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Weedy tax-absorbent white boy Josh Thomas wants an Australian cheese company to change its name.

This kid ain't right
This kid ain't right

Weedy tax-absorbent white boy Josh Thomas wants an Australian cheese company to change its name:

Comedian Josh Thomas has started a call for Coon cheese to be renamed, after posting a Tweet yesterday that asked if the public were ok with the name given its use as a racial slur.

The Coon cheese brand website explains the name recognises the word of an American, Edward William Coon, who patented a ripening process that was used to manufacture the original Coon cheese.

Thomas, star of Please Like Me, tweeted that even still, the word caused pain to Aboriginal Australians and made Australians look silly to the rest of the world.

Perhaps comedian Joshua Thomas should change his own name.

After all, Joshua Ward “was the largest American slaveholder … in 1850 he held 1,092 slaves”.

And Thomas Jefferson “owned more than 600 African-American slaves throughout his adult life”.

Over to you, Josh … or “Mbungi Ftumu”, as you’ll now be known.

UPDATE:

Australian comedian Josh Thomas has publicly apologised for comments he made about hiring non-white actors during a 2016 panel discussion, after a clip of the discussion was shared widely on social media …

UPDATE II

Australian-owned independent craft brewer Colonial Brewing Co has become the latest victim of a spiralling cancel culture, with anti-racism activists calling for the brand to be removed from shelves for “creating nostalgia” for a time when indigenous people “were killed en masse”.

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The family owned business, which has breweries in WA and Victoria and employs about 75 staff, has been forced to look into the possibility of a costly rebranding after receiving “significant” feedback about its name and the potential for racist connotations.

UPDATE III:

The marketing of an Australian breakfast staple – Kellogg’s Coco Pops – is racist, a former British MP has suggested.

Disgraced former Labour politician Fiona Onasanya has questioned why Coco Pops are marketed with a brown monkey, while Rice Bubbles feature three fair-skinned children.

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