Posted on 06/24/2018 9:09:33 AM PDT by EdnaMode
It's come to this: according to some, people should be picking their casual dining choices based on their politics.
NPR published an opinion piece by writer Monique Truong that claims in the headline that it is "hypocrisy" for administration members who support President Trump's way of handling the long-ignored border crisis to eat at Mexican restaurants. These are people who work for the president, of course, so they are essentially being taken to task for doing their jobs.
Truong considers recent forays to Mexican food dining establishments by administration policy adviser Stephen Miller and Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen to be a "spectacle" that is "utterly galling to many Americans who object" to the recent policy of dealing with felony immigration offenders, which the president ended this week.
Truong acknowledges the pervasiveness of "Mexican-inspired" food in the United States. I'm from Tucson, it's not called "Mexican food" here, it's just "food." She concedes that it is now part of the "American table" but sternly lectures that we should be "appalled" that people who aren't on board with open borders and illegal immigration should choose to spend their hard-earned money at a Mexican restaurant. Her tortured logic asserts that since Mexican restaurants have "back-of-the-house" staff that "came from Mexico or Central America, with or without documents," people who oppose illegal immigration are experiencing a "disconnect" when dining at these establishments.
All ‘Mexican’ food enters through the border points....so it’s all OK. It’s got papers.
Were people allowed to eat at Japanese or German restaurants during World War II? But I guess Chinese laundries would have been permitted.
Does this mean NPR staff can no longer eat American food?
This is all they’ve got. Whiny second-grader taunts.
They are so screwed.
So what. The food is paid for to come in here. There is a legal option.
And white ethnics who own Mexican restaurants are engaging in cultural appropriation. White people just need to die.
As I have said in other posts, all of this is causing me to lose my appetite for Mexican food. Now the far left tells us that people who want border security should not eat at Mexican restaurants. Fine. I won’t.
Democrats aren’t hypocrites for violating other people’s privacy?
Its none of their goddamned business where people eat out.
Wow, the left is getting very desperate.
Juan Abamillo, Jose Maria Arocha, Simon Arreola, Juan Badillo, etc.
Virtue signaling. And a previously viewed episode of same. Yawn.
Mexicans culturally appropriated cheese from Europeans. You don’t hear Europeans whining and complaining about it.
Applause
How dare they eat this kind of food.
The Left has gone completely insane.
End NPR funding now!
So are we to presume that American restaurants, such as McDonald’s, and all the dinner restaurants, Italian restaurants, etc. cannot hire Mexicans, those few that are here illegally? No problem.
The food did not cross the border inside the false bottom of a van or try to speed away when chased by Border Patrol.
Oxymoron = Mexican Food
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