Social Media Outrage/Cancel Culture

[Paperback Writer]

Anne Applebaum won the Pulitzer for writing about Gulags. The article is worthwhile because it comes from her.

Agree, it was a worthwhile read. This quote resonated with me, "Universities will no longer be dedicated to the creation and dissemination of knowledge but to the promotion of student comfort and the avoidance of social-media attacks."

[BigFatMeanie]

Maybe there is a better thread for this, but...

People are getting all outraged about how coconut milk is produced with monkey labor. To the point that Associated Foods (a big western grocery distributor) is no longer selling certain brands of coconut milk:

https://www.abc4.com/news/local-stor...-monkey-labor/

I believe monkeys are mostly used to climb the trees and get the coconuts down, but whether they're used for just picking or in some other part of the coconut milk process, I don't really get what the big deal is. Humans have domesticated animals, "enslaved" animals if you want to use evocative outrage language, for tens of thousands of years:

Horses - labor, hide
Donkeys - labor, hide
Mules - labor, hide
Cows - milk, food, hide
Water buffalo - labor, milk, food, hide
Yaks - food, milk, hide
Chickens - food, feathers
Goats - food, milk, hide
Pigs - food, hide
Ducks - food, feathers
Geese - food, feathers
Cats - These useless animals are pretty much just pets
Dogs - labor, food
Camels - labor, hide
Sheep - food, hide
Rats/Mice/guinea pigs - experiments, and if you're desperate, food
Fish, wild and farmed - food

I'm sure there are several species I'm missing. So why do people get upset over "forced monkey labor"? Isn't pretty much any kind of domesticated animal forced labor?

Associated Foods is stupid for knuckling under. By the same logic they should stop selling all dairy, seafood, and meat products, any leather good. Why do they care about coconut milk?

[BigPiney]

Love coconut milk. Thank you monkeys!

Coconut water on the other hand is freaking gross.

[BlueK]

Be wary of those woke math textbooks.when does the culture war insanity end.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/18/politics/desantis-florida-math-culture-war-crt/index.html

[Jeff Lebowski]

Be wary of those woke math textbooks.when does the culture war insanity end.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/18/polit...crt/index.html

DeSantis engaging in all sorts of nonsense to make a national name for himself. He is a clown, but probably better than Trump (who wouldn't be?).

[BlueK]

More on the dangerous math textbooks. Pure absurdity.

https://popular.info/p/inside-the-dangerous-math-textbooks?s=r

[BlueK]

In Florida, owning the Libs by going after Disney is going to cost their taxpayers a billion dollars.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2022/04/21/disney-special-district-florida-taxpayers-could-face-a-1-billion-debt-bomb-if-dissolved.html

[Jeff Lebowski]

In Florida, owning the Libs by going after Disney is going to cost their taxpayers a billion dollars.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnb...dissolved.html

That's funny. Idiots.

[Northwestcoug]

Hilarious. There’s a horseshoe theory in here somewhere:

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[Flystripper]

I went to an A&W restaurant for maybe the first time ever when in Moscow ID this past weekend. Burger not great, but not bad. Fries were pretty good. Root beer float was delicious.

[falafel]

Its troubling to me when anthropomorphic animals wear clothes, but only cover the top half.

[All-American]

I went to an A&W restaurant for maybe the first time ever when in Moscow ID this past weekend. Burger not great, but not bad. Fries were pretty good. Root beer float was delicious.

A&W is underrated as a fast food place. Shame there aren't more of them.

This post prompted me to go look up locations. Turns out there's one not too far from the local temple. Plans for date night are officially made.

[Clark Addison]

I went to an A&W restaurant for maybe the first time ever when in Moscow ID this past weekend. Burger not great, but not bad. Fries were pretty good. Root beer float was delicious.

Do they still frost their mugs?

[MartyFunkhouser]

Anyone else remember when Tucker Carlson went on a rant about how horrible it was that anthropomorphic M&Ms were being made to be less sexually attractive to him?

[BigPiney]

Do they still frost their mugs?

yes, and with the root beer on tap, it is still delicious.