tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977625681756554695.post8241269431806605905..comments2024-03-26T13:46:42.738-05:00Comments on 4 Quarters, 10 Dimes: Hush, the Games Are OnDavidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03463621516644789183noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977625681756554695.post-22521361887720934102014-02-09T22:45:35.946-06:002014-02-09T22:45:35.946-06:00Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat...Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent.<br /> -EpictetusDavidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03463621516644789183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977625681756554695.post-73496255545002339762014-02-09T13:42:26.709-06:002014-02-09T13:42:26.709-06:00A private school somewhere had to issue apologies ...A private school somewhere had to issue apologies for having put that on their school menu. I wondered whether they'd have to do the same if they served Italian or Chinese or Mexican.Lee Ihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15721969338069074639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977625681756554695.post-87749325843187712022014-02-09T10:36:46.396-06:002014-02-09T10:36:46.396-06:00Well, personally I like fried chicken, cornbread a...Well, personally I like fried chicken, cornbread and watermelon, but whether it could be construed as racism would depend on the intent of the server, I suppose.<br /><br />It could be hard racism ("Those people only eat that" or "That's all they deserve") and you hear that particular meal used as a racist putdown fairly often by the sorts of folks who think it counts as being clever. Often the same people who make comments on news stories, alas.<br /><br />It could be soft racism of people just trying to be helpful ("What shall we serve them? Oh, they all like that - let's make that").<br /><br />Or it could simply be people who like that meal, in which case it's not racist at all. Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03463621516644789183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977625681756554695.post-59516743903353076992014-02-09T03:14:36.414-06:002014-02-09T03:14:36.414-06:00Oh, thank you so much for this. I generally think ...Oh, thank you so much for this. I generally think I'll not be interested in watching Olympics, but I find myself sucked in, although I turned off ice skating late tonight. I may be the one person in the world who finds it boring. My grandkids are boarders, skate, surf, snow, so I'm finding slopestyle awesome. <br /><br />Would you care to comment whether serving a school lunch of fried chicken, cornbread and watermelon is a racial slur? My English and Scandinavian relatives served this all the time and it sounds good to me. (This came up in the same comment stream as the Olympics.)Lee Ihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15721969338069074639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5977625681756554695.post-30673560030304568772014-02-08T23:35:07.296-06:002014-02-08T23:35:07.296-06:00Absotudinally!
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