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Once Again, M&M’s Are the Subject of Conservative Outrage.
It’s just pathetic.
It truly never ends, does it?
Once again, M&M’s find themselves the subject of more conservative anger, and — once again — none other than FOX News host Tucker Carlson is leading the outrage.
Marisa Dellatto with Forbes writes:
“Earlier this month M&M’s launched limited edition packaging which had the words “Supporting Women” on them and featured the brand’s three female spokescandies: Brown, Green and newly introduced Purple.
…Fox News personality Carlson dedicated a segment to the candies, saying “the woke M&M’s are back,” the green M&M “is now a lesbian maybe” and “there is also a plus-sized, obese purple M&M.”
Conservative personality Nick Adams tweeted “every American with half a brain should be outraged by M&M’s going woke,” as “manhood is under attack like no other time in world history.”
In a Monday announcement, M&M’s said it “didn’t expect” for the changes it had made to its spokescandies to “break the internet,” and noted “even a candy’s shoes can be polarizing,” which is the last thing the brand wanted, “since we’re all about bringing people together.”…”
