Portland. . . why?

This reminds me of our procurement process at my job.

>Business office has policy that 50% of our purchases come from "minority-owned" businesses
>Our regular contact gets us quotes within 3 days and has an inside track with Dell as he used to work there
>Halfway through the year we hit our purchase limit with him
>Send emails to minority owned businesses asked for quotes
>one never responds, one responds a week later with a no bid (because they can't meet prices we want with the specs we want), the third responds a MONTH later with a comparable bid but with hardware below the spec we were asking for
>Have to play this game the rest of the business year

FUCK MINORITY BUSINESSES

It should go in the reverse too. If you're a Vietnamese, you can't have a restaurant that serves anything other than Vietnamese; if you're a nignog, only soul food and BBQ; Indian only Indian poo; native american just fry bread, pemmican and roasted lizards.

Yeah this is the only way something like this would be fair. I remember that chefs table or something where the king of ramen was a half jew from new york who lived in tokyo for years after his wife died.

I guess I don't get these kinds of things, the whole draw of mixing cultures is to share and expand ideas, and then they come back and say it's a bad thing to do just that. How can we all be one kumbaya circle if we are still hung up on peoples' ethnicity and background

Jesus Christ, and it's called Gabagool??

In that me state I live in the pizza shop owners are Greek and Egyptian

>50% of our purchases come from "minority-owned" businesses
why is shit like that legal
that's literally discriminatory business practices

*the state

% of our purchases come from "minority-owned" businesses
>why is shit like that legal
Depends on the type of business. If you're a govt contractor then there are all kinds of rules and regulations that benefit businesses based off of who is the owner.

Does it count as cultural appropriation if you have at least 5% of that ethnicity in your blood?

Do you identify as that 5%?

This user knows how it works.

Devil's advocate: which Mexican restaurants usually have better food? Those run by Mexicans or those run by some other ethnicity.

The issue here is that whites, who historically in America, are in a position of power and any use of any other culture is perceived as exploitation.

Except dumbass liberals are using this as an excuse to attack local businesses instead of shit like Chipotle.

Also where do you draw the line? If it's a burger joint with Latinos in the kitchen are they not allowed to serve burritos?What about halal restaurants run by Greeks? Or Japanese joints run by Koreans?

Honestly I'm less inclined to go to, say, an Indian restaurant that's not run by Indians cuz the food probably sucks worse than a place run by Indians.

I identify as American

I was a defense contractor for years, I learned some hard, frustrating lessons in that time. People who aren't associated with government or defense don't believe me when I tell stories at parties and the like.

Good identity, but likely your 5% wouldn't do much against the SJW hoards.

Seriously though, why fucking restaurants? Why food? Go protest and set shit on fire elsewhere.

Push for accurate representation, e.g. 70% of the population is white so 70% of procurement should come from whites.

great, now i know what restaurants to tip
not on the list = no 20%

What about all those chinese that run japanese food resaurants in portland

Sometimes I really hate living here

Honestly, I don't care since it's Portland. It might show these leftists the true danger of identity politics. Even the most extreme liberals will probably think this is ridiculous and ignore it. I don't anyone actually cares.

I live in Vancouver which is pretty liberal and nobody gives a fuck about that. I've never heard cultural appropriation mentioned in real life.

Sometimes I just want to curl up into a ball and weep. Other times I want to put on a white hood and burn these people's businesses to the ground.

>and I'm not even white

Using the word "positive discrimination" to describe an obviously race driven practice is politically incorrect and will have you labeled as a racist or bigot.

You cannot attempt to even draw a clear logical argument, because in the mind of the people behind this shit its morally acceptable to be racist as long as the "evil oppressor" race is benefiting a "poor, disenfranchised" race to make up for some ambiguity defined, institutionalized inequity or historical wronging.

Its literally some sort of karmic system based on feefees and indoctrination and thought-shaming that supersedes actual objective law or blind justice.

the best chinese place I've ever been to was run by white people

Pretty sure the chinese place I regularly eat is owned by Mexicans and the Taco truck I love is run by a Vietnamese guy.

And I'm Chinese... kek.

This is just another case of white liberals trying to stir up racism and hatred again. Fuck I hate white liberals.

I'm Chinese and my uncle owns two restaurants, a Japanese bar and a steak house. Also all the chefs are Chinese. Does that make him a bad person?

Are you one of the famed rooftop Koreans?

>chinese owning Japanese bar
yes he's a piece a shit and why America has to put up with such garbage Japanese food

brb sending this link to jordan peterson

he'll sort this out for is no time eh

I don't give a fuck who owns the place just as long as the chefs are the same ethnicity as the food they're butchering through americanization

Well they are Californians. Same thing happened here in Washington. Gonna claim they moved away because taxes are too high then proceed to vote for the same thing.

>>>/tumblr/

>jordan peterson
based

I want to know your stories, defense contractor-user.

Also I'm an Asian and couldn't care less who's cooking my food. As long as they make it tastes good. But it being the current year means I have internalized white racism, right?

lol no I was in middle school during the LA riots

You are wrong, user. Let the almighty whites tell you how you should feel.

Well I get along with whitey more than any other race here now that I'm in Texas so I'm okay with this. Just imagine this meme with slanty eyes.

What about fusion cuisine? Like bulgogi tacos? Or Greek pizza? Or falafel subs?

How the fuck does this even work?

I'd ask if you're me, but I'm only half-Asian.

I also know that one of the more popular Asian restaurants in Oly has a Mexican cook because the Asian owner liked him so much she sent him to Vietnam to learn how the cooking from her family.

Do they get a free pass for not being white?

>brb sending this link to jordan peterson
>jordan peterson
that's not how you spell ben garrison

>do they get a free pass for not being white
Of course! Remember, only whitey is rayciss.

lmao portland is such a white city too. they do a great job of hiding all the black people and other undesirables. white guilt libcucks make me sick with this nonsense

No stories over the interwebs, but since you asked nicely I’ll give you a forinstance. Let’s say, forinstance, that there’s a big fuckhuge world-wide government contract worth holyshit. Now it’s a legit contract doing something that helps defense and saves lives, so it’s all on the up and up. Now let’s say 4 businesses make it to the last round of bidding before contract award.

ACME is a massive defense contractor and a Fortune something-hundred company that is owned by shareholders and headed by a white dude. It has thousands of employees and greater logistics than most countries.

Builder Bobs is a mid sized business owned by Bob, an honest black dude who built his business from the ground up.

Alphabet Corp is owned by a pair of disabled veterans, good dudes both and one with amazing connections, and has a staff primarily made up of veterans.

Happy Time Sunshine (HTS) is owned by Allexia, and has a staff of about eight.

Who wins the award? Allexia of course!

You see, HTS tics the most boxes: female owned and operated, small business, and Allexia is a double minority.

Now HTS can’t hope to run that contract, but that’s okay because ACME, the giant corp with tons of dosh and employees, is now HTS’ sub-contractor. Allexia will hand out a few choice jobs to friends via HTS, but mostly Allexia will spend the duration of the contract fishing in say, hypothetically, Anchorage Alaska, where she has just bought a fucking enormous home.

When that contract is up, HTS will find a new contract and do the exact same thing.

Hypothetically of course.

That's absurd.

Portland used to do good beer, is that still a thing or has that been lost to whatever is eating Oregon from the inside.

Only registered half-breeds may operate businesses selling fusion food, maybe? I guess I'd better get started on some Fuzhou-Filipino fusion.

Blame the Khan dynasty and their silk road for bringing spices across asia, europe and the middle east.

All the places that make good beer out here in Oregon still make good beer, but they get drowned out by the massive influx of mediocre craft brews.

Also, the thing eating Oregon from the inside are all the liberal shitstains moving here from other states.

Doesn't an absurd percentage of the world's population have some trace of Khan DNA? Wouldn't that make appropriation impossible?

How dare you wish to live in peace with others around you.

Without looking, I'm guessing Andy Ricker of Pok Pok is #1 on that list.

Fucking stupid. White people invented electricity and in the internet, maybe minorities shouldn't be using that to make money. Its fucking cultural appropriation!

news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/02/0214_030214_genghis.html
Like 8% of the blokes in the world.

FPBP

That's fucking racist, xenophobic, and fascist. Fuck you Oregon! Fucking hell, I live in NorCal and even nobody here acts that fucking retarded. I hope a large group of people collectively kick their asses.

No fuck you, man. Some butthurt dinks make a google spreadsheet about cultural appropriation, and some other dumbass writes a blog about it and you wanna say "fuck you Oregon?"

Nobody anywhere is taking any of this shit seriously.

NO FUCK YOU, MAN.

>taking a "fuck you" on Veeky Forums seriously, come one dude, put the pipe down.

1/200 males of ANY race are direct blood descendents of the Khans...

blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2010/08/1-in-200-men-direct-descendants-of-genghis-khan/

This. One restaurant that had the absolute best food was white-owned and actual Chinese places follow the exact same sub-standard practices and it shows.

...

Tell this to all the latinos in Chinese and Itallian restaurants

Californians and their left wing bullshit happened. They ruin everything.

There's some Jap place at the mall that just makes fried rice and teriyaki chicken with Mexicans working everything.

Every single sushi restaurant in my town is owned by Koreans, but that's okay because all chinks look alike.

It's Portland. These """"people"""" will drive out a joint because it happens to have colonial in the name. Everyone is fat, ugly, and bearded does drugs or vapes. I get the retard at the Subway lecturing to me about how George Washington was an evil person cuz muh indians while I'm waiting for my fucking sandwich. The fucking Rose Parade was canceled because BLM autists got triggered at the Multco Republican Committee was planning on a float. I read through Craiglist ads that out and out advertise for rooms you're not allowed to rent if you don't happen to be a socialistic polyamorous vegan queerfriend.

I myself... am a horrific, unrepentant degenerate. But this city? This city makes me look tame with its awe-inspiring stupidity. I want the Big One to sink the whole fucking Willamette Valley like Port Royal. It needs it, legitimately it needs it by this point. Even Sodom would blush.

oregonlive.com/dining/index.ssf/2016/04/saffron_colonial_changes_name.html

koin.com/2016/03/24/saffron-colonial-draws-protests-over-name/

yelp.com/biz/british-overseas-restaurant-portland

washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/04/27/portland-rose-parade-canceled-after-antifascists-threaten-gop-marchers/

>'murrica
>70% white

Dude, in 2030 whites are under 50%. Just surrender, Christ it doesn't even matter. If you're that obsessed by color, pour a bowl of fruitloops and measure the difference in the rate of milk absorption between the orange and purple loops.

I have a question!

Say I'm white but raised by non-whites for whatever reason. If I've been more exposed to whatever culinary culture my non-white legal guardians raised me with than what should be my native culinary culture and decide to cook food from it, is that cultural appropriation? I mean... culture != race, right. Race is genetic. Culture is learned.
Say I'm genetically similar to Chairman Mao, but I know fuck all about Chinese culture because I was adopted by a German-speaking family from the US: would it be cultural appropriation for me to cook and eat sauerbraten with dark bread or am I only allowed to use twigs to cook and eat noodles and stir fries?

>tfw have to shut down my Mud Pie racket

>Just surrender, Christ it doesn't even matter.

Whatcha doin, Shlomo?

it doesn't piss me off that some people freak out about these non-issue things, what really pisses me off is that people capitulate to their ridiculous demands.

Fuck Saffron Colonial. Pussies.

Fuck whoever is in charge of the Rose Parade. Spineless fucking shits.

I personally would be happy if my food made people butthurt for non food-related reasons. Especially the SJW crowd. If you're pissing them off, you're probably doing something right.

I even admire people who are controversial for food-related reasons. The Massimo Botturas and Heston Blumenthals of the world had to piss a lot of people off to gain their status.

>Say I'm white
you're appropriating everything

The best part about this is that the Burmese place he's pissed at is the only Burmese place in Portland.

Choosing to focus on a meaningless notion like skin color, disregarding socio-economic and cultural factors is the sign of a very small mind.

Having said that, I think the retarded liberals (which I'm not, btw, I'm far left) destroy their right to existence by smarming to the worthless nignogs instead of labor, among whom I include Mexicans - the hardest fucking workers I've ever seen.

>latin
>not white

>Mexicans are the hardest workers I've ever seen.

Bullshit. I fucking hate living or working with Mexicans. The females are aggressive and obnoxious. The males are usually fat and lazy.

Sure, you will get laborers that do an ok job, but that only usually happens when their white male supervisor/boss stays on their ass to not cut corners or not reaching the projected quota.

The Mexicans who work hard know they can easily be replaced in a matter of hours with their shit-tier jobs.

Don't even get me started on restaurants staffed by Mexican cooks. The food quality is inconsistent, but most of the time, sub par.

All the Mexicans I know are hard workers, and all the Mexican-staffed restaurants I go to have high-quality and consistent food.

t. Mexican.

>Choosing to focus on a meaningless notion like skin color, disregarding socio-economic and cultural factors is the sign of a very small mind.

That's not the sign of a small mind.

Skin color isn't meaningless and the idea of deflecting from race to socioeconomic status really doesn't work.

You mention cultural factors..

You're saying that it doesn't matter that white people could be forced into becoming a minority in America, and that's your opinion, but the truth is that it would be tragic for white culture and American tradition.

>(btw, I'm far left)

Yeah, I can tell by your blatant disregard for the preservation of my culture.

>Someone used the first amendment to write something I don't like
>better go vote for my personal lord and savior, DJ Trumpleskillz

This how conservatives can be controlled. Post false flag sjw bullshit and they will vote against their own interests in a heartbeat. No healthcare, more defense spending, less education spending, lower social safety net programs, tax cuts for the rich, corporate oligarchy.... All because Cletus mckneejerk couldn't think it through...

"Cultural appropriation"...only white people believe in this, right?

>this is actually what liberals believe

"No healthcare"... get a fucking real job you loser.

Funny that you would appeal to the first amendment when the topic at hand is people literally trying to censor restaurant names and practices (and succeeding).

>censor restaurant names and practices (and succeeding

No one is forcing you to even read the list, much less boycott a restaurant.

Fucking Billy bob doesn't understand what reading is and tells the elitist liberal to get a job. (what hypocrisy - Liberals are both elitist, and jobless scum right?)

Fuck you, shit for brains.

no, there are a lot of black women who got suckered into the movement too and are yelling about "reclaiming their culture"

I didn't call you an elitist. I called you a loser.

If you can't see how publicly shaming restaurants for "cultural appropriation" and having the word colonial in their name is akin to censorship, then you are delusional.

>shaming is censorship

Do you need a safespace snowflake?

>Saying Oregon was ever cool
>Faggot

The absolute state of your life.

Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information that may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, politically incorrect or inconvenient as determined by governments, media outlets, authorities or other groups or institutions.

Publicly shaming restaurants by calling them racist and publishing articles about it fits into this somewhere...

People hate SJWs because they are constantly trying to censor the world.

>Do you need a safespace snowflake?

No, I think that the central point here is that you appealed to the first amendment to defend SJW censorship.

>>If you're a white person, you have no business running a restaurant that serves Asian, Latin, African, or Indian cuisine.

I have never seen this...

>Liberals are both elitist, and jobless scum right?
Hollywood elites are all liberals, and everybody getting liberal arts degrees are jobless
So yes.