The Skittles candy company’s colorless campaign, meant to celebrate LGBTQ Pride Month, is being bashed and called a “poorly veiled white supremacist” stunt by social media users.
Skittles ditched it’s iconic colorful rainbow bags and released an ad that said: “During Pride, only one rainbow matters. So, we’ve given up ours to show our support.”
A portion of the profits from each bag of fruit-flavored candy (purchased exclusively at Tesco grocery stores) will go to LGBT charities, the company said.
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But the ad campaign was slammed on social media, with several offended users equating the company’s use of an all-white bag and candies to white supremacy.
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But not everyone hates the Pride campaign.
Last year, the Mars Inc. brand celebrated Pride month by handing out bags of the limited-edition black-and-white bags filled with white Skittles to the thousands of revelers who attended the Pride parade in London.
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