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The American Mind

Ethnomathematics and Based Trader Joe’s | The Roundtable Ep. 29 Segment 3

The American Mind

The Claremont Institute

Philosophy, News, Society & Culture

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

The woke mob has already come for your jobs, your education, your media, your very way of life. Now, they’re coming for basic truths of the world like 2+2=4. Seriously. Our editors weigh in on the downward spiral in which we find ourselves. Meanwhile, Trader Joe’s provides a glimmer of hope by refusing to bend the knee to wokesters.

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To be tough and sharp, person, woman, man, camera, TV.

0:07.0

They say, that's amazing. How did you do that?

0:10.0

Person, woman, man, camera, TV. person woman man camera TV

0:15.0

So they say could you repeat that person woman man camera TV

0:21.0

So I said, I said, you know, that person, woman, man, camera, TV.

0:27.0

Well, that's not the hardest task.

0:30.0

For our final segment, I wanted to bring up this evidence or this example of virtue and excellence

0:36.8

in a time of cowardice retreat and before the forces of woke social and media pressure.

0:48.0

And that is Trader Joe's, they got some flack about their brands.

0:53.6

So Trader Justice always had a sort of fun and cheeky way

0:56.3

of presenting some of its ethnic foods

0:58.5

by calling its Mexican line of products,

1:00.6

Trader Jose's or Latin American more broadly speaking and his it's

1:04.6

Italian stuff trader jatos and it's it's Asian cuisine trader mings. Now that

1:11.9

this is not the first objection to this kind of stuff, the sort of the left-wing

1:16.4

objection to this goes way back.

1:18.3

And even Trader Joe's upon initial complaint about this stuff looked like they were going to cave, but they quickly came roaring back with this wonderful statement.

1:27.0

I encourage you all to look it up.

1:28.0

But the gist of it was basically, I really love this too because they basically said look first of all we don't run our

1:34.3

business in terms of petitions second our customers really like this stuff

1:39.0

when that changes will change it's just wonderfully refreshing because their core argument was come on people where we're a business and we're in the business of selling stuff and people kind of like the way that we've had fun with our ethnic

1:54.9

food so why don't you all get out of here? This is a veritable feast of

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