American expat living in South Korea triggered by racist chicken restaurant. The place is called Blackies!
https://www.koreaexpose.com/korean-chicken-blackie-racism/
Take a good look at the first half of that last paragraph.
Being guilty of thoughtcrime is bad enough here. I know Koreans can be racist. But if they are in their own country they don't have to abide by the rules of tourists and expats from other countries. Sure it could become a problem if they get more immigrants. But when you move to a new country you have to expect that people are going to have different sensibilities and you are going to learn to have to live with it.
It's bad enough that every Kpop star is constantly scrutinized by western fans for cultural appropriation of American black culture. I posted about this here before. A Kpop artist being slammed for cultural appropriation by American fans. It's amazing how one minute he's your Korean husbando and the next he's racist for having the wrong hair and clothes. There was another Kpop artist who did a video where he's in an asylum. I can't remember what it was called. But again, it triggered some Tumblr kids with self diagnoses and they ranted about it for weeks.
Now this definitely is racist to most modern day Americans:
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I don't buy that it's supposed to be inspired by Dooli the dinosaur or a black chicken. It's obviously based on old time cartoons of black people. The ones that are banned from TV. But racist or not, it's stupid for Americans to try to tell people in other countries what is and isn't allowed to be used as a mascot because feelings. Why not use that energy to raise awareness of human rights violations instead of little Black Sambo selling you chicken? South Korea is mainly made up of South Koreans and is very insular. So they aren't going to see this mascot, be triggered and immediately storm social media demanding the the owner kill himself. BLM isn't going to have a riot over it. Yeah it's racist. To westerners. If the owner wants to change it he can. But he doesn't have to. Because I doubt there's much pressure in Korea to do so.
The comments here are priceless by the way:
https://nextshark.com/racist-south-korean-restaurant-racist-dont-even-know-racist/