I actually hadn't been aware of coconut used in the Oreo/bounty bar sort of way at all. I just tend to assume that using tropical fruit as an image when portraying someone of colour is a Really Bad Idea (cf. Boris Johnson and "watermelon smiles"). And also tend to assume that most other sensible people see it as such as well.
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Date: 2009-03-23 04:30 pm (UTC)I actually hadn't been aware of coconut used in the Oreo/bounty bar sort of way at all. I just tend to assume that using tropical fruit as an image when portraying someone of colour is a Really Bad Idea (cf. Boris Johnson and "watermelon smiles"). And also tend to assume that most other sensible people see it as such as well.