How exactly are black athletes at your school being systematically oppressed when they are receiving 70% of your football scholarships? Doesn’t sound very oppressive to me?

How about the athletes take a look in the mirror and clean thier own house. Mizzu has one of the worst rates of criminal activity in athletic dept in the whole of NCAA.

Do you ever write about anything else?

What? White people don’t in any way shun the foods on this list.

Yawn, I thought this would actually be about things that most people didn’t know about. And what’s with all the white bashing lately? I mean I’m white and I’m against colonialism, imperialism, and oppressing people but it’s getting to be like hate speech.

Yeah. Seriously, why do some folks think that when you say, “Hey, I found this awesome restaurant!” you mean, “Hey, I am definitely 100% the first person to find this restaurant before anyone else!”

Why do people take so much umbrage over the word “discovery”? Discovery can mean “it is new to me”... how is this taking credit for something? To take the Columbus example, if Columbus’ trip represents Europe finding out about a continent they didn’t know about before, why shouldn’t they call it ‘discovery’? I think…

I’ll admit I’m a little confused - the article started great with me thinking I’d maybe learn something, but ended with me going “Well... I don’t think Vanessa Hudgens claimed to have discovered Bindis...”

I remember around the time Selena Gomez released that one song “come and get it” I explained the situation to and subsequently asked a bunch of Indian women if they were offended by her wearing a bindi. They all said no! I can’t quite remember their exact reasoning but a lot of it was like “so?”. I think because it…

Question: do we really think that these people think these things are truly “new”? I mean, as a white woman, I cringe at all these examples because I try really hard to fully appreciate the long history and tradition around these “new-to-me” cultural items. The fact that someone would think that pho is “new” is…

How dare white people do anything.

You were not alive in the 70’s.

... I got sucked into a post about Columbusing expecting something enlightening. Instead, I got... “White People Do This Shit And I’m Mad About It”.

I do not see a solid example of Columbusing in any of this. You are listing off a variety of things that the average person of average intelligence knows was imported in…

I’ma have to defend “whitey” again and stand up for French, Italian, Spanish, and Greek food (in that order). Although, in my book, nothing will everrrr compare to Thai.

Yeah! So...just like. You know. Eat exactly only anything you were raised on and can source exactly to your particular intersection of ethnicities and *appropriate*! cultural influences. Or, you know. You’d better have your kneepads on so you can genuflect appropriately while reading your 32 page list of sources…

Columbus was an ignorant asshole, true, but this article is just an excuse to whine.

The Egyptians didn’t build the pyramids or most of Egypt then. Though I am sure slavery existed before them, the Egyptians are the first documented slave holders in human civilization.

The fact that Elvis Presley is considered the “King of Rock and Roll” tells you just about everything you need to know.

Pretty certain nobody claimed to invent those things.

Thank you for pointing out that Elvis gave credit where credit was due, unlike a lot of others (the Stones were also good at giving credit).