Solice Kirsk posted:

Fried chicken and collards loving rule and it sucks they have a stigma associated with them.

Solice Kirsk posted:

Fried chicken and collards loving rule and it sucks they have a stigma associated with them.

Bertrand Hustle posted:

A lot of that poo poo stems from the era of minstrel shows and blackface, the whole fried chicken and watermelon thing was based on the idea that black people were so simple-minded that all they needed to be happy was fried chicken, watermelon, and a nice shade tree to sit under.

It's extremely racist when you know the history behind it and I often find myself explaining it to people who go "why is fried chicken racist, it's delicious!"

Telsa Cola posted:

The fried chicken part goes back further since chicken was one of the few food options slaves could procure and raise themselves. Watermelon is likely a similar deal.

Busket Posket posted:

https://twitter.com/benwikler/status/920755145201324032?s=21

Scathach posted:

Holy poo poo. Forget burning books, let's cut to the chase and burn the author.

Bertrand Hustle posted:

A lot of that poo poo stems from the era of minstrel shows and blackface, the whole fried chicken and watermelon thing was based on the idea that black people were so simple-minded that all they needed to be happy was fried chicken, watermelon, and a nice shade tree to sit under.

Samovar posted:

Someone is in desperate need of a fist to the face.

Aesop Poprock posted:

Literally nobody buys that poo poo without some sort of hero fantasy backing up the purchase in their head. If you buy any sort of instrument that’s labeled as “tactical” you’re secretly hoping to get in a confrontation every time you leave the house with it

Tashilicious posted:

yeah it was an easy to grow cheap fruit that they could grow, so it of course became a staple of racist caricature.

C.M. Kruger posted:

I got a $20 Chinese tactical knife with the intention to get in a confrontation with tape and cardboard boxes at work.

fuzzy_logic posted:

just found out Outside Online magazine has a section called the "Horror Vault":

https://www.outsideonline.com/2356366/horror-vault

This one's my favorite, although there's no real satisfying conclusion as the trial stuff dragged on for years and appears to still be ongoing :

https://www.outsideonline.com/1925916/love-and-madness-jungle

"A brilliant American financier and his exotic wife build a lavish mansion in the jungles of Costa Rica, set up a wildlife preserve, and appear to slowly, steadily lose their minds. A spiral of handguns, angry locals, armed guards, uncut diamonds, abduction plots, and a bedroom blazing with 550 Tiffany lamps ends with a body and a compelling mystery."

quote:

“This case is—how you say?—bullshit. Bullshit from motherfuckers, sí?”

quote:

“The patient was then taken to Vanderbilt’s radiology department to receive a full body scan, which involves laying inside a large tube-like machine. Because the patient was claustrophobic, a doctor prescribed a dose of Versed, which is a standard anti-anxiety medication.

A nurse then went to fill this prescription from one of the hospital’s electronic prescribing cabinets, which allow staff to search for medicines by name through a computer system. The nurse could not find the Versed, so the nurse triggered an ‘override’ feature that unlocks more powerful medications, according to the investigation report.

The nurse then typed the first two letters in the drug’s name – “VE” – into the cabinet computer and selected the first medicine suggested by the machine, not realizing it was vecuronium, not Versed.

The drug was then given to the patient, who was then put into the scanning machine before anyone realized a medication mistake had been made. The patient was then left alone to be scanned for as long as 30 minutes, according to the investigation report, before someone realized the patient was not breathing and medical staff began CPR.”

Khizan posted:

A $5 box cutter is almost always better for that. That's why they are called "box cutters".

Telsa Cola posted:

The fried chicken part goes back further since chicken was one of the few food options slaves could procure and raise themselves. Watermelon is likely a similar deal.

pookel posted:

I thought that fried chicken was also introduced to white Southerners by slaves, along with pretty much all the rest of what we think of as "Southern cooking."

Busket Posket posted:

More marvelous medical malpractice!


Vecuronium is a paralytic used in the lethal injection cocktail in the US, because it’s really good at stopping you from breathing or reacting to pain (so the condemned won’t upset anyone by showing a reaction when the potassium chloride goes in).

Tashilicious posted:

yeah it was an easy to grow cheap fruit that they could grow, so it of course became a staple of racist caricature.

pookel posted:

I thought that fried chicken was also introduced to white Southerners by slaves, along with pretty much all the rest of what we think of as "Southern cooking."

fuzzy_logic posted:

just found out Outside Online magazine has a section called the "Horror Vault":

https://www.outsideonline.com/2356366/horror-vault

This one's my favorite, although there's no real satisfying conclusion as the trial stuff dragged on for years and appears to still be ongoing :

https://www.outsideonline.com/1925916/love-and-madness-jungle

"A brilliant American financier and his exotic wife build a lavish mansion in the jungles of Costa Rica, set up a wildlife preserve, and appear to slowly, steadily lose their minds. A spiral of handguns, angry locals, armed guards, uncut diamonds, abduction plots, and a bedroom blazing with 550 Tiffany lamps ends with a body and a compelling mystery."

quote:

“He didn’t speak early. Then he started speaking in complete sentences. He never did anything until he was absolutely sure he could do it perfectly. He taught himself to read but didn’t display the ability until kindergarten. He said if he’d done so earlier, he feared I would stop reading to him.”

John won math competitions but lost his temper, typically with teachers or students who failed to question everything. The world’s youngest individualist could play well with others, as long as they played his game; failing that he’d bolt, melt down, or both. He was a gifted percussionist who refused to audition and an A student who rejected Harvard because he hated the interview. “People were not John’s favorite thing,” Margie says. When he was in his early teens, John asked, “Mommy, is it alright if I don’t have a birthday party?”

Bertrand Hustle posted:

A lot of that poo poo stems from the era of minstrel shows and blackface, the whole fried chicken and watermelon thing was based on the idea that black people were so simple-minded that all they needed to be happy was fried chicken, watermelon, and a nice shade tree to sit under.

It's extremely racist when you know the history behind it and I often find myself explaining it to people who go "why is fried chicken racist, it's delicious!"

Telsa Cola posted:

The fried chicken part goes back further since chicken was one of the few food options slaves could procure and raise themselves. Watermelon is likely a similar deal.

pookel posted:

I thought that fried chicken was also introduced to white Southerners by slaves, along with pretty much all the rest of what we think of as "Southern cooking."

ToxicSlurpee posted:

Pretty much everything you think of as "soul food" is ultimately African in origin but altered to fit the conditions. Fried food actually has multiple origins and no singular historical source; what America got in regards to fried chicken was specifically from west Africa. While for a time there was that huge divide between poor person food and rich person food (there still was in some things like super sweet tea) stuff like fried chicken ended up on everybody's plates eventually. I mean let's be honest here; fried chicken is loving good.

Chicken in particular is an interesting thing because wherever people go chickens tend to come with us. They get a lot of their own food just out of the ground so you don't have to feed them a lot. Eggs are very nutritious and chickens don't take much effort to keep. This makes chicken generally the cheapest meat so people can afford better things will buy better things but it's never been common to give up chicken entirely.

duz posted:

Pastry of the Year posted:

now where exactly would slaves get their hands on enough Sudafed

Pvt.Scott posted:

I can see the need for some sort of cultural differences guide for health care professionals, as different backgrounds and religions do influence how open and honest patients are about a wide variety of medical issues, or even just seeking help in general. This pithy two-page spread of bullet points is not it.

Is this just a highlights/summary page for a much more detailed breakdown by category? The list is trash either way, but would seem less odd if accompanied by more information. Where are the white people at? The differences between poor, middle class and rich people? Specific religious groups like Christian cults? Mennonites? How do Huguenots respond to physical therapy?!

christmas boots posted:

Bad luck for the chicken that it's delicious, nutritious, affordable, and relatively low-impact carbon-footprint wise.

Wasabi the J posted:

What is necessary is to start a dialogue about cultural differences in an academic setting, being for a textbook; a less clumsy way I would do this is to ask general questions that guide the readers to mentally assess their own cultural biases in an educational way.

e.g.

What do you think about when you're in pain?

Have there been ways you were taught to react to pain, like 'toughing it out'?

Where did you learn those behaviors?

Discuss results with teacher guidance.

Publishing a list of incredibly reductionist and contradictory generalizations is taking the agency off the reader and instructors to inform each other, instead making it something students begin to simply accept as fact.

christmas boots posted:

Bad luck for the chicken that it's delicious, nutritious, affordable, and relatively low-impact carbon-footprint wise.

StrixNebulosa posted:

I dunno, it's reached pet status in a lot of places and gets the same primo treatment dogs n' cats do.

Edgar Allen Ho posted:

Exponentially more live in abject misery and are then killed at a fraction of their lifespan. If I'm getting reincarnated I'll take my chances with a cat or dog before a chicken.

StrixNebulosa posted:

Fair.

I'm reading the Great Deluge by Douglas Brinkley. It's about Katrina, and he opens with a brief history of how many times New Orleans has been flooded and um wow people are stupid. Please move this stupid city before it goes underwater again.

Apparently in 1927 the (white) levee board decided to flood the poor black neighborhoods to "protect the rest of the city" and god gently caress america.