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10-04-2007, 02:51 PM #28
Man, I can't believe I'm going to write this, but... I have to say I'm with Shaun on this one. (Did I just write that?!
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Just because a product has been named with what's effectively a racist term does not make it innocent or less offensive. If there was a Boker Yellow Chink (yeh yeh, I can hear you sniggering in the back there) I'd be seriously offended. Red Injun doesn't offend me in the same way, but that's because I didn't suffer years of taunts at school at the wrong end of that term. I did get called Chink for years by English kids, and Gweilo (White Ghost) for years by Chinese kids. Those terms illicit the same reaction in me as I imagine Shaun when he reads or hears red injun.
I wouldn't have handled it like Shaun (I've yet to pm a Mod), but it's his perogative to lodge a complaint. And I think it's reasonable for him to expect the complaint to be handled properly.
I'm still sore at agreeing with Shaun.