J. Kenji López-Alt is Seattle’s reluctant powerful food influencer

Re:J. Kenji López-Alt is Seattle’s reluctant powerful food i... by annexrichmond on Friday June 11, 2021 @07:07PM (#27479584)

I lost a lot of respect for Kenji after this incident:

López-Alt wrote that “it hasn’t happened yet, but if you come to my restaurant wearing a MAGA cap, you aren’t getting served, same as if you come in wearing a swastika, white hood, or any other symbol of intolerance and hate.” He added, “MAGA hats are like white hoods except stupider because you can see exactly who is wearing them.” Both tweets have since been deleted. [1]

[1] https://www.grubstreet.com/2019/02/j-kenji-lopez-alt-maga-ha...

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Re:J. Kenji López-Alt is Seattle’s reluctant powerful food i... by deadite on Friday June 11, 2021 @07:16PM (#27479654)

Your comment reads like what he did is in such bad taste that you have to let it be known, on a site that is pretty well established to be anti-MAGA, how you disapprove of this person's choice to also be anti-MAGA, and you're still trying to maintain your elitism and stature by saying "I lost respect" to continue to fit in on the site. You're playing edge lord on easy mode.

Why even bother posting this?

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Re:J. Kenji López-Alt is Seattle’s reluctant powerful food i... by BurningFrog on Friday June 11, 2021 @08:33PM (#27480180)

Being anti-MAGA and calling the MAGA crowd genocidal racists are very different things.

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Re:J. Kenji López-Alt is Seattle’s reluctant powerful food i... by annexrichmond on Friday June 11, 2021 @07:19PM (#27479687)

It's not about anyone's stance on "MAGA". It's about about his divisiveness, and comparing roughly 40% of a country to Nazis and the KKK

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Re:J. Kenji López-Alt is Seattle’s reluctant powerful food i... by notyourwork on Friday June 11, 2021 @08:02PM (#27479999)

There's an old saying, "if it walks like a duck".

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Re:J. Kenji López-Alt is Seattle’s reluctant powerful food i... by dragonwriter on Friday June 11, 2021 @07:23PM (#27479716)

40% of the country doesn’t wear MAGA hats, and didn’t at the peak of that cult, either.

And even if they did, popularity doesn't make you different from the Nazis or the KKK, both of which had fairly high peaks of popularity in their respective geography.

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Re:J. Kenji López-Alt is Seattle’s reluctant powerful food i... by simondotau on Friday June 11, 2021 @07:25PM (#27479735)

The prior four years were an exercise in the extreme amplification of divisiveness by all sides. I wouldn't blame anyone—on either side—for being momentarily swept up in it.

(To be clear, I'm not claiming equivalence and don't dispute that most of the blame rests with Trump's divisiveness.)

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Re:J. Kenji López-Alt is Seattle’s reluctant powerful food i... by simondotau on Friday June 11, 2021 @07:20PM (#27479697)

While I agree it was inartful and ultimately counter-productive, it was nonetheless understandable (and quite frankly unremarkable) in the context of the broader zeitgeist. Thankfully we know not to judge people's character on the basis of two tweets.

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Re:J. Kenji López-Alt is Seattle’s reluctant powerful food i... by Camas on Friday June 11, 2021 @08:17PM (#27480084)

I do tend to enjoy his content more when he doesn't mention politics.

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Re:J. Kenji López-Alt is Seattle’s reluctant powerful food i... by simondotau on Friday June 11, 2021 @09:02PM (#27480376)

This is true of most people regardless of their politics.

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