Farmer Markets are racist. You can't make this crap up folks, you just can't. Can ya ? (money, government)

[MikMal]

How is it that college professors get a pass whenever they come up with some outlandish, racists claim like this??

[No_Recess]

Originally Posted by MikMal

How is it that college professors get a pass whenever they come up with some outlandish, racists claim like this??

Because anything connected to academia has a certain "untouchable" element to it.

These folks are educated. This is where we find the truth and it becomes law.

That's the mindset.

[phma]

Originally Posted by No_Recess

Because anything connected to academia has a certain "untouchable" element to it.

These folks are educated. This is where we find the truth and it becomes law.

That's the mindset.

I'd rather have a swing set.

[newtovenice]

Originally Posted by stockwiz

This is what makes america great. Anyone can express their opinion no matter how dumb.

I'm waiting for the protests to have the White House repainted. Because, well, white privilege and diversity and stuff. When will paint become racist?

I give it 6 months.

[geekigurl]

Originally Posted by phma

Farmer Markets are racist. You can't make this crap up folks, you just can't. Can ya ?

Yes. Anything can be made up.

[Wapasha]

Originally Posted by Jo48

I live in NE Pa. The only Farmers Markets you see here are run by the Amish. Their older children are helping to work at them too.

We have a Hmong community which runs a farmers market every Thursday during the summer. The same tomatoes, beans, squash, onions and eggplants, etc... are sold there, as they are sold in every other market. Only liberals see racism behind every bush, and under every butternut squash.

[geekigurl]

Originally Posted by branDcalf

The idea of the authors operating in some form of academic cocoon seems the only answer.

Allegedly they were in an hyperbaric chamber that had nitrous oxide being pumped in instead of oxygen.

[le roi]

Originally Posted by 2mares

So who decides and/or provides such things that would draw vendors to any particular area. Are there other considerations such as would people in certain areas actually purchase produce from farmers markets and would certain areas be safe.

I doubt think the subject is really considered at all, among people who decide such things.

You bring up excellent points but I really think these professors did an injustice labeling this issue racist.

Well, here's the source :

https://books.google.com/books?id=lt...page&q&f=false

You'll note that the researchers from SDSU never referred to it as "Racist." Saying "farmers markets are racist" was just editoralizing (lying, in other words) by Toni Airaksinen, who is a senior at Barnard College that writes for campusreform.org. (Which, I might add, is a branch of the Koch Brothers lobbying network.)


What the researchers did say was that farmers markets were "White spaces" that "normalized food consumption of white people."

[geekigurl]

Originally Posted by uggabugga

geography professors wrote that bilge?
sad!

They dug too deep.

[2mares]

Originally Posted by le roi

I doubt think the subject is really considered at all, among people who decide such things.




Well, here's the source :

https://books.google.com/books?id=lt...page&q&f=false

You'll note that the researchers from SDSU never referred to it as "Racist." Saying "farmers markets are racist" was just editoralizing (lying, in other words) by Toni Airaksinen, who is a senior at Barnard College that writes for campusreform.org.

What the researchers did say was that farmers markets were "White spaces" that "normalized food consumption of white people."

What does that even mean. Sounds like a round about way of saying racist.