In hot water again, Dove? Soap giant accused of racism over body wash advert (THAT'S RACIST! alert)

UK Daily Mail ^ | 5/25/11 | Daily Mail Reporter

[Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears]

Soap giant Dove has landed itself in hot water after an advert for one of its products appeared to suggest it can change a user's skin colour.

The promotion, for Dove VisibleCare Creme Body Wash - a £2.69 product that is available in Boots - features a 'before' and 'after' skin chart behind a black woman, possibly a Latina and a blonde - all wrapped in towels - standing beside each other.

The caption reads: 'Visibly more beautiful skin from the most unexpected of places - your shower.'

But critics are in a lather over the ad, accusing Dove of implied - and albeit unintentional - racism.

[Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears]

My eyes almost came out of their sockets, from rolling them so hard.

[Tax-chick]

Oh, that’s just silly.

[Sacajaweau]

Straightens your hair, too

Ridiculous...

[driftdiver]

well reverse em and make people think Dove turns your skin dark

what a bunch of idiots

[al baby]

Beyond silly black don’t crack

[DManA]

WHat? No black man? Are they trying to say that black me smell? That’s what I think.

[Psycho_Bunny]

“But critics are in a lather over the ad, accusing Dove of implied - and albeit unintentional - racism.”

When the absurd becomes the norm.

[Red_Devil 232]

Michael Jackson would have loved this product!

[Psycho_Bunny]

It’s sexist: they’re saying men can’t be cleaned.

[Edgar3]

[SkyDancer]

Is it racist for security companies to constantly show white guys as the home invaders?

[Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears]

Love your “about” page. LOL

[Perdogg]

Not guilty, not guilty, not guilty.

[ruesrose]

Its an ad about Dove moisturizing the skin and of course softer skin looks and feels better too.That’s why I use it.
It’s just another attempt at a shakedown.

[1010RD]

Protest: In 2008, Some 40 Greenpeace volunteers, dressed in orang-utan suits, targeted a Unilever factory claiming its production is reliant on the destruction of Orang-utan forests

[Free Vulcan]

Roger that captain.

[Nea Wood]

WHAT?!! No Asian woman in the ad???

Racist pigs.

(sarc)

[dynachrome]

So, that’s what Michael Jackson was using!

[Viking2002]

I stopped viewing Leftists as equals when they left the rest of the human race, and I'll delight in their self-inflicted misery until they decide to rejoin it.

"But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away, for his name is Obama."

[MomwithHope]

That’s nothing, about 20 minutes ago Isaw a Tums commercial on TV. Guy and a gal at a carnival and he’s trying to eat a corn dog that becomes animated, wiggling around so he can’t get ahold of it with his mouth and it eventually slaps him. He eats a Tums and then it holds still and he eats it. So creepily phallic and can I say subliminal gay?