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 ...
These people are nuts. The wonder is that anyone gives them serious attention.
Usually, the “scholars” responsible for this kind of twaddle were less-than-stellar when they were in undergrad or grad school. I knew people exactly like this when I was in grad school. They shied away from serious, deep research and preferred “studies” where they could be more subjective and explore their own pet theories with little constraint.
Well Mr.Patel, I believe the smell of your homeland cooking and the dress of your people oppress me whenever I work in a condo or apartment complex. Goes both ways so let’s dispense with the pissing contest and be civilized. It used to work..
Not just basketball, football, as well.
lol
The Left rejects the truth end of story.
The Guardian should never be taken seriously
Of course. How did I miss the Guardian? Isn't it a comic book? Kinda like Mad magazine?
It’s more on the order of Sick magazine.
An apple pie is oppressive? Who knew? I need to know if a blueberry pie, a cherry pie or a strawberry shortcake is racist. I’m having a party with friends - different races - so I don’t want to insult anyone if I serve a racist dessert! 😀
Eating meat is sexism? I knew I would be a sexist! Excuse me while I grill my steak... 😀
Pears are offended, too...
How long before carrots are offended ? This is going hugh
I can't speak for you, but I get a self-satisfying sense of superiorness by reading their drivel.
Don't APPLES© still come from China??
Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and Chevrolet (non electric of course) Everything that’s wrong with America. </sarc>
Frankly I think that's the best hope of the world. The intelligent will prevail. The morons will self-destruct.
Taiwan.
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