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)
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.