Yeah and there is the target lawsuit and stuff as well.
The word spook hasn’t just gotten fictional people in trouble. In 2010, Target apologized for selling a Halloween toy called “Spook Drop Parachuters” — literally miniature black figurines with orange parachutes. And in 2018, an elementary school in North Carolina came under fire when a student came home with “spook” and “gook” ― an offensive term to people of East and Southeast Asian descent ― on his list of vocabulary words to memorize.
Yeah and there is the target lawsuit and stuff as well.
The word spook hasn’t just gotten fictional people in trouble. In 2010, Target apologized for selling a Halloween toy called “Spook Drop Parachuters” — literally miniature black figurines with orange parachutes. And in 2018, an elementary school in North Carolina came under fire when a student came home with “spook” and “gook” ― an offensive term to people of East and Southeast Asian descent ― on his list of vocabulary words to memorize.