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Coon Cheese rebrands in Australia after anti-racism campaign
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| 1/13/2021
Posted on 01/13/2021 1:35:20 PM PST by mylife
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posted on
01/13/2021 1:35:20 PM PST
by
mylife
To: mylife
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posted on
01/13/2021 1:36:58 PM PST
by
rdl6989
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To: mylife
Of course, it makes no difference that the name has nothing to do with the racial slur, but is named after the company’s founder. This reminds me of the debate over the word “niggardly” a few years ago.
To: rdl6989
Hope somebody doesn’t try to wash clothes with it.
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posted on
01/13/2021 1:38:59 PM PST
by
firebrand
To: rdl6989
I’ve been complaining about cracker for minutes now but Zesta keeps ignoring me!
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posted on
01/13/2021 1:39:07 PM PST
by
9422WMR
(Lie, cheat, steal. It’s how the democRATS operate. )
To: mylife
Have to change the common name of Procyon Lotor too.
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posted on
01/13/2021 1:39:44 PM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(You are in far more danger from an authoritarian government than you are from a seasonal virus.)
To: firebrand
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posted on
01/13/2021 1:39:57 PM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: mylife
“Coon” is a very common last name.
There is even a Democrat US Senator named Coons!
This is gonna get fun!
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posted on
01/13/2021 1:40:04 PM PST
by
cgbg
(A kleptocracy--if they can keep it.)
So I guess they will be getting rid of crackers too?
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posted on
01/13/2021 1:40:10 PM PST
by
dsrtsage
(Complexity is merely simplicity lacking imagination)
To: mylife; Fred Nerks; Byron_the_Aussie; naturalman1975; melsec
Fine, how about renaming it Boong Cheese? /sarc
What was this brand of food really named after? I’m wagering it’s a 90 percent chance that it wasn’t named to put down aboriginals at all.
To: mylife
>>The cheese got its original name from American pioneering cheese maker Edward William Coon who patented a ripening process in the 1920s.
Doesn’t matter anymore
To: mylife
Who hasn't seen a coon poking around the garbage at one time or the other?
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posted on
01/13/2021 1:42:56 PM PST
by
Governor Dinwiddie
(Guide me, O thou great Redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land.)
To: mylife
A family on my street where I grew up was named COONS. some kids jokingly called them a family of Coons, a den of Coons, etc… At the time, I thought they meant Raccoons. Perhaps the older kids meant something different
Who would imagine these poor folks would someday be identified as inherently racist.
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posted on
01/13/2021 1:43:06 PM PST
by
PGR88
To: mylife
To: mylife
OK Raccoons. You’re next. How about Racsofcolor?
To: mylife
That was mighty white of them
To: dsrtsage
“So I guess they will be getting rid of crackers too?”
We’ll call it matzah.
To: 9422WMR
It will now be known as:
“Northam Cheese”
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posted on
01/13/2021 1:47:22 PM PST
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: antidemoncrat
I have an iphone for work. If I type the word boy into a text message it pops up an emoji of a black boy. I kid you not.
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posted on
01/13/2021 1:49:36 PM PST
by
littleharbour
("You take on the intel community they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you" C. Schumer)
To: mylife
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posted on
01/13/2021 1:49:52 PM PST
by
Stravinsky
(Politeness will not defeat the Marxist revolutionaries)
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