Ed Do you like your cheese?

lionking said:
A single letter did this? Come off it. You can’t possibly believe that. We are talking about a product that’s been on sale for the better part of a century and you are saying a letter caused the name change?

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Do you think the racist meanings of the brand name would have come up in threat analysis or the purchase negotiations?
 
lionking said:
A single letter did this? Come off it. You can’t possibly believe that. We are talking about a product that’s been on sale for the better part of a century and you are saying a letter caused the name change?

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I don’t understand where your hostility is coming from here.

I didn’t say he did it all by himself. All I am saying is that, contrary to your claim, I don’t think Hagan had “nothing to do with this”. I think he may have only played a small but shrewdly timed part.
 
lionking said:
A single letter did this? Come off it. You can’t possibly believe that. We are talking about a product that’s been on sale for the better part of a century and you are saying a letter caused the name change?

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Why not?
 
angrysoba said:
Variations of this argument have been made a number of times in this thread and elsewhere, and they often come up whenever anyone finds something worth devoting their time to.

But really, are you as strictly utilitarian about everything in life? This thing that person X is doing isn't worthwhile, do something else!

I mean, how many threads and posts on this very forum are actually worth the effort we put into it? I mean, if we want to change people's minds, or promote critical thinking, shouldn't we be doing something else?

It seems to me that this is basically an informal fallacy that I don't know the name for, the "Do Something Better With Your Time Fallacy". It isn't related to the argument itself, only that the effort of making it isn't worth it.
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Sure, but I thought I read that he spent 21 years campaigning for the name change - and now he's finally succeeded in....what, exactly?

All of those ruined lives and that horrible distress of the world crashing down upon people because a cheese was named after a guy that had Coon as his last name. Unimaginable suffering.

Why do you you think he did it? To protect people from being offended? To stop othering of people of color, just in case someone saw the name of a cheese product and then decided to start othering people? To make sure the use of that particular last name wasn't normalized?

I just seems like a particularly odd use of one's time. If you want to help people, try and do something that will help people. Otherwise, build a replica of the Golden Gate Bridge out of toothpicks, or something.
 
Just to understand the viewpoints of the people here: does anyone here believe that, as a business decision, the cheese company should not change the name? That they should reverse the decision reported in the OP?
 
Giordano said:
Just to understand the viewpoints of the people here: does anyone here believe that, as a business decision, the cheese company should not change the name? That they should reverse the decision reported in the OP?
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As a business decision, I have no reason to question it or to believe they ought to reverse it.
 
lionking said:
A single letter did this? Come off it. You can’t possibly believe that. We are talking about a product that’s been on sale for the better part of a century and you are saying a letter caused the name change?

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“brand name recognises the work of an American, Edward William Coon, who patented a unique ripening process that was used to manufacture the original Coon Cheese.”
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This quote makes it seem that the Coon method is no longer employed to manufacture the cheese.

https://goat.com.au/power/how-exactly-did-coon-cheese-get-its-name-in-the-first-place/
 
Sideroxylon said:
I cant remember the last time I bought the cheese with the racist name we used to snicker about as racist kids. I don’t believe there is an organised boycott of any impact but this corporate decision is surely made on the basis a rebranding will improve sales.
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I don't remember ever having bought that brand of cheese, but that's because I've never considered it to be particularly good cheese.
 
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