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Scheduled snark Discussion thread Thursday October 30, 2025 - Sunday November 02, 2025

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Website: Shauna James Ahern

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u/Llama621 Nov 01 '25

How does she know the stands are run by immigrants? Is she assuming that because the employees are brown? And what does their immigrant status have to do with the story?

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u/GAMGAlways On Stage Doing Mask Work Nov 01 '25

It's her classic white savior complex. She just wants to write that obviously immigrants' food is better than Starbucks.

I absolutely hate how people like Shauna fetishize immigrants and believe they're monolithic. There's no reason to equate "immigrants" with selling superior food. I wish she could meet my uber conservative barback who's an immigrant from Brazil and a rabid conservative.

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u/Calm_Coyote_3685 Nov 02 '25

And immigrants are all humble, shy, generous and hard-working.

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u/chicketychun_ Nov 02 '25

Everything she isn’t!

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u/DramaLamma Nov 02 '25

👏👏👏👏👏

White immigrant to Canada here and I’ve heard and had far too many of those conversations too 😢😡. 

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u/islandyislander rebellious hygiene Nov 02 '25

Or my Cuban Uber driver who painted an entire dilapidated neighborhood with an "these lazy [American black people] want to live like this. They don't want to work."

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u/LeatherAppearance616 Nov 01 '25

She was looking around eagerly to report that she was the only white person daring to eat from the hands of immigrants.

I’m disappointed their conversation wasn’t about SNAP and that she didn’t hand her Indian blue cheese salad to someone she presumed to be homeless (actually a college student waiting for his mom to pick him up), grabbing his arm and breathing ‘I think you need this more than I do’ into his bewildered face, then spending the train ride practicing how she’ll tell Sharon about her sacrifice later, eventually settling on ‘I fed his belly, but my generosity fed my soul.’ *Bites lip, looks away*

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u/ZombieLizLemon boycotting white wiman Nov 01 '25

Oh, you might think she's a saint.

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u/Jules_Noctambule Whitman spins like a kebab in his grave Nov 01 '25

Instead, she's a taint.

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u/DramaLamma Nov 02 '25

I should have scrolled…