Have you heard the recent story, in the US, about musicians seeking to trademark their band’s name — The Slants — and how the US’s patent & trademark office has refused on the grounds that the term (presumed to be a reference to so-called Asian eyes) is “scandalous or immoral”?
But it can mean a variety of things, no? Continue reading ““We Sing for the Japanese, and the Chinese, and all the Dirty Knees””