Is Mom’s Apple Pie a Symbol of Oppression?

American Thinker.com ^ | May 20, 2021 | John Horvat II

[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).

[SunkenCiv]

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[newnhdad]

Apples are racist? trees are racist..

[Reeses]

Wild Apples - The History of the Apple-Tree by Henry David Thoreau, November 1862

America had wild apples before the Europeans brought their civilized versions. America also had wild horses, but the Native Americans hunted them to extinction. The Spanish reintroduced civilized versions and taught the savages how to care for and ride them.

Libtards are still mad at Eve's apple eating for ruining the ultimate socialist utopia, unleashing knowledge upon the world. Libtards have their Adam's Apple shaved off during their fantasy transitions.