@wildgrass saidDude. The catering company and the school had to grovel long apologies and the school still threw the catering company under the bus.
Furor? I've never even heard about this. Is this just one of those faux outrage stories where the reporter says "the internet is mad..." and then sources it with 3 rando twitter posters?
https://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/rockland/2023/02/03/black-history-month-nyack-middle-school-lunch-aramark-chicken-waffles/69867895007/
https://nypost.com/2023/02/05/nyack-middle-school-aramark-apologize-for-serving-chicken-and-waffles-during-black-history-month/
Just because it didn't make it to CNN (or maybe it did, I'd never know) doesn't mean it wasn't a furor.
@sh76 saidI don't read loud.com or CNN or NY post. Sorry I missed it.
Dude. The catering company and the school had to grovel long apologies and the school still threw the catering company under the bus.
https://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/rockland/2023/02/03/black-history-month-nyack-middle-school-lunch-aramark-chicken-waffles/69867895007/
https://nypost.com/2023/02/05/nyack-middle-school-aramark-apologize-for-serving-chicken-and-waffles ...[text shortened]... t because it didn't make it to CNN (or maybe it did, I'd never know) doesn't mean it wasn't a furor.
Still seems like a non story after reading the article. A few 6th grade parents were offended. I wouldn't call it furor.
This is the kind of story the internet loves. Find a small handful of folks slightly offended by a small thing and then they get millions of page views on the internet with angry people angry about a few snowflakes' opinion. It's a reporters recipe for buying a house in Malibu .
09 Feb 23
@wildgrass saidI don't disagree except that the handful of offended folks had the power or ability to get the district and Aramark to grovel and humiliate themselves over this nonsense. The reporter was in the Principal's office for an interview for crying out loud.
I don't read loud.com or CNN or NY post. Sorry I missed it.
Still seems like a non story after reading the article. A few 6th grade parents were offended. I wouldn't call it furor.
This is the kind of story the internet loves. Find a small handful of folks slightly offended by a small thing and then they get millions of page views on the internet with angry people angry about a few snowflakes' opinion. It's a reporters recipe for buying a house in Malibu .
Yes, it's only a few SJWs that care about this sort of thing, but in today's environment they have so much outsized clout.
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@wildgrass saidIt's pretty much the mainstream media's gameplan.
This is the kind of story the internet loves. Find a small handful of folks slightly offended by a small thing and then they get millions of page views on the internet with angry people angry about a few snowflakes' opinion. It's a reporters recipe for buying a house in Malibu .
Has been ever since Obama was elected.
09 Feb 23
@sh76 saidI think the joke with the cake (it came from the Family Guy clip) is that Jews are stereotypically cheap and so will recycle old foods for a party.
Not sure what the lukewarm pepsi or half thawed cake have to do with Jewish stereotypes, but the bagels, lox and pastrami are fine, as long as it's not all on one sandwich. Ewww.
10 Feb 23
@sh76 saidBy today's environment, you mean the internet media machine that tells you what you'd enjoy clicking on? Given the extreme minority who were actually offended, it certainly has nothing to do with reality.
I don't disagree except that the handful of offended folks had the power or ability to get the district and Aramark to grovel and humiliate themselves over this nonsense. The reporter was in the Principal's office for an interview for crying out loud.
Yes, it's only a few SJWs that care about this sort of thing, but in today's environment they have so much outsized clout.
10 Feb 23
@wildgrass said===Given the extreme minority who were actually offended, it certainly has nothing to do with reality.===
By today's environment, you mean the internet media machine that tells you what you'd enjoy clicking on? Given the extreme minority who were actually offended, it certainly has nothing to do with reality.
Then how do you explain the reality that they were really in reality forced to issue real groveling apologies?
@athousandyoung saidWhatever leftovers you have, you can just throw it in the chulent. Well, maybe not the cake.
I think the joke with the cake (it came from the Family Guy clip) is that Jews are stereotypically cheap and so will recycle old foods for a party.
Anyone who thinks Jews are cheap on food should try shopping at a kosher grocery store one day.
You're in LA, right? Head on up to the corner of Pico and Robertson and then tell me how Jews don't spend money on food.
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@athousandyoung saidas long as its not walla mella or chicken right?
I think the joke with the cake (it came from the Family Guy clip) is that Jews are stereotypically cheap and so will recycle old foods for a party.
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@sh76 saidAwfully, unnecessarily hyperbolic. They wrote a letter responding to concerns from a few parents of children at their school who thought it was offensive.
===Given the extreme minority who were actually offended, it certainly has nothing to do with reality.===
Then how do you explain the reality that they were really in reality forced to issue real groveling apologies?
The national news story? The reporter in the office? The NY Post (or more likely an AI Bot) wrote that story so that when it comes across your news feed on spacebooks or tweeter, you would click on it. They know what gets those dopamine releases.
Furor? Come on, now.
@wildgrass saidIt didn't reach me because of the NY Post or my Twitter feed. It's a local story for me. I can drive to that school from where I'm sitting right now in 15 minutes.
Awfully, unnecessarily hyperbolic. They wrote a letter responding to concerns from a few parents of children at their school who thought it was offensive.
The national news story? The reporter in the office? The NY Post (or more likely an AI Bot) wrote that story so that when it comes across your news feed on spacebooks or tweeter, you would click on it. They know what gets those dopamine releases.
Furor? Come on, now.
Watch the interview with the Principal and then tell me there was no furor.
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@sh76 saidIf you are local then I understand. It's your taxes hard at work. We had a similar incident at our middle school where a teacher was suspended for writing Hitler's birth day on a whiteboard, followed an absurdly over the top apology letter from the superintendent.
It didn't reach me because of the NY Post or my Twitter feed. It's a local story for me. I can drive to that school from where I'm sitting right now in 15 minutes.
Watch the interview with the Principal and then tell me there was no furor.
What bothers me is the broader mainstream media narrative. Because It still boils to a small handful of tax paying parents who were upset. I am concerned that the national news amplification of minor things happening in schools (we can include the satire piece at Yale) is contributing to the much more insidious false narrative of "wokeism is rampant and ruining our schools". It's building to a point where we are getting comfortable with the idea of increased government oversight on books and curriculum. Florida's leading the way but there's rumblings in our state too. And that's coming from the politicians who self-describe as small government. I don't want to know what the government will do with education if they have that power over teachers to regulate what they can say or teach.
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@wildgrass saidChicken/waffles/watermelon sounds good to me.
Update: just like the Yalies story, the chicken and waffles story seems like deliberate trolling by the food vendor. I mean, they served up chicken and waffles with a side of watermelon on the first day of black history month?! Thats 😂
How about if they served a banana instead for a fruit?
Oh...no...that'd be racist too.
Exactly WHAT isn't considered racist by these people?
11 Feb 23
@jj-adams saidBy "these people" you refer to two parents of 6th graders.
Chicken/waffles/watermelon sounds good to me.
How about if they served a banana instead for a fruit?
Oh...no...that'd be racist too.
Exactly WHAT isn't considered racist by these people?