How Italian Americans can and should be considered people of color

Smerconish.com ^ | May 23, 2019 | Christopher Binetti

[OddLane]

Wendy’s has a commercial where a group of stereotypical Italian Americans crowd around an idealized white person and act crudely and threateningly towards him. They eat like slobs, eating spaghetti and meatballs, acting suspiciously of him, and generally make buffoons of themselves. They wear gold chains, have a darker complexion than the white man, and have very ethnic features such as black hair and big noses. Most obviously, the premise is that they are all mobsters and that the white man is there to defeat their evil. At the end of the commercial, two very non-Italian looking federal agents are shown.

This commercial was about a parmesan Caesar salad, by the way. The commercial took Italian food, culturally appropriated it, weaponized it, and attacked Italian Americans with it. The media is not covering this outrageous commercial. In fact, there is a civil rights group on Facebook that gets attacked, both by Italians and non-Italians, in very hateful language, just for pointing these kinds of issues out to the general public. Facebook, quick to ban right-wing haters, seems to be fine with the Italophobia...

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[Tired of Taxes]

You were definitely triggered. It seems the word “slur” triggered you.

Like it or not, “slur” is the correct term.

This thread was posted three weeks ago. Then you showed up weeks later.

But I don’t think you understood the conversation. Instead, you saw the word “slur,” and it set you off.