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

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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.

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