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Ed Do you like your cheese?

Darat said:
What a great example - the guy who has been quoted and mentioned several times is unimportant... only how it impacts white Australians is important to you.
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Another lie. I never said Hagan was unimportant. And the impact of the name change on white Australians is of no importance to me.

Again, pointless tokenism is what I’m highlighting. It’s easy to imagine people saying “good, Coon has changed its name, mission accomplished” while ignoring real issues indigenous are facing.
 
cullennz said:
Changing branding of a 100 year old company is small changes? Cool
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Yep - it requires some new artwork and new printing screens to be produced - and you have to do this regularly anyway so slot it in at the next change over of the packaging being printed. New ads would have had new artwork generated anyway so instead of the old logo/name being reproduced you use the new one.

There is of course some cost to the company - in the design and selection of a new logo, deciding the new name.

The smart decision would of course be to keep everything the same apart from the name - literally edit out the "coon" and type in your new name, using same font, colours and so on. Most people will see it as the same product and probably wouldn't even notice the name had changed.
 
lionking said:
Yeah? And this has what relevance to this thread?

Okay, celebrate this shallow victory. Good show.

Meanwhile indigenous death rates, imprisonment, unemployment, choose your metric, roll on. What impact does this name change make? Apart from making some white Australians feel comfortably smug...
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Who is celebrating? The Aboriginal man who petitioned each of the new owners of this brand trademark over two decades? Yeah good for him but I bet he has already moved on. No one would be talking about this but for all the reactionary tears.

That dumb “I don’t find this name offensive” Facebook post is approaching 85,000 shares. Thats a lot of salt.
 
rockinkt said:
"Boomers" was what Rolf Harris called kangaroos in his Christmas song. Is he some sort of hero and role model for you?
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Darat said:
And? Was "Coon cheese" a popular well known cheese when you were growing up, was "coon" used as a racial insult when you were growing up?
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No.

This doesn't exclude me from thinking it is pointless
 
A childhood icon and reminder of my hope and optimism is cast on the trash heap to be quickly forgotten. A new generation will have their own cheese brands. Perhaps, God forbid, they wont even care for the joy of factory processed cheddar made from real cows milk? A brave new world without me and that cares nothing of the comforting symbols of my childhood. It’s a right existential crisis.
 
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But since that is not the topic of this thread and no one but you has mentioned this comparison perhaps we should get back to the topic of this thread - which to remind you is that there is a brand of cheese which has for its name a word that some people say is a racist word meant to insult a certain section of the population.

One assumes (and yes I could be wrong) given your posts in this thread that you aren't concerned about that? Is that correct?
 
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Tbf cheese is a personal thing.

A bloke once threw a block of cheddar at me for no reason.

I thought. Hey that's not mature.
 
Come on people. I know it was a grandad joke but it's funny still......or stilton
 
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