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Re:Why We Banned the Word “Ethnic” (2019) by hedora on Sunday March 13, 2022 @12:54PM (#30663128)
“Look in the ethnic foods isle for your matzo, dried seaweed, ghee and El Yuacteco.”

It’s basically the isle that could be labeled “packaged food for foodies”

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Re:Why We Banned the Word “Ethnic” (2019) by rectang on Sunday March 13, 2022 @01:07PM (#30663270)
This sort of imprecise, reductive othering illustrates what's problematic about the "ethnic foods" aisle (and "ethnic tensions").
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Re:Why We Banned the Word “Ethnic” (2019) by dcow on Sunday March 13, 2022 @01:27PM (#30663557)
Yeah I’d rather that stuff show up where it normally would. It’s just lazy to shove it all in an “ethnic” aisle.
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