OR - SJWs close white women's burrito shop

[RJB]

Cilantro's flavor reminds me of that taste when I get hit on the head really hard.

[Brian4Liberty]

The SJW literary diarrhea:

This Week in Appropriation: Kooks Burritos and Willamette Week
By Jagger Blaec • May 22, 2017

Portland has an appropriation problem.

This week in white nonsense, two white women—Kali Wilgus and Liz “LC” Connely—decided it would be cute to open a food truck after a fateful excursion to Mexico. There’s really nothing special about opening a Mexican restaurant—it’s probably something that happens everyday. But the owners of Kooks Burritos all but admitted in an interview with Willamette Week that they colonized this style of food when they decided to “pick the brains of every tortilla lady there in the worst broken Spanish ever.”
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So let’s recap the story thus far: These two white women went to Mexico, ate tacos, and then decided they would just take what the locals clearly didn't want to give them. If that wasn't bad enough, they decided to pack up all their stolen intellectual property and repackage it in one of the few places where such a business could plausibly work: Portland, Oregon.
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Week after week people of color in Portland bear witness to the hijacking of their cultures, and an identifiable pattern of appropriation has been created. Several of the most successful businesses in this town have been birthed as a result of curious white people going to a foreign country, or an international venture, and poaching as many trade secrets, customs, recipes as possible, and then coming back to Portland to claim it as their own and score a tidy profit. Now don’t get me wrong: cultural customs are meant to be shared. 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 are erasing and exploiting their already marginalized identities for the purpose of profit and praise.

People of color are nothing more than an afterthought when the white perpetrators of this tradition continue to do this on a regular basis. While Portland is supposedly a progressive place, super liberal white people usually only have other super white liberal people to answer to—which means this cycle of cultural appropriation will never end until people of color call attention to it.
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Immediately after the fury continued online, a different resource emerged and quickly went viral: a Google doc showing exactly how prevalent this epidemic is. The list titled “White-Owned Appropriative Restaurants in Portland” provides a who’s who of culinary white supremacy.

An introduction to the document begins by saying, “This is NOT about cooking at home or historical influences on cuisines; it's about profit, ownership, and wealth in a white supremacist culture.”
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More: http://www.portlandmercury.com/blogt...illamette-week

[tod evans]

Immediately after the fury continued online, a different resource emerged and quickly went viral: a Google doc showing exactly how prevalent this epidemic is. The list titled “White-Owned Appropriative Restaurants in Portland” provides a who’s who of culinary white supremacy.

If I ever get back to Portland I'll be sure to patronize as many as I can, and tip well too...

[specsaregood]

If I ever get back to Portland I'll be sure to patronize as many as I can, and tip well too...

Exactly my point last page, you are not alone!

[PierzStyx]

German restaurants.

There go all the hot dogs.

[PierzStyx]

The SJW literary diarrhea:

From the comments:

That list of "white-owned" businesses and the nearest "POC"-owned alternatives is so crazy--and they didn't even get it right. The idiots who put Bison Coffeehouse as "Indonesian"(it's owned by Native Americans) and don't know the difference between ramen and Korean BBQ and Japanese and Chinese food or between Chilean/Argentinan food, Peruvian, or Brazillian food should be ashamed of their cultural ignorance. They have BORC on the list, but it's mostly just British dishes with maybe one or two Indian or Burmese influenced dishes(that became standard dishes in the UK over a century ago)

Also, the Alibi Tiki Bar is a kitschy historical bar from a past cocktail era--there's no real attempt to claim that they're authentically Polynesian, and only an idiot would think that the Hawaiian-styled Poke Mon is a similar establishment. Dear lord, what a bunch of morons.

Another;

So hopefully you're getting the idea here, dear author, that maybe your reasoning is specious, and your glee about this is misplaced. But let me be specific:
-After you actually described someone cooking the cuisine of another place as "colonization of food," you even less believably went to "This is where things go from quirky to predatory," in describing their efforts to find out why this food tasted the way it did.
I'm pretty sure that under this ideological purity test, the only thing these two women could do that would be acceptable to you would be to uproot these women from Mexico and give them a food cart in Portland. This is problematic for lots of reasons, and not just practicality.

-You then managed to misuse the term "intellectual property." I like tortillas too, but I know they aren't anyone's property, intellectual or otherwise. You later -halfheartedly- note that all cuisine is borrowed at least, but for some reason you continue to describe this particular venture as genocidal, somehow.
For instance, you also describe the recipe as 'stolen.' No, you can't steal this sort of thing: people already know how to make tortillas. And the Mexican women were good enough to tell these Americans what goes into making a tortilla, but stopped short of explaining how to make one, assuming they -like many others- could figure it out.

-There's lots of "well, I'm not sure that's true" moments in here, but my favorite is the whole part about "this cycle of cultural appropriation will never end until people of color call attention to it."
Yeah? What if they do it poorly? With bad reasoning and sloganeering rather than marshalling decent argument with good examples? What if all they traffic in is $#@!ty generalizations and blanket statements? I dunno: what exactly is an acceptable response to your critique, actually? Does Andy Ricker need to import only Vietnamese chefs? Or is it okay for people everywhere to cook everything, and make money? How about a suggestion from you as to what would make it right?

But based on your entire approach here, I'm pretty sure you'd rather talk $#@! about something much more rooted in capitalism than in someone's malevolent approach to other cultures, because you don't know the $#@!ing difference. So I'm asking again: under your strictures, what is an acceptable food for white people to make and market, other than -say- Velveeta and Miracle Whip on Wonder Bread?

And hey: if there's a Korean family that opens up a place that sells pot roast and creamed tuna on biscuits, can I be outraged? Seriously, be coherent about this.

Even the Blue Leftists recognize that the argument is stupid:

Although white business owners arguably enjoy economic advantages over POC business owners, I personally don't believe in completely boycotting their businesses if they are kicking ass at what they do, especially in a white-dominant part of the world like Portland where it is statistically more likely for a business owner to be white. After all, do we really want to segregate culture?

Besides, many "white-owned businesses" are supporting the country of origin through their sales of imported goods; take for example the sale of fair-trade artisanal mezcal that directly supports the palenqueros of México, keeping them from having to abandon their farms and distilleries in order to immigrate to metropolitan areas for arbitrary labor.

Instead of focusing on negativity, why not make a conscious effort to spread the love and support POC-owned alternatives that you most likely haven't heard of (because of those economic disadvantages).

[otherone]

Next time you eat goat cheese, start chewing it up, then open your mouth, and breathe in and out slightly. It tastes like a petting zoo.

I never tasted a petting zoo. You must have some stories to tell.

[dannno]

I never tasted a petting zoo. You must have some stories to tell.

Try it some time, you will see what I mean.

[Anti Federalist]

So I'm asking again: under your strictures, what is an acceptable food for white people to make and market, other than -say- Velveeta and Miracle Whip on Wonder Bread?

I know this author is trying to defend the Burrito Broads, but, $#@! that too.

Some of the very best cooking in the world, the very best recipes, the very concept of haute cuisine itself, is white, western European sourced.

This is a meal, as opposed to a paper plate of re-fried sick, sold off a roach coach:

[specsaregood]

I know this author is trying to defend the Burrito Broads, but, $#@! that too.

Some of the very best cooking in the world, the very best recipes, the very concept of haute cuisine itself, is white, western European sourced.

This is a meal, as opposed to a paper plate of re-fried sick, sold off a roach coach:

I had a burger tonight topped with pulled pork, sunnyside up egg, bacon, bbq sauce and garlic aoli. Served with a IPA. If these are white people's food i'll pass on the burrito as well.

[tod evans]

I'll see your roast and raise a rib.......

[Swordsmyth]

I know this author is trying to defend the Burrito Broads, but, $#@! that too.

Some of the very best cooking in the world, the very best recipes, the very concept of haute cuisine itself, is white, western European sourced.

This is a meal, as opposed to a paper plate of re-fried sick, sold off a roach coach:

I'll see your roast and raise a rib.......

[GunnyFreedom]

Looks like a handful of re-fried sick.

Whadya expect from a damn yankee? ;D

[Anti Federalist]

I had a burger tonight topped with pulled pork, sunnyside up egg, bacon, bbq sauce and garlic aoli. Served with a IPA. If these are white people's food i'll pass on the burrito as well.

Man, that sounds good.

I cooked for the crew tonight: pan seared veal tenderloins, dirty rice, brussel sprouts and a key lime pie dessert.

[Anti Federalist]

Whadya expect from a damn yankee? ;D

LOL, I can almost always count on drawing somebody out when I start bashing Mexican food.

How are ya brother, long time no see.

[GunnyFreedom]

LOL, I can almost always count on drawing somebody out when I start bashing Mexican food.

How are ya brother, long time no see.

Chicken and waffles is a lot of things, Mexican it is not.

Doing well, hope you are. Randomly busy and slow, it's driving me batty.

[specsaregood]

Man, that sounds good.

It was the burger of the day at our weekly brewpub and it was so damn indulgent I couldn't pass it up.

[Anti Federalist]

Doing well, hope you are. Randomly busy and slow, it's driving me batty.

I hear you...my line of work is in a death spiral right now, but the family are all OK.

Spoke briefly to Larry Lepard via text the other day, he's doing well also.

[Anti Federalist]

BET: Katy Perry Latest ‘White Pop Act’ to Appropriate ‘Black Urban Culture’

http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywo...urban-culture/

[phill4paul]

Man, that sounds good.

I cooked for the crew tonight: pan seared veal tenderloins, dirty rice, brussel sprouts and a key lime pie dessert.

Brussel sprouts? I'd mutiny.

[Anti Federalist]

Brussel sprouts? I'd mutiny.

You don't like the baby cabbages?

[Swordsmyth]

You don't like the baby cabbages?

Maybe he doesn't like ANY vegetables.

[phill4paul]

You don't like the baby cabbages?

If god had meant for seafaring folk to eat greens he would have drained the oceans.

[Swordsmyth]

If god had meant for seafaring folk to eat greens he would have drained the oceans.

He meant for them to eat limes.

[phill4paul]

He meant for them to eat limes.

Key lime is fine. It's not a "green." Excepting, perhaps, in color.

[Anti Federalist]

If god had meant for seafaring folk to eat greens he would have drained the oceans.

LOL

[Danke]

Injuns have culturally appropriated our casinos.

[Natural Citizen]

Edit- nm.

[DGambler]

I know it is.... my son was told to write a paper on why Obama is such a great president. Said he got a bad grade on that paper too.

I did a paper on black on white racism, cited and everything, thought the teacher was going to kill me... Gave me an F and I got a talking to. This was in 95.