The sponsor, a state commission on Asian affairs, claimed that "some state legislators" were offended by the band name
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In 2009, the year of the incident, there were literally zero Asian American state legislators in Oregon.
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Today, Oregon state legislature remains overwhelmingly white.
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In subsequent years, including 2016, Tam has since spoken at the same conference without controversy
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In other words, this source of controversy cited in every legal decision in this case? Probably came from a handful of mad white folks.
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The entire record of this case is littered with mad white people and Asian Americans shrugging their shoulders
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Lee v Tam highlights a lot about our society and the complexity behind how we treat slurs.
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Depending on the-- very complex, very fraught-- context, banning a slur can either be inclusivity in action or disempowering paternalism
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Loved "Federal registration is the T.S.A. PreCheck of intellectual-property law.” So true, magistrates just wave them through.
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i was very excited when i thought of that analogy
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