A co-worker called me to change his password. As is my custom, I looked around my office for an item to it change to. I had a banana on my desk. I told him that I changed his temporary password to 123BANANA and that he’d have to change it after he logged in.
The co-worker is from the Texas panhandle (and talks like it) but is clearly of Asian descent from his appearance. He informed me that “banana” is a derogatory term for someone like him that is “yellow on the outside and white on the inside”. I had no idea and gave him my explanation. I think he believed me.
Have you heard of this? Apparently “twinkie” is equally offensive.
I wouldn’t argue with an asian person about it but my experience is these ‘color’ on the outside, white on the inside insults are generally intra-racial barbs and meant to accuse the person of wanting to be white or acting white like they think it makes them better than their peers.
As someone who changes passwords for people regularly, I’ve found it’s safest to stick with a standard prefix like Temppassword and a mix of 4 or 5 random digits or characters at the end.
Never heard of banana but apple gets thrown around in Indian country. As noted above, it’s one that’s used within the group so not sure if that counts as a racial slur.
Chickenhawk, cradle robber, cougar. They’re not really nice terms, but I don’t think they’re that bad, and certainly not bad enough to ban them. That’s silly. As passwords???
A twink or twinkie in the gay community means young and effeminate, or just young and naive maybe, but c’mon - these are common words. You can’t ban English.
Calling him that because his stature and mannerisms remind you of a goofy cartoon character doesn’t also strike you as problematic? In a lot of workplaces you’d get called into HR for a talk if you did that.
Chinese netizens get incandescent with rage when people eat bananas on YouTube, for a variety of reasons. One being the Chinese gov banned such videos when the girl was meant to be eating it sexily. Another that is is pro-filipino.
Chinese netizens are fully as dementedly mind-blowingly insane as American netizens. [ Think those newspaper comments frothingly denouncing Demonrats and Rethuglicans. ]