SF first major city to ban toys with fast food meals

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<snip>WHOA!...did that guy just insinuate brown people are sh**tty, ignorant parents?  <googles>...oh, he's an asian so I guess it's ok.

I think his comments have more to do with the fact that poor Black and Hispanic neighborhoods are usually full of fast food restaurants, while being devoid of grocery stores. When parents are working non stop to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, sometimes they feed their kid whatever is most convenient. And if you got a cheap, fast alternative and the kids are screaming for it because they want toys.......

Not that I support this, but nothing that guy said was remotely racist. I could imagine some white liberal saying the same thing.

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If some guy from Mississippi pointed out that Blacks were fatter than the rest, and also pointed out that it may have something to do with the neighborhoods they live in as well as higher rates of poverty in their communities, I wouldn't think it would be racist. Of course a Republican from Mississippi wouldn't say that now would he? He would say Blacks don't take personal responsibility thus they are fat, cause crime, are uneducated etc etc.

And like I said I don't support this. As has been pointed out earlier in the thread and by me, parents take their kids to Mcdonalds because it's convenient. The kids might stop harassing parents to take them for toys, but I bet the effect will be negligible. And even where it does cut down on consumption rates, it will be most pronounced amongst the middle class who might have real choices and won't have to put up with their kids bugging them for toys (even here the effect should be near negligible).

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I am confused as to why the people who support softer drug laws often support harsher food restrictions, and vice versa. I mean, if it's all about personal freedom versus helping people who can't help themselves, they should go in the same direction, right? In this case you could say it's all about the children, but anti-drug campaigners would say the same. Plus, some food restriction-ists target adults, such as the NYC salt ban proposal.

McDonalds is much more hazardous to health than marijuana.

Not to mention no one is talking about handing out toys to kids when they buy Marijuana.