New name revealed for Australia's controversial Coon cheese

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New name revealed for Australia's controversial Coon cheese

https://www.coon.com.au/-/media/ecosystem/divisions/australia/sites/coon/coon-images/products_header.ashx?revision=bd24168a-a036-4d3a-8bab-68511f53a30a&h=473&w=845&la=en&hash=36872D4DD55D69A3B3A3AFE5B3AAD9958697BC8E

Jan 13 2021

Australian dairy brand Coon will now be sold under the name Cheer, the company has announced.

The cheese, originally named for American cheesemaker Edward William Coon, was dropped after years of criticism linking the word to its historical use as a racial slur.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/food-wine/food-news/300204187/new-name-revealed-for-australias-controversial-coon-cheese

[frankhammer]

:laugh:

[Creoda]

Another thing I'll never buy again. From now on I'm calling it nigger cheese, because coon is too offensive.

[PaleoEuropean]

When your last name is offensive. I guess Irish people can't name their kids Tyrone anymore.

[The Lawspeaker]

Nigga please...

[Crn Volk]

I hope sales of the cheese now plummet

[Creoda]

I hope sales of the cheese now plummet
You could say they're shredding their legacy.

I only bought it for the name. Bega, Cracker Barrell (is that offensive?) etc taste better anyway.

[NSXD60]

Why not be fully honest and call it Fear, or, an ass-licking name like Afro-Gold, and claim that it also works as a de-asher.

[Parça do Neymar]

The cheese, originally named for American cheesemaker Edward William Coon, was dropped after years of criticism linking the word to its historical use as a racial slur.

This patrolling of language is more harmful than beneficial to their anti-discrimination activism (in and of itself, a well-intentioned cause, but mishandled).

But after the "Eskimo Nebula" controversy, nothing surprises me anymore. I wasn't even aware this was supposed to be a slur, it definitely isn't in my native tongue (as the cognate "esquimó"), which attests the subjective nature of language.