{"id":186464,"date":"2019-04-09T07:45:25","date_gmt":"2019-04-09T07:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=186464"},"modified":"2019-04-11T06:15:11","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T06:15:11","slug":"waitrose-pulls-chocolate-ducklings-from-sale-after-complaints-of-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=186464","title":{"rendered":"Waitrose pulls chocolate ducklings from sale after complaints of racism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Introduction \u2013 April 9, 2019<\/h1>\n

Are chocolate ducks really \u201cracist\u201d because the darker duck is labelled \u201cugly\u201d after a fairytale character? Was the writer of the fairy tale, Hans Christian Andersen who wrote a tale about three ducks really a \u201cracist\u201d?<\/h5>\n
Or are allegations of \u201cracism\u201d being used to induce a sense of guilt in society at large, which can then be manipulated for ulterior purpose?<\/h5>\n
We\u2019ve seen a similar process with repeated accusations of \u201canti-Semitism\u201d. This has enabled Zionists to gain considerable political leverage and in the process helped divert attention from Israeli crimes in Palestine. Is a similar process in operation here?<\/h5>\n

Waitrose pulls chocolate ducklings from sale after complaints of racism<\/h1>\n

Katie Morley \u2013 Telegraph.co.uk April 9, 2019<\/h2>\n

Waitrose\u00a0has apologised over “racist” Easter ducks after customers complained that the\u00a0dark brown one was labelled as “ugly”.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

An \u00a38 trio of white, milk and dark chocolate Easter ducklings caused offence among a “small number” of customers for being labelled as “fluffy”, “crispy” and “ugly”.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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“Racist” chocalate ducks. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

The complaints centered around the the dark brown one being described as the “ugly” one, with some implying it was racist.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Following the feedback, the supermarket temporarily withdrew the ducklings from sale while it redesigned the packaging to remove the labels. The redesigned packs are now back on sale in stores and online.\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The names are likely to have been inspired by the song “the ugly duckling”, from the\u00a0literary fairy tale by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen, later adapted by Disney.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The song is about a small, brown ugly duckling who is mocked and excluded by the other ducklings. Later he discovers he is not a duck when he sheds his brown feathers and grows into a beautiful white swan.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The\u00a0 lyrics go: “There once was an ugly duckling, with feathers all stubby and brown, and the other birds said in so many words, get out of town.”<\/span><\/p>\n

A Waitrose spokesman said: “We are very sorry for any upset\u00a0 caused by the name of this product, it was absolutely not our intention to cause any offence. We removed the product from sale several weeks ago while we changed the labelling and our ducklings are now back on sale.”\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Source https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2019\/04\/08\/waitrose-pulls-ugly-chocolate-ducklings-sale-complaints-racism\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Like \u201canti-Semitism\u201d examples of \u201cracism\u201d are being found everywhere. Now it has even been found in chocolates sold by an upmarket supermarket <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Race"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=186464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186466,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186464\/revisions\/186466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=186464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=186464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=186464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}