Does this crap end, or does it???
Two Canadians founded a boba tea company. Then the “anti-racist” mob came for them.
It all began when Sébastien Fiset and Jessica Frenette, a couple of Quebec entrepreneurs, started a bottled bubble tea brand called Bobba (officially Distribution Bobba Inc.) and then pitched their project last week on “Dragons’ Den,” which is essentially Canada’s equivalent of “Shark Tank.” Fiset and Frenette were seeking $1 million in exchange for 18 percent of the company.
They ended up getting much more than they bargained for: A pitchfork army banging down their door.
Full article, HERE from Town Hall.
So, even though they are working with people in Taiwan to make the product, since THEY aren’t Taiwanese, they are ‘charged’ with cultural appropriation by actor Simu Liu, who was a ‘guest’ on the show…
Should we be checking who owns ANY restaurant we walk into to make sure it’s ‘culturally correct’?
Or should we only eat foods that are ‘culturally correct’ for who we are? And what happens when you have a ‘mixed culture’ marriage? Say an Icelander married to a Hispanic? One eats only fish and the other only Mexican (not TexMex) foods?
What happened to the days when you were allowed to succeed on your OWN merits, regardless of what you were and what you were selling?
And able to eat or drank what you liked, regardless of where it comes from?
I used to deliver produce to restaurants and commercial kitchens. I can tell you with absolute certainty, your ethnic meal, whatever the origin of the recipe, is being prepared by a central or south american woman.
If anyone claims you are appropriating Minotaur culture, prove them right with a solid swing of that big axe! ♉
Simu Liu, a Canadian actor born in China, who played a South Korean in the TV show Kim’s Convenience. Talk about cultural appropriation.
If he was born in China, he’s Chinese, not Canadian. QED.
Call the cops, I watched and followed along with a YouTube video on how to make Uzbek-style plov, but I can’t find qazi (horse rib meat sausage) in my state so I used diced beef and lamb, and although I thought I had most of the spices mentioned in the video, I probably didn’t get the *exact* same proportions as the guy in the video.
To whom do I pay reparations?
Meanwhile no one except French Canadians are allowed to bake tourtière. “Where does it end?” It ends when larger groups of people just do what they want, make what they want, adjust to their own preferences, add their own inventiveneess. It ends when you take a mirror to the left’s bromide “if you don’t like abortion, don’t get one” and tell them “if you don’t like the way I make boba tea, you don’t have to buy it.” But you have to throw the abortion platitude back at them first, so they understand you’re using their own rule against them. Alinsky Rule #4: “Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.”
The Left only has one rule: unconditional victory. Everything else is tactics and strategy, only useful while it’s working.
You’re racist no matter how you play it. Just eat what you like.
Whoever invented the term “cultural appropriation” needs to join a few select others on a deserted island where they can form their own negative society.
And by the way, I have a delivery coming tomorrow — 5 pounds of boudin and 12 Links of smoked pork sausage. Can’t afford the shipping very often, but when the withdrawal happens, … Culture and all that. 🙂
Hear me out, we could just eat the “cultural appropriation” and display their skulls as trophies! That is a practice that can be found in all cultures if you dig back far enough. So it is appropriate.
Damn, maybe I should stop making curry–my only Indian blood is feather, not dot.
Nah, screw ’em. I’ll eat what I like.
All- Agreed! Screw ‘em, we’ll do what we want! 🙂
‘Fiset and Frenette issued a social media statement Monday to “deeply apologize” for …’
And that’s where I stopped reading.
Once again, DO NOT APOLOGIZE WHEN YOU HAVE DONE NOTHING WRONG.
Is your business:
a) Legal
b) Offering a product or service customers want
c) Charging a price that will cover all your costs and make you a handsome profit
(d) All of the above
If you answered (d), then you are doing capitalism right, my friend, keep it up, great job!
Further, if someone in your store doesn’t want to buy your product or service, then they are a time-waster and not a customer. Show time-wasters the door with a quickness so you can spend time serving your actual customers who want to give you money.
Now if you get one of these grievance whores coming in and accusing you of all sorts of imaginary evil, tell them they’re trespassing and they must leave immediately. If they refuse or start to act up, call the police, and be willing to press charges.
You get more of what you tolerate, so stop putting up with stupid crap from time-wasters and grievance whores.
Thus endeth the lesson.
Ag- No question that is the right way to do it…but…
Leftists pull this crap because it usually succeeds. Simu Liu, being born in China, is automatically a leftist unless proven otherwise. The CCP doesn’t allow it’s subjects to leave the mainland unless they are good, cooperative commies. Ergo his opinion and statements are irrelevant. Treat him and his utterances accordingly.
The Chinese invented noodles. So does this mean that Italian restaurants should hand out fortune cookies “to ensure cultural integrity by properly acknowledging its origins”?