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Gondolindrim said:
Not liking certain foods in not xenophobia, I feel like some people need to be told that.
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It's pointless to argue things like 'Don't eating foreign food is xenophobic' (But eating it is cultural appropiation) 'don't dating so and so race is racist' (but dating them is race fetishisation) and such

Just assume you will never win and plain ignore.
 
Gondolindrim said:
Not liking certain foods in not xenophobia, I feel like some people need to be told that.
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That's not even the joke though! If anything the joke is explicitly ANTI-xenophobic.

1. In America gas stations are not generally associated with food. If you get food at a gas station, you get something prepackaged and sealed up like some candy or chips. If it's anything cooked there (like hotdogs), it's ALWAYS portrayed as very suspicious.
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2. Also in America, gas stations are NOT associated with the Japanese, but typically Indians or Hispanics.

So the phrase "gas station sushi" is basically a way of denoting the most suspicious food imaginable. Since sushi is known as "raw fish" getting raw fish from a gas station NOT run by Japanese is the height of stupidity. The meme is literally saying you are best to get a food FROM the people who are the source of it. The Tropers have literally interpreted the meme backwards!
 
Flexo said:
1. In America gas stations are not generally associated with food. If you get food at a gas station, you get something prepackaged and sealed up like some candy or chips. If it's anything cooked there (like hotdogs), it's ALWAYS portrayed as very suspicious.
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in new orleans the best poboys are the ones you get in gas stations
 
The Simpsons, in the 90s, makes a joke about Americans being historically illiterate and only knowing pop-culture narratives. TVT proves it wrong by...regurgitating the pop-history narrative.
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"The Civil War was about slavery" is true in the same way "WW2 was about Jews" is true- technically correct but such a gross, disingenuous simplification that I automatically assume anyone who spouts it is a smoothbrain.
 
A.P. Hill said:
The Simpsons, in the 90s, makes a joke about Americans being historically illiterate and only knowing pop-culture narratives. TVT proves it wrong by...regurgitating the pop-history narrative.
View attachment 6233991"The Civil War was about slavery" is true in the same way "WW2 was about Jews" is true- technically correct but such a gross, disingenuous simplification that I automatically assume anyone who spouts it is a smoothbrain.
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There's nothing disingenuous or oversimplified about it since that's exactly why the Confederate States leadership said they left the US. That's the states right they were by far most concerned about. Read what South Carolina said about it. Or read CSA VP Alexander Stephens's speech about it where he glosses over all the other issues the South had and devotes the bulk of his speech to explaining why the most important issue is slavery based on the natural inequality of races and is the cornerstone upon which the CSA was founded.

The only thing TV Tropes is wrong about is asserting there's a "Confederate Declaration of Independence" when there is no such document.
 
This isn't anything too major but I just think it's really funny. Imagine going to a thread marked "Spoilers untagged", being told multiple times that you don't have to worry about tags, and then still doing it.
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Reading comprehension is a fundamental skill.
 
Flexo said:
Way back in the days before TVTropes, there was Jabootu who had his own lexicon...

I am now curious if that trope is still on the site or if it has been removed for being "too mean" or something towards people's writings.
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Mostly Informed Attractiveness. Though, you can tell whenever it gets slapped onto a character, it's either someone really autistic and being anal about media that has pretty much everyone look cute or pretty, or it's someone with massive insecurity, and you can tell was thinking "No, they're aren't that pretty and that offends me" when editing the page.
 
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