Uh, wow, ok.

Uh, wow, ok. There's a restaurant in California called Yellow Fever and it is totally referencing the term in its racist context. The owner (female, Korean) says it was intended to reclaim the term.


https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/whole-foods-yellow-fever-twitter-controversy_us_5ae4aadee4b02baed1baacab
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/whole-foods-yellow-fever-twitter-controversy_us_5ae4aadee4b02baed1baacab

Comments

  1. Will FrankApril 28, 2018 at 5:01 PM

    Simon Tam strikes again.

    (His band "The Slants," all Asian-American, used that logic.)

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  2. F-L SilverApril 28, 2018 at 5:03 PM

    As long as River hasn't struck.

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  3. Will FrankApril 28, 2018 at 5:13 PM

    Heh!

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  4. Evan "Skwid" LanglinaisApril 28, 2018 at 6:16 PM

    Will Frank I immediately thought of that case, as well.

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  5. Will FrankApril 28, 2018 at 6:17 PM

    Evan "Skwid" Langlinais Though that was at least a legal issue, this is PR.

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  6. Will FrankApril 28, 2018 at 6:23 PM

    (And I'm probably never not going to think of that case. For rather substantive Atlanta and Cleveland reasons, with relief that they aren't Washington DC reasons.)

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