# Sakebar logo a bit racist?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sakebar-logo-a-bit-racist/114760>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [September 17, 2007, 1:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sakebar-logo-a-bit-racist/114760 "2007-09-17T13:25:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![blinking\_bear](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@blinking\_bear](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/blinking_bear)\
**Post date:** [September 17, 2007, 1:25pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sakebar-logo-a-bit-racist/114760/1 "2007-09-17T13:25:14Z")

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[http://sakebar.railsrumble.com/images/sake-doll.jpg](http://sakebar.railsrumble.com/images/sake-doll.jpg)

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**Author:** ![blinking\_bear](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@blinking\_bear](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/blinking_bear)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 11:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sakebar-logo-a-bit-racist/114760/2 "2007-09-25T23:04:25Z")

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Stereotypical perhaps, but I wouldn’t say racist.

It’s not like they have a few white people hanging the Japanese lady  
from a tree or something…

–Jeremy

On 9/14/07, blinking bear [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote:

> [http://sakebar.railsrumble.com/images/sake-doll.jpg](http://sakebar.railsrumble.com/images/sake-doll.jpg)
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**Author:** ![blinking\_bear](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@blinking\_bear](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/blinking_bear)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 11:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sakebar-logo-a-bit-racist/114760/3 "2007-09-25T23:09:57Z")

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Please explain how you could possibly come up with the idea that a  
picture  
of a Japanese woman serving Sake, on the site of a tool named Sake, is  
even  
remotely racist.

Here’s a hint: it’s called “theme”

Jason

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**Author:** ![blinking\_bear](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@blinking\_bear](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/blinking_bear)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 11:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sakebar-logo-a-bit-racist/114760/4 "2007-09-25T23:04:48Z")

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Does that mean a picture of a burning cross or Aunt Jemima wouldn’t be  
racist as long as you use it as a theme? 😉

RSL

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**Author:** ![blinking\_bear](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@blinking\_bear](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/blinking_bear)\
**Post date:** [September 25, 2007, 11:10pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/sakebar-logo-a-bit-racist/114760/5 "2007-09-25T23:10:20Z")

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Russell N. wrote:

> Does that mean a picture of a burning cross or Aunt Jemima wouldn’t be  
> racist as long as you use it as a theme? 😉

Positive ethnic biases are … positive.

Kimonos and sake are good things!

Unless if you wanted to throw a dart at a spinning globe and show a  
Khoikhoi serving Sake…

–  
Phlip  
[http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510657/](http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596510657/)