Posted on 05/20/2021 4:22:40 AM PDT by Kaslin
There is nothing more American than mom’s apple pie. The image of the hot sugar-crusted pie is a happy memory for countless Americans. Variations of this tasty dessert belong to all American mothers regardless of race or ethnic origin.
Leave it to progressive demagogues to find a way to tear down this cultural icon. They cannot let an apple be an apple. They deconstruct an apple pie to always find a hidden racist or oppressive narrative.
Food Injustice
The Left rejects the truth that apple pie is just an easy-to-make dessert. Instead, it denounces what it calls “food injustice.” This sour exercise consists of tracing food origins and reading oppressive narratives into them. These same people will look at modern food chains and find exploitive labor and other practices embedded in their production processes.
Perhaps because it is an American icon, the Left’s food police attack the apple, claiming it is guilty of genocide. In the kangaroo court of food injustice, no one is allowed to speak in the apple’s defense.
Raj Patel, author of Stuffed and Starved: Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World’s Food System (Brooklyn: Melville House, 2012), makes a ruthless case against the apple and apple pie.
In an article in the Guardian, he claims the apple has nothing American about it. The fruit tree was imported from Europe and imposed upon the natives. Its introduction was part of “a vast and ongoing genocide of indigenous people.”
The Apple as an Oppressive Tool
The author does not even allow Europeans to claim the apple as their own. Long ago, apples came from central Asia and found their way into Europe through trade (and presumably without genocide).
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
“The fruit tree was imported from Europe and imposed upon the natives.”
One could argue that people were also “imposed upon the natives”, but Mr. Patel doesn’t have the courtesy to end his own imposition. Instead he imposes hateful books upon the natives.
Erasing traditions and encouraging division is all part of their plan. Not that all of these SJWs understand what is really going on. Many of them are useful idiots.
Food injustice? Not too sure. But there is no question there is total “social justice” when it comes to cell phones, sneakers, and the like.
Okra pie, Yummmm /s
Woke enough?
And THAT is the point of all this woke bullshit where everything is some kind of "ist".
Tear down, destroy, cancel all that is traditionally and culturally American. Once you know that it's hard not to see it.
>>In an article in the Guardian, he claims the apple has nothing American about it. The fruit tree was imported from Europe and imposed upon the natives. Its introduction was part of “a vast and ongoing genocide of indigenous people.”
Damn you, Johnny Appleseed!
For the children, the true expression being butchered here is, “As American as Mom, Baseball, and ApplePie.” The author shortened that to “Mom’s ApplePie”. Perhaps the writer is not an American. You can’t just pull your own expression out of thin air and then use it to expound upon your agenda. That’s just crazy talk.
Raj is just doing what he can to strike a mighty blow against the British Empire.
over 70 years of this crap from the cultural Marxists/Stalinists
A cancer on the world
>>What it boils down to, is that anything traditional is racist.
What it boils down to is that the cultural marxists want their bloody revolution and to bury and prohibit all memory of the past.
Who gives away free wood?
No, Elsie. Just leave it alone.
A nation is defined by its “borders, language and culture”.
Dr. Michael Savage
Cherries and peaches (nationwide) claim to be offended
Oh yeah? Well your stupid potatoes were imported into MY ancestors' country with disastrous and genocidal results.
I will not give up my potatoes and tomatoes.
Unemployed college kids have way too much time on their hands, so they come up with this malarkey.
I wonder what causes these imbeciles to sit in their offices and dream up these ridiculous arguments against normal people and their traditions and crafts?
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They’re attention whores, and in today’s click-bait, selfie-posting, zero-think society, the more outrageous the statement, the more likely it will rise above the din.
They must lead dark, sickening, useless and worthless lives.
Not satisfied with that, they want you to lead one too.
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