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The Wall Street Journal: Estée Lauder executive suspended over personal Instagram post containing COVID joke and racial slur

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Estée Lauder Cos.
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has suspended a top executive following backlash over a post on his personal Instagram account that contained a racial slur and jokes about COVID-19.

The cosmetics company suspended John Demsey, who serves as executive group president and oversees a portfolio of brands including MAC and Clinique.

A meme posted in recent days to Demsey’s Instagram account
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pictured a spoof book cover of the children’s TV show “Sesame Street.” The post no longer appears on Demsey’s account.

An expanded version of this report appears at WSJ.com.

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