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I think that tying the very real facts of colonialism to the taste of a motherfucking bean trivializes those facts.
by Turing_Machine 5y ago
I think that tying the very real facts of colonialism to the taste of a motherfucking bean trivializes those facts.
- tom_mellior 5y agoThat is a possibly valid argument. A woke one, in fact. It's unfortunate that you started the discussion on a very wrong foot. For whatever it's worth, I think the sentence you quoted from the article was a very clumsy segue, and the argument it hinted at wasn't supported by the rest of the article.
- Turing_Machine 5y agoFor whatever it's worth, no one put you in charge of deciding whether my arguments are "valid". The article isn't even consistent with itself. It starts out with "Oh, the evil British forced us to stop growing our delicious native beans", then, at the end, the author admits that he doesn't like them much himself. Kenya has been independent from the UK since 1963. The British haven't been telling them what beans to grow for nearly 60 years now. If they still haven't switched back, it's because they like the new beans better, even if the new beans were introduced by "colonialism". Typo correction: 1964 -> 1963