Look, as a general rule, I’m not really a big fan of companies being socially coerced to change their names for silly tokenistic reasons.
But ■■■■ cheese? I remember thinking that was an issue when I was a little kid and first heard that slur used in a movie. I couldn’t wrap my little head around how they (The Cheese) were allowed to be called that.
I understand it was the guy’s name, but man… I’m surprised this particular one took so long.
I looks like when people take joke photos of bad Japanese to English translations that you get a laugh at. Except it’s real here and we know what it means
I’m coming to terms with the cheese name change, even though it’s the brand I’ve been eating for years. Glad I don’t have that surname!
A mate of mine heard ‘Money For Nothing’ on the radio today and thought it was glitching, but then realised they had edited out a particular word that rhymes with maggot.
Is this true? I’ve only ever heard it in the same context as calling somebody an idiot. Where does it come from?
Isn’t infowars one of the most NJ of all RWNJ sites?
But he does have a colour TV.
If I remember the words properly.
I genuinely had no idea that Eskimo was considered racist. Will they change the band name? I must admit I opened the article assuming they were going to change the term black hole 
Think of it this way. On any ordinary day, the choices made by someone running a pop-up drive-in cinema somewhere in the US don’t affect anyone other than the 100-odd (being generous here) people who will attend. Doesn’t impact on your life, nor mine. Nor anyone you know personally, or live near, or have seen walking down the street wherever you live. It’s a totally insignificant decision.
Meanwhile there’s a whole audience of…eh, I’ll refer from name calling. A massive crowd of people who have preconceived notions about Those Damn SJWs and how they supposedly have more power than the conservative governments they operate under. For some reason, there’s a heap of blogs (they are not news sources) that capture this audience. And those blogs need to pump out new content to keep their audience engaged.
Cut back to Portland, Oregon. There’s been a bit going on there in recent weeks, and attitudes towards law enforcement personnel aren’t really amicable. Old mate puts out the schedule for their little drive-in movie project, and a couple of people point out that a movie romanticising police might not be that popular at the moment. “Holy moly, you’re right,” thinks old mate. “Cops are on the nose at the moment, people might not come to my project. I should show something else that people might be more interested in.” So they change their schedule, and publicise that they’ve done that. All fixed!
But now our blog content hunters have smelled blood. They see the story about the schedule being changed and the bias centre of their brain lights up like New Year’s Eve fireworks. THOSE DAMN SJWS AT IT AGAIN! Ruining American pastimes! The world needs to know about this! So they write a blog post (not a news story) about Those Damn SJWs censoring one of Arnie’s finest acting performances. The bias centre of the brains of their blog followers (not news followers) also light up like Times Square at sunset. And it’s off and racing across the internet.
I bring you back to my first point. This does not affect the lives of you, nor me, nor anyone we know. All that’s happened is a bunch of blogs have fulfilled their content need for an afternoon. I’m not even going to refute your “wrong” point. There is no right or wrong about this. It’s irrelevant. It’s nothing. It’s meaningless.
I once used the term on FB, when I was Mayor about one particular group who was trying to stop a necessary development. I was strongly admonished by our local sheltered workshop about it and advised that the term was first applied to “idiots” at mental instituations in UK. It became widespread as a term for someone who acted stupidly, but it is apparently very offensive in the disabled area. Of ocurse my excuse was that it was not meant this way, but it applies the same way as calling someone a Spastic or an Abo or worse.
Thanks mate. I had no idea.
Statement from The Essendon Football Team
On July 3rd, we announced the commencement of a thorough review of the club’s nickname. That review has begun in earnest. As part of this process, we want to keep our sponsors, fans and community apprised of our thinking as we go forward.
Today, we are announcing we will be retiring the Bombers name and logo upon completion of this review.
CEO Xavier Campbell and Coach John Worsfold, along with former player Kyle Reimers, are working closely to develop a new name and design approach that will enhance the standing of our proud, tradition rich club and inspire our sponsors, fans and community for the next 100 years.
I had no idea (perhaps because I don’t make a habit of swearing at people) that ■■■■■ was such an offensive term towards women.
I mean here is me thinking its just like a female version of ■■■■■■■■ or any one of the four letter garden variety curse words.
Mate, this is a Bible Belt swear filter. The fact that it blocked a word tells you sfa. But agree that times have changed and ■■■■ is probably not an acceptable brand name for most people.
Its the all publicity is good publicity marketing model.
Its done because its good business, nothing else. If it wasn’t good for business it wouldn’t happen.
Take Wicked Campers as an example. Entire business model is built around ■■■■■■ vans that wouldn’t rent except for their offensive slogans painted all over them.
Be PC or not PC. If you have a bit of outrage it can be good for business.
We know a plumber and he has written along the side of his truck, “we can take the p11ss out of everyone no sh11t.” I love watching people who see it for the first time, visitors here and they read and then laugh really laugh.
Companies bow down and change their name because they want to appear to have corporate social responsibility while still profiting off racism and inequality.
Minorities are extremely over represented in lower income brackets so companies, like the cheese one and like Allen’s, are able to offer low income jobs in warehouses and the like knowing that they will most likely be filled by low income earners in need. They do the work, the profit rolls up the top to the white executives.
They rely on this system to make a profit and this system perpetuates a cycle of inequality but hey, we changed the names of one our brands though, we’re an ally.
Without having visited the factory floor at Bega or Allens I can’t comment on the ethnic makeup of the workforce.
But I would hazard at a guess its representative of the community it operates in.
Maybe you could direct your question to Sandra Martínez? She is ceo of Nestle Oceania.
Originally from Venezuela I think.
so very true.
the hypocrisy and irony of it hurts my head.
the goya beans ■■■■ sums it up for me. people wanted to run business into the ground cos of what ? the ceo of the company thanking the president for his leadership (ironically an open table meeting to discuss hispanic business and how they can help to continue to improve their business).
He didn’t kill babies, he didn’t club seals, he thanked the president.
for now leave aside ones opinion of trump.
Then people got on their iphones, dressed in their name brand clothes and so on and so on from companies that now openly (not try and hide it like they used to) exploit 3rd world countries essentially slave labour (funny they have no issue with that when people get 12 cents an hour or whatever it is they get) and again tell the world to boycott a company cos their ceo cos the worst thing he’s done (well so far that we know of) is thanked the president.
Dont worry automation and robotics will soon put all of those uneducated people out of work.
