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What were they thinking? Dove apologizes for 'racist' online soap ad after being hammered by Twitterverse

Thom Geier
The Wrap
Sun, 08 Oct 2017 00:00 UTC

Dove apologized and pulled down an online soap ad in which a black woman pulled up her shirt to reveal a white redheaded woman underneath.

The ad, which has since been removed from Facebook, drew fire from beauty blogger and makeup artist Naythemua.

"An image we recently posted on Facebook missed the mark in representing women of color thoughtfully," Dove tweeted on Saturday. "We deeply regret the offense it caused.

But the Twitterverse was not impressed, decrying the ad and the brand's history of questionable marketing for its products.

"My being black is symbolic of dirt? This is pure racism," one tweeted.

"I don't understand how global brands like #Dove & #Pepsi can be making epic mistakes like this," added another.

Reader Comments

Alan Reid · 2017-10-10T21:47:59Z

Black transvestite transformed into Petite white girl...??

Anything to seed the satanic agenda i guess ....

Cancel Dove, Check.

Next?

Alan Reid · 2017-10-11T02:47:54Z

Alan Reid I don't think anyone gets it.

gdpetti · 2017-10-10T22:26:05Z

Simply stoking the fire to increase the flames..... especially if and when they start to die down.

GhostintheShell ·

gdpetti Exactly.

· 2017-10-10T23:35:24Z

GhostintheShell · 2017-10-10T23:34:50Z

Dove probably did it intentionally to continue the racial hostility in the US. Of course, they won't admit to it. The talks about placing Harriet Tubman on the twenty dollar bill is meant to generate the same effect. None of this is intended to 'bring us closer together'. It's carefully designed to produce the opposite effect.

Rowan Cocoan · 2017-10-11T02:26:33Z

Some good points about this being an 'accident indicative of a racist mindset.'

Sure, that's exactly what it looks like; but I'd not thought about the bigger agenda role here. Divide and conquer, and givve the dirty brown snowflakes more to bitch about, too.

R.C.

LonSabbatical · 2017-10-11T08:01:57Z

Who watches ads... get adblock! There's much more insidious stuff in advertisements than notions of racism...

LonSabbatical · 2017-10-11T08:03:08Z

Dove probably did this so

A) it gets publicity

B) you buy Dove

davidcarswell · 2017-10-11T08:29:58Z

This crap is getting old... Dove actually made the effort to include the 3 major races in an ad and just because the first girl was black the unhinged left predictably see racism... According to the story the black girl was the dirt to be washed off when followed by the white girl - so if that is the story what exactly is washed off the white girl when the Asian girl's turn to comes - oh that's right white people are the racists (even if the think otherwise - they are just unaware of how racist they are) and should definitely be washed clean... from history, culture, equal opportunity, schools, dedicated months or days, pride and whites should always feel guilt for the state of dysfunction found in any the communities that murder their own, raise fatherless children and make prison a right of passage by committing violent crimes habitually.

This racism shit is getting real old and fast. Crying racism (when it isn't), fascism (when it isn't), homophobia (when it isn't), etc.... is not helping the to end the very little existence of these traits and is only furthering their spread.... In fact it is starting to seem these people making these fake assertions should only take a good long hard look in the mirror... they may find their answers there.

LonSabbatical · 2017-10-11T09:02:34Z

Yeah man... totally true. Racism, homophobia and fascism are all but dead. The left just need to let these stuff go and move on to the new reality with Trump as the leader of the new world. I swear... whatever can we do about these crazy lefties!

Highland Fleet Lute · 2017-10-11T11:48:54Z

So the nice, smiling, dusky, bubbling brown sugar person-of-color pulls her top off to reveal a leery-eyed mean old bad tempered ging-er.

Stop the racism to rusty-tops now...[Link]

ironjam628 · 2017-10-11T14:23:35Z

You're projecting some qualities onto that red head, a red head who has been identified in the ad as the desirous "after".

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