Is this Poe’s Law too?
Just in case:
Most Latinos were born and raised in the US. And even among the minority who were not, most of them have been in the country for over 20 years. The idea that you would consider what cuisine to serve Latino college students in the same way you might consider what to serve foreign visiting students is very odd.
Then you learned something (or had a better foundation for said belief) then right? And other readers here.
And maybe you realized that maybe what you think you know might not be right right?
So you deliberately made a false claim and doubled down on it… to teach other posters a lesson? Uh huh.
If the nation were composed of iiandyiiiis you’d be correct. But the audience and the nation are not as reasonable and thoughtful as you. Therefore, the signal of contrition expressed dutifully to faux outrage enables more and more ludicrous behavior.
But how do you know it was faux? Some of this stuff is real feelings.
“…sure some unhappy slaves picked…”
Er, um…what were the happy slaves picking, one has to wonder?
However, even those cotton-growers too poor to buy slaves often “rented” them from their owners. Something like 50% of households in slave states owned or rented at least one slave (obviously not all for cottonpicking duties).
Daisies, to make daisychains to give to small white children while singing “Zippedy-doo-dah”.
Honestly these people are coming out and vandalizinvandalizing monuments from times of slavery and saying it hurts their feelings. But those monuments are probably the only things that are preventing slavery.
And first of all they came over to America and sold their people. We Americans didn't come over and say,"oh well your different so you're going to be slaves."to the African Americans.
So there.
I think I speak for many members of this messageboard when I say: what the what now?
No you’re not. You’re happy as a pig in slop, because now you get to play the victim card. I thought you conservatives were tougher than that? Except as we can see about all the howling and crying and whining and bitching and pissing and moaning and come and see the violence inherent in the system every time some freshman college student says something silly, you all ain’t so tough. I mean, one silly college student, and you’re ready to head for Galt’s Gulch and declare that America is finished.
Well. That seemed rather combative.
So in essence, you’re just calling me an out-and-out liar, but in the SDMB-approved way.
Because you obviously know me so very well…
I’m really trying to understand this. Suppose a British group came to the house and I made Yorkshire puddings. I’m sure that the members of the group would be appreciative that I made an effort to make something that I thought they like, even if my Yorkshire pudding sucked and even if several members of the group didn’t like Yorkshire pudding at all. Even if the effort was an abysmal failure, the thought would be appreciated. Nobody would believe that I thought that Brits couldn’t have a meal without Yorkshire pudding.
Why does the entire attitude go from appreciation to hostility when the same effort, even if the effort is a bit silly, is made for disadvantaged minority groups?
Different history. Stereotypical “black” foods and imagery related to slavery have been used as symbols of derision and even dehumanization for a long time in the US. Not to the level of the KKK hood, nooses, and burning crosses, but they’ve still been used in such ways.
I would certainly hope such second thoughts would occur. My relatives from Japan have noted that, when they come to me in California, the last thing they want is to go out to a Japanese restaurant – if they wanted that they would have stayed at home and cooked for themselves! When the Jamaican, Nihonjin, or Frank visit me in California, we’ll take them out for Barbecue and/or Tri-Tip because that’s the local specialty. Even as a Californian visiting New Orleans, I’d hope to be treated to creole or cajun or at least French cuisine because that’s the regional cuisine and part of what I’m hoping to sample while visiting.
As far as the university official’s mistake, perhaps he should have served enchiladas to the African-American group and Lasagna to the Latino-Americans. That would have avoided any implication of an assumed stereotype and associated emotion – ‘Here ya go! It’s food – not from my culture or yours, but just food we can all share.’
sigh Yeah, and the one in my budoir, as well. I bet that’s gonna make my sub cry – and not in a good way!:dubious:
–G!
Just a somewhat irrelevant side note:
A few years ago Zyada and I were at a flea market, and ran across some Brazil nuts painted to look like slices of watermelon. :dubious:
What seemed most [in]appropriate about the “artwork” was that an old slang term for Brazil nuts was N*****-toes.