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Skittles faces backlash after it partners with GLAAD and puts 'Black Trans Lives Matter' on its packaging
UK Daily Mail ^ | 08/11/2023 | FIONA CONNOR

Posted on 08/11/2023 3:29:10 PM PDT by DFG

Candy brand Skittles is facing backlash after partnering with GLAAD and altering some of its packaging to include 'Black Trans Lives Matter' messaging.

Images of the packet on social media prompted an outpouring of criticism on Twitter today, with many likening the 'woke' marketing to Dylan Mulvaney being used in Bud Light advertising.

It's the fourth year Skittles has teamed up with GLAAD (the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) to 'support the LGBTQ+ community by amplifying and celebrating their stories', according to Skittles' official website.

In a series of limited edition Pride Packs, the candy company has ditched its staple color wheel and opted for a toned-down packet with an illustration.

In previous years, the packets were all-gray to 'represent the brand’s cemented efforts of support', however last year the concept was changed to include work from five LGBTQ+ artists.

They were asked to create original designs which represented how they “see the rainbow” every day.

One example says 'express urself', while another includes the text 'Black Trans Lives Matter'.

'Bruh anytime a company does this it seems in-genuine when their only goal is maximizing profit for shareholders,' another claimed.

'I didn’t want to have to do this skittles.. bye,' a disappointed customer added.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: btlm; candy; pride; queers; rainbow; skittles; trans
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To: DFG

“Skittles and Black Trans together?
Well, type it out, ‘cause I don’t read cursive.”

Rachel Jeantel was heard to say.


21 posted on 08/11/2023 3:52:38 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: DFG

That whole “private bedrooms” thing is looking like it was a big fake-out.


22 posted on 08/11/2023 3:55:32 PM PDT by cdcdawg (Our empire of sodomy is failing as it should. How else could it go? )
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To: Captain Peter Blood

“All these marketing people flunked Marketing 101 I guess.”

Their goal is to have ALL major corporations do this so consumers will have no place to go. Budweiser forgot that there are plenty of beer breweries that people can go to.


23 posted on 08/11/2023 3:57:28 PM PDT by odawg
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To: USAF1985

I prefer Reece’s pieces anyway.


24 posted on 08/11/2023 3:57:37 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: I want the USA back

My thoughts exactly.


25 posted on 08/11/2023 3:57:47 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: DFG

Trayvon “St. Skittles” Martin would approve.


26 posted on 08/11/2023 3:57:56 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: DFG

27 posted on 08/11/2023 3:58:36 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: DFG

good grief! There are just too many woke companies to remember who to avoid! It is annoying as hell


28 posted on 08/11/2023 3:59:35 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: DFG
So did Melissa "Horseface" land a new gig at Skittles?


29 posted on 08/11/2023 4:02:00 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (We are proles, they are nobility.)
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To: DFG

Didnt I hear a while back that Skittles causes cancer


30 posted on 08/11/2023 4:04:28 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: DFG

While BLM has its issues, cramming trans in the name has actually done it injustice.


31 posted on 08/11/2023 4:05:34 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan (Conservatism's last hope, last recourse, in fact last expedient, against the libertarian hordes)
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To: TexasFreeper2009

“There are just too many woke companies to remember who to avoid”


The truth is, it is all of the big, publicly traded companies.

While Boomer Cons were congratulating themselves in how America was a “centre-right” nation, the Left captured every single institution in the country.


32 posted on 08/11/2023 4:06:51 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: DFG
'Bruh anytime a company does this it seems in-genuine when their only goal is maximizing profit for shareholders,' another claimed.

No. Every time a company does this, it negatively impacts shareholders. Faggots and trannies are a very small part of the population, and you specifically exclude and piss off the sane majority when you market to mental defectives.

33 posted on 08/11/2023 4:12:29 PM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: DFG

Taste the rainbow. Get the AIDS.


34 posted on 08/11/2023 4:21:29 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (America Owes Anita Bryant An Enormous Apology)
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To: DFG

I really think these companies want to off themselves.

They look at what’s going on with Bud Light and the idiots think, “Hey let’s do THAT!”

And now that they’ve gone perv, i guess that means “tasting the rainbow” means it tastes like ass now. I’m out.


35 posted on 08/11/2023 4:24:10 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: DFG

Let them eat JELLY BELLY

https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/reagans/ronald-reagan/jelly-bellyr-jelly-beans-and-ronald-reagan


36 posted on 08/11/2023 4:46:24 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: DFG

Maybe my tastebuds are off, but I tried Skittles once and ended up spitting them out. They tasted terrible.


37 posted on 08/11/2023 4:49:51 PM PDT by Schatze (It's better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.)
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To: I want the USA back

Skittles is owned by Mars, and the Mars family of M&M is one of America’s wealthiest. They can be hit hard.
“Skittles are multicolored fruit-flavored lentil-shaped candies produced and marketed by the Wrigley Company, a division of Mars, Inc. Skittles consist of hard sugar shells imprinted with the letter ‘S’, similar to M&M’s which have the letter “M”.”


38 posted on 08/11/2023 5:05:13 PM PDT by Bookshelf
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Do they come with a coupon for a free bottle of purple drank?


39 posted on 08/11/2023 5:16:15 PM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: DFG


40 posted on 08/11/2023 5:17:42 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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