I live in Portland, and have for almost 30 years, and work downtown at a university. Portland may not be super-liberal, but I god-damned guarantee you that 90% of the people within the Portland city limits certainly think they are.
This food truck article is a prime example of how out of control it is getting here. I work with people that, should I bring this up, would support the attack on the food truck ladies.
Shame that Grimm ended this season. They could have had some sort of cultural appropriation Wesen.
I didn’t. I said I had a uni degree and lots of practical experience in the field, which qualifies me to have educated and informed opinions on the relevant issues affecting the industry - and unless you also had that background, you weren’t speaking from a qualified viewpoint. That’s not dick-waving.
Saying “You’re a dickhead and I bet more people read my stuff than yours” is A) Childish, B) Dick-measuring, and C) Suggests to me you don’t actually have anything constructive to contribute in this discussion and are therefore resorting to personal attacks.
I went to school in New Zealand. I applied to get into university, in Australia, under the same criteria as everyone else. However, as an NZ Citizen I wasn’t eligible for the CPI-increase only student loans and had to pay, up-front for my studies - which meant studying and working at the same time. In the end I had to put my studies on hold for some time, but I was fortunate that after obtaining Australian citizenship I could access the Commonwealth student loans so I could complete my studies.
In my final year of uni there were (IIRC) half a dozen white people in my class; most of the others were overseas students. There were also several Pacific Islander and Aboriginal students there too.
I’ve met plenty of Indigenous journalists. They do some outstanding work on issues affecting both their communities and the wider population. Being Aboriginal isn’t likely to help you get a job at one of the metro commerical TV stations, but there’s plenty of places - the ABC, SBS, community newspapers etc - where it would either be an advantage or not a factor at all.
I don’t presume to lecture you about the situation in New Zealand media because I haven’t worked with it in many, many years; I’ll thank you not to try and tell me the state of affairs over here in the Australian industry - especially just because I’m not saying what you want to hear.
Way back in 2002, Houston Press food critic Robb Walsh took Rick Bayless on a tour through our multicultural city:
Generally, I’d be proud to be considered a SJW. There is certainly such a thing as Cultural Appropriation. Need to do some research on that Portland story, because they really seem silly…
…a university degree doesn’t qualify you for jack shit. Using your criteria: you aren’t a woman. Unless you have that background, you aren’t speaking from a qualified viewpoint. So stop having an opinion on womens-only-grants.
Did they teach you what a strawman is in University?
You didn’t even remotely address my question. Just answer this one. Do you think the playing field was even? A yes or no will suffice.
Get this into your head: I’m not talking about the “state of the industry.” I’m talking about YOU. Don’t lecture me. You’ve expressed your thoughts and your feelings in this thread and I’m responding to your thoughts and your feelings. I don’t need a qualification to do that.
I think that’s relevant.
As an American Indian I was all about talking about C.A.
Until it was co-opted by idiots, and now I’ve had to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Wait, I’m lecturing you? That’s amusing. You’re the one lecturing me, making personal attacks, calling me names and getting annoyed when what I say evidently doesn’t fit what you want to hear or have decided is the “correct” answer.
If you don’t have anything constructive or respectfully expressed to say, I think we’re done with this conversation.
…you are a typical passive-aggressive “SJW snowflake”.
You can’t handle being challenged. You block and ignore.
You are a living personification of the “SJW” you so despise.
I’m not looking for a “correct” answer from you. I’m looking for an honest one. Do you think the playing field is even or not? Stating that “being Aboriginal” might be helpful in getting a job at a community newspaper doesn’t address that question. Its a “non-answer” typical of what a politician would give, not a journalist. It deflects the question. Because as I said earlier in the thread: I think you are scared of the answer.
Jesus. Get a fucking room, you two.
Hey look - someone’s thrown out a perfectly good baby. There’s good eatin’ on them…
This is the Pit, where we come take out our anger at other posters. The entire point of this thread was to attack “SJWs” and make fun of them in the exact way you are now trying to claim is wrong. And you are indeed being just as preachy as nearly everyone else.
It’s kinda silly to try and claim some sort of moral high ground. You can address his argument, or you can not. You are free to attack him if you want.
But the moral high ground? You don’t have it.
And stealing someone else’s recipe is not cultural appropriation, and stopping them is not a matter of social justice.
That said, even if it were, still nothing bad happened here. People have the right to try and get other people to boycott a business. It’s freedom of speech. If the people who hear the argument think it’s good, and choose to boycott, they have that right.
This still just boils down to “people value something I don’t value, so I’m gonna call them names.” You know, the thing you said you shouldn’t do.
The mistake they made here was the way they boasted about getting techniques through browbeating and spying on poor people who didn’t want to give it to them. Had they kept their glee at putting one over on people less privileged under their hats they would likely have done just fine. But their apparent disrespect for those people and their boasting about exploiting them was too much.
Quite a while ago, my friend. Quite a while ago.
I think you must have a very different definition of “browbeating” to me. I’d ask you how you define the term, but I worry you might think I’m browbeating you. Also, where did you get the notion that these ladies were expressing “glee at putting one over on them”? That seems to be an almost comically uncharitable interpretation of their motives. Tell me, when you picture these two women, are they twirling fake moustaches and kicking puppies as well? As for exploiting…well, it would be no less than a miracle of commerce if a taco truck in Portland Oregon managed to siphon away any customers from a taco truck in Paulo Nuevo, Mexico. Do you have any evidence that the abuelitas these ladies [del]culturally massacred[/del], [del]economically raped[/del], sorry “exploited” actually, y’know, lost anything?
Nice article at the link, thanks. Agree with baby and bathwater. Might save baby for special occasions though.
Next they should boycott Taco Bell and Chinese takeout.
I’m not sure how this all fits in, but wheat tortillas themselves are a cultural adaption themselves, brought to Mexico via the Sephardic Jews.
It’s a far better country now than when I was a kid in the 80s, and I’m glad my daughters are growing up in this generation.
Addressed in the linked article (although without reference to Sephardic Jews). Mexico is one big teeming mass of cultural appropriation.
Resulting in things like tacos al pastor, one of the foods of the gods.
Indeed. Mexican shawarma. Doesn’t get much better than that. (And, while we’re at it, they also have tacos arabes, “Arab tacos.” As a Polish-American, I’m wondering if I should be offended that one of my friends from the Yucatán sold something called tacos polacos, which was Polish sausage, onions, potato, chipotle in a wheat tortilla.)