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In reply to the discussion: When a Racist Restaurant Opens on the Edge of Campus, What Is a University's Responsibility? [View all]SickOfTheOnePct
(7,290 posts)which makes you believe you can read people's minds, but you really can't.
If Joe owned a potato farm named "Redskin Joe's", then yes, I would buy potatoes there, assuming he had the best potatoes.
If Joe owned a restaurant, unless he sold ONLY potatoes, which is highly unlikely, then I would assume that he was using the term in a derogatory manner, and I would not patronize his restaurant.
The word "illegal" can be used in hundreds of contexts, racism being but one of those.
Not only would I eat at Illegal Pete's, I'm going to make a point to patronize his establishment the next time I'm in Boulder for work, which will be in mid-January.
I am happy to see that the with very few exceptions, most people on this thread recognize that this contrived "controversy" is laughable. But it's also comforting to see that the usual suspects are here to express their daily dose of faux outrage. It shouldn't be more than two or three more posts before we start seeing CAPITAL LETTERS!!!!!!!!! expressing OUTRAGE!!!! at the INSENSITIVITY!!!! from some of the regulars.