It's about the following.
Here in the Netherlands we've had candy called "Negerzoen" for a loooong time (the article states that this particular factory has been at it for over 86 years).
It has a waffle as bottom with a creamy filling and chocolate coating on top.
Now there's this group of activists that are fighting for restoration of honor and payment for the damage the Dutch government has done against people in Suriname when the Dutch took slaves there (you know... 200-500 years ago).
The name of this candy, "Negerzoen", can be roughly translated as "Negro kiss". The people actually want the name to be banned because it's supposedly racist. This factory actually did change the name.
Were these people bored or something? This kind of half assed political correctness is too stupid to be true.
oh please. those are the same people who show up every year at sinterklaas.
and prolly the same idiots who got "turkey stick" renamed to "sitostick", ignoring the fact that the use of "turkey" was because of the bird, not the country
oh and patat oorlog to patat feest that never took off though :icon14:
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In Sweden we have this pastry called "Negerboll", it litterary means "negro ball", which is also pretty old, and a couple of years ago there were this group of middle-aged women who tried to get the word banned too. Fucking stupid.
In some parts of the world the literal translation is 'Negro'. I had a shot of the box art with 'NEGRO' in hueg letters earlier. It might have been fake, but it made me laugh.
Especially since the entire game is one long shooting gallery.
Where were you when the West was defeated?
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Well, look at it this way: What if there was a candy whose name translated to "caucasian kiss" or somesuch. It's not really offensive, but is it appropriate? Does it make sense?
The Federal Government has told the United Nations that the pejorative "nigger" may be used publicly without necessarily being racially offensive.
The government made the assertion in a submission asking the UN to dismiss a complaint to its Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination by Toowoomba Aboriginal leader Stephen Hagan.
Mr Hagan has objected to the refusal by the Toowoomba Sports Ground Trust, trustee of the Toowoomba Athletic Oval, to drop the pejorative from the name of its grandstand, the E.S. Nigger Brown Stand.
His request for a ruling that Australia is in breach of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination was referred by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan to Australia's UN mission for a response in August. The 47-page response was sent to the mission this week.
The stand was named in the 1960s after the late Edward Stanley Brown, an international rugby league player of Anglo-Saxon descent. It is believed he was given the nickname "Nigger" as a child because he was particularly fair-skinned.
The footballer had been universally known as Nigger Brown, the submission said. "Even his gravestone bears the name Edward Stanley Nigger Brown."
Nightshade wrote:Well, look at it this way: What if there was a candy whose name translated to "caucasian kiss" or somesuch. It's not really offensive, but is it appropriate? Does it make sense?
It doesn't make sense but I certainly wouldn't be offended by it, especially not if it's been around for the last hundred years.
Nightshade wrote:Well, look at it this way: What if there was a candy whose name translated to "caucasian kiss" or somesuch. It's not really offensive, but is it appropriate? Does it make sense?
i was wondering the same thing about the packet of jihad martyrdom meatloaf mix i bought the other day
no way i'm giving it up though, not when it goes so well with zipperhead rice and a side order of watermelon
This is the kind of PC story that gets me the most.
Do people all over the world not realize that negro and its derivatives are just literal translations of the word black? There are civilizations where the word negro existed, before they even encountered a black person.
So when they encountered black people, they called them negro people - literally the same phrase. So now that they're offended by being called negros, older cultures should be ashamed of using their original word for "black?"
WTF?
edit: It's just as sensationalist and victimized as forcing Hershey's to stop calling candy "dark chocolate" because being called a "darkie" is offensive. I mean who cares that "dark" is a real, meaningful and relevant word. :icon27:
R00k wrote:
edit: It's just as sensationalist and victimized as forcing Hershey's to stop calling candy "dark chocolate" because being called a "darkie" is offensive. I mean who cares that "dark" is a real, meaningful and relevant word. :icon27:
oh no doubt that day will come
unless someone starts a new renaissance
Grudge wrote:In Sweden we have this pastry called "Negerboll", it litterary means "negro ball", which is also pretty old, and a couple of years ago there were this group of middle-aged women who tried to get the word banned too. Fucking stupid.
I was about to post that.... I remember playing on a swede server and someone was named [N1ggaH BallS] but without the one
i was like wtf is this... and he said that they are chocolate balls that you eat... i just about died laughing
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Yeah, that's really ridiculous. Similar stupidity to that Jewish thing a while ago... they made an ice cream company change it's symbol because if they rotated it 90 degrees it looked fairly similar to a Jewish symbol. I don't see why they couldn't actually understand that it looked like a swirl of ice cream, and more so, could not possibly have any kind of offensive intent. This kind of arse hole stupidity shit pisses me right off.
that never took off though :icon14:
