Posted on 07/19/2020 4:32:46 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Trader Joes is being urged to follow the example of other national food companies and rebrand products that critics say perpetuate racial stereotypes.
An online petition is asking the company to remove racist branding and packaging from its stores, including international food items carrying the names Trader Mings, Trader José and Trader Giottos. Those products and others reflect a narrative of exoticism that perpetuates harmful stereotypes, according to the petition, which on Sunday had been signed by more than 1,500 people.
Theyre racist because they exoticize other cultures, present Joe as this default normal, and then the other characters such as Thai Joe, Trader José, Trader Joe San falling outside of it, said Briones Bedell, 17, who started the petition.
A Trader Joes spokeswoman said in a statement that the company had previously decided to get rid of the names and to rebrand its international foods with the Trader Joes name.
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To those who haven’t been paying attention, this is why the Left wants to reduce the age of suffrage to 13...or earlier.
The younger the better.
Meanwhile, Comrade DeBlasio culturally appropriate his last name from Italian culture....his last name is actually Wilhelm.
More accurate than a Schiff submitted transcript
With all the layoffs I assume that any old guard of the news business are long gone.
I initially liked Trader Joe’s then i noticed any product they carried of a different brand, not long after Trader Joe’s would have similar item and they no longer carried the other brand. They basically copied stuff.
Most of their products are high sodium or sugars. I have not chosen to spend money there in many years. Was given a giftcard for their store so I did use that.
I wonder how much this whole thing is just a prank that Trader Joe’s has already swallowed and will rebrand/redesign packaging for?
As I say “she” targets their very existence and concept.
AND “she” has a new facebook page that launched the same time as “her” CHANGE.org profile and “she” has 1 friend and has only used the page to promote articles about her petition which only now (after 2 weeks and recent media hype) has under 2,000 signatures.
No comments on her page in support of her idiocy, just people saying she’s nuts.
https://www.facebook.com/briones.bedell.1
https://www.change.org/p/trader-joe-s-remove-racist-packaging-from-your-products?use_react=false
Also here, same July 2020 creation date
https://twitter.com/BrionesBedell
28 followers
She is not an influencer. She is a prop and NY Times has an agenda.
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Remove “Trader Giotto’s” from your petition. Italians aren’t a “race” and they aren’t “non-Western peoples”. They don’t want to be part of your dumb protest.
Not much hope for her. She is likely going to go to college with a degree in [Insert Stupidity Based Subject Here] Studies. She is lost, probably until later in life if at all. She is going to have no family, and likely will fall into some LGBQT thing that will really put the kibosh on her future happiness.
I hold out hope for some. David Horowitz is a good example of someone who was fully invested and made it out. One can always hope, but in her case, it is going to be a dim hope.
It is very evident if you read the old (pre-1960) children's books put out by the Stratemeyer Syndicate.
The the books were originally sprinkled with Blacks, American Indians, Jews, Orientals, Hispanics, Italians and Eastern Europeans. In the early sixties they decided that these portrayal of these citizens was "racist". While they probably were a bit what happened next was a pogrom that any Czar would have been proud to set his name to. Since they were rewriting the books to shorten them from 25 chapters to 20 why not just remove those troublesome minorities. Which is what happened.
Trader Joe should respond that they refuse to whitewash their store and products. That anyone who demands they do so are being racist.
I had to look it up, but “exoticize” really is a word.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Stratemeyer_Syndicate_series
I have never heard of this before.
Looked up the name, couldn’t find picture of her, but name is of a park in Contra Costa and the nearby peak for hiking, so it’s like naming someone “Sierra.” She is probably proud of name, so just a modern, self-righteous teenager.
These morons finding racism under every stone need to get a life. They have too much time on their hands
It’s a safe bet that Trader Joe’s will cave.
TJ’s from time to time has some VG cost affective wines. Having one now.
Reading the Pre-1960 versions of the stories and reading the rewrites is an interesting study in how the reading level dropped in the US. The early books were written at a much higher level.
This is such a stupid era.
“She” has a photo on her twitter, facebook, and change.org profile all that date to early July.
Before that she didn’t exist. And she doesn’t have many friends (1 on facebook, 28 on twitter).
It appears that she may be a fraud since this is her only issue. She only posts articles about her protest. And it wasn’t until the NYTimes piece that it got ANY traction weeks later.
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