The "cancel culture"'s new victim : LEGO helicopters. Well done everyone.
Sometimes things just slip through and mistakes are made - this is pretty normal and product recalls happen all the time. What makes a policy violation different from a defective product in this regard?
Again, the same can be said about recalled products as well - years of development and planning and even post-production QA, yet f-ups happen all the time.
Also - Firemen and Police sets as well as the White House set are still on the shelves, so what even is your argument here? If the company deems themselves in the right, they ignore "the mob" as you call it.
The context of the above is relevant, they too were products approved, that were then backtracked because a small few expressed concerns about how they saw the products.
It may not be in the article, but given it is two instances of this happening in a short period, it's very much relevant.
There is no such thing as a for-profit company that does things because it is "the right thing to do". They make decisions based on what will bring in the most profit (or result in the least amount of lost profit).