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I'd point to that right alongside the recent obsession with bacon as a subtle anti-Jewish anti-Muslim sentiment. Certainly plenty of folks do just like the tast
by myself248 7y ago
I'd point to that right alongside the recent obsession with bacon as a subtle anti-Jewish anti-Muslim sentiment. Certainly plenty of folks do just like the taste of the stuff, but I think often those folks are along for the ride on the coattails of a dog-whistle.
If you're someone whose faith commands that you not go near swine of any sort, a catalog with several pages of bacon-themed products might start to feel like it was written with someone else in mind...
- jbigelow76 7y agoThat's why I'm always leery of ordering shrimp cocktail when having dinner with my Jewish friends. - signed, the world's most passive aggressive dinner companion
- magashna 7y agoWhy can't a BLT just be a BLT? Seems like a reach.
- jrochkind1 7y agoPretty positive the person you are replying to is being sarcastic and/or trolling, and agrees with you.
- beart 7y agoOr just a clever marketing campaign by the pork industry...
- potta_coffee 7y agoBacon is delicious. Nobody is forcing you to eat any.
- flir 7y agoEveryone looks at me like I'm mad when I say Ed Milliband's bacon sandwich moment was an anti-Semitic dogwhistle. I'm not even 100% sure myself - I guess plausible deniability is the nature of good dogwhistles. Trying to think of pre-KKK antecedants for the hooded figure... highwaymen? Dumas' Man in the Iron Mask? Superman's creators were Jewish, but of course he's the superhero without a mask.
- dspillett 7y agoSorry to break the bad news, but Carly Simon was probably singing about someone else... While bacon-mania certainly has some corporate/big-farm backing, and at least a small amount of being a pushback (like some pro-steak sentiments) to being demonised by some for your choice of food preference, I find it more than a bit of a stretch to suggest there is any antireligion thing going on aside from those few for who everything is a chance to be anti-[insert-religion-or-other-thing-here] that they jump at enthusiastically.
- pnw_hazor 7y agoMost Americans probably don't even know that practicing Jews don't eat bacon. If anything, snarky bacon memes seem to be directed at vegans.