Title : "In its early days, the pleasure of 'The Great British Baking Show' was in the reassuring fantasy it built under a high-pitched country tent..."
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"In its early days, the pleasure of 'The Great British Baking Show' was in the reassuring fantasy it built under a high-pitched country tent..."
"... an endless source of cheeky innuendo, serious amateur baking and absolutely nothing else. The worst thing imaginable was that someone’s Battenberg cake would come out a bit asymmetrical, or that one baker might accidentally use another baker’s custard.... But over its 12 years on the air, the worst thing imaginable on Bake Off has gotten worse, again and again. Last week, the hosts, Noel Fielding and Matt Lucas, strolled up a grassy slope dressed in fringed serapes and straw sombreros to introduce 'Mexican Week' with tired puns, saying they shouldn’t make 'Mexican jokes' but proceeding to do just that. The show had hit rock bottom, revealing what it had managed to obscure in the past with a bit of charm.... The 'Bake Off' clips were shared incredulously and angrily on Twitter, days before the episode even aired. The phrase 'Mexican Week' quickly became shorthand for profound culinary blunder, presented with a sense of naïve triumph. An image of a cursed avocado, lopped away with a knife, became the episode’s unofficial mascot, as if a home cook unfamiliar with peeling an avocado should feel humiliated."From the top comments over there:
Like so many articles in the New York Times that cover accusations of racism or cultural appropriation, readers are left pondering what actually happened. Other than straw sombreros, an abused avocado and a reference to a reference about “tired puns”, there’s no real reporting in here that actually informs readers about what was done that was so bad.
And:
I watched the episode. There was much adoration and respect expressed by all the people in the show, contestants, judges, and hosts, for Mexico and its culture. Just because people are ignorant of a different culture when they set out to explore it, doesn't mean they're racist. It was an example of how people would set out to learn. But instead of celebrating people taking an interest in learning about another culture, we condemn them for not knowing it automatically. How are we to ask people to explore other cultures and respect other people when we shame them as they learn?
And:
I'm sorry, its not 'The Great British Baking Show' that has hit a nadir, but we here in America being so woke that even the slightest bit of bad humor is considered a monumental transgression....
From the top comments over there:
Like so many articles in the New York Times that cover accusations of racism or cultural appropriation, readers are left pondering what actually happened. Other than straw sombreros, an abused avocado and a reference to a reference about “tired puns”, there’s no real reporting in here that actually informs readers about what was done that was so bad.
And:
I watched the episode. There was much adoration and respect expressed by all the people in the show, contestants, judges, and hosts, for Mexico and its culture. Just because people are ignorant of a different culture when they set out to explore it, doesn't mean they're racist. It was an example of how people would set out to learn. But instead of celebrating people taking an interest in learning about another culture, we condemn them for not knowing it automatically. How are we to ask people to explore other cultures and respect other people when we shame them as they learn?
And:
I'm sorry, its not 'The Great British Baking Show' that has hit a nadir, but we here in America being so woke that even the slightest bit of bad humor is considered a monumental transgression....
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