLU National (@ACLU) August 23, 2017

The ACLU then issued another tweet clarifying they meant to highlight ACLU onesies, not white babies:

PSA: The future we want is babies in ACLU onesies.



For more cute ACLU babies, follow us on Instagram! https://t.co/pRseIPpdLs https://t.co/ICEekojaBd — ACLU National (@ACLU) August 23, 2017

Of course, that wasn’t enough. One Twitter user remarked the tweet made her “afraid” since it featured a blonde baby that somehow symbolizes “white supremacy”:

Like several other repliers, I saw the blond hair and US flag and was afraid, because these things have come to symbolize white supremacy. — Julie Barnes (@JtrackJulie) August 23, 2017

Another person claimed the tweet should be deleted since it “smacks of ethno-nationalist propaganda”:

Just take a moment to acknowledge that the tweet bizarrely smacks of ethno-nationalist propaganda, then delete it — Levi LaChappelle (@levilachappelle) August 23, 2017

The ACLU was essentially between a rock and a hard place: use a gif of a white child and you’re perpetuating white supremacy, or use a gif of a black child and you’re using “digital blackface.”

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