I think I was most recently in Portland OR in 1996 for
meetings on my book. But lately the
social justice warriors have attacked small food businesses there to absurd
ends.
Andy Ngo has a revealing op-ed in the Wall Street
Journal, “Would you like some strife with your meal?”
These were mostly locally branded businesses, not (trademarked) franchises.
In one case a restaurant was forced by harassment to
change its name because it seemed to be supporting “colonialism”. Well, Anthony Bourdain has criticized that on
his visit to the Congo.
I don’t see how “white people” selling burritos from a
truck is “stealing Mexican culture”. (By the way, a lot of people who
self-identify to Census as Hispanic are of largely European heritage if you go back
far enough.) Later, other ethnic restaurants
were harassed for taking away market share from down to earth places owned by “POC”. I usually prefer regular “MAGA” food when I
travel, but the idea is stupid.
There does seem to be a case of a bakery not properly
serving a black person (this is not Masterpiece Cakeshop), and that is
legitimate to complain about. It’s fine for
Starbucks to close everywhere for diversity training for an afternoon, by the
way.
The market share complaint could spread to other
areas. For example, my blogs, they way I
run them, might take away “market share” from partisan (especially Leftist)
sites begging for money.
The most absurd idea of all reported in the article is
the “Reparations Happy Hour”.
No, the art work today is not from Portland.
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