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Another day, another chunk of sanity down the drain. Literally. Unilever, which owns brands like Dove and Sunsilk, said on Tuesday it would no longer use the word “normal” on its products or in its advertising after a study revealed it makes most people feel “excluded.”
A spokeswoman said the beauty and personal-care company would remove “normal” from more than 200 products over the next 12 months, as reported by The New York Times.
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The London-based company also said it will no longer digitally alter the body shape, size, or skin color of models in its advertising as part of its “Positive Beauty” initiative.
Hannity’s tweet cryptically read “Soap next?” but that was an allusion to the talk show host and disinformation purveyor’s focus on purportedly “canceled” toys, books, and products. In general, March 2021 involved a lot of bad faith lamentations and weaponized disinformation about “cancel culture,” including claims that the following have been targeted for cancellation:
Mr. Potato Head (purportedly made “gender neutral” due to offended people);
Dr. Seuss (supposedly “canceled” by President Biden himself over racially insensitive content in six specific books), and;
Peter Pan,
Dumbo).
Hannity published two tweets on March 9 2021 expressing offense at what he claimed was the “canceling” or “purging” of titles from Disney+. It follows that, “Soap next?” meant, to him, that after the “cancelations” of Mr. Potato Head, Dr. Seuss, and Disney classics in such a short span, the inclusivity brigade was subsequently coming for everybody’s bars