Thankfully, this out of control thread I inadvertently started is finally dead but I wanted to point out your comment reminds me of that scene from the original Ghostbusters, where whatever thing the guys thought of would appear to try to kill them. So they tried to think of the most harmless thing they could, and it still appeared and tried to kill them.

It looks like even the beloved In-N-Out can be associated with the r-word if you dig deep enough. I'm starting to be convinced that for any company or individual you name, no matter how benign or harmless they are, you will be able to go out and find dots to connect some kind of tenuous link to racism.