ANC secretary-general Fikile Mbalula has been slammed for a minister of electricity “joke”, with many saying it was “tone-deaf” and in poor taste.

Source: https://www.heraldlive.co.za/news/2023-02-14-fikile-mbalula-slammed-for-tone-deaf-minster-of-electricity-joke/

By ignoring this, the department shows how tone-deaf and unaware it truly is.

Source: https://thegatewayonline.ca/2023/01/editorial-despite-best-efforts-the-osteology-collection-just-furthers-colonization/

Continued attempts by Superintendent of Public Instruction Chris Reykdal to minimize the damage done to our children during the pandemic are alarming and tone-deaf.

Source: https://www.heraldnet.com/opinion/comment-learing-loss-still-harms-kids-legislators-must-act/

From my limited vantage point in Minneapolis' far northwest corner, the southwest light-rail line has been contentious in part because the Met Council seems to have been habitually tone-deaf regarding local concerns and cost overruns.

Source: https://www.minnpost.com/community-voices/2023/10/informed-musings-on-the-idea-of-separating-metro-transit-from-the-met-council/

Lopez also told Fox News that voters are beginning to understand that when they elect "socialists or ultra progressives" to office, the result is "a tone-deaf leadership that doesn't care."

Source: https://www.theblaze.com/news/chicago-democrat-leader-rips-socialists-ultra-progressives-who-turn-blind-eye-to-violent-crime-in-city-innocent-people-are-being-hunted-down-like-prey

Meanwhile, members of the Black community felt that the organization, which didn’t have a single Black board member at the time, was tone-deaf at best and racist at worst.

Source: https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2023/06/06/boston-pride-parade-back/

She muses, “Our family is growing in such a cool and hip and funky way!” a comment that is at best awkwardly tone-deaf, and at worse tokenizing.

Source: https://forward.com/opinion/535465/netflix-film-you-people-erases-jews-of-color/

Styles’ speech appeared tone-deaf, considering that he won the award over several women and people of color.

Source: https://trinitonian.com/2023/02/16/another-year-another-round-of-grammys-backlash/

The award-winning actor’s words that “God was pushing him (Julius Malema) towards a bigger goal” when the ANC “closed its doors to him” seems rather tone-deaf, considering Malema’s inciteful “Kill the Boer” chant at the rally…

Source: https://www.citizen.co.za/entertainment/celebrity-news/julius-malema-eff-rally-somizi-beyonce-kelly-khumalo-watch/

Unsurprisingly, Kim's posts appeared to be tone-deaf, and the internet reacted quickly.

Source: https://www.inquisitr.com/kim-kardashian-slammed-for-insensitive-silk-pajama-posts-amid-kourtney-travis-barkers-emergency