AllupInyourBiz

The Village Voice posted the winners from its tortilla debate. The entrants submitted which of corn or flour tortillas are better, in 25 words or less. Although the submissions are fairly witty and mildly entertaining, the real attention grabber is the question posed by the Voice, to those who didn’t enter. The intro asks: “Don’t like the winner? Then why didn’t you enter, you lazy Mexican?”Oof! Way to shamelessly promulgate social stereotypes.

No, I’m actually a lazy Danish-American. But my pedigree did directly influence my decision not to participate in the contest. I can only guess that since Gustavo Arellano, the author of the tortilla article, is actually Mexican, he feels like it is ok to write phrases like the one he wrote, above. Kind of like, if you are black, it’s ok to use the N word. Or something. I guess. A long those same lines of logic, I suppose that I could say stuff like, “you freakishly tall scandinavian!” and get away with it.