Turkey arrests bakers' union head for calling bread-eating societies 'stupid'

Reuters ^ | November 9, 2022

[Bob434]

well good! Because, you know, people shouldn’t be allowed to say whatever comes into their heads- there are rules ya know! /s

[LIConFem]

I wonder what he’d have to say about circuses.

[Tench_Coxe]

Reuters points the finger, but currently you can get harrassed/prosecuted in the US for:
Questioning election integrity
Challenging the teaching of CRT in schools
Opposing transgender medical operations on children

Pretty much, anything challenging the official "narrative". There's that bit in the Bible about pointing out the speck in someone's eye while ignoring the log in your own....

[rlmorel]

Kind of where America is today.

[Codeflier]

Wait...isn’t this guy overseeing bread making activities? Confused.

[Bob434]

we sure are gettign there-

[cranked]

30,000 years, probably longer, of bread being a staple outside of foraging or hunting.

Jail?
Maybe a bit harsh.
A solid 2x4 to the head would have probably been more impactful for such idiocy.

[Pikachu_Dad]

Indeed. Seems like he would be endorsing the eating of bread !

Or maybe, ‘stupid societies’ was what he was endorsing?

[RoosterRedux]

He's obviously a believer in the Keto diet.

Carbs do make you stupid!

[Bob434]

LOL!

[Yashcheritsiy]

Persecution of Indo-Europeans by the bread-eaters never ends.

[Beowulf9]

He’s the head of the baker’s union and he’s insulting eating a baked good?

I get Turkey’s inflicting punishment of jail on him is way over the top and restricting his freed of speech but why would a baker be insulting societies that eat bread, a baked item?

Besides the fact that many great societies eat bread. Take for instance the Roman empire, or the Greeks.

[ClearCase_guy]

I speak scientifically, I am not making it up

[PLMerite]

“...per capita consumption is 210 kilos in Turkey; and 45-50 kilos in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, England, Japan,”

That’s a lot of bread. If that’s per annum, it’s 1.26 pounds of bread per day.

[PGR88]

Turkey arrests bakers' union head for calling bread-eating societies 'stupid'

How did he become head of the bakers' union in the first place?

Next thing you know, we'll find out the Pope is a Communist.

Oh wait. Nevermind.

[moovova]

“Wait...isn’t this guy overseeing bread making activities? Confused.”

I know, right? This is almost as crazy as Pennsylvania electing FetterLump.

[Fiji Hill]

When I think of Turkish cuisine, meat dishes like shish kebab and döner kebab come to my mind. If any bread is involved, it would be pita bread.

[chajin]

It’s the yeast he could do

[Fido969]

This is the kind of stupid stuff I see in supermarkets now. "Plant based" crackers? No s***, Sherlock.