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   From: dragon40@removeunseen.is   
      
   The owner of a burrito food cart in Portland has been driven out of   
   business by social justice warriors who accused the two white women who   
   run the business of "cultural appropriation."   
      
   Fox News:   
      
   Kali Wilgus and Liz “LC” Connelly, the two white women who started Kooks   
   earlier this year, have been accused of stealing their techniques from   
   the “tortilla ladies” of Puerto Nuevo, Mexico — because Connelly told   
   Willamette Week that they gathered their recipes and tortilla-making   
   processes during a holiday road-trip to the Baja California village.   
      
   "I picked the brains of every tortilla lady there in the worst broken   
   Spanish ever, and they showed me a little of what they did," she told the   
   site. "They told us the basic ingredients, and we saw them moving and   
   stretching the dough similar to how pizza makers do before rolling it out   
   with rolling pins.”   
      
   [/Fox]   
      
   In another age, the two women would be praised for their ingenuity.   
   Combining recipes and techniques is not "stealing" anything. In fact,   
   their creation was wholly original, using the best from several cooks to   
   develop a successful product.   
      
   [Fox]   
      
   Connelly then said she used a trial-and-error process to recreate a   
   tortilla with the same flavor and texture after returning to Portland.   
   She and Wilgus then opened their weekend pop-up inside a taco truck on SE   
   Cesar Estrada Chavez Boulevard, and began serving their Mexican-style   
   tortillas filled with California-inspired ingredients.   
      
   Though the eatery had been open for several months, the owners of Kooks   
   were only recently accused of cultural appropriation by The Portland   
   Mercury and Mic.com based on Connelly’s revelations.   
      
   "Because of Portland’s underlying racism, the people who rightly own   
   these traditions and cultures that exist are already treated poorly," The   
   Portland Mercury said, calling the closure of Kooks a "victory."   
      
   The article continues,"These appropriating businesses are erasing and   
   exploiting their already marginalized identities for the purpose of   
   profit and praise."   
      
   [/Fox]   
      
   Obviously, the SJW's have missed the point. All of American culture is   
   appropriated, if you define "culture" as that which is excellent in arts,   
   letters, manners, food, etc from a region, race, or country. America has   
   taken the best from each wave of immigrants who have come to our shores,   
   embraced it, adopted it as "American," and celebrated it. We do this   
   because America is a made up country with very little "culture" that can   
   be identified as our own.   
      
   This is the "melting pot" method of assimilation that has been completely   
   rejected by multi-culturalists because it takes the motto of the United   
   States to heart: "Out of many, one." The multi-culturalists can't stand   
   the idea of America being one country, looking instead to Balkanize our   
   people and split them into ethnic, racial, religious, and now sexual   
   minorities. The charge of "cultural appropriation" is just a logical   
   extension of their rationale - to absurd lengths, of course. But multi-   
   culturalism has its own logic and soon, a strict racial and ethnic code   
   will be enforced that divides America even more than it already is.   
      
   Source: http://bit.ly/2rUVOF8   
      
   Are you going to tolerate Marxist thugs in your community?   
      
   --   
   "The only people who can't recognize that our nation has a 'smug   
   liberal' problem are smug liberals." (David French)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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