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Letter to the editor: Our politically correct dinner tables

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2 Min Read March 14, 2021 | 5 years Ago
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Liberalism always achieves the opposite of its stated intent. Proof is ever more government spending that yields less in return to taxpayers. This also is true for their politically correct, racial sensitivity ruse in terms of the “fairness and diversity” they claim to seek.

Consider your pantry and grocery store shelves. Thanks to the drumbeat of cancel culture — and weak-kneed corporate willingness for surrender to that mob — our food world of storied dinner- table staples, once woven into the fabric of our lives, has been purged. Mrs. Butterworth, Aunt Jemima, Uncle Ben and the wise Land-O-Lakes Indian woman have all been canceled. Even the million-dollar smile of professional chef Frank L. White, found on boxes of Cream of Wheat since 1893, has vanished.

This systemic cleansing leaves remaining only those faces now deemed acceptable to the left. Can you detect the pattern? Little Debbie and Sun Maid are still smiling. Morton Umbrella Girl and Nabisco Raincoat Boy are playing in the rain. Colonel Sanders, Wendy and the Burger King dominate the landscape. Our very own Uncle Charley holds court with the Quaker, Chef Boyardee and the Gorton’s fisherman.

A canceled frog said “it ain’t easy being green”; will Green Giant be next?

One must admire the left’s ability to mask (pun decisively intended) their distaste for diversity and inclusion around the dinner table.

Joe Schmidt

Lower Burrell

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