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To go serious for a second, I believe it is less about parent groups potentially complaining, and more about fear of some nutbag redhat going on social media and praising Hasbro for finally making a KKK action figure. Which is insane, since CoCo doesn’t look like that at all in a hood. This whole stupid tempest in a teapot goes back to Lorenzo di Bonaventura running his mouth about the hood back when he was working on his crap Joe movies. It’s the silliest, most reactionary, least logical thing ever regarding this brand. I mean he’s the leader of a terrorist organization for shit’s sake. Not only is the “ban” ridiculous and unnecessary, it also dilutes the very real need to root out *actual* redhat/fascist/nazi dog-whistling in media. This topic seriously grinds my gears.
Not to go too far off the rails here, but it's not even logically consistent anyway. We have loads of toys of either actual Nazis or other 'bad guys' essentially wearing Nazi clothing without the logo. And we're supposed to think that's okay because the big bad S-symbol isn't on the arm. But a blue, form-fitted hood with a loose lower edge is 'too close' to KKK? It's weird.