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Re: Steak Shop's Name Stirs Controversy (Score: 1)
by kimkam on Saturday, January 10 @ 06:36:55 EST
(User Info | Send a Message) | | i'm not being insensitive to your point here so please dont think that. i'm asking a simple question so do not read any malice into it. does it matter that the guy who this nickname was given to and who the restaurant is named after was white and not asian? does it change anything? for example the guy who founded napster was a jewish guy with curly hair and his nickname was nappy, i know it's not the same thing "chink" being a racial slur but does it matter that it wasn't really aimed at a chinese american let's say but a white guy with apparantly "slanted eyes"? |
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Re: Steak Shop's Name Stirs Controversy (Score: 1)
by parasiatic (EastAssassin@usa.com) on Saturday, January 10 @ 14:31:23 EST
(User Info | Send a Message) | ""If you replace "chink" with any other racial epithet, people understand it very clearly. For some reason, when it's an Asian derogatory term, people don't get it," Rice said."
No, it's more like they don't WANT TO get it, because they feel it's OK to use racially derogatory terms against Asian-Americans, who they clearly know are still the numerically smallest minority lacking a political clout to fight back against racism. In short, they are thumbing their noses at Asians.
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Re: Steak Shop's Name Stirs Controversy (Score: 1)
by Meiko (shinigami1220@hotmail.com) on Tuesday, January 13 @ 23:33:58 EST
(User Info | Send a Message) http://paperkisses.blogspot.com | | I don't understand why changing the name would be such a "harm to business". If the food is of such great quality, isn't that what should be drawing in the customers? |
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Re: Steak Shop's Name Stirs Controversy (Score: 1)
by blackdahlia on Friday, January 16 @ 05:52:32 EST
(User Info | Send a Message) | | Being of Chinese descent I feel that Chink's Steaks is perfectly alright. It was Sherman's nickname from the 40's and it's OK that they want to keep the name. Sure, nowadays if they started up a business with that name, I would be suspect. I do however find myself offended with the Chinks Peak story. Now that was named for an entire race, just like Chinaman's Hat on Oahu. But in this case, it was just a guy's nickname. Let them keep it I say. |
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Re: Steak Shop's Name Stirs Controversy (Score: 1)
by soukynouky on Monday, January 19 @ 09:47:42 EST
(User Info | Send a Message) | | Proof of non asians IGNORENCE,when it comes to asians.Im not Chinese,but I get called chink enough from ignorent non asians............Change the name. |
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