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grumpyduck

(6,232 posts)
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 07:29 PM Aug 2020

More MSM stuff about Trader Joe's.

Just saw this in a Bay Area online news source:

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/If-you-re-in-love-with-Trader-Joe-s-its-stances-15460721.php

More controversy-peddling from the MSM. It sells ad time.

The one -- the one -- take-away I got from this article is that you can't please everyone. It says the petition had about 5,000 responses. We don't know who these people were, or whether they were customers or knew anything about TJ's, or whether they even read the full petition, or how many did not sign it or did not agree with it. As usual, we are being fed a small portion of the story, tilted towards creating controversy for the purpose of selling ad time. If there are real facts there, MSM, then publish them.

The petition said that people from these other cultures were being marginalized, or words to that effect. AFAIC, no one would think in terms of those labels "marginalizing" people from these other cultures unless they already thought these people were somehow inferior. We talk all the time about 45 projecting his faults on others, and, IMHO, that petition was an exercise in projection.

And did anyone bother to ask lots of people from these other cultures -- TJ's customers and otherwise -- how they felt about it? Do some real research instead of just spouting an opinion? If anyone's voice should be heard, I believe it should be theirs. I don't know if anyone bothered, but I would venture to say probably not.

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More MSM stuff about Trader Joe's. (Original Post) grumpyduck Aug 2020 OP
Wait, the names Jose and Ming are racist now? Clash City Rocker Aug 2020 #1
does the TJ name denigrate all traders and people named joe? nt msongs Aug 2020 #2
I am glad that they decided... skypilot Aug 2020 #3

Clash City Rocker

(3,396 posts)
1. Wait, the names Jose and Ming are racist now?
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 07:47 PM
Aug 2020

That news is going to upset my friends Jose and Ming, who probably didn’t realize they were racist because of their names.

skypilot

(8,853 posts)
3. I am glad that they decided...
Wed Aug 5, 2020, 08:22 PM
Aug 2020

...to ignore that petition. It was overwrought nonsense. In order to avoid "exoticizing" other cultures they would have to either not carry any ethnic products or put the name Trader JOE on every product no matter what ethnicity it represented. I don't see how those are better options.

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