Should she actually exist and not be a sockpuppet account, it seems like she should first talk to people of color and more thoroughly examine the situation before jumping to the worst conclusion and calling it racism. I am not sure the claim is wrong that these names are insensitive, but I am quite confident that it’s…

Call me crazy, but I find it a bit more offensive and racist that a white woman is telling us why this is racist. As a Mexican, I was calling stuff Trader Jose’s before I knew they labeled stuff that. How about she lets people who may actually be offended by it say something.

I honestly always had the same impression as you—- that there was a “Joe” in every culture (some guy making delicious, culturally significant foods) and they were recognizing that.

One hopes that the NY Times actually spoke with the person behind it before writing a story, though that may be a vain hope.

But demanding that companies make symbolic gestures is so much easier than effecting systemic change, you see.

After seeing this pop up in multiple places and reading that Trader Joe’s was already changing the packaging (and I don’t think I’ve ever encountered any of the variants), I started to wonder if this was a hoax meant to make white people on the left look silly. After clicking around a bit, I see that the Twitter…

well there’s a trend among pretty much everyone in our nation where they confuse “having an opinion” with “being right.” 

I think I said something similar around here last week, but I don’t think it is possible to appease somebody who creates a change.org petition.

I always thought opposite, that it was inclusion? Someone please explain to me like I am 5...

Not saying that this teenage white woman is wrong, but maybe there are more important things to put your energy into right now.

Huh? if anything, I would think of it as them not having a white savior complex about foreign foods, or making it seem like “Joe” discovered them. I always saw the random little characters as a way of saying there are “Joes” in every culture.

Bedell remains unappeased. “There’s an abundance of products in their stores,” she told The New York Times, “and I think it’s still important — the petition remains important — because Trader Joe’s lacks the urgency needed in the current climate to remedy the issue.”

There seems to be an alarming trend among our nation’s youth where they confuse the verbosity of their argument with the veracity of their argument.

True, but look at that list - there are plenty of occupations on there that also have a high incidence of undocumented workers, including: roofers, maintenance workers, woodworking machine operators, and perhaps a few others. They also mention agriculture, but speak more to manager-level positions.

I had to look up the moldy jam story (barf) and read a laundry list of food safety violations. Say what you will about processed food, but processed is right there in the name. Fruit, much like meat, is prone to bacteria and mold. You can’t safely make large batches of jam without proper preservation techniques.

I am not surprised about the lack of investigative stories given that food journalism is written for people who like food and and readers who are more interested in the front of the house than the back.

Then we’re going to get commentary on how Leibowitz weeds out Black subjects and only photographs the lily-White. “Preeeeety convenient how her ‘dark, arty style’ only works with Whites...”

Obviously amateur opinion (that’s also extra-sensitive because we’re scrutinizing, and viewing it on a laptop screen that’s probably angled poorly rather than in its intended glossy context), but the weak gradient/back-lighting effect and maybe dark dress and “Vanity Fair” makes the whole composition look very flat…

Amateurs shouldn’t critique art.

FIN

When was the last time, some chubby male singer was deemed ‘attractive’ or ‘gorgeous AF’? Ah, it’s the ‘big and beautiful women’ vs ‘fat dude’ narrative.