Internet users have expressed bewilderment and amusement over a petition denouncing “racist” Trader Joe brands. The company has already admitted wrongdoing and claims it is in the process of discontinuing its “harmful” packaging.
The Change.org petition calls on the popular grocery chain in the US to remove the labels used for some of its ethnic food, claiming that the “racist” practice “perpetuates harmful stereotypes.”
The internet complaint listed “Trader Ming’s,” which is used to brand the chain’s Chinese food, and “Trader José,” the label used for Mexican foods, as examples of this purportedly inappropriate packaging policy.
Trader Joe’s name is itself racist, the petition argues, claiming that it was inspired by “the horrific legacy of trading companies as they exploited and enslaved the South Pacific in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.”
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These PC people need to get a real job. One can only hope they seriously overdo this crap and that the backlash is horrific.
ReplyDeletemy usual answer to sjw's decrying my lack of PCness is fuckoffanddieassholes.
DeleteWhen the inmates run the asylum it never ends well. Just ask Jack Nicholson.
ReplyDeleteDear god! Do you Americans have any balls left or has the entire country turned into birkenstock-wearing soy-boys?
ReplyDeleteThis is fucking getting out of hand. Why would Trader Joe's capitulate to these fucking assholes from The Change.org?
ReplyDeleteAnd with 2 weeks of the MSM agonizing over this and promoting it, the petition has a whopping 4,300 votes, while important topics (like a push to make Kobe Bryant the NBA logo) have millions.
ReplyDeleteYeah, that is, and should be the FIRST priority....
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While a bit pricey, some of their stuff was good, I'd shop there maybe once a month to pickup a few of the things we like.
ReplyDeleteAfter tge Rona, they started requiring masks to enter... so now someone else gets my money!
Bullying corporations to give millions of dollars directly or indirectly to the DNC all following an organized threat to boycott their products.
ReplyDeleteRacketeering: A racket, according to the current common and most general definition, is an organized criminal act or activity in which the criminal act or activity is some form of substantial business, or a way to earn illegal money either regularly, or briefly but repeatedly.
I used to buy my beer there because they had a private label brewed in Monroe, Wisconsin ('Sconnies know how to brew beer!) for $6 a 12 pack. But they became the first to stop accepting cash when the fake pandemic hit so I had to kick 'em to the curb. Fuck 'em.
ReplyDeleteI've been a customer of Trader Joe's for more than 20 years, and have patronized their stores in three states, (IL, MA & NH). I don't shop for everything there, but I do like and enjoy many of their "specialty" products. However ... they are a bunch of overly woke, lib-tard, sheepish moronic lily livered, namby-pamby, wussies who will bend if a mouse farts in their direction. I'm only surprised this shit didn't happen sooner than it did.
ReplyDeleteI'll still continue shopping there, and I may register a complaint with the store manager, not that my bitching will do any good.
I am thinking that this is a good tactic. We should start petitions to change the names of things too. New York/New York Times is named after a slave trader. Starbucks is culturally appropriating Italian culture. The Washington Post is named after a slave owner. CNN must have population based female and people of color representation in management roles. Watch the @$$holes squirm and dance.
ReplyDeleteJeremy P.
Now if they named a line of food after red necks, we wouldn't get pissed and mad, we would proudly buy that food. Red Neck brand beer? Fuck yea.
ReplyDeleteI once bought a rotisserie chicken at TJ. The cashier, pink and purple hair and pierced nose, took one look at the package of chicken and cried, saying "Oh the poor thing!".
ReplyDeleteI kid you not.
It's a shame that I can't shop there any less than I already don't
ReplyDeleteHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!
ReplyDeleteJust laugh at them all, at this point. This has just become funny. As a write has (somewhat) recently said, "enjoy the decline." I'll add "as much as you can." It will become no longer funny soon enough.
-Just A Chemist
I don't think there's one of those stores within 50 miles of me
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