Ed Do you like your cheese?

As an aside, I find these cultural battles over OUR SACRED BRANDS just so demoralizing. Is this how far we've descended into a consumerist hell-world? Fighting with gnashed teeth to protect the sanctity of the Land O Lakes Indian Maiden, or Aunt Jemima, or Coon's Cheese?

I mean, in 6 months these conservative reactionaries will have forgotten about what is stamped on the side of their grocery products and life will continue as normal, but these episodes are especially pathetic.
 
SuburbanTurkey said:
As an aside, I find these cultural battles over OUR SACRED BRANDS just so demoralizing. Is this how far we've descended into a consumerist hell-world? Fighting with gnashed teeth to protect the sanctity of the Land O Lakes Indian Maiden, or Aunt Jemima, or Coon's Cheese?

I mean, in 6 months these conservative reactionaries will have forgotten about what is stamped on the side of their grocery products and life will continue as normal, but these episodes are especially pathetic.
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Yeah, those other guys shouldn't be making a big deal about something that doesn't really matter.
 
Meadmaker said:
Yeah, those other guys shouldn't be making a big deal about something that doesn't really matter.
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It's quite possible that openly selling "Uncle Coon's Darkie ****** Cheese" is a problem, while not being able to buy said product is not a problem. Therefore making a fuss about the former can be appropriate and making a fuss about the latter, not so much,
 
Meadmaker said:
Yeah, those other guys shouldn't be making a big deal about something that doesn't really matter.
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Not sure about the Australian Cheese thing, but these brands here seem to have done this largely unprompted. I think they saw the winds blowing on the anti-racist protests and decided it would be better to ditch these brands before anyone got around to pointing out how cringey they are.

People in the streets protesting the cops aren't asking for changes in marketing departments. Priorities are elsewhere.
 
EHocking said:
No.
I am pointing out that just because you are not noticing it does not mean that it no longer happens.
Which was the point of your anecdote.
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It’s about as meaningful as your anecdotes. You posted one about living in Brunswick. One single point of data. What was it’s point?

Because it is, or should be, an interesting story. And yours could be so described. But mine (it was Essendon vs Richmond by the way and it was a Tigers supporter spraying bile) somehow, what, reinforces my inherent racism?

So, please, next time you post an anecdote, put it in full historical perspective, including evidence that the use of the word “wog” was tolerated in Coburg Market by stall holders, but not customers. That you were actually worked at Coburg Market and we’re actually born in Brunswick and are not culturally appropriating inner-urban Melbourne cred. Obviously you will need to do this before someone can see a point to it.
 
Also, in the U.S. calling some from Poland (or someone of Polish heritage) a "Polack" is meant as a serve insult. However, I am certain Poland is not considering changing their language.
 
Clutch Cargo said:
I most certainly do not agree. The former Swedish name "negerboll" was not racist nor was the German equivalent "neger küsse". Head's up, Brazil! The Rio Negro is doomed! Complete idiocy.
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"Negro" in Spanish simply means the colour black. What sources I can find seem to suggest that "neger" in Swedish is used only for a black person, not the colour, and is in itself considered an insulting term now. The colour, I believe, is "svart". Someone with better knowledge of Swedish might want to correct me but, if this is the case, do you not think that calling black sweets "neger balls" is at least doubtful?

It doesn't matter whether you do, of course. Other people did and have therefore stopped doing it. Nobody forced them.
 
Clutch Cargo said:
Also, in the U.S. calling some from Poland (or someone of Polish heritage) a "Polack" is meant as a serve insult. However, I am certain Poland is not considering changing their language.
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And nobody is asking them to, despite your desperate strawman building.
 
PursuedByABear said:
"Negro" in Spanish simply means the colour black.
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Yes.

PursuedByABear said:
What sources I can find seem to suggest that "neger" in Swedish is used only for a black person, not the colour ...
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Not true. "neger" is an old germanic term for black or dark.


PursuedByABear said:
... and is in itself considered an insulting term now.
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Only now that the PC hysteria is in full swing. Sweden has suffered more than any other nation at the hand of Political Correctness. Note that the American term "******" is at fault.

PursuedByABear said:
The colour, I believe, is "svart". Someone with better knowledge of Swedish might want to correct me but, if this is the case, do you not think that calling black sweets "neger balls" is at least doubtful?
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"Neger" is a synonym (always has been) and was never used as a derogatory term in Sweden. Never!

PursuedByABear said:
It doesn't matter whether you do, of course.
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You can still ask for a "negerboll" in Sweden ... you'll get what you want and no-one will bat an eye.

PursuedByABear said:
Other people did and have therefore stopped doing it. Nobody forced them.
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PC has forced them (us). Don't worry, once the Latin folk jump on the bandwagon we'll have to change the name of our "putabröd".
 
What's in a brand name anyway? I always have a giggle when I see a Swedish sweet named..PLOPP! There is also a chain of Finnish sportswear shops called 'Athlete's Foot' which gives visiting Brits a hearty laugh when they see the shop name. A former boss especially once brought me back some coffee from Spain because it was called BONK, which of course he thought hilariously funny.
 
Clutch Cargo said:
Not true. "neger" is an old germanic term for black or dark.
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The Swedes no more speak Old Germanic than I speak Anglo-Saxon. That's entirely irrelevant.


Clutch Cargo said:
"Neger" is a synonym (always has been) and was never used as a derogatory term in Sweden. Never!
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A synonym for black? All dictionaries disagree. I need to hear that from a source other than you, as I don't trust you.
 
Darat said:
Why do you not agree?
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Simply put, "Hands off my language!" It's mine, not yours.
Do I rush into your restaurants and complain that you can neither spell nor pronounce "smörgåsbord" and you insist on saying "Shkol" as if it were German? Not yet, I don't.
 
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