How far is too far?
Nestle Confectionery has announced that "due to the B.L.M., etc, situations going on around the world it IS giving deep consideration to changing the names of at least 2 of its most popular Australian Confectionery items, those being, 1) the chocolate coloured and flavour jube type sweets known as "Chicos" or "Chico Babies" because the word 'Chico' is Spanish for boy and is sometimes used in a derrogatory manner in some countries, and 2) the red coloured chew bars knows as " Redskins" because the term 'redskin' was and is a derrogatory word used by Non-Indigenous Nth. Americans against the Indigenous Nth. American Natives.
So will we also be seeing the iconic, Aussie Chiko Roll getting a name change?
What about the 4x4 vehicle sold here as the Mitsubishi "Pajero", it's name is also from spanish origins?
Are we going to have to cease asking for 'brown bread,' a 'White Coffee or a BLACK Coffee, etc, etc.
I'm a 100% totally NON-Racist person with more ethnicities in my blood than I'd guess most people would have, I see myself and every other human being as being just a HUMAN BEING of the species Homo Sapiens, not someone who's skin colour is different to mine, etc, etc.
So WHEN and WHERE is all of this rank 'Culture Madness' going to come to an end and people start waking up to the FACT that we ARE all the same under the skin, We ALL live on this ONE, TINY Speck of Dust, Rock, Water and Air that hurtles around ONE Solar Body in a vast and as yet UNMEASURED expanse of a Universe.
Colour is NOT truly colour per se, it IS merely a case of light either being reflected or absorbed by the surface of the object/s it strikes, for example, Black, is the total ABSORPION of the ALL the frequencies of the Light Spectrum and vice versa, White IS the REflection of those self-same Frequencies and so on and so forth down through the Light Spectrum.
So, PLEASE, wake up people, you ARE truly fighting over virtually NOTHING at all IF you are fighting over skin colour.
Put a stop to this 'Cuture' business once and for all, sort it out peacefully and amicably BEFORE Chaos takes over control completely and Totally.
I think it is important to self-reflect on our unconscious biases. While many of us are scratching our head wondering what the fuss is about, we need to actually talk to the peoples that the labels refer to. A name change may be a simple act of kindness to a marginalised group. That's not a big ask is it?
No, it's not really when it comes to such minor things but is it going to stop at minor things or will be another, possibly, more extreme episode of the Political Correctness era as we have seen and had before.
As the old saying goes, " It only takes 1 extra flake of snow to land in the right place to start a full scale avalanch."
@Triphid What is minor to you can be huge to someone else. I recall getting my car fixed when I was a young girl and being faced by a number of centrefolds when paying for my repairs in the office. While most men would hardly notice this bit of "harmless decoration", I was exceedingly uncomfortable. I was young, extremely shy and very very uncomfortable around men as a result of childhood abuse. I never went back and thank christ I no longer have to put up with them. But they would never have been taken down if anti-discrimination laws hadn't forced the issue.
@MsDemeanour I think you're kind of 'preaching to the choir' here.
I too was the victim of abuses as a child by both my mother, who abused in more ways than I care to remember or recount, and at 10 years old sodomised by 3 men, not even relatives BUT men who worked on the same Mine as my father, they warned me that should I tell anyone of what they did, firstly they'd make 100% certain my father never returned home after a shift at work, then they'd come after my 2 younger sisters BEFORE they came after me.
The only personwho ever knew what had happened to me was my daughter, Lorrae, whom I told when she finally informed me as to her being abused, physically, by her mother's boyfriend on a weekend access visit, and only then because she couldn't comprehend how I was so compassionate, understanding and say that I knew what she was feeling.
Unless you are black or hispanic or a native American that have been called those derogatory terms, you will not understand. You may think that is political correctness gone mad, but you can never feel the hurt or shame of being looked down upon and being called by those names. I know that some of are saying that I am not racist and I love all people, but you do not get that those words were originally used as a negative description to denigrate and dehumanize a minority group. Those words were so commonly used that they became part of the regular vocabulary for white people who may not even know the original meaning and usage of those words. If you are one of those people that think that it is a harmless word, than you are a little bit naive and does not knowthe historyofthosewords. Racists still use these words when they encounter and want to refer to a particular group of people and denigrate them without sounding like they are racist. I here them, I know what they mean when they say them.
Well now, considering that I have both Native Nth. American Indigenous genetic links and Australian Indigenous Aboriginal genetic links plus a whole lot more other ethnicities as well, I'd reckon that I'd definitely have a wide understanding, wouldn't you?
@Triphid Yes, but all your life you look white and lived as a white man and enjoyed the privilege that white men have. It's a different if you look and live as those minorities and all you life you are subjected to the discrimination and racist comments and being look down upon. Not your fault, you are born the way you look and treat everyone with respect, but others do not and being on the receiving end of those comments would give you a different perspective.
@noworry28 No, my skin is NOT always as white as you think.
in ACTUAL fact it has a somewhat pale 'copper' colour that turns darker in summer even without me getting a tan.
And yes, as a kid I copped more than my 'fair share' of racists type derogatory comments, etc, and still do from time to time.
As a kid right up to high school we had round black sweets called "nigger balls". You would suck the ball with licorice flavour until its colour turns to white and you chew the bubble gum on inside.
It's only later on in life I realised that's what they called blacks in USA. Damnnnn The sweets was a winner though.
Indians are racist towards each other in India. If you're dark you're not considered for Bollywood movies. The lighter skinned North India looks down on darker skinned South India. ...so myself as an Indian South African who have never been to India right up to my grandparents here in SA, well read about India, view South India as generally cleaner, three times more income capacity, more intelligent than North India. North India flocking to South Indian universities is fact - now who is the "fairest" yet darker complexion. That tells you racism because of skin colour in India is twisted and skin colour as mythicism created by groups of inferior white-skinned people regardless of where you go. I view North India generally as corrupt, Bollywood and Modi and Clan
... AND most Indians see the South as lower caste even though they're indigenous Indians, not mixed with white. Now how now can that be lower caste? . Ah well racism is shallow and skin deep anyways!
@TimeOutForMe People will find any reason to hate. The white Americans discriminated against the Italian immigrants and the Irish immigrants and the Jewish immigrants and the Native Americans and the African Americans and the Hispanic Americans. Hate is hate and they will try to find any excuse to justify that hate.
Yep, and the same will happen for one of all time favourites too I suppose, those chewy treats the "White Knight" bars.
I mean, they dumped the Pollywaffles years ago even though were a best seller.
@Triphid so if it has a different name you will no longer like it? Really?
@AnneWimsey JFC, it is the iconic name of the product/s, it has been that name for decades here,so why change it?
How would YOU react if you were told that something that was so iconic to you, Americans, had to be altered, etc?
How about IF you were now told you could no longer wear BLACK clothing, have BROWN gravy on a roast meal, send out for a CHINESE or ASIAN style meal because it was NOT a Culturally acceptable thing any more?
@Triphid I was born with one last name,got 2 more from 2 marriages, then chose one I liked after the last divorce....still the same person, duhhhhhhhhhh
@AnneWimsey Well I was given my first name AFTER I was born, don't like it all that much though, and am still stuck with.
At least woman have the opportunity upon marriage to change their last/surname though.