The millions of paunchy, unmarried, unemployable liberals who have been protesting President Trump since Election Day are only the second-most outrageous misfits in America.
Southern Californians owe a debt to www.patterico.com for exposing the true rising champion of anti-social behavior:
Meet a bevy of buffoons in Portland, a town teeming with sick, sickening – dare we say colorful? — liberals.
Here is why you do not live anywhere close to Portland:
A knot of nasty non-whites and counterfeit whites – angry over their own skin color – is charged with driving two smart, enterprising young women out of business the other day for a reason you will not believe.
Read on.
First, here is the back-story, as reported in the New York Daily News:
A pair of white women shut down their pop-up burrito shop in Portland amid cries of cultural appropriation and accusations that they stole their recipes.
The closure of Kooks Burritos comes a week after its owners, Kali Wilgus and Liz (L.C.) Connelly, were featured in the popular Willamette Weekly, Fox News reported. The weekend pop-up shop, initially housed in a taco truck, was an immediate hit when they started dishing out their Mexican-inspired cuisine after a trip to Puerto Nuevo last December.
“I picked the brains of every tortilla lady there in the worst broken Spanish ever, and they showed me a little of what they did,” Ms. Connelly told the Willamette Week. “They told us the basic ingredients, and we saw them moving and stretching the dough similar to how pizza makers do before rolling it out with rolling pins. They wouldn’t tell us too much about technique, but we were peeking into windows of every kitchen, totally fascinated by how easy they made it look.”
Such creativity does not sit well with welfare recipients.
A girl named Jaggar (I Ain’t Imaginative) Blaec wrote – but not well — the following color-coordinated piece in the weekly Portland Mercury:
Week after week people of color in Portland bear witness to the hijacking of their cultures, and an identifiable pattern of appropriation has been created.
Several of the most successful businesses in this town have been birthed as a result of curious white people going to a foreign country, or an international venture, and poaching as many trade secrets, customs, recipes as possible, and then coming back to Portland to claim it as their own and score a tidy profit. Now don’t get me wrong: Cultural customs are meant to be shared. However, that’s not what happens in this city.
Because of Portland’s underlying racism, the people who rightly own these traditions and cultures that exist are already treated poorly. These appropriating businesses are erasing and exploiting their already marginalized identities for the purpose of profit and praise.
People of color are nothing more than an afterthought when the white perpetrators of this tradition continue to do this on a regular basis. While Portland is supposedly a progressive place, super liberal white people usually only have other super white liberal people to answer to—which means this cycle of cultural appropriation will never end until people of color call attention to it.
And call attention to it we did. As soon as Willamette Week, who has a history of publishing racially insensitive food commentary, published this story, people of color were outraged. Even some of those aforementioned super liberal white people. The comments on the article went up in flames, and pretty soon the story was even picked up by a national outlet.
Following the WW’s article, one commenter said: “Now that you all boldly and pretty unapologetically stole the basis of these women’s livelihoods, you can make their exact same product so other white ppl don’t have to be inconvenienced of dealing with a pesky brown middle woman getting in their way. Great job.”
Another commenter explained what’s basically a sad truth underlying the Portland restaurant community: “If you knew anything of the restaurant industry (or Google) you’d know that this is true. ‘Ethnic’ chefs are expected to ‘cook from their ethnic backgrounds’ while white chefs can do what these two horrid women did: vacation somewhere and ‘get inspired’ and appropriate an entire culture’s cuisine and claim it as their own.”
Immediately after the fury continued online, a different resource emerged and quickly went viral: a Google doc showing exactly how prevalent this epidemic is. The list titled “White-Owned Appropriative Restaurants in Portland” provides a who’s who of culinary white supremacy.
An introduction to the document begins by saying, “This is NOT about cooking at home or historical influences on cuisines; it’s about profit, ownership, and wealth in a white supremacist culture.” And it ends by letting visitors know, “If you’ve come here in anger, please read at least a couple of these articles before continuing to the list on the next tab below.”
Despite this issue being dismissed by supporters of Kook’s Burritos—while our views were seen as just a bunch of angry minorities attacking innocent white women who only wanted to make tacos—the food cart closed as of late Friday. Willamette Week has not taken any responsibility or shown any accountability for their actions.
While the closing of Kooks Burritos is a victory, it’s a small one and unless we continue to call this out it will happen again. In the meantime, it helps to support the originators of various cultures. If you’re really dying to get a burrito, here’s a list of six Latin owned restaurants that also exist in Portland.
In Closing
Hopefully the distance between Culver City and Portland will not shrink. Hand me the bug spray, Murgatroyd.