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> Chinese Restaurant Syndrome you'd think the name would give it away, but people are so quick to dismiss racism that this blaring red flag is just glossed ove
by thereare5lights 6y ago
> Chinese Restaurant Syndrome
you'd think the name would give it away, but people are so quick to dismiss racism that this blaring red flag is just glossed over
- xyzelement 6y agoUmm "red flag"? If you are going to chastise people please make sure your language does not rely on racist cliches...
- thereare5lights 6y ago"your langauge" My language? That's the f@#$ing name society attached to it. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51139005 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51139005 So you calling it a racist cliche means that you're agreeing with me that the origins of this hoax IS racism.
- esrauch 6y agoWhat are you referring to? "Red flag" does not appear to have any racial etymology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_flag_(idiom) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_flag_(idiom)
- mc32 6y agoAh but people didn’t make up that term. It was ‘popularized’ by the likes of the NYT. I’ve never heard a regular person refer to their perceived reaction to msg as Chinese restaurant syndrome. That comes from the press —the same ones now chastising people.
- dotancohen 6y agoSo stop calling MSG sensitivity "chinese restaurant syndrome" and disconnect the phenomenon from the racism. Does hysteria does not exist because it is a sexist word?
- aksss 6y agoYeah I never heard that term before reading these comments. I remember back in the late eighties the jokes about MSG were like (and about as lame as) the jokes about tryptophan in turkey. I don’t recall it ever being a critique of Chinese people, but of the Americanized Chinese junk food (e.g General Tzo’s chicken), very much so. The same way people criticize(d) chicken McNuggets. Nobody ever spoke down about expertly done Peking duck that I recall.