Results: Bath and Body Works apologizes for selling candles that looked like Ku Klux Klan hoods
Published on 10/21/2024
Source: https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/14/business/bath-body-works-candle-kkk/index.html
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Bath and Body Works has stopped selling a candle that was emblazoned with a winter theme that many commenters online compared to a Ku Klux Klan hood. The candle's label, called "Snowed In," was decorated with a stylized paper snowflake. But many people on social media compared it to the hoods and robes worn by Klansmembers. The KKK is the one of the "oldest and most infamous" hate groups in the United States, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Do you think it looks like a KKK hood?
Yes
42%
1145 votes
No
30%
813 votes
Undecided
27%
742 votes
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The candle has since been pulled from Bath and Body Works' website and retail locations, with the company telling CNN in a statement its design was "unintentional." If you agree it resembles a KKK hood, do you think it was on purpose or by accident? On purpose
7%
186 votes
By accident
43%
1168 votes
Unsure
24%
651 votes
I don't think it looks like a KKK hood
24%
655 votes
Other (please specify)
1%
40 votes
| Other Answers | Percentage | Votes |
|---|---|---|
| 0.96% | 26 | |
| Na | 0.07% | 2 |
| Who knows? | 0.04% | 1 |
| People will ***** about anything | 0.04% | 1 |
| That's up to the designer | 0.04% | 1 |
| didn't see it | 0.04% | 1 |
| Hard to judge without seeing them | 0.04% | 1 |
| looks like an alien's head | 0.04% | 1 |
| ... | 0.04% | 1 |
| I'm hoping it was an oversight but I'm not sure how they could have not seen the similarities. There are thousands of other ways too display snowflakes. | 0.04% | 1 |
| I suppose it depends on what the candles actually look like. Are they pointed with two eye holes? If not.... well. | 0.04% | 1 |
| Wouldn t buy regardless | 0.04% | 1 |
| I would not have thought of it as a KKK hood until it was mentioned. So I beleirve this was a accident. | 0.04% | 1 |
| No idea what manufactures think anymore. | 0.04% | 1 |
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Do you agree removing the candle was the best option? Yes
55%
1497 votes
No
20%
538 votes
Undecided
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665 votes
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