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 ...
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? They must lead dark, sickening, useless and worthless lives.
Gad...
Let’s talk about Basketball. Time to demand equal representation.
Food can be weaponized, and now we’re seeing a line they could use to weaponize it.
The ability to sow one’s own crops is not innate in many but easily learned. Even apartment dwellers could produce enough to supplement one person’s dietary needs. The problem is desire. Why bother to grow your own food if it’s so readily available? And so we’re back to the idea of using food as a weapon.
If someone doesn’t have the desire, and the government provides for them, and assuming they went through public schools and are dumb as a pile of scrap wood, understanding the basic biology of seeds may be lost on them, therefore food could be used as a mechanism of control. Those growing their own are now “privileged.”
Note: it actually hurt my brain to try to twist logic this much, but is it really such a stretch?
What it boils down to, is that anything traditional is racist.
“The fruit tree was imported from Europe and imposed upon the natives“
To impurity their precious bodily fluids.
Apple? Computer? EyePhone?
Note the referenced book is from 2012. This twisted logic has been going on for quite a while.
They are all trying to funnel into the Pelosi lane.
“You’re doing everything wrong. Go sit in the corner while I rule the world instead.”
I think there was a movie made about this.
Check out the author’s bio.
Nuff said.
It’s a symbol of oppression if she bakes it and says we have to wait until after we eat our dinner to eat it. THAT is just the hardest thing to do :( LOLOL
I had to double check that this wasn’t The Bee.
Johnny Appleseed, you sonofabyatch...
ANYONE, who believes ANYTHING that the MORON, hate-filled, LEFTISTS hysterically claim, fits the specific description of a CLUELESS FOOL.
It’s long PAST TIME to OPENLY RIDICULE them & all their FOOLISHNESS.
(The ONE weapon that always works against SELF-IMPORTANT, MEAN-spirited, FOOLS is RIDICULE.)
yours, satx
Let them eat cake!
Add to that, the evil Europeans originally got the apples From Central Asia. Cultural appropriation!
No one reads the crap they write - so they come up with insane statements to get attention.
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