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2023-08-14 -Great Cultural Revolution

Skittles blasted over new pro-LGBTQ packaging

[NYPOST] Skittles is getting pushback from conservatives who have soured on the popular candy’s new "woke" pro-LGBTQ packaging — threatening a repeat of the boycott that cost Anheuser-Busch billions of dollars after Bud Light partnered with transgender influencer Dylan Stench of Death Mulvaney
Dylan <q>Stench of Death</q> Mulvaney

...the transexual influencer who single-handedly trashed a major American beer brand owned by a Belgian company, tainted Maybelline and Condé Nast, and then demanded that anybody who called him/her/it a man be arrested...
"@Skittles is trying to turn your kids into BLM & LGBTQ+ activists," one online user tweeted on Libs of TikTok. "Their packaging also features a drag queen.

"Skittles have gone completely woke."

Twitter user InnerPeaceKarma was more succinct.

"Boycott Skittles," they tweeted. "Simple."

But Saturday night, the post had 1.8 million views.

The backlash ensued after Skittles’ parent company, the Wrigley Company, which in turn is owned by Mars Incorporated, swapped its rainbow-colored packaging for new LGBTQ-friendly illustrations and messages.

The new packages are predominantly black and white and include phrases like "Black Trans Lives Matter" and "Joy is Resistance®," Newsweek reported.

The new-look Skittles were designed in collaboration with the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation and is the fourth year the candymaker partnered with the organization to promote tolerance and inclusion.

Although many brands have promoted similar messages for years, conservatives have seized on it in recent months, most notably a widespread boycott of Bud Light over the beer company’s affiliation with Mulvaney.

This is what a tipping point looks like, guys. Just so you know for the next time you have a bright idea like this.

The boycott of the once-popular beer has seen Anheuser-Busch’s profits plummet by nearly 30%, with a loss in core value estimated as high as $4 billion.

Florida’s Disney World amusement park and Target stores have also faced anti-gay backlashes.

Skittles now appears to be the latest target.

Posted by Fred 2023-08-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [29 views ] Top

#1
At the least, I predict a lot of resumes will need adjusting.

Posted by NN2N1 2023-08-14 06:33|| 2023-08-14 06:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Good. I need to boycott sugary junk foods.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-08-14 06:49|| 2023-08-14 06:49|| Front Page Top

#3 Which single digit in the polls Pub will hand these out at rallies? Haley? Hutchinson?

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-08-14 06:51|| 2023-08-14 06:51|| Front Page Top

#4 What ad executive thought that Skittles wasn’t woke enough already? That’s like trying to make Subaru gay friendly.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-08-14 10:29|| 2023-08-14 10:29|| Front Page Top

#5 As with Bud Lite, easy to boycott except I was already doing so because they're cr*p.

Posted by Glenmore 2023-08-14 11:58|| 2023-08-14 11:58|| Front Page Top

#6 The....artwork...is what you would expect if you gave a 4th grader a 16 pack of crayons and tasked them to draw railway car graffiti.

The black and white is a reference to Freddy Mercury, whose gay lifestyle got him killed young. Be forwarned; Mercury wasn't famous because he was gay, he chose gaydom after becoming famous - as his heavily favored documentary noted. Anyone remember his solo career? Anyone?

Some of Mars inc, wiki:
Mars bars, Milky Way bars, M&M's, Skittles, Snickers, and Twix.

Posted by swksvolFF 2023-08-14 13:12|| 2023-08-14 13:12|| Front Page Top

#7 Some of Mars inc, wiki:
Mars bars, Milky Way bars, M&M's, Skittles, Snickers, and Twix.

It had to be Snickers....

small sob

Posted by Mullah Richard 2023-08-14 16:14|| 2023-08-14 16:14|| Front Page Top

#8 Taste the Rainbow must not have achieved a high enough DEI score. In 2005 or so I had a discussion with a friend about my concern that the culture wars were headed towards a bad outcome. My friend responded that he would worry about the gay agenda when they tried to make it mandatory. In some ways we have smashed through that wall like a giant rainbow flavored KoolAid mascot decked out like a dominatrix.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-08-14 17:01|| 2023-08-14 17:01|| Front Page Top

#9 Snickers was my go-to until it lost all that weight.

Just pointing out that this is a Mars inc thing because M&M just did their gay crusade.

Posted by swksvolFF 2023-08-14 17:06|| 2023-08-14 17:06|| Front Page Top

#10 this is a Mars inc thing

Yes, more virtue signalling fambly owner billionaires telling you no good proles how to act.

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-08-14 17:22|| 2023-08-14 17:22|| Front Page Top

#11 Trayvon vouched for Skittles and Syrup

Posted by Frank G 2023-08-14 21:53|| 2023-08-14 21:53|| Front Page Top

#12 And don't Skittles have some carcinogens? Yuck.

Posted by DooDahMan 2023-08-14 22:40|| 2023-08-14 22:40|| Front Page Top

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