Milk is Racist say experts...

Sad that these "researchers" start out with the intent of making white folks look bad, and then search for anything that will help. The assumption of this study is that those evil white folks had the intent of making things worse for those poor downtrodden people. Sure, white folks often applied solutions that worked for them to people for whom it wasn't a good fit, but assuming the intent was evil instead of beneficial is plain wrong.

"Dr Johanna Zetterstrom-Sharp said the assumption that milk was a key part of the human diet 'may be understood as a white supremacist one', as many populations outside Europe and North America have high levels of lactose intolerance in adulthood."
 

Where are you getting that from Buckeye? - the premise of the study seems to be the social and cultural and economic effect on colonised countries from pushing dairy products onto people who were mostly lactose intolerant.

Evil is probably too strong - but I doubt their main intent was altruistic to local populations with no economic benifit to themselves. And at the very least, as you said,, they applied solutions that were not a good fit for others.

Yes "white supremacist" was probably wrong phrase to use - but it was white colonisers who thought there culture was superior to local populations and tried to impose their culture onto them.

It wasn't white supremacists in the ilk of KKK or Nazism as we mostly understand the term now - but white thinking our culture( including diet and milk being big part of that) is superior and we should impose it on others.
Nobody is saying white people think that now - but was the prevailing attitude at the times of colonising other countries in the days of the British empire and co - hence a study on the historical effects of that.
 
hollydolly said:
it's about paying ... while the country is struggling with a recession
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I think that is an unnecessary worry, I'm not an economist but from what I've read, governments spend money to pull their economies out of a recession. Austerity and people not spending money is (I think) one way to cause a recession to start.
 
January said:
Where are you getting that from Buckeye? - the premise of the study seems to be the social and cultural and economic effect on colonised countries from pushing dairy products onto people who were mostly lactose intolerant.

Evil is probably too strong - but I doubt their main intent was altruistic to local populations with no economic benifit to themselves. And at the very least, as you said,, they applied solutions that were not a good fit for others.

Yes "white supremacist" was probably wrong phrase to use - but it was white colonisers who thought there culture was superior to local populations and tried to impose their culture onto them.

It wasn't white supremacists in the ilk of KKK or Nazism as we mostly understand the term now - but white thinking our culture( including diet and milk being big part of that) is superior and we should impose it on others.
Nobody is saying white people think that now - but was the prevailing attitude at the times of colonising other countries in the days of the British empire and co - hence a study on the historical effects of that.
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The researchers made it clear by saying "the assumption that milk was a key part of the human diet 'may be understood as a white supremacist one'. Heaven forbid that those evil white people try to help the starving local folks...

No good deed goes unpunished...
 
Buckeye - sure, 'white supremacist' was wrong word to use - as I already acknowledged.

Evil is wrong word too - and they are not saying that

But, no, I dont think the white colonisers were doing this to help the poor starving folks - more likely to help their own economic interests.

and of course it had consequences - hence the study o n the effects of those.
 
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January said:
Buckeye - sure, 'white supremacist' was wrong word to use - as I already acknowledged.

Evil is wrong word too - and they are not saying that

But, no, I dont think the white colonisers were doing this to help the poor starving folks - more likely to help their own economic interests.

and of course it had consequences - hence the study o n the effects of those.
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Well, we are never going to agree on this because you are assuming, like the authors of the study, a less than benign motive, and I disagree with assuming that, because that assumption will distort whatever you think you find. The 'research study" then becomes just another form of confirmation bias.

Nothing more for me to say about this issue. Have a Strawberry milkshake!
 
I think it is fair to assume an at least partly less than benign motive on part of colonisers and a misguided one at best

Economic interests were main motive in colonising countries, combining that with the then prevalent attitude of white christian culture is superior to others and we should impose it on them.
 
Llynn said:
Don't the Maasai people in Africa have a culture based upon cows and dairy consumption. As I recall they have lived this way for centuries. If they introduced neighboring tribes to milk consumption, does that make the Maasai racist?
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No.

I would say that If the Maasai "introduced neighboring tribes to milk consumption...", as you put it, that is a form of cultural exchange rather than an imposition. I would think that this type of introduction or exchange is common in many societies and does not inherently carry the same connotations as colonial imposition, or the power dynamics of colonialism.

The Maasai introducing their dairy practices to neighboring tribes would seem to lack any form of power dynamics and coerciveness typical of some colonialism. Not unless you are instead trying to say in your question that, ...if the Massai were to force milk on their neighbors. That then would be a totally different thing to the point made in your original question.

Do you want to refine your question?
 
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January said:
Except nobody is saying anyone is racist - except the clickbait headline.
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I am shocked to find that somebody might write an article headline that is misleading just to make money. What next? Verbal and written words taken out of context to embarrass somebody? Surely not!

Where is the sarcasm emoji?
 
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Brookswood said:
I am shocked to find that somebody might write an article headline that is misleading just to make money. What next? Verbal and written words taken out of context to embarrass somebody? Surely not!

Where is the sarcasm emoji?
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Not sure why you quoted me t o say that.

Yes of course I realise that - however many people in this thread are just reacting to the headline and not the actual study premise.
 
David777 said:
Incorrect. Stated in the link you apparently never carefully read nor posts of others per below that pointed out where it did state that.

Milk is Racist say experts...

Milk is Racist say experts...
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No, nowhere in the statement given by the researcher does it say 'Milk is racist' - she did use the term 'White supremacist' which I have already acknowledged was wrong term - 'white colonialism and white superiority attitudes of the time' would more correctly describe what she was saying.

that was from reading what she was saying in full rather than pouncing on one term incorrectly used
 
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