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| Mired in the Fog of Lucidity |
Great job there.....Skittles. I for one couldn't be prouder that you've chosen not to appropriate the LGBT movement. Perhaps you should make a commercial with all white Skittles and Kendall Jenner? Skittles has temporarily ditched its rainbow theme in favor of an all-white look in the United Kingdom and Germany in order to give LGBT pride celebrations "center stage." Michelle Green, a spokeswoman for the Chicago-based Wrigley Company, which makes Skittles, tells The Associated Press that since rainbow colors are identified with both LGBT pride and Skittles, the candy maker chose one color during the celebrations "in order for Pride's rainbow to take center stage." June is LGBT Pride month. The Skittles switch began in late March and wraps up in September. The candy is sold in a black-and-white wrapper. The move has received a mixed reaction on social media. Some Twitter users like it, but others are critical of the selection of white for the campaign, saying it plays against the nod to diversity. The Huffington Post posted an article titled, “Some People Think Skittles’ All-White Pride Candies Are Racist.” The article states the some say by going all-white, Skittles fails to reflect racial diversity within the gay community. A Wrigley spokesperson responded to the controversy in an email to the website, saying, “diversity and inclusion are also key values for us.” http://www.foxnews.com/world/2...e-is-criticized.html | ||
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| Gracie Allen is my personal savior! |
Ah, so Skittles thought the whole rainbow-colored thing was ghey. Understood. I think. | |||
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The Unmanned Writer |
"Look at me, look at me - i am offended and you will look at me - unless you're a gay hating racist." Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. "If dogs don't go to Heaven, I want to go where they go" Will Rogers The definition of the words we used, carry a meaning of their own... | |||
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| Mired in the Fog of Lucidity |
It's confusing, because to choose all white as the color scheme isn't Skittles promoting white privilege? | |||
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| sick puppy |
yes. that's what some people are saying. ____________________________ While you may be able to get away with bottom shelf whiskey, stay the hell away from bottom shelf tequila. - FishOn | |||
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Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici |
Here's an idea. Just sell candy and STFU. _________________________ NRA Endowment Member _________________________ "Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." -- C.S. Lewis | |||
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| Member |
No truer words have ever been said about candy. When are companies going to figure out they can't win in the war of words with liberals. Their (liberals) logic is without match. Not because it is true, but because it is nonsensical. And they will not cave when faced with facts. Here's a new slogan for skittles. "We'll fart in a bag if your willing to pay for it. Or enjoy our yummy sweet colored candies instead. Because we really don't care. Your call." Taste that rainbow! It's all about clean living. Just do the right thing, and karma will help with the rest. | |||
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AMEN and friggin' preach it, brother!!! Lessee here. I've bought Skittles ZERO times in my life. I shall continue that trend..... "If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24 | |||
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| Back, and to the left  |
Skittles can F off. I quit Skittles and Arizona Tea (at exactly the same time) already. Years ago. | |||
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Coin Sniper |
Remember the good old days when companies just made food, snacks and other beverages without being politically active or pandering to every special interest on the planet? Pronoun: His Royal Highness and benevolent Majesty of all he surveys 343 - Never Forget Its better to be Pavlov's dog than Schrodinger's cat There are three types of mistakes; Those you learn from, those you suffer from, and those you don't survive. | |||
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Ammoholic |
You can't win when fighting liberal logic. No matter what you're wrong. I hope their sales fall from the hateful white power skittles. Hahaha. Best thing is just to ignore them. Jesse Sic Semper Tyrannis | |||
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Agreed. Some people have way too much spare time.
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| Alea iacta est |
June is WHAT fucking pride month? Fuck that. When is middle-aged overweight white guy pride month? Fuck all this nonsense. I really hate the world today. Pardon me while I go look for a clock tower... | |||
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Delusions of Adequacy |
How can the rainbow be appropriated from the alphabet gang when they did so themselves. The Leprechauns are pissed, and want it back. I have my own style of humor. I call it Snarkasm. | |||
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Isn't "all white" and "Kendall Jenner" an oxymoron unto itself? "No matter where you go - there you are" | |||
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