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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMore 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.
Clash City Rocker
(3,396 posts)That news is going to upset my friends Jose and Ming, who probably didnt realize they were racist because of their names.
msongs
(67,395 posts)skypilot
(8,853 posts)...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.