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    Remind you of anyone we know??

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      ‘We have been complicit’: How Bon Appetit went from a classic American brand to a woke flagship

      Events of 2020 hastened magazine's reinvention as a platform using cooking as vehicle to "talk about each other's race, identity, culture in the most delicious way."

      e have been complicit with a culture we don't agree with and are committed to change. Our mastheads have been far too white for far too long."

      That was the message from staff at Bon Appetit last year, who issued a lengthy "long-overdue apology" in early June amid the frenzied explosion of Black Lives Matter-led activism throughout the country.

      Launched in the mid-1950s, Bon Appetit remained a flagship of American food publishing into the 21st century. It bills itself as the "leading arbiter of taste" and has won numerous expert and readership awards, including placing multiple years in the National Magazine Awards' General Excellence rundown. The New York Times in 2010 called it "the biggest old-guard food magazine left standing."

      But the storied cooking magazine was among the many brands that took a strong left-wing stance last year in response to the wave of bitter, often violent, sometimes deadly racial activism that swept the U.S. in 2020. Following a staff shakeup last summer amid allegations that leadership was racially discriminatory and insufficiently ethnically diverse, the magazine has taken on a distinctly woke vibe, its food content very often dovetailing with progressive political goals.

      Bon Appetit began last year's transformation innocuously, promising in January of 2020 that its test kitchen would "be more sustainable" throughout the year. By June, its staff had issued their "long-overdue apology," a missive that came in the immediate wake of the resignation of the magazine's editor Adam Rapoport amid a bizarre Instagram scandal.

      An old photo had surfaced of Rapoport and his wife Simone Shubuck in Halloween costumes resembling Puetro Rican street attire. Critics had claimed Rapoport had dressed himself up in "brownface," though the picture did not appear to show him in makeup and Rapoport himself expressly denied having painted his face in any way.

      The longtime editor nevertheless resigned. In their apology, the staff called the photo "horrific" and claimed that it spoke to "the much broader and longstanding impact of racism" at the magazine.

      Major shakeups at the institution followed throughout the year. Multiple stars of the brand's popular Test Kitchen departed over claims that the magazine and its parent company, Conde Nast, were not doing enough to address alleged racism within the organization. Two black editorial staff members resigned in August.

      The magazine in late 2020 installed black writers Dawn Davis and Marcus Samuelsson as its new editor-in-chief and brand adviser, respectively. Davis expressed a desire to use the magazine to "change the way we even think about food" and signaled Bon Appetit's upcoming shift to "being more diverse in terms of stories, in terms of voices."

      Samuelsson, meanwhile, said he and other new hires had been working to "transform the platform and add value to it," claiming: "Cooking could be this incredible, delicious way where we can talk about each other's race, identity, culture in the most delicious way … [T]hat's one of the things that I look forward to at Bon Appétit: telling more untold stories, so we work to a more equal food community, equitable table."

      Throughout last summer and into this year, the magazine has pushed the style of racial activism that dominated much of the U.S. political scene last year, urging readers to support black-owned restaurants, giving major ink space to claims of racism in the restaurant industry, examining how the original Black Panther Party's food program "laid the groundwork for modern activism," and profiling efforts to address the wine industry's "diversity, equity and inclusion" problems.

      Its most recent volume dubbed itself "the green issue" and offered readers features on the culinary connections between "the climate crisis and food," Chinese food recipes that were billed as "very good [and] very vegan," and a 16-page guide to eliminating food waste.

      The magazine's subscriber numbers aren't publicly available, so it's unknown how the magazine's shift has been received by its readers. Its YouTube channel, however, appears to have taken a significant hit.

      Prior to last fall, its food instructional videos, many of them wacky and irreverent ("Pastry Chef Attempts to Make Gourmet Pizza Rolls," "Pro Chefs Make 13 Kinds of Pantry Pasta"), regularly racked up millions upon millions of views.

      Following the channel's October reveal of the magazine's new leadership lineup, only a handful of videos have cracked even a million views. Many of the videos appear to reflect the channel's shift to less mainstream, more alternative sensibilities, presenting dishes such as vegan meatballs and braised goat as well as trips to food banks and composting outfits.

      The magazine has even been forced to edit its own recipes at times to reflect its changing aesthetic. In December it published a recipe by Samuelsson that purported to be soup joumou, a dish with historic significance to the Haitian revolution. The recipe was in fact a different kind of soup inspired by the Haitian dish. A major outcry led the magazine to rewrite the recipe entry on its website, apologizing to readers for "misrepresenting" the original.

      The magazine is even engaging in what it calls an "archive repair project" meant to edit earlier recipes now deemed to have been presented insensitively. In one such revision, the magazine edited a recipe for a Jewish cookie. The original feature instructed readers on "how to make actually good hamantaschen," decrying most of those cookies as "dry and sandy." The revised version removed that language, offering an apology "for the previous version's flippant tone and stereotypical characterizations of Jewish culture."

      Bon Appetit declined to comment for this report. In its "apology" from last summer, meanwhile, the staff of the magazine signaled that their struggle was only just beginning.

      "This is just the start," they said. "We want to be transparent, accountable, and active as we begin to dismantle racism at our brands."

      https://justthenews.com/nation/cultu...-woke-flagship

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      • #63
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        I can relate to this story as when with Newpenn they were gonna hire a supervisor that was previously at RedStar and everyone hated him.. Bunch of guys told the TM that if he was hired they were all gonna quit.. NP never hired the guy..


        Apple Fires New Hire Hours After Employees Cancel Him as ‘Misogynistic’

        Apple has fired a recently hired Facebook veteran just hours after other employees began to circulate a petition calling for his firing. The Masters of the Universe have once again demonstrated that cancel culture rules in Silicon Valley.

        The Verge reports that Apple has fired a newly hired employee, Antonio García Martínez, after other company employees began to circulate a petition calling for an investigation into his hiring.
        Martínez previously worked as a Facebook product manager on the ad targeting team and has previously authored a controversial book about Silicon Valley that seems to be the main point of contention with many Apple employees.

        Martínez has been accused of expressing misogynistic views in his book, an excerpt of which can be read below:



        According to journalist Matt Taibbi, Apple knew about the book and asked Martínez numerous questions about it during the interview process. Taibbi also claims that Apple recruited Martínez for the position he was ultimately hired for. According to Taibbi, the passage in question was taken completely out of context by Apple’s cancel culture brigade.

        Apple employees wrote in the petition calling for the removal of Martínez: “We are deeply concerned about the recent hiring of Antonio García Martínez. His misogynistic statements in his autobiography — such as ‘Most women in the Bay Area are soft and weak, cosseted and naive despite their claims of worldliness, and generally full of shit’ (further quoted below this letter) — directly oppose Apple’s commitment to Inclusion & Diversity.”

        The petition was signed by more than 2,000 employees before it was published by the Verge.

        In a statement emailed to the Verge, Apple said:

        At Apple, we have always strived to create an inclusive, welcoming workplace where everyone is respected and accepted. Behavior that demeans or discriminates against people for who they are has no place here.

        Paul Graham, a popular Silicon Valley venture capitalist and co-founder of Y Combinator, commented on the firing of Martínez in a tweet:


        Paul Graham
        @paulg
        Antonio García Martínez is actually a good guy. He might write the occasional shocking thing for effect, but he'd never, for example, organize a petition to deprive someone of their livelihood.


        https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2021/...-misogynistic/

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        • #64
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          https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...and-inclusion/
          This whole administration have completely lost their minds.Is the armed forces in the cuddling business or protection of its citizens??? The wacko left in truly out of control.

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          • #65
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            Originally posted by 1484-1075 View Post
            This whole administration have completely lost their minds.Is the armed forces in the cuddling business or protection of its citizens??? The wacko left in truly out of control.
            Way out of control...

            Check out Russia's recruitment video...



            Here's China's recruitment video...



            Now... get ready... here's America's recruitment video...



            To tell you the truth... I don't know whether to laugh or cry!!! But you can bet your ass that both China and Russia find this hysterical.

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              Ted Cruz bashed for retweeting mashup of Russian & US army recruiting ads and complaining about ‘emasculated’ US military

              Pointing out the difference between a Russian recruiting ad and a “woke” one recently rolled out by the US Army earned Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) a torrent of criticism from Democrats, neocons and Twitter’s Russiagate #Resistance. “Holy crap. Perhaps a woke, emasculated military is not the best idea...” Cruz tweeted on Thursday in relation to a video combining a Russian Army recruitment ad with a recent US Army one.The minute-long mashup, originally posted on TikTok but retweeted on Wednesday, has already racked up nearly two million views. Cruz immediately caught flak from Democrats, neocons, Russiagate promoters and the online #Resistance in general – none of whom bothered to address the point he was making, choosing instead to shriek about him posting “literally Russian propaganda.”

              “A United States senator is spreading Russian propaganda bashing the US armed forces,” said the Lincoln Project, a collection of scandal-plagued former GOP operatives now devoted to electing Democrats.

              Cruz “retweeted a Russian propaganda video and called the US military weak. That's how he thinks you appeal to the Republican base in 2021,” tweeted Tommy Vietor, former Obama administration spokesman and co-host of Pod Save America.

              He was echoed by Russiagate-promoting lawyer Bradley P. Moss Esquire, who said a “flaccid politician is spreading Russian propaganda to knock our military.”

              Atlantic writer and ‘principled conservative’ Tom Nichols said Cruz should have asked “experts” like himself what the Russian military is really like, “but if you’d rather pump their propaganda, that’s another way to go.”

              Cruz “just retweeted a Russian Army propaganda video. Literally, in Russian,” cried CNN and Washington Post opinion columnist Frida Ghitis.

              “Do you have any other Russian propaganda videos you'd like to promote, senator?” asked Princeton professor and Democrat activist Kevin Kruse.
              Other resistance activists simply went for expletive-laden, ad hominem attacks and brought up Cruz’s family trip to Mexico earlier this year, during a power outage due to freezing weather in Texas.None of the criticism would address the substance of the original mashup video – which contrasted the Russian approach to attracting men to serve in the armed forces to that recently adopted by the US military.The Russian ad, which dates back to 2014, tells potential soldiers that “what was yesterday is meaningless” and that “nobody cares who you used to be.” The greatest enemy is “you of yesterday” and the mission is to find that enemy, defeat him and return victorious. “Because tomorrow is the first day of your new life,” the narrator concludes.

              While it became a hit on YouTube in May 2014, it was little-known in the US – until the conservative news outlet Townhall brought it up last week in contrast to the “Calling” video campaign promoted by the US Army.The specific video – which makes up the second half of the mashup Cruz tweeted, something his critics seemingly never noticed – featured a corporal called Emily, who mainly talks mainly about her previous life, identity politics and activism.

              The current US administration – and its online defenders – are particularly touchy about criticism of the new, “woke” Pentagon. Back in March, when Fox News host Tucker Carlson made the same kind of comparison – contrasting the “feminine” US military with a more masculine Chinese one – the Pentagon itself got involved, issuing an official news release about “smiting” Carlson for “dissing diversity.” After a number of active-duty officers posted videos denouncing the Fox News host, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby added that Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin "shares the revulsion of so many others to what Mr. Carlson said.”

              https://www.rt.com/usa/524388-cruz-r...-army-twitter/

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              • #67
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                I heard something about this on the radio the other day and it didn't take long to find a meme on it ..

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                • #68
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                  Originally posted by crazy View Post
                  I heard something about this on the radio the other day and it didn't take long to find a meme on it ..
                  Hmm... you would think that Cinderella would of been cancelled already... let alone anyone wanting to be associated with Cinderella in any way considering this meme...

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                  • #69
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                    Just how far will it go??

                    Kellogg's releases 'Together With Pride' cereal celebrating preferred gender pronouns



                    The recipe features berry-flavored rainbow hearts coated in edible glitter

                    Kellogg Company released a limited-edition breakfast cereal designed to support the LBGTQ community and to promote a message that people do not need to fit in a single box when selecting pronouns.

                    The "boxes are for cereal, not for people" concept celebrates people "no matter who you are, who you love, or what pronouns you use," Kellogg said in a statement. The product is called Together With Pride cereal.

                    On each box, consumers will be able to obtain a tear-out "Together Band" to share and wear their pronouns, which includes representation for non-binary and transgender individuals.

                    The concept is a collaboration with GLAAD, according to the company.

                    "Our delicious new recipe features berry-flavored rainbow hearts dusted with edible glitter," Doug VanDeVelde, General Manager of Kellogg U.S. Cereal Category, explained in a statement.

                    For every box sold, the company said it will donate $3 (up to $140,000) to support GLAAD when buyers upload their receipts. The cereal boxes began to hit shelves in mid-May in anticipation of Pride Month in June.

                    The company and GLAAD have collaborated on products in the past, including on a cereal that launched in 2018.

                    On the group’s website, GLAAD has listed a number of partnerships it has with companies to promote Pride Month, including beauty company Sally Hansen.

                    https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyl...erred-pronouns

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                        Small business group sues MLB Commissioner over moving All-Star game from Atlanta

                        Job Creators Network alleged MLB violated the rights of businesses in Atlanta area, demands game be returned this summer.

                        Asmall business group on Monday evening sued Major League Baseball, its commissioner Rob Manfred and the head of professional baseball players union Tony Clark alleging their efforts to move this summer's All-Star game from Atlanta to protest Georgia's new election integrity law unlawfully inflicted "staggering" damages on businesses in the region.

                        The suit filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan by the Job Creators Network alleges MLB violated the Klu Klux Klan Act of 1871 and committed "tortious interference" in business by canceling the game over a political matter.

                        It seeks damages of at least $100 million for the businesses of Atlanta as well as an order to restore the game this summer to the Atlanta Braves home stadium, Truist Park.

                        "MLB Defendants intended to punish Georgians because their state enacted a reasonable ballot-integrity statute and to coerce Georgia and its duly elected government to surrender Georgia’s sovereignty in our federal system," the lawsuit charged.

                        It said the true victims were small businesses who spent money and made plans for two years to host the All-Star Game based on MLB's promise, only to see it canceled.

                        "Thousands of hard-working ordinary men and women in the Atlanta area, many reeling from the psychological trauma and economic havoc of the COVID-19 pandemic, relied on MLB’s unqualified promise to hold the 2021 All-Star Game in Truist Park," the suit said. "They were looking forward to the beginning of a return to normalcy, with the country opening up and the All-Star Game coming to town. For 21 months, from July 2019 through March 2021, these men and women planned and budgeted and invested and hoped for a wonderful and profitable event.

                        "The damages resulting from the cancellation of the AllStar Game in Atlanta are staggering," the suit added. "More than 8,000 hotel reservations were canceled; revenues from ticket sales and stadium food by the more than 41,000 expected to attend the events at Truist Park were lost."

                        You can read the full complaint here.

                        https://justthenews.com/sites/defaul...int.filed_.pdf

                        The suit seeks to force MLB to "immediately restore the 2021 Game to Truist Park in Atlanta, together with all pre-game events" and to face a jury trial for damages.

                        Job Creators Network is a not-for-profit group that advocates on behalf of America's 30 million small businesses and played an essential role in winning congressional approval for the 2017 tax cuts.

                        A spokesman for MLB was not immediately available for comment.

                        https://justthenews.com/accountabili...-all-star-game

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                        • #72
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                          Exclusive — Ken Blackwell: Court Ordering MLB All-Star Game Back to Atlanta ‘Would Be a Win-Win for Everyone’

                          Ken Blackwell, former mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio, told Breitbart News on Friday that a court order for Major League Baseball (MLB) to return its All-Star Game to Atlanta “would be a win-win for everyone.”

                          The MLB rescheduled its All-Star Game — moving it from Atlanta to Denver — following Georgia’s enactment of election laws in March. Dubbed the “Election Integrity Act of 2021,” the bill implements voter ID requirements across all methods of voting. MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred acknowledged the political motivation of his decision, saying it was “the best way to demonstrate our values as a sport.” He added, “Major League Baseball fundamentally supports voting rights for all Americans and opposes restrictions to the ballot box.
                          Breitbart News reported on a lawsuit filed against the MLB for its decision to relocate its All-Star Game:

                          The Job Creators Network (JCN), a conservative group representing small businesses, plans to file a lawsuit against MLB and their Players Union in hopes of forcing the league to return the game to Atlanta or compensate the Atlanta businesses impacted by the league’s decision to leave due to Georgia’s voter reform laws.

                          Blackwell, a minority owner of the Cincinnati Reds, discussed the event on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.

                          He remarked, “The plaintiffs in this lawsuit are asking for the All-Star Game to be returned to to Atlanta, and that’s what I would want to to to see. Logistically, it might be tough, but so what? I would like to see them to make that correction. Let the fans see a great game. Let Atlanta businesses and workers just reap the economic rewards of tens of millions dollars from the game, and let Major League Baseball show the country that we’re not going to jump through the hoops of the radical left in their never-ending race to the bottom to see who is the most woke.” He continued to say that, “What we need to do is just focus, as a league, on playing a sport that Americans love and running a successful business in the process, that would be a win-win for everyone, and that’s what I want, a win for everyone.”

                          The MLB’s political decision-making hurts the sport of baseball, Blackwell remarked.

                          “This is just sad for everyone,” he said. “This is an unforced error on the part of Rob Manfred. … It hurts the sport, because tens of millions of Americans are turned off by the league taking sides in this political controversy, especially one [in which] most of the fans disagree or with the league’s position.”

                          He continued, “This is just pure crazy. It hurts the league and it hurts countless businesses in the Atlanta area, including minority-owned businesses. … Atlanta is a predominantly black city, so taking away the game hurts all Atlantans, but particularly, I’m concerned that it has an adverse impact on black Atlantans.”

                          “Not only do 77 percent of voters support voter ID, but polls show that 61 percent of black voters support voter ID,” he stated. “Hispanic approval is even higher. How can something be racism that contributes to voter suppression if 61 percent of that voting group … supports the measure?”

                          Public companies have a fiduciary duty to prioritize the financial returns of their shareholders in their operations, Blackwell noted in a column entitled, “Corporate Wokesters Betray Shareholders’ Trust by Bashing Election Integrity Laws.”

                          Companies like Coca-Cola and Delta Airlines aligning themselves with partisan Democrat narratives over Georgia’s election laws are violating their legal obligations towards their shareholders, he assessed.

                          https://www.breitbart.com/radio/2021...-for-everyone/

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                          • #73
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                            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxu3wdiXRF0
                            This mom-parent,put schoolboard on notice.

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                            • #74
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                              The Biden Administration has some woke language in the proposed budget.. "Birthing People" You can't make this shit up..


                              Biden Admin Replaces 'Mothers' With 'Birthing People' in Maternal Health Guidance

                              The White House's 2022 fiscal year budget replaced the word mothers with birthing people in a section about public health funding, prompting ridicule Monday from President Joe Biden's conservative critics.

                              The Biden administration's budget includes a public health section which addresses efforts to "reduce maternal mortality rates and end race-based disparities in maternal mortality." The budget specifically addresses racial disparities between Black, American Indian/Alaska Native and other women of color. But it is the replacement of the word mother with birthing people that drew the ire of conservative think tank leaders and right-wing media members Monday following the release of Biden's budget.

                              A Heritage Foundation lobbyist on Capitol Hill responded incredulously tweeting, "Why does Biden want to cancel mothers?"

                              "The United States has the highest maternal mortality rate among developed nations, with an unacceptably high mortality rate for Black, American Indian/Alaska Native, and other women of color. To help end this high rate of maternal mortality and race-based disparities in outcomes among birthing people," reads the 2022 White House fiscal year budget proposal.

                              The budget goes on to tout the implementation of "implicit bias training for health care providers" as well as the creation of state-run pregnancy medical home programs and additional early childhood development funding.

                              The pro-choice nonprofit NARAL defended use of the term, tweeting, "When we talk about birthing people, we're being inclusive. It's that simple. We use gender neutral language when talking about pregnancy, because it's not just cis-gender women that can get pregnant and give birth. Reproductive freedom is for *every* body."

                              The legislative director for Missouri Republican Senator Josh Hawley tweeted Monday, "The President of the United States introduce a budget that replaces the term 'mother' with 'birthing people' in reference to maternal health programs."

                              Heritage Action Executive Director Jessica Anderson responded on Twitter as well, remarking, "Biden's budget would literally erase the word 'mother' and replace it with the woke and watered-down term 'birthing people' in relation to maternal health. Why does Biden want to cancel mothers?"

                              The phrase birthing people also drew mockery from Republicans last month after Missouri Congresswoman Cori Bush used the term during House testimony about the country's Black maternal health crisis. "Every day, Black birthing people and our babies die because our doctors don't believe our pain. My children almost became a statistic. I almost became a statistic," the Democratic lawmaker testified on May 6.

                              The Biden budget proposal goes on to include "more than $200 million to: reduce maternal mortality and morbidity rates nationwide; bolster Maternal Mortality Review Committees; expand the Rural Maternity and Obstetrics Management Strategies program."

                              On Monday, the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities announced a $250,000 grant had been issued to study the country's vast disparity in cesarean births among Black and White women. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 31.7 percent of all deliveries in the U.S. are by cesarean birth, creating vastly increased risks of severe blood loss, infection and anesthesia complications.

                              Newsweek reached out to the White House and the CDC for additional comments or reaction to the budget proposal language modification Monday afternoon.

                              https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/bi...nce/ar-AAKNT0R

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                              • #75
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                                Originally posted by crazy View Post
                                The Biden Administration has some woke language in the proposed budget.. "Birthing People" You can't make this shit up..


                                Biden Admin Replaces 'Mothers' With 'Birthing People' in Maternal Health Guidance
                                More of the same from the moron in charge.2022 will show the dims in charge just how un-woke this country really is.

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