• NightLily@lemmy.basedcount.comOPM
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    1 year ago

    Yeah and there is the target lawsuit and stuff as well.

    The word spook hasn’t just gotten fictional people in trouble. In 2010, Target apologized for selling a Halloween toy called “Spook Drop Parachuters” — literally miniature black figurines with orange parachutes. And in 2018, an elementary school in North Carolina came under fire when a student came home with “spook” and “gook” ― an offensive term to people of East and Southeast Asian descent ― on his list of vocabulary words to memorize.