America’s outrage over the new M&M figurines is justified

America’s right-wing media condemns the new figures M&M’s, who are “lesbian” and “obese”. Manufacturer tuesday And now it stops with the characters – or so it seems?

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“We certainly didn’t expect our updated figures to break the internet,” M&M said on Twitter. Chocolate Brand Not sure if anyone would notice that the figures were altered, but the right-wing extremist corner absolutely did.

The fuss started a year ago about green M&M’s new shoes: they got sneakers instead of boots. Even something like that would provoke outrage from Fox News commentators like Tucker Carlson. The addition of a purple M&M in September was the proverbial last straw.

The newcomer promotes acceptance and inclusion, while to make matters worse, one in three female M&Ms was a lesbian. Oh, and the new purple M&M is fat, Fox News fulminated. The reactionary TV channel did not think it possible that chocolate was being used to push an “awakened” political agenda.

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Manufacturer Mars is now bowing to criticism and taking drastic measures: “Even candy shoes can be polarizing”, so do without. In the United States, M&M figurines are indefinitely replaced by actress Maya Rudolph – because at least everyone likes her.

Although this is a diversionary tactic. Mars will begin its campaign for the Super Bowl in mid-February, and now Americans will be very curious to see what M&M’s made of it. Will M&M’s succeed in “breaking the internet” again?