An apparently noncandy spokesperson for M&M’s released a statement Monday that the candy is taking an “indefinite pause” from using the walking, talking versions of its confections in ads, obliquely referring to the “polarizing” reaction that last year’s “mascot refresh” sparked on the right. And in the iconic words of “Mad” Max Rockatansky in the 2015 cinema masterpiece “Fury Road”: “That’s bait.”
For background, the statement released Monday — which introduces Maya Rudolph as a replacement and calls her “a spokesperson American can agree on”— is in supposed response to chum-churning from conservative outlets over the supposed “woke” ideology that the candy’s parent company, Mars Inc., is espousing. Last year, Fox News host Tucker Carlson went on a tirade after the Green M&M’s high heels were replaced with sneakers.
“M&Ms will not be satisfied until every last cartoon character is deeply unappealing and totally androgynous,” Carlson…
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