Posted on 07/07/2021 6:19:27 AM PDT by blam
In recent years, there has been an explosion of academic work declaring everything from meritocracy to math to be racist or vehicles of white dominance. Offering statistical analysis to support such claims is itself problematic since statistics have also been declared racist.
Now however Law professor Mathilde Cohen of the University of Connecticut has found an untapped area of white dominance. In a talk at Sciences Po Paris and the University of Nanterre, Cohen explained how “French eating habits reinforced the ‘dominance’ of white people over ethnic minorities.”
Presumably, the French themselves are allowed to continue to eat their own food without violating the Civil Rights Act. However, Cohen explained that the cuisine is used “to reinforce whiteness as a dominant racial identity.” The reason is the white people value it and thereby force minorities to “act white” by eating it:“The French meal is often presented as the national ritual to which every citizen can participate equally.
But French food ways are shaped by white middle- and upper-class norms … and the boundaries of whiteness are policed through daily food encounters.”
The remarks are based on Cohen’s paper “The Whiteness of French Food Law, Race, and Eating Culture in France,” which explores the “neglected area” of “food studies, critical race theory, and critical Whiteness studies.” Cohen works “to identify and critique a form of French food Whiteness (blanchité alimentaire), that is, the use of food and eating practices to reify and reinforce Whiteness as the dominant racial identity.” It also allows you to go to France to present such theories like going to Medellín, Colombia to discuss the scourge of the drug trade.
As an Italian, I am happy to note that our cuisine is not viewed as a vehicle for white dominance.
However, I must confess that I am skeptical. Indeed, it would suggest that President Joe Biden and the First Lady were coopting Vice President Kamala Harris and the second gentleman by recently taking them to Le Diplomate. If the Bidens were “policing” the “boundaries of whiteness . . . through daily food encounters” there were cheaper ways to do it. Having eaten at the restaurant, it is a lot less expensive to do your policing with a baguette at Le Pain Quotidien.
It would also make Julia Child the Bull Connor of cooking.
Then again maybe people of all races just enjoy good cooking. The rest is . . . well . . . just tripe.
It just gets more ridiculous.
Race issues have lost all seriousness and have now become a joke.
Be careful that it does not harm our kids like the teachers unions are trying to do with CRT.
Hollandaise sauce must be truly terrifying.
So French food is racist. Why don’t these people just say what they are thinking: They want all White people dead, and their possessions taken and redistributed. They want Western Civilization (White, European, Christian, free market) eliminated and in its place savage, superstitious, socialist and totalitarian dictatorships.
They just haven't gotten to you yet, Jonathan. Once they've abolished the croissant, they're coming after those pizza shops.
Makes me wonder how many black owned restaurants have Michelin ratings.
Another prime example of White hate hidden in recipes.
Congress must investigate all recipes for racism.
The descent of the majority of our university marshmallow departments continues at an increased pace.
Life is too much like the Babylon Bee.
Nobody is forcing anyone of any color to eat it.
The true racists are the ones who find racism in everything they see and try to force us to accept their world view.
That's OK, pal. You're next.
Meanwhile, your countrymen have an answer...
https://youtu.be/sE5GNru6TZI
The cast of Vikings sing a song about greasy polenta, produced by Fellini, Italian folk metal style. Don't say I didn't warn you.
“The reason is the white people value it and thereby force minorities to “act white” by eating it: “The French meal is often presented as the national ritual to which every citizen can participate equally.”
Because Moroccan, Lebanese and Vietnamese dishes can not be found in any French restaurants and the French have very strict laws against immigrants opening up restaurants and serving their native foods. /s
Ima make coq au vin later.
the Vietnamese stole pot au feu and now we have that nasty pho. Yuck!
Lessee, last name Cohen. Imagine the uproar if I claimed that ethnically Jewish and Israeli foods were testing the boundaries of Whiteness, or whatever that gibberish was that he was writing.
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so nonwhites should stop eating food , NOW
That was the best thing ever and now
I have a new hilarious band to check out.
With Frahnch Fries, Frahnch Dressing, and Peru. Where can you go wrong?
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