Dove, the soap company, is getting bashed, slashed, and smashed all over social media after they unveiled a new ad campaign featuring a Black Lives Matter activist who leveled a series of horrible allegations at a white female student, and let me tell you something, this is absolutely deserved. Apparently, people have learned nothing from the Bud Light incident with Dylan Mulvaney.
Check out the details from The Daily Wire’s latest report:
Zyahna Bryant, who celebrated on Instagram last week she was a Dove ambassador and spoke of “fat liberation,” accused fellow University of Virginia student Morgan Bettinger — a first-generation college student and the daughter of a police officer who had died six years before — of saying that George Floyd protesters would make “good speed bumps” at a 2020 Charlottesville rally. Bryant later admitted she might not have heard the remarks at all, according to a report.
Responding to a tweet stating, “Zyahna Bryant ruined a white girl’s life over a non-existent remark. Dove just did a brand partnership with her to support ‘fat liberation,” Musk tweeted bluntly, “Messed up.”
Messed up
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) September 14, 2023
A number of other users on the social media platform weighed in on the situation, according to reports from the Daily Mail:
“After hearing that Dove Beauty chose Zyahna Bryant — who ruined Morgan Bettinger’s life — for their ‘fat acceptance ambassador,’ THIS lifelong large lady & now former Dove customer tossed out the last three bars of Dove product she will EVER buy. I have written to Unilever too.”
“@Dove. Do you want to get @budlight bud lighted? Because, this is how you get bud lighted.”
“Shame on Dove, never bought the product anyway. There goes their reputation!”
“Guess I’ve bought my last bar of Dove soap.”
“I’ve stopped buying their products. Never again!”
“I’ll have to toss my Dove products and never buy them again!”
Bryant and other BLM sympathizers decided to completely ruin Bettinger’s life by stating that she made threatening comments against George Floyd protesters in the city of Charlottesville back in 2020. Because if you hold to a set of values or beliefs different from that of progressives, well, you’re the enemy and should be destroyed by any means possible. That’s the kind of thinking the left has infected people with in this day and age. The division is deep in modern America.
“The woman in this truck approached protesters in #Charlottesville, and told us that we would make ‘good speedbumps,’” Bryant, who as only 19, said in a written comment about Bettinger. “She then called the police and started crying saying we were attacking her.” Bryant followed with a series of videos, but they did not show the alleged remarks, as Reason noted in a detailed article on the incident.
The organization that planned the protest, Charlottesville Beyond Policing, crafted a post on Medium that said, “… this rally and march was disturbed by a UVA student, Morgan Bettinger. Morgan drove around the public works truck blocking the street that demonstrators were convened on, and felt compelled to say, not just once, but twice, that protesters would ‘make good speed bumps.’ The second time she repeated it loudly to a Black protester and added ‘good f***ing speed bumps.'”
However, professional investigators who work for the university’s Office for Equal Opportunity and Civil Rights (EOCR) discovered that three of Bryant’s four allegations against Bettinger that were said to have happened in front of a large crowd of witnesses could not be corroborated by others on the scene. One witness in the fourth allegation who originally stated that Bettinger did indeed make the “speed bumps” comment later contradicted that claim when interviewed.
Bryant herself later changed up her story, acknowledging that wasn’t for sure that Bettinger made the statement.