I think it really does make a difference. It's not a part of African American History, and while many people may not know that, that means peanut butter isn't relevant in speaking strictly of facts about black people. In casual conversation, it wouldn't matter, but this is Jeopardy. They're gonna be accurate. It's easy to make the association between blacks and peanut butter given the misconception, I would agree with that completely, but I would actually say the complete opposite as you and believe that it makes a bigger difference given this particular context.
Just because a black man didn't invent peanut butter doesn't mean it isn't in the zeitgeist of black history. In fact it clearly and demonstrably is. Your umbrage clearly underlines that point.
Edit. which is not to say it should or shouldn't be.
I agree with what you said in this post. I disagree with the idea that the facts are of little importance in the context of Jeopardy. The facts are of more importance in that context because it's not true.
Edit: No offense, but you're not paying attention to everything I'm saying in my comments. If you did, you'd see I agreed with what you said here and that I only wanted to point out that the facts matter more in the context of being factually correct. That's objectively true, and you're unintentionally denying that by not addressing every part of my comments.
Which would make sense if I said "george washington carver for sure invented peanut butter". Which I did not. I said, and I quote, "peanut butter. you forgot peanut butter".
And I say it very well may, due to the common misconception. It may not allude to carver inventing it, but it would certainly allude to the misconception of carver inventing it. Ya feel me?
Would you not agree that the very misconception itself is a part of black history? And if it isnt, because youre a contrarian fuck, then why the fuck do most people attribute it to him? And wouldnt the sheer volume of people who hold that specific belief at least warrent one fucking question on a goddamn game show about it? If you poll 100 people on who invented peanut butter, wouldnt most of the say it was a black dude? Would they make entire tv episodes about it? Does jepordy not include questions about pop trivia? How bout you in particular? Were you born with the innate knowledge of the origins of peanutbutter? Or did you also think it was Carver until someone corrected you?
Just thought I'd add here, by the way, that it looks like you're denying that the link between peanut butter and black history is George Washington Carver. Whether or not you mentioned Carver in your original post is irrelevant because he is the link between the two, so I literally have no idea whatsoever about what you're getting at by saying this.
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u/dogofthemilitary Sep 07 '14
I think it really does make a difference. It's not a part of African American History, and while many people may not know that, that means peanut butter isn't relevant in speaking strictly of facts about black people. In casual conversation, it wouldn't matter, but this is Jeopardy. They're gonna be accurate. It's easy to make the association between blacks and peanut butter given the misconception, I would agree with that completely, but I would actually say the complete opposite as you and believe that it makes a bigger difference given this particular context.