Girls make burritos, people say its racist. - Sensationalist Headlines

[url]http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/burrito-shop-closes-accusations-cultural-appropriation-article-1.3192942[/url] [quote]While the shop had already been opened for months, the May 16 profile prompted harsh critiques and editorials that further fanned the outcry. “Because of Portland’s underlying racism, the people who rightly own these traditions and cultures that exist are already treated poorly,” an article in the Portland Mercury reads. “These appropriating businesses are erasing and exploiting their already marginalized identities for the purpose of profit and praise.”[/quote] This is like the stupidest thing I've ready today. Apperentley White people aren't allowed to make food from other cultures without it being considered racist now. Kook Burrito has since been closed down amid this "controversy". [img]http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/258/721/c3a.jpg[/img] [img]http://i1.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/258/726/ea9.jpg[/img]

Better call up Rick Bayless and tell him to quit, I guess.

What a bunch of whiny entitled babies. Imagine spending all this time, money and effort to act against "cultural appropriation" by shoving a stick so far up your own ass that you're seeing red over a fucking restaurant. There's women literally being sentenced to death in the Middle East for being raped, there's women in Africa undergoing forced genital mutilations, there's homosexuals being actively persecuted in Chechnya, and this is the thing that people are up in arms about, a Portland burrito stand.

im offended by idiots misappropriating critiques of institutionalised racist practices and applying them to everything and anything, way to trivialise shit u dummies

You know it's white kids that are doing the complaining.

2017: Where being white and doing anything makes you the fucking devil.

the article being referred to: [url]http://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2017/05/22/19028161/this-week-in-appropriation-kooks-burritos-and-willamette-week[/url] I can't believe people like this actually exist The author is pretty racist herself: [media]https://twitter.com/BasicBlaecGirl/status/865012327254380545[/media]

imagine having something you put so much time, money, and effort into that garnered a sizable following of devout customers and the like having to close down all because some pasty easily offended middle-class starbucks-drinking gastropub-going selfie-snapping shithead complains that since your white you can't run an establishment that sells tex-mex cuisine and that its somehow racist. amazing

Most of the time when these people cry out "cultural appropriation" they're just prominently displaying their segregationist attitudes (because obviously being pro-segregation is okay when they do it :rolleyes: ). The only time cultural appropriation is legitimate is when people are taking sacred items and general aspects of a culture and defiling it/making a mockery of it.

I love how the so called progressives have become the biggest proponents of segregation.

[QUOTE=Perrine;52276174]the article being referred to: [url]http://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2017/05/22/19028161/this-week-in-appropriation-kooks-burritos-and-willamette-week[/url] I can't believe people like this actually exist The author is pretty racist herself: [media]https://twitter.com/BasicBlaecGirl/status/865012327254380545[/media][/QUOTE] I kinda get what they're getting at... Serruptitiously sneaking around and trying to get the recipes (intellectual property) of people who do not wish to disclose them, who are currently selling those foods? Yeah, that's pretty fucked up regardless of race. [editline]26th May 2017[/editline] This is the most Portland story I ever read, though. It's like a sketch out of Portlandia.

I looked at that twitter and I'm fairly sure it's run by a troll. What a shame

[QUOTE=SGTNAPALM;52276192]I kinda get what they're getting at... Serruptitiously sneaking around and trying to get the recipes (intellectual property) of people who do not wish to disclose them, who are currently selling those foods? Yeah, that's pretty fucked up regardless of race.[/QUOTE] It's this but worse. It's not an IP issue, it's a literal class issue. Instead of breaking down the ole' evil patent troll, the people the owners are picking on is Mexicans, who, in the states, are typically poor and meager. The worry that people have in this story is that there are Mexican restaurants in Portland, but this one who white-ified the food is more popular. Mexicans are poor in the states, especially with the political climate; who are you to take their recipe and make a living on it, when you could make a living doing another job whereas Mexicans couldn't? Yes, the restaurant owners have all the rights in the world to make tacos. Just like I have all the rights in the world to pretend I'm homeless and bum change on a street corner. It doesn't make it right nor just. [url]http://www.portlandmercury.com/blogtown/2017/05/22/19028161/this-week-in-appropriation-kooks-burritos-and-willamette-week[/url] Even in this interview, they admit they went to California, stole recipes from old poor ladies, and went back to Portland. It's not their idea and not their business. Edit: The source above is super biased; only take from it the quoted interviews.

I wonder where Taco Bell falls into all of this. Honestly the fact that they're pointing out one small business over say Taco Bell really makes me question the motives of the people crying cultural appropriation. As if there were absolutely no other company out there using someone else's culture to bolster business.

Yeah seriously. Remember the talking Mexican chihuahua? The contest that cheekily awarded the payout in pesos? The consistent use of Spanish in slogans and advertising materials. List goes on for Taco Bell. And they have franchised it. If someone told me Taco Bell has hurt business for legitimate, family owned Mexican cuisine, I'd believe it, but a shop in Portland? Not to mention Taco Bell is a part of Pepsico and even offers at home cooking parts of their menu. I've had homemade taco bell brand. It's actually pretty good. They also have Doritos tacos and Mtn Dew flavors only at Taco Bell due to being owned by Pepsico, something they automatically have over every Mexican restaurant, others simply cannot make those things legally.

[QUOTE=F.X Clampazzo;52276164][B]There's women literally being sentenced to death in the Middle East for being raped, there's women in Africa undergoing forced genital mutilations, there's homosexuals being actively persecuted in Chechnya[/B], and this is the thing that people are up in arms about, a Portland burrito stand.[/QUOTE] Yeah but we need to respect those countries' cultures. /s lgbt people only seem to be protected when we're targeted by christianity. Otherwise, to the left we're fair game.

This cultural appropriation shit on someone else's behalf is never actually used in real situations where people are too chickenshit to call it out. I still remember when someone in my friends circle wore a bindi because she had an Indian roommate and she thought they were awesome (she was also learning how to wear a sari because why not :v:). The rest of the Indian folks were very amused and were kinda happy in a "Hey, that's nice, that white girl has a bindi, that's kinda adorable - glad she likes it!" But holy fuck, someone else in the group went full ham on her [I]claiming to be on our fucking behalf[/I], saying she should be ashamed of cultural appropriation like this. She made that poor girl feel one inch tall. :frown: We told her to calm the fuck down and that we honestly weren't offended (quite the opposite), and she called us "self loathing Indians". We: :what: :speechless:

"Cultural isolationism and complete segregation is the best!" Idiots.

[QUOTE=Booker K;52276331]Pretty much every Taco Bell I've been to the majority of workers are typically white, and nobody bats an eye about it. I'm as baffled as to why they would target a single business over culture appropriation while there are plenty of other larger franchises who sell food originating from a culture that differs from their ethnicity.[/QUOTE] It's easier to target a small business that isn't a massive franchise than an actual big one, aka spineless assholes.

[quote]Following the WW’s article, one commenter said: “Now that you all boldly and pretty fucking unapologetically stole the basis of these women's livelihoods, you can make their exact same product so other white ppl don't have to be inconvenienced of dealing with a pesky brown middle woman getting in their way. Great job.”[/quote] Something tells me a person stopping off for lunch in Portland isn't taking business away from some people making them down in Mexico. Also this feels like such a contradiction [quote]Now don’t get me wrong:[B] cultural customs are meant to be shared[/B]. However, that’s not what happens in this city. Because of Portland’s underlying racism, the people who rightly own these traditions and cultures that exist are already treated poorly. These appropriating businesses [B] are erasing and exploiting their already marginalized identities for the purpose of profit and praise. [/B][/quote] So it's alright to share culture, but if you then do anything with that shared culture that's bad? :s: If people get this mad about people making food outside their culture, I sure hope they don't find out about fusion cuisine.

Would cooking instant noodles and eating them off a bowl with chopsticks be considered cultural appropriation of Asian culture then?

Isn't it the biggest compliment and sign of acceptance when another culture uses elements from another? If their burrito shop gets really popular, it only means customers will visit more Mexican restaurants in the future.

[IMG]http://cdn.smosh.com/sites/default/files/ftpuploads/bloguploads/hack-ramen-cream-chicken.jpg[/IMG] Is this racist? I am white am I allowed to make this and eat it?

[QUOTE=skylortrexle;52276406][IMG]http://cdn.smosh.com/sites/default/files/ftpuploads/bloguploads/hack-ramen-cream-chicken.jpg[/IMG] Is this racist? I am white am I allowed to make this and eat it?[/QUOTE] Just stick with milk and milk products to be sure, other races are mostly lactose intolerant and can't touch you.

[QUOTE=Sumap;52276393]Something tells me a person stopping off for lunch in Portland isn't taking business away from some people making them down in Mexico. Also this feels like such a contradiction So it's alright to share culture, but if you then do anything with that shared culture that's bad? :s: If people get this mad about people making food outside their culture, I sure hope they don't find out about fusion cuisine.[/QUOTE] If we wanted to use that argument, all those hippies doing yoga exercises would be also guilty of the same thing they're accusing others of, considering that yoga is an Indian thing, also done by poor people who don't appear to be getting any of that sweet money Yoga instructors seem to rake in. But hey, let's go after some folks making a nice burrito because easy target. What a bunch of idiots. [editline]26th May 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=AntonioR;52276418]Just stick with milk and milk products to be sure, other races are mostly lactose intolerant and can't touch you.[/QUOTE] We shall fart in your general direction by way of protest.

[QUOTE=carcarcargo;52276185]I love how the so called progressives have become the biggest proponents of segregation.[/QUOTE] dont use this against progressives. I'm progressive and I don't get behind this. People who say this is racist are fucking idiots. Cultural mixing is 100% natural and human. Fuck the people who say this kind of shit. They want to stop integration between cultures thats downright absurd. Please don't think this is a progressive (or Progressive) attitude.

[QUOTE=carcarcargo;52276185]I love how the so called progressives have become the biggest proponents of segregation.[/QUOTE] Well that's what happens when you divy the world up into marxist classes based on race. They can't mingle 'cause everything's a power game and there's no such thing as diologue. If you tried to write some sort of cautionary tale with these people as your antagonists, you'd be called out for writing cartoonishly obvious morales/villians. But here we fucking are. [URL="http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/05/08/harvard-students-plan-graduation-ceremony-for-blacks-only-claim-its-not-about-segregation/"]Where segregation is the solution to racism[/URL], yeehaw. [QUOTE=snookypookums;52276315] We told her to calm the fuck down and that we honestly weren't offended (quite the opposite), and she called us "self loathing Indians". [/QUOTE] Well yeah, because that makes you a class traitor obviously.

[QUOTE=mdeceiver79;52276507]dont use this against progressives. I'm progressive and I don't get behind this. People who say this is racist are fucking idiots. Cultural mixing is 100% natural and human. Fuck the people who say this kind of shit. They want to stop integration between cultures thats downright absurd. Please don't think this is a progressive (or Progressive) attitude.[/QUOTE] Hence "so called". I just used a word to describe these specific types of people. If I'd used leftwingers, someone would have freaked out, if I'd used SJWs someone would have freaked out, so I just went with progressives.

[QUOTE=carcarcargo;52276512]Hence "so called". I just used a word to describe these specific types of people. If I'd used leftwingers, someone would have freaked out, if I'd used SJWs someone would have freaked out, so I just went with progressives.[/QUOTE] just call em what they are. foolios.

[QUOTE=Sumap;52276393]Something tells me a person stopping off for lunch in Portland isn't taking business away from some people making them down in Mexico.[/QUOTE] The people originally making them in question are Portland area.