White Women’s Burrito Shop Forced to Close Over Cultural Appropriation

Their presence is gone from social media.

Cultural appropriation is a manufactured problem from the ever-more-powerful hardcore left.

On 24 May, Fox News reported: “Portland burrito shop forced to close amid accusations of cultural appropriation, stealing recipes.”

The same day, the New York Daily News covered the episode in an article headlined “Oregon burrito shop run by white women shuts down amid accusations of cultural appropriation.”

And the Daily Mail reported: “White women’s burrito shop is forced to close after being hounded with accusations it was ‘culturally appropriating Mexican food and jobs.’”

Apparently there are those who don’t want Hispanic culture to be assimilated into the U.S. culture. They want to keep the differences going, along with all the divisions that brings.

If you are Western European, you can’t adopt anything that’s not Western European? If we did that since the nation’s founding, we wouldn’t have Chinese food, pizza, rock and roll. How are we to progress if we don’t adapt at all?

This means of course that only white Western Europeans can wear suits. Does that make sense?

The idea from the left is that it takes place mostly when the “source community is a minority group that has been oppressed or exploited in other ways or when the object of appropriation is particularly sensitive, e.g. sacred objects,” according to Susan Scafidi, a law professor at Fordham University.

The left says it allows the privileged to profit off the marginalized; stereotype the oppressed; and give the priority to the privileged over justice for the marginalized. This is the word from the hand-wringing hard-left who want to keep the anti-white mantra of white supremacy and white privilege highlighted. They want the war of identity politics to continue.

Where they do have a point is when people use cultural manifestations to stereotype. Running around in black face is an insult. Other than that type of use of another’s appearance or manifestation, almost all of this cultural appropriation is a positive adaptation.

Faux cultural appropriation is also why they don’t want white people wearing sombreros or celebrating Mexican holidays. However, celebrations of another’s culture is hardly exploitation or oppression.

Miley Cyrus twerking, Katy Perry singing in a Japanese costume, and white kids wearing an afro are all condemned by the hard-left, the Progressives, who are in control of the Democrat Party.

They have made the act of enjoying other cultures, the thing that unites us, into a taboo. They’re simply politicized adaptation of cultures.

Cultural appropriation as a problem is yet another manufactured crisis from the hardcore left.