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BANGKOK — A leading human rights group has called on Dunkin’ Donuts to withdraw a “bizarre and racist” advertisement for chocolate doughnuts in Thailand that shows a smiling woman with bright pink lips in blackface makeup.
The campaign is for a new “Charcoal Donut” featuring the image. Posters and TV commercials show the woman with a shiny jet black, 1950s-style beehive hairdo holding a bitten black doughnut alongside the slogan: “Break every rule of deliciousness.”
Human Rights Watch said such a campaign would draw “howls of outrage” if released in the United States, but it hasn’t ruffled many in Thailand.
