Give it 72 hours and it'll be deemed to be cancelworthy by some activist group claiming that it looks like some racist caricature or something equally as stupid.
From what I can tell, it was an innocuous branding statement that wasn't about taking away the genders of the toys but instead consolidating the Potato Head concept under an umbrella category, presumably just so they could make more toys. Then the AP got ahold of it and reported it in the most inflammatory, gendertrender-y way possible because it's been proven that outrage drives clicks drives revenue, and something like an ancient kids' toy brand being de-gendered is a perfect way to stoke the culture wars.
It's either that or that Mr.Potato is ableist or a racist caricature.
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I mean, that messaging looks pretty woke to me.
Who reads context these days? An article that takes thirty seconds to read exceeds the attention span of the average Twitterati by a good twenty-eight seconds.
Well, since potatoes originated in South America you got that sweet cultural appropriation right there.
And I go a step further by saying they'll be trap between a rock and an hard place.
The funniest thing about people who say cancel culture "doesn't exist" is that once they get cancelled and lose everything, they completely backtrack on what they said.
What's next, do they think making French fries out of him will be a form of "transitioning"?
That or they had read Stonetoss' comic about burger sales.
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