shout-out to the mad lad in the 90s who decided that describing america as a "melting pot" was insufficiently inclusive and that a better metaphor would have america as a "tossed salad"
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gosh can you imagine writing a paper on this instead of a dismissive twitter thread no citations here from before 2004 but I distinctly remember this getting pushed in the mid 90spic.twitter.com/IPA2E8XA8i
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i must know where this came from its development and promulgation feels like a microcosm of something large and dumb
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Uncle Sam wants YOU to toss his salad
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imagination deficits rule everything around mepic.twitter.com/2n9MWhjhwH
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Worlds most manipulative use of passive voice
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You might as well say “just so you know, we all had a meeting without you and think this is for the best”
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Passive imperative
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Feels like the basic sleight of hand is the suggestion that cultural criticism and culture are two entirely different things the pretense that "america is a tossed salad" is somehow superior to the ideas it implicitly judges
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America has been reduced down to a series of competing ethnic interests who are dead set on making wealth a zero sum game does not sell very lax immigration policies as well. It is also very long to say.
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