These Woke Progressives have to be the biggest killjoys. They are constantly looking for something to be offended by. Once they find the “offensive” target they go all in and try to cancel it. These abrasive progressives have ruined careers and are constantly putting new limits on the English language. This time a WaPo writer is trying to cancel the word “exotic” for its ties to colonialism and slavery…
Daniela Galarza over in the Food Section at WaPo got triggered by the horrid “e” word…
“The first problem with the word is that, probably within the past two decades, it has lost its essential meaning. The second, more crucial problem is that its use, particularly as applied to food, indirectly lengthens the metaphysical distance between one group of humans and another, and, in so doing, reinforces xenophobia and racism.
“I have never heard the word exotic used in reference to something that is White,” says Chandra D. L. Waring, professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. “You know that exotic means ‘other’ or ‘different’ from a dominant-White perspective because no one ever says, ‘I’m going to go on an exotic vacation, I’m going to Lowell, Mass.’ No one ever says, ‘Let’s go to that exotic new restaurant, let’s go to McDonald’s.’” I can’t imagine anyone calling a Big Mac an exotic sandwich, even if, when it was first introduced to countries outside North America, it may have been viewed with skepticism.”
“It’s completely tied to the history of colonialism and slavery,” says Serena J. Rivera, assistant professor of Portuguese and Spanish at the University of Pittsburgh. “If you are exotic, if you’re automatically an ‘other,’ you’re not one of us.” But for someone to make such a judgment, they would need to be in a position of power.
“Calling a food exotic puts the onus of the puzzle on the people who make the food to define it, to rationalize, explain, or whitewash it until it’s palatable to the dominant culture,” Rivera says.”
This country was originally colonized by the British and English is the language we all speak here… But exotic is not racist or even slightly offensive. It just means something is foreign or from a different country. There is no negative connotation there and it is such a stretch WaPo and that professor were just looking for something to be triggered by. People like this are going to make it impossible to communicate especially if they are going to go after mundane words like exotic.
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