【スイス】「ムーア人の頭」という名のチョコレート製菓が人種差別的とネットで炎上、スーパーで商品撤去へ ★2

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2020/06/15(月) 15:24

Migros, Switzerland's largest supermarket chain and employer, has become embroiled in an online racism debate after removing the beloved, if controversial, ‘Mohrenkopf’ (Moor's Head) candies from its stores.
There were queues around the corner at many Migros outlets on Thursday following the announcement that it would no longer stock the popular confectionary, produced by Swiss firm Dubler.Online debate has raged about the chocolate treats for many years, but came to a head recently amid the current worldwide wave of anti-racism in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody. The controversy was apparently rekindled online by an anonymous Twitter account which spurred multiple discussions on the origins of the sweet's name, the company's corporate responsibility to not offend its customers and whether the whole issue was merely political correctness gone mad.“Dear Migros, I ask you to remove this product from your range immediately!? This expression is extremely racist and does not correspond to political correctness,” the anonymous account @MereSirrTeh wrote to the company this week in a now-deleted tweet. Following major online backlash, the account behind the tweet has also been deleted. Journalist Christian Beck countered by saying that he never thought of a man with dark skin as a ‘Mohrenkopf’ and recommended that the best form of protest would be not buying the sweet treats. Others asked if everything was now racist, decrying the whole episode as “absolute nonsense.” Some even pointed out that, regardless of the moral implications of naming a sweet after a long-outdated racial slur, the whole tweetstorm was free advertising for the confectioner Dubler.