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1. Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think: (thatguyoverthere@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Mar-2023 06:32:13 JST Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think:

   @realcaseyrollins sorry I do get the joke I just think that the culture of accepting racial digs against evil whitey and calling everything else bigotry is tiresome. If jokes could flow in both directions it would be funnier.

   Most people in America eat trash 80% of the time, regardless of race. Those who are actually cooking their own food probably season it, regardless of race.

   The thing about curry rings true for a lot of Americans. Most can’t handle the heat Indian curry can bring. Most people aren’t talking exclusively about heat when they are talking about seasoning/spices though.

   Jokes and memes about colonizers’ bland-ass food resonate, and not because of their originality or comedic genius; implicit in those quips is a declaration of allegiance with people whose ancestral lands were once plundered by colonial powers for spices and other riches. This reversal in contemporary culinary clout is payback for all the decades, if not centuries, that our food and our flavors were once maligned as strange, smelly, alien, oily, and maybe even immoral.

   I will now say, I made some homemade mayonnaise this morning for egg salad. I didn’t put a ton of it in there, but I did use the ever so popular white people condiment mayo just today :smirk:

   • Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think: (thatguyoverthere@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Mar-2023 06:44:47 JST Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think:

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     • Hyolobrika
     @Hyolobrika @realcaseyrollins sure here they do sometimes. Sometimes you get the wrench when you crack a joke haha... the discussion originated from a tiktok trend and to a broader cultural meme that a good ally will laugh at. Honestly I don't care other than I don't find it particularly amusing. I know my own spice cabinet and culinary habits make this is a categorical meme that I can't identify with as a white person, and I don't think I'm particularly unique in that regard. Also as the article explained it is implicit that if you are white and use spice it's because your ancestors stole them from someone. How does it not get boring?
   • hyolobrika@berserker.town's status on Tuesday, 28-Mar-2023 06:44:48 JST Hyolobrika

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     @thatguyoverthere @realcaseyrollins Jokes do flow in both directions. This is fedi, remember?

   • Ademan (ademan@thebag.social)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Mar-2023 07:12:10 JST Ademan

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     I love Indian food, ordered “Indian spicy” but I have to clear my schedule for the next day…

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   • Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think: (thatguyoverthere@shitposter.club)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Mar-2023 07:12:50 JST Disinformation Purveyor :verified_think:

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     • Ademan
     @ademan @realcaseyrollins I am always amused that in America you need to double tap confirm for spicy at Indian restaurants.
   • hyolobrika@berserker.town's status on Tuesday, 28-Mar-2023 07:16:07 JST Hyolobrika

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     @thatguyoverthere @realcaseyrollins Wrenches are a part of life.

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   • fu (fu@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 16-May-2023 00:35:33 JST fu

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     @thatguyoverthere @realcaseyrollins to parashprase the great George Carlin: historically humor has always been used to inform about the case of the powerful, it only becomes a problem when it is used by the powerful to bring down those have been overcoming powerlessness.
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