‘Albino Rhino’ beer at Earls Restaurants target of human rights complaint
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The popular restaurant chain, with outlets across Western Canada and Ontario, is the target of a complaint over the name of its brew: Albino Rhino.

Ikponwosa (I.K.) Ero of Vancouver has alleged to the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal that the name singles out people like her who suffer from albinism, the absence of pigment from the skin, hair and eyes.

In her complaint - which also takes aim at Earls’ Albino Wings Wednesdays - Eros alleges the name demeans her and other albinos by deliberately evoking a sense of oddness about the condition, CBC News reports.

It’s a medical condition, not a taste treat, Ero argues.

“You go into a restaurant and someone says, ‘Can I get a palsy? Give me a palsy,’” she said. “And what it stands for is a cerebral palsy cocktail. I don’t think that would fly well at all with anybody with cerebral palsy, or their families, who have to live with the condition.

I’d order a palsy, probably go great with a Red Headed Slut, and how does she know albino’s aren’t a “taste treat”?