Except the people initially reacting to it had no prior knowledge that the slur is in the game.

How is “umami” pretentious?

How many times do they have to say “umami” to make you go back into the mirror, though? 

A sandwich can benefit from textural contrast between elements. Consider different textures such juicy, creamy, tender, crunchy, crispy, and chewy.

Why assume going in that the readers are already hostile to what you’re going to say

I like the tips in the article*, yet am bummed by the decision to say the audience for the article sucks at something. Was that necessary? Why assume going in that the readers are already hostile to what you’re going to say, and why would you think telling them they suck would make them more likely to listen to you?

I just don’t see why a judgement of the food itself is relevant. As a reader, it doesn’t matter to me in the same way that I don’t care about the author’s opinion of a Chik Fil A sandwich in an article about the owner’s donations to pray-the-gay-away organizations. The bigotry is the story here, not the Quakers…

I don't think the recipes are the point. She could make the best congee ever, but if she markets it in a way that paints the Asian origin of the dish as something to be removed, that's not okay. 

It’s not that hard. She’s co-opting a millennia-old dish and peddling it as some sort of homeopathic medicine. On top of that, she’s basically saying “I took out all that Asiany stuff, so it’s good enough for us white people now.”

Like rice cookers haven't had an overnight congee setting for decades!

You wanna do it at home, no problem.

Note to you: selling a food item from a different cultural background probably cool and fine. I’m sure some people will criticize you, but you’re running a food business and someone will always criticize you.

Another fun article Fahey, but I think we would be remiss if we didn’t mention that in The Darkness, the player is able to sit on a couch with their girlfriend and watch the ENTIRE 1962 film version of To Kill a Mockingbird. All 2 hours and 10 minutes of it. To my memory, such a strangely impressive feat has never…

To all of the “A cop smiled at me one time therefore systemic police brutality doesn’t exist” crowd you can save you faux outrage over the title. Yes, ACAB. No, we don’t need to have personal interractions with every cop in existence to know this. The institution of Police exists from top to bottom to enforce the will…

You’d weep at the first micro-aggression you’d face within an hour of your first shift of you ever tried to be a cop.

You can not be a cop and also point out the problems with the police system. Not sure why you think they’re mutually exclusive. Why so defensive?

Cops are not an identity group, they’re a profession. It is impossible to commit a “micro-aggression” against someone for being a fucking cop. They have made a choice to become instruments of state violence and racist oppression and deserve all the scorn and mockery that they get for that.

I don’t need to engage with all of them, for exactly the reason I stated. If you’re going to argue, at least pretend to be paying attention.  I’ll repeat.  Try to keep up this time.

Yes, all of them. You can’t participate in an institution that is systemically corrupt and discriminatory, and which exists to maintain a corrupt power structure and then turn around and claim to have clean hands. Even the ones you would call “the good ones” protect the bad ones and they system that empowers them, and…

oh I like vegan food, I just have been listening to a lot of black activists lately who have some issues with how much they’ve been pushed out of the narrative, and how to practice it with being mindful of that. It’s also due to the fact that “vegan” had existed forever, but then a white man came and named it that.…