The Guardian: Apple Pie Is Racist
I just came across a wild article by Raj Patel at the Guardian titled, “Food injustice has deep roots: let’s start with America’s apple pie.”
And you guys, it’s wacky. But it’s exactly in line with the classic cultural Marxism and radical rhetoric we see so frequently from the Left. This guy decides to eliminate a classic American tradition and recipe in our culture: Apple Pie.
How does he do it? By arguing that each aspect of the pie is not actually American, and apples are connected to genocide. Yep.
Here’s what he said:
- “Not that apples are particularly American. Apples were first domesticated in central Asia, making the journey along the Silk Road to the Mediterranean four thousand years ago. Apples traveled to the western hemisphere with Spanish colonists in the 1500s in what used to be called the Columbian Exchange, but is now better understood as a vast and ongoing genocide of Indigenous people.”
- “Not that the recipe for apple pie is uniquely American. It’s a variant of an English pumpkin recipe. By the time the English colonized the new world, apple trees had become markers of civilization, which is to say property.
- “Not that the sugar on the crust is uniquely American. Sugar cane was first brought to the US by Jesuits in 1751, but most US sugar remained an import until the Haitian revolution.”
- “Not that the gingham on which our apple pie rests is uniquely American. Columbus recorded cotton being used and worn during his first voyage by his Indigenous hosts.”
Why do they do this to us and our country’s culture and traditions? To divide. To cause anger. To rewrite our history. To increase tension in the country. Let’s not let them succeed in their goals for a cultural revolution in America.
