Yes, they truly defile anything that’s good and holy about vegetables 
And now I want to watch Tampopo again.
I was humorously referencing the American Civil War.
Here is a piece about the Oberlin protests from The Atlantic Monthly. The author mentions that she learned about the role Chiquita Banana had in Latin America, including sponsoring a coup in Guatemala in 1954. So she and her friends wanted the school to buy Fair Trade bananas. She said, “Along with some other students, I formed a campaign to push the campus to stop buying and selling Chiquita bananas. This involved researching the history of the banana industry, creating educational pamphlets, organizing documentary screenings and panel discussions, coming to a consensus on our objectives, and presenting a clear argument to the head of campus dining services. She agreed with our request, and began buying only Fair Trade bananas.”
In other words, they didn’t just protest, but did actual research and educated people on the issue. Are today’s students willing to put in that much effort? If they think the dining services should provide more authentic ethnic food, are they willing to spend time with the chefs to educate them? And they could provide their family recipes to the dining services, but they need to recognize that a recipe designed for a home dinner needs to be modified to be used to feed dozens or hundreds of people.
At least they didn’t demand it be served in a safe space so everybody else didn’t eat it all. Because find me an ethnic group who doesn’t like fried chicken.
I hope somebody tells the students that those bananas are radioactive 
Yes. They should demand potassium free food!
Yes, no student ever had a problem with their college until Trump mentioned a wall.
The name “General Tso’s chicken” is totally militaristic and imperialistic and triggering to victims of colonialist violence. It should be changed to “Peacemaker Tso’s non-threatening chicken”. And a safe space should be provided for anyone’s who traumatized by it.
College life must be rough these days. I can’t tell if this outrage is real or satire. The food is not authentic? The black student union is demanding segregation on campus?
Japanese people are a relatively affluent group and they don’t even eat at a “good Japanese restaurant” frequently. Nobody can afford that and they eat the same shit every other culture does, just less frequently.
And more fried chicken, but I think we can all get behind that.
Whaaaaa!!!
Hyperventilates and reaches for paper bag
Peacemaker!, that triggers the fear of a nuclear Armageddon, you hurt my fweelings!
I demand a couloring book NOW!!!
These kids strike me as being so open-minded that their brains have fallen out. I mean, I know it’s Oberlin and all, but c’mon. This is just silly.
My wife’s parents wanted her to go to Oberlin. On one hand she’d have not met me (40 years later the jury’s still out on that), but OTOH, she’d have been in troll heaven with loads of stories to tell.
Apropos of nothing (but we’re in MPSIMS so. . . ), when I see or hear the phrase “oh, the humanity” the only thing I can think of is my favorite Friends episode when this phrase is Chandler’s follow up to Ross telling the pizza girl that “lots of gas smells”. Sorry, OP; no disrespect intended.(and yes, I do know the origin).
No disrespect taken, and I’ve never watched Friends.
On second reading I’m starting to think this whole thing is a troll that’s fallen victim to Poe’s Law.
It would be cool if this turned out to be some kind of social experiment to test peoples’ reactions.
Unfortunately I think the students are serious.
I’m not sure how cookies and a coloring book create a safe space. Instead of giving people a place to hide, why not teach them some self defense. I knew a woman who worked with women who were victims of domestic violence. She taught them both belly dancing and karate.
Belly dancing to help them feel beautiful again, karate so they could kick the shit out of any man who tried to hurt them again.
I was talking to one of my college age daughters today, and this topic came up. Interestingly enough, I know one of the complainers in the original college article from Oberlin, I knew him in Vietnam. Decent guy, supposedly his point was don’t call food Vietnamese if it isn’t, and don’t conflate his opinion about food with whatever the afrikan list of demands are.