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Trader Joe’s Defends Product Labels Criticized as Racist
New York Times ^ | Aug. 1, 2020 | By Allyson Waller

Posted on 08/03/2020 4:10:22 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement

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To: ConservativeStatement

But of course Trader Joe’s Szechuan Sauce would be cultural appropriation.


21 posted on 08/03/2020 6:26:51 PM PDT by Eagles6
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To: ConservativeStatement

It was 1 [one] [uno] High School kid who was protesting. I went to my local Trader Joe’s to buy some Trader Jose beer right after the online BS started. They were wiped out. Every bottle was bought as a collectors item or for eBay.


22 posted on 08/03/2020 6:26:59 PM PDT by EC Washington
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To: TigersEye

They are celebrating a richness of culture that did not originate locally. Some love it so much they move here, or appropriate it at home.

I vary my diet with recipes, spices, and produce from around the world.

The coffee, tea, and spice trade has been international for centuries.

But the Leftist troll who posted that Change.org petition was against the very word “Trader” as racist, exploitative, and possibly even having slaver connotations.


23 posted on 08/03/2020 6:34:03 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: ConservativeStatement

Good for Trader Joe’s !!


24 posted on 08/03/2020 7:05:43 PM PDT by beethovenfan (Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin)
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At 50 I had a vague recollection of that, distinctly remember a family member telling me when I was a child - had to look it up for the memory to come back.


25 posted on 08/03/2020 7:32:32 PM PDT by Spacetrucker (George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
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