Saw this on r/fountainpens this morning. Pretty long winded so here is a TL;DR: calling cheap fountain pens possibly made in China “starter pens” is racist and offensive.

Luckily there is quite a bit of push back in the comments since there are highly regarded Japanese and European “starter pens.”

(Yes I like fountain pens and subscribe to a subreddit about them)

  • AliceMAEnglish
    3·
    10 months ago

    Wow… you have got to be kidding me lol. And I thought I’ve already seen the worst of reddit. Jeeze laweez lol

    • grayOPEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      It’s pretty funny how they keep equating bad pens with “Asia” I think they’re afraid to say the bad ones are Chinese.

  • splinterAEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    That’s a really long winded way of saying OP thinks it’s racist to call anything “cheap” when it hasn’t been made in the west. I guess we’re supposed to pretend for the sake of ending racism or something.