Posted on 07/03/2021 6:09:43 AM PDT by Twotone
Turns out French food — all those crunchy baguettes, tasty pastries, scrumptious cheeses, and fine wines — is racist, according to a law professor who studies "food whiteness" and "food privileges."
What are the details? The Times U.K. reported that a video of Mathilde Cohen discussing the issue for a seminar outside Paris is upsetting folks in France, as the paper noted that the country's cuisine is "seen as a cornerstone of the national identity."
Cohen, who hails from the University of Connecticut School of Law, suggested that French eating habits reinforce the "dominance" of white people over ethnic minorities, the Times U.K. said.
An academic paper that was part of Cohen's seminar asserts that France's "eating culture ... has been the central means of racial and ethnic identity formation through slavery, colonialism, and immigration. The whiteness of French food is all the more powerful in that it is unnamed, enabling the racial majority to benefit from food privileges without having to acknowledge their racial origin," the Times U.K. added.
Here's Cohen on video discussing "food whiteness in French culture," which she said also can be defined as "the use of food to reinforce whiteness as a dominant racial identity."
(Excerpt) Read more at theblaze.com ...
Hog jowls and collard greens are good eats.
Sanity is apparently not a prerequisite to landing a teaching gig.
French dressing is okay, though ...
The piece of cod that surpasseth understanding!
With hominy, sweet tea and black eye peas too!
Say what?!?
https://www.facebook.com/UCDSchoolofLaw/photos/a.152600021430997/3459763024047997
Professor Mathilde Cohen of our partner UConn School of Law specialises in constitutional law, comparative law, food law, and race, gender and the law. Her work is cross-disciplinary, spanning a variety of subjects, including deliberative democracy, judicial decision-making, and the gendering and racialization of food and body fluids. She is currently researching lactation in quarantine.
She is a graduate of the École normale supérieure - PSL, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and Columbia Law School.
Wouldn’t it be a hoot if the left takes on their beloved French language as racist and white supremacist?
Well French is sexist, every word is either male or female.
Mathilde Cohen....Like most lefty BS artists she is living off the taxpayers. She is a prof at UConn.
I have been boycotting French fries since the Iraq war.
Insanity the greatest threat to Planet Earth .
Most European and American greens (kale, arugula, collard, etc) are awful.
Go to a local Asian market to get good-tasting greens.
I thought it was French?
Regards,
What alternative(s) does she suggest?
Irish "cuisine?"
British "cooking?"
Are they somehow "less racist" than French cuisine?
Or must we instead adopt African foods? (But wouldn't that be "cultural appropriation?")
Regards,
Mmmm! Tripe!
Regards,
At this point, what isn’t racist?
Bravo
LOL! Another Liberal loon look
I only eat the square ones.
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