In today’s world, if you are white and promoting another culture, then you are worse than Adolf Hitler, according to leftists.
Case in point, a young female entrepreneur is in trouble for starting a Chinese restaurant in New York City. That’s right. If you dare specialize in a cuisine other than your own culture’s, then you better be ready for the outrage mob to target you.
The Daily Wire has the story:
Activists have accused Arielle Haspel of being culturally insensitive for naming her restaurant “Lucky Lee’s” and for suggesting her food is conducive for those seeking so-called “clean eating.”
However, such criticisms don’t exactly hold up. For starters, the eatery is named after Haspel’s husband, whose first name is Lee. And as far as the young entrepreneur allegedly stereotyping Americanized Chinese food as greasy and unhealthy, the trendy concept of “clean eating” touches all cuisines, as noted at length by Haspel.
The website posted some interesting comments, most of those quite vulgar, especially from Sharon Su, a classical pianist:
“So a new Chinese restaurant is opening up in NYC and while I want SO BADLY to give it the benefit of the doubt, everything I’m finding out about it is making me go YIKES YIKES YIKES. I’m trying VERY HARD not to make assumptions, but I’d guess that the woman launching this is only used to American-style Chinese food which was crafted with high amounts of fat, sugar, and salt to appeal to American palates (which, btw, is not *THAT* bad for you!). I am *very doubtful* that she is familiar with the many varieties of traditional Chinese cooking. A lot of Chinese cooking philosophy is light-fat/no-sugar/light-salt, with the idea of letting your fresh ingredients shine (this whole ‘Chinese, but CLEAN!’ idea is so bad).
I’m also trying not to gnash my teeth at the name ‘Lucky Lee’s’ bc 1) this superficial understanding of luck and fortune in Asian culture is really common among non-Asian Americans for some reason and … ‘Lee’ is a surname spelling a lot of Asian immigrants chose when they came over (as opposed to ‘Li’ or ‘Le’) because adopting an American spelling was a way to minimize their Asian-ness and assimilate into a predominantly white American culture.”
That’s pretty bad.
Gordon Ramsay better watch out or the whiny Twitterati will get him!
The left is so tolerant that you’re not allowed to cook food they deem prohibited.
Nevada Smith says
But if a black person does it, then there is no outrage, The usual double standards and hypocrisy
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