Well that all depends on your view of “offensive.” If you’re one of those funny people whose feelings get hurt by… oh, I dunno, pretty much everything, including which way the wind blows on Thursdays, well, you’ll be crushed. However, if you are a normal, mainstream person, you’ll likely chuckle a bit and say, “Clever ad.”

The Lookout via Yahoo News:

Nivea, a company that specializes in skin-care products, recently released a print ad that it has since pulled. How to best describe the ad? It shows an African American man preparing to toss a decapitated head (his own?) with an afro-style haircut. The ad copy reads: “Re-Civilize Yourself.” The underlying message seems to be that afros are not civilized.

Almost immediately, the ad met with outrage. The Los Angeles Times reported that Facebook users began “posting photos of themselves with Afros on Nivea’s wall, saying things such as: ‘I wear my hair natural and I just graduated with my doctorate! So who needs to be re-civilized?? Nivea no longer welcomed in my household.’ “

Okay Doc… Nivea no longer welcomed in my household. You need to drop the “D” in welcomed. And you just graduated with a Doctorate, eh?

So here’s the ad. The question is, are you a sensitive snowflake? Or a normal, well adjusted person that see’s this for what it is?