Companies Are Kowtowing To The BLM With These Product Bans

These protests over police brutality and confederate statues are having an unexpected influence on vendors across the board. Last week it was Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben, and Mrs. Butterworth. This week it’s moved over to cosmetic L’Oreal, Unilever, and Johnson&Johnson are trying to be more P.C. and are removing possibly offensive wording from their products.

The L’Oreal Group has decided to remove the words white/whitening, fair/fairness, light/lightening from all its skin evening products,” the French cosmetics giant said in statement.

On Thursday, Hindustan Unilever, the Indian and Bangladesh unit of Anglo-Dutch firm Unilever (UL), announced that it would “stop using the word ‘Fair” on its “Fair and Lovely” skincare products. Unilever stated its reason was to move toward “a more inclusive vision of beauty.”

We recognise that the use of the words ‘fair’, ‘white’ and ‘light’ suggest a singular ideal of beauty that we don’t think is right, and we want to address this.” “The brand has never been and is not a bleaching product,” Unilever added.

Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), also announced on Thursday it has discontinued two lines of skincare products from its brands that include the word “fairness” on its labels for the same reasons.”
Conversations over the past few weeks highlighted that some product names or claims on our dark spot reducer products represent fairness or white as better than your own unique skin tone,” Johnson & Johnson said in a statement. “This was never our intention – healthy skin is beautiful skin.”

Skin-lightening products are typically aimed at women in the Black and Asian communities, says Dr Steve Garner, a sociologist, who carried out one of the first British studies into skin-lightening.”

It feels like we are on the cusp of losing the word “white.” I get that everyone is trying to be P.C. as no company wants to be called out as racist while the racial tensions are high in this country but still, it feels like they are trying to create their own problems here. Lightening? Fair? Whitening? These are not terms that have to do with race.

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  • These companies should be boycotted for kissing the ass of these idiot communists! This is all about making anything white look racist! I’m white and all you assholes can kiss my white ass! F::k you! Nuff said!

  • And what is next no tags on all underwear This is getting real ignorant real fast They better go talk the the chief of the tribe that sold your ancestors and is still doing iot today No one has ever said a word about that Wake up and smell the coffee This a country not a yoyo

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