Starbucks' lawyers actually argued in this case that terms relating to "slanty eyes" are not racist any more because there is an American band called "The Slants" who are all made up of Asian-Americans and therefore "slanty eyes" has become re-appropriated. Of course, they lost the case.
He said: “Instead of her name, a physical descriptor was used, in this case her eyes. This was not a drawing of the complainant, but a sketch of one part of her and one clearly associated with race.”
Mr Baneham stated that Ms Foley, while making her order, began to spell out her name and was interrupted by the employee, who improvised a physical representation of Ms Foley who did not ask for this.
In her evidence, Ms Foley told the WRC hearing that she was "shocked and nervous" after the Starbucks employee showed her the latte cup with the slanty eyes as a way of identifying her for the collection of her latte.
Euronymous316 on January 20th, 2021 at 08:55 UTC »
Starbucks' lawyers actually argued in this case that terms relating to "slanty eyes" are not racist any more because there is an American band called "The Slants" who are all made up of Asian-Americans and therefore "slanty eyes" has become re-appropriated. Of course, they lost the case.
MeatyOakerGuy on January 20th, 2021 at 09:35 UTC »
Really missed an opportunity to use "Thairish" here
guyuri on January 20th, 2021 at 16:46 UTC »
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Why are yall assuming this was a baseless lawsuit. Yall weird.