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"Make sure there's no black people depicted in the media by banning blackface". If only there was a way to buy ethnic food made by people from the culture and not a house brand with a white dude playing dress up.

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I worry you haven't thought through the full implications of this stance. You're proposing a rule that some grocery stores are specifically white grocery stores and shouldn't sell my culture's food; I can't think of many things that would make me feel more excluded.

There's no need to play dress up with a fake name from your culture in order to sell food from your culture. (Also, Trader Joe's "imports" aren't food from your culture, they are cheap knockoffs.)

My wife is Vietnamese, my best friend’s wife is Mexican (from Mexico), and both of them thought the Trader Joe’s decision to remove them was really dumb and have no problem with “Trader Jose”, etc. My friend’s wife and her family were posting memes making fun of it on their socials. I don’t think the American woke left knows what’s in the mind of every minority.

FYI, Trader Joe’s is keeping the packaging as-is. They are not removing Trader Jose’s.

Yes, but NYT's original article said they were removing them.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/19/business/trader-joes-peti...

> aren't food from your culture, they are cheap knockoffs

Tons of stuff in a grocery store are "cheap knockoffs", are you seriously proposing that there should be zero ethnic food unless it is 100% authentic and expensive?

And you don't realize just how exclusionary you are being?

It's like people don't actually care about minorities, about what minorities actually want, they only care about appearing to care.

Basically anything not PDO[1] would be "cheap knock off". Spaghetti, nope, not unless it's imported Italian. Dates, only if they're Persian/Iranian. Tacos --would e have to import all the ingredients? What is a "Hamburger" or a "Burrito" are they German and Mexican or are they American given they were invented here? It's ridiculous stance. No Japanese curry in Japan, No Tempura in Japan (derived from foreign influence)...

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographical_indications_and_t...

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