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Is Mom’s Apple Pie a Symbol of Oppression?
American Thinker.com ^ | May 20, 2021 | John Horvat II

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 ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: apple; applepie; apples; feminazism; foodinjustice; foodjustice; koolaid; pomologists; pomology; rajpatel; smashthepatriarchy; vanishingamerica
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To: Kaslin

These people are nuts. The wonder is that anyone gives them serious attention.


41 posted on 05/20/2021 7:00:04 AM PDT by Savage Beast (God is the only Reality. --Paramahansa Yogananda. God Talks with Arjuna.)
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To: Shady

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.


42 posted on 05/20/2021 7:10:57 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: Kaslin

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..


43 posted on 05/20/2021 8:04:30 AM PDT by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking. )
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To: Sacajaweau
Let’s talk about Basketball

Not just basketball, football, as well.

44 posted on 05/20/2021 8:42:07 AM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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To: a fool in paradise
lol

45 posted on 05/20/2021 9:50:22 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Kaslin

The Left rejects the truth end of story.


46 posted on 05/20/2021 9:54:42 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: Savage Beast

The Guardian should never be taken seriously


47 posted on 05/20/2021 9:55:59 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: a fool in paradise
"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?

48 posted on 05/20/2021 12:36:40 PM PDT by Savage Beast (God is the only Reality. --Paramahansa Yogananda. God Talks with Arjuna.)
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To: Savage Beast

It’s more on the order of Sick magazine.


49 posted on 05/20/2021 12:49:40 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Lean on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: Kaslin

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! 😀


50 posted on 05/20/2021 3:16:26 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Rest In PEACE, Rush H. Limbaugh III. You are missedhe t already...)
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To: a fool in paradise

Eating meat is sexism? I knew I would be a sexist! Excuse me while I grill my steak... 😀


51 posted on 05/20/2021 3:45:49 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Rest In PEACE, Rush H. Limbaugh III. You are missedhe t already...)
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To: no-to-illegals

Pears are offended, too...


52 posted on 05/20/2021 3:47:36 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Rest In PEACE, Rush H. Limbaugh III. You are missedhe t already...)
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To: Deplorable American1776

How long before carrots are offended ? This is going hugh


53 posted on 05/20/2021 3:51:35 PM PDT by no-to-illegals ( Liberals, leftists, Rinos, moslems, illegals, lamestream media. All want America to fail and die )
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To: Kaslin
"Blazing Saddles" - in which some old white woman bakes the black sheriff an apple pie.


54 posted on 05/20/2021 3:53:39 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (Give me a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer)
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To: Savage Beast
The wonder is that anyone gives them serious attention.

I can't speak for you, but I get a self-satisfying sense of superiorness by reading their drivel.

55 posted on 05/21/2021 4:32:42 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: SunkenCiv
Origins?

Don't APPLES© still come from China??


56 posted on 05/21/2021 4:37:29 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Kaslin

Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and Chevrolet (non electric of course) Everything that’s wrong with America. </sarc>


57 posted on 05/21/2021 5:50:06 AM PDT by CodeJockey (Dum Spiro, Pugno)
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To: Elsie
And well deserved.

Frankly I think that's the best hope of the world. The intelligent will prevail. The morons will self-destruct.

58 posted on 05/21/2021 6:27:12 AM PDT by Savage Beast (God is the only Reality. --Paramahansa Yogananda. God Talks with Arjuna.)
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To: Elsie

Taiwan.


59 posted on 05/21/2021 12:46:48 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: SunkenCiv

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=where+are+apple+manufacturing+plants&ia=web&iai=r1-2&page=1&sexp=%7B%22biaexp%22%3A%22b%22%2C%22msvrtexp%22%3A%22b%22%7D


60 posted on 05/22/2021 3:21:30 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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