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To: SJackson

‘Coon’ is most definitely a racial slur in Australia - it may have come from the US, but it was adopted here as a slur a long time ago.

That said, renaming the cheese is ridiculous because the name was not a racial slur in this case - it was a man’s surname.


39 posted on 01/13/2021 2:45:21 PM PST by naturalman1975 ("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
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To: naturalman1975
Thanks. Heck, we have a Senator named Coons. Sit's in Joe Biden's former seat. He's not changing his name.

Is it referred to African blacks, or for aboriginals as well?

45 posted on 01/13/2021 2:57:41 PM PST by SJackson (If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun...folks in Philly like a good brawl, BH Obama)
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