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Originally Posted by abookreader
..."horrific mistake, we're sorry...
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Mis-programming your cancer center's radiation therapy machine to cook the patients is a horrific mistake.
Making a typo in a recipe is a minor glitch.
The big problem here is a matter of perspective: First, on the part of the people who reacted to an inadvertent typo as if it was, well, "horrific" instead of just a freakin' typo. Second, on the part of the ones who think this somehow indicates that that person, that company, or the entire industry are a bunch of callous jerks.
Am I a callous jerk? Um, never mind, don't answer that.
But is my entire industry (I'm a website designer) callous jerks because I agree that it's a silly typo?
I'm reminded of a person I knew in college who reacted to everything that could potentially be seen as a slight (at least, if you stretched reeeeeal hard) by claiming to be emotionally traumatized and demanding apologies from not only whoever said whatever she got bent out of shape about, but everyone who was in the room who hadn't leaped to her defense and done something about it (whether or not they were even aware of it). She thought she was exercising power by demanding all these apologies and holding massive grudges over things that nobody in their right mind would consider offensive. Everybody else thought she was a self-centered whiner with severe entitlement issues. (and no, she wasn't a member of any identified minority group)
She never learned that strength is toughness, fortitude, perseverance, endurance ... it's the ability to withstand
real attacks,
real adversity, without breaking ... it's not getting butthurt over every possible way that anything anyone said, even if not to her, could be turned into something she could take offense at. She got her apologies, just to shut her up, but she bought them at the price of respect.
And again, there is no historical precedent for white people eating black people. It's not an offensive reference because there's nothing for it to refer
to. Cannibals generally eat their neighbors. They eat their traditional enemies, or sometimes their own relatives, or if the legends that gave rise to Sweeny Todd are to be believed, the occasional barbershop customer. If it referred to lynching, that would be offensive, because it's a reference to something that happened. Cookbooks aren't.
Besides, any Kanamit cook knows people are all the same color when you skin them.
