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PursuedByABear said:
You know why you didn't hear it? Because it is regarded as incredibly offensive.
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Do you have a kind of inbuilt need to be patronising?

No. The racist scum I meet just used other words.

I am becoming increasingly sick of you making stuff up I have said or pretending to no my experiences.

Again

Please stop.
 
I have been nice and polite in this exchange. I expect the same in return from now on.
 
cullennz said:
I have been nice and polite in this exchange. I expect the same in return from now on.
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Oh cullennz... you know very well when you're being subtly antagonistic for the sake of it. It's just something antipodians love doing. We both know you join these threads to throw shade on social justice things you don't agree with. :P
 
Think you are reading too much into it.

I have just said it is stupid to re brand when it is just the last name of the company.

But I don't own the company so all good.

People keep trying to fit agendas into this stuff.

To the point of inventing quotes and assuming things and it is getting a tad silly.
 
cullennz said:
Just having a quick Google it apparently is the anglosised version of the Scottish name MacCoon which they changed to when they left.

Which doubles up on how stupid it is.
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I'm sure if the founder had been a German immigrant who'd anglosised his family's name from Kuntz they'd have changed it already.
 
TofuFighter said:
Oh cullennz... you know very well when you're being subtly antagonistic for the sake of it. It's just something antipodians love doing. We both know you join these threads to throw shade on social justice things you don't agree with. :P
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Tbf there is probably a tinge of truth to that. But it's the whole hyper sensitive thing is a bit alien here and it gets a bit odd to me.

I apologise.
 
It's not 'just the last name of the company owner' though. Yes, that's its origin from a time and a place where it might not have been as offensive as it is now, or a time when enough people cared that it might be offensive, but the word itself is not firmly in the book of 'things people find offensive'. You know that.

No one names their child Adolf anymore* for exactly the same reason, and that's because there is a clear and horrible association with it. If my last name was ***** and i started a business under that name 100 years ago and now people suggested i should probably change it, you would you argue i shouldn't? Maybe, but that's your choice. Personally I think I'd be happy to change it to something else given that there are potentially millions of people it could cause actual hurt to.


*obviously not NO-one, but you know what i mean.
 
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TofuFighter said:
It's not 'just the last name of the company owner' though. Yes, that's its origin from a time and a place where it might not have been as offensive as it is now, or a time when enough people cared that it might be offensive, but the word itself is not firmly in the book of 'things people find offensive'. You know that.

No one names their child Adolf anymore* for exactly the same reason, and that's because there is a clear and horrible association with it. If my last name was ***** and i started a business under that name 100 years ago and now people suggested i should probably change it, you would you argue i shouldn't? Maybe, but that's your choice. Personally I think I'd be happy to change it to something else given that there are potentially millions of people it could cause actual hurt to.


*obviously not NO-one, but you know what i mean.
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2 things

Do you want everyone in the world with the last name Coon to change their names as it is offensive.

And

Hitler while rare is still a current surname
 
Put it this way.

What if Hitler first name was "Dave"

"Dave Hitler"

Dave may never be used. It is a ***** name.

With Adolf

Is Adolph ok?

Adolfo?

Do people with Hiedler last name need changing as that is the history

Or Huttlier
 
What it does mean though.

Is the easily triggered from the left or right should write down all sensitive surnames. So young entrepreneurs can make sure they name things the right way and not their surname.
 
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