Contra: July 20, 2020

'You have twenty seconds to comply'

Jul 20, 2020

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Christina Sommers tweets: “Petition demands Trader Joe's change its 'racist' food packaging. Current packaging, says petition, belies ‘a narrative of exoticism’ & ‘exoticizes other cultures — it presents 'Joe' as the default 'normal.' The company says it will try to comply.”

I couldn’t help but think of the peacekeeping droid ED-209 from RoboCop, going …

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