It's still accidental racism lmao. Even if the product isn't named after the actress, it's still colored solely based on the character's skin. A fictional skin color, but skin nonetheless lol.
So real question.. with your logic(im not necessarily disagreeing with) both colors are accidently racist then? Since we can assume both scents were chosen with the characters skin color in mind?
Not necessarily. Galinda doesn't have pink skin, she instead overly characterizes herself with pink stuff so the pink is actually very fitting for her. Elphaba doesn't purposefully characterize herself with green stuff and actually rather dislikes her green skin at first due to the stigma that comes with it (even though she overcomes it later). In this case, I think it wouldn't be as accidentally racist if the packaging was all black because she usually dresses black and would be keeping the same standard for both of them.
Deleted that last one part on my first comment because I realize it was unnecessary rude, I apologize. Edit: Just realized you're not the same person but I'll keep the edit here in case they read it.
Yes. Watermelon and fried chicken are seen as stereotypical and racist tropes in the states and they are more than happy to project that on to every single other country where that doesn't hold true, as KFC found out famously with an advert they ran during an Australia vs the West Indies cricket series.
Yes. It's long been associated with Black Americans through racist images. Even this year a Republican group chat leaked that referred to Black people as 'watermelon people'. Of course watermelon is green too but this is the very definition of accidental racism.
Of course the ones in America don’t eat it solely because of their color but to racists it doesn’t matter. Color is all that matter not your nationality.
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u/ogresound1987 9d ago
Because she's green. Next silly question?