Critics said the ad trivialized the protest movement and the killings of black people by the police. im deeply offended and will not be working with hm anymore The Weeknd had been appearing in H&M ad campaigns since 2017. That same week, Pepsi apologized for a television commercial featuring Kendall Jenner that was criticized for borrowing imagery from the Black Lives Matter movement. It’s been just over a year since H&M apologised for an advertising image featuring a black boy modelling a hoodie with the slogan Coolest Monkey in the Jungle.The Swedish brand issued the. In April, the skin care brand Nivea pulled an ad that used the slogan “white is purity” after it was accused of racial insensitivity (and celebrated by white supremacists.) MASH (stylized on-screen as MASH) is a 1970 American black comedy war film directed by Robert Altman and written by Ring Lardner Jr., based on Richard Hookers 1968 novel MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors. In a statement at the time, Dove said it was “committed to representing the beauty of diversity” but had “missed the mark” with its ad, which was removed from Facebook.

The ad was criticized for employing a racist trope that black people could use soap to clean themselves into white people. In October, Dove, the soap company owned by Unilever, apologized for a Facebook ad that showed a black woman removing her brown shirt to reveal a smiling white woman in a crisp white shirt underneath. But mistakes like this happen in the world of advertising with some regularity.

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