PILOT SPIN
Spin Zone => Spin Zone => Topic started by: Anthony on July 22, 2020, 06:20:29 AM
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Maybe Trader Joe's should change their name all together. I mean "Trader" could be seen as racist due to "slave trader" and "Joe" is a euphemism for American White Guy, i.e. "G.I. Joe". This cancel culture is totally out of control.
Trader Joe's said it will change the names carried by some of its international food products in response to an online petition that called on the grocery chain to "remove racist branding and packaging."
The petition follows Quaker Oats' decision last month to rebrand Aunt Jemima syrup and pancakes, with the food company noting that "Aunt Jemima's origins are based on a racial stereotype." Other brands facing similar criticism have also recently pledged to review their packaging, including Uncle Ben's rice and Mrs. Butterworth's syrup.
In the case of Trader Joe's, about 2,400 people had signed the petition as of Monday morning. Specifically, the petitioners want the grocery chain to rename products labeled "Trader Ming's," "Trader José" or "Trader Giotto's," which refer to Chinese, Mexican or Italian food, respectively. In response, the chain said it has long been working to repackage the products and will soon complete the effort.
The label perpetuate harmful stereotypes, according to the social media campaign. "The Trader Joe's branding is racist because it exoticizes other cultures — it presents 'Joe' as the default 'normal' and the other characters falling outside of it — they are 'Arabian Joe,' 'Trader José' and 'Trader Joe San,' the petition states.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trader-joes-racist-packaging-change/
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Management at Trader Joe’s isn’t any smarter than the 2400 people who signed the petition. People will sign petitions easily because the only investment is a few moments. As long as the petitioner appeals to the signer’s sense of justice the deed is as good as done. The classic confirmation of this is the repeated success of the dihydrogen monoxide petitions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihydrogen_monoxide_parody (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihydrogen_monoxide_parody)
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I know I shouldn't be after all my years in corporate America, but I am still shocked how gutless and pathetic ALL these companies have become. They only one to stand up to the Leftist Cancel Culture mob so far are Goya and Red Bull. The rest are falling all over themselves to prove they are PC, Woke, SJW's and BLM supporters.
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Whatever.
Add Trader Joe's to the long list of gutless companies. I'm buying Goya products at the moment, so I don't need Trader Jose's stuff.
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Remember in the old days (like February) when the biggest problem we had was plastic straws? Good times. Good times.
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Remember in the old days (like February) when the biggest problem we had was plastic straws? Good times. Good times.
It's part of the same continuum.