We need to decolonize candy bars! Especially because their sales are largely supported by adipose divergent People of Color, it is literally genocide to keep patriarchal, racist names on these products!
"Baby Ruth" is named for a white oppressor who fought to keep Black players like Jackie Robinson from playing baseball.
"Snickers" is a well known reference to a malicious smirk that white slave owners would do to demean Black slaves, hence why it also sounds like (and is often used as a dog whistle by far-right extremists) a racial slur against Blacks.
"Skittles" attempts to hijack the rainbow symbolism from its original meaning of Pride and Ally-ship with the LGBTQIA+ community (particularly the transgender People of Color).
"Milky Way" is clearly promoting ("milky") white supremacy as the only correct "way" for our failed, late-stage capitalist, neoplantation society to operate.
"Mounds" is an attack on every transgender person who may or may not have "mounds" in locations that are socially constructed to be associated with a particular expression of the fake gender binary.
The list is interminable! I encourage everyone from across the world to add to this list with their own regional, racist confections so we can call out these post-Wonka white supremacists and genderphobes and finally decolonize candy! They need to DO BETTER and DO THE WORK!
I have a friend who has an asteroid (or some spacey thing) named after him. Needless to say he is a white man in his 70s, and for the sake of budding astronomers everywhere I will have a chat with him about renouncing this horrific honour he was given.
We need to decolonize candy bars! Especially because their sales are largely supported by adipose divergent People of Color, it is literally genocide to keep patriarchal, racist names on these products!
"Baby Ruth" is named for a white oppressor who fought to keep Black players like Jackie Robinson from playing baseball.
"Snickers" is a well known reference to a malicious smirk that white slave owners would do to demean Black slaves, hence why it also sounds like (and is often used as a dog whistle by far-right extremists) a racial slur against Blacks.
"Skittles" attempts to hijack the rainbow symbolism from its original meaning of Pride and Ally-ship with the LGBTQIA+ community (particularly the transgender People of Color).
"Milky Way" is clearly promoting ("milky") white supremacy as the only correct "way" for our failed, late-stage capitalist, neoplantation society to operate.
"Mounds" is an attack on every transgender person who may or may not have "mounds" in locations that are socially constructed to be associated with a particular expression of the fake gender binary.
The list is interminable! I encourage everyone from across the world to add to this list with their own regional, racist confections so we can call out these post-Wonka white supremacists and genderphobes and finally decolonize candy! They need to DO BETTER and DO THE WORK!
"But the longer we discussed this, the more I came around to seeing their viewpoint."
Translation: "They eventually wore me down with their endless whinging"
I have a friend who has an asteroid (or some spacey thing) named after him. Needless to say he is a white man in his 70s, and for the sake of budding astronomers everywhere I will have a chat with him about renouncing this horrific honour he was given.
As a consequence of your excellent reporting I’ve bought an anti-racist cat to help eradicate the racist bird population.
Just superb.
My wife liked this.
I think we need all new first names for everyone because the current names were once used by bad people!
tK426271 reporting!