blockclubchicago.org/2020/07/21/logan-square-neighbors-say-vendor-appropriating-latino-culture-with-popsicle-cart-similar-to-paleta-cart

*A Logan Square man is facing backlash for launching an ice cream and popsicle cart that looks like the many paleta carts that dot the once-predominately Latino neighborhood.

Over the weekend, cart owner John Lawrence Geary announced his Logan Square business, Peachy, on Facebook alongside a photo of a blue ice cream cart.

“Today we’ll be in the park at the monument with this cart slangin’ Vegan Ice Cream Popsicles (today’s flavs are Peach and Strawberry)… non dairy, vegan, all organic ingredients … locally made, small batch and home schooled,” the post reads.

The post ignited a firestorm of controversy, with commenters accusing the cart owner of cultural appropriation and of stealing business from paleteros, who are already struggling due to the pandemic.*

This is f***ing ridiculous tbh. How is an ice cream authentically Mexican?

Na f*** him guey

Threatening to burn somebody alive and their stand just because they sell popsicles? F*** is wrong with people now. There seems to be this degree of being allowed to just unload hatred on a group of people because they are a certain color. It's exactly what these wokists preach against. Cultural appropriation makes zero sense. What happens when something has a complicated historical origin, or a word has multiple conflicting etymologies? There needs to be a national cleansing of this internet crusading woke bullshit

Bro wrote a whole essay

I don’t understand how you read that article, then asked that question

Arguably the most apparent similarity between controversies like these, is the Mob thinking they can dictate what people can and can't do, can and can't say. It's like you're either 100% with us or you’re against us. And if you're against us, guess what? Im going to track you and your employer down. Tbh, If you don’t like it, how about you don’t invest your money in it? Free market exists. Free WILL EXISTS. We all have the power of choice. Hivemind is catastrophic right now.

The us vs them attitude makes for an easy fuse.

don't think the guy meant any harm but how can you not see how people are upset about this

The concept that this only belongs to us and is only for us to capitalize on is dangerous. The US is a free market, making death threats and throwing tantrums over a local entrepreneur for trying to get by while he's out of work is ignorant and dangerous.

The worlds ending but let’s get upset cause a man selling ice cream out a cart. Makes sense to me OP

okay man

*wei

I don’t see anything wrong with it. Cultural appropriation is arbitrary. Read my posts

These are the same mfs that would get mad if he used a "gentrifying" or "colonialist" European-style cart too I'm sure

'Woke' culture moves the goalposts for being anti-racist so fast that it's nearly impossible to do anything not considered racist at this point

Stop tryna steal my culture !!!!

no one trusts a white paletero, we’d look at him like he’s the feds, like an undercover scoping out the park getting ready to snatch some people up

Look at this thread f***ing insanity social media is not real life

Good

Can you please explain because I'm a bit lost too..

White people invented popsicles.