Thread by @Nrg8000

Outrage over the crackdown in Hong Kong 👎
Outrage over the crackdown in Xinjiang 👎
Outrage over totalitarianism in Vietnam 👎
Outrage over human rights abuses in Cambodia 👎
Outrage over a white woman cooking dumplings 👍🥳👍

https://twitter.com/EVYSTADIUM/status/1329110893133783040

To add some more nuance that didnt fit,
Of course it's valid to have perspectives on local culture issues, and I agree that this is sketchy, but it's been taken to the point where the shop owner has been evicted and lost their livelihood in the middle of a pandemic.

There's a big difference between posting food-takes on twitter/not shopping at a resturant you find problematic and actually ruining someone's life over the fact that they cooked dumplings. I don't eat at a similar resturant near my house because I actually agree with her.

Moreover, taking issue with someone with white privilege opening up an Asian-inspired resturant while using your (different) privilege/platform as a journalist with a national newspaper to get them evicted is itself problematic as hell, imo.

If you are going to focus on these sorts of local culture and community issues you should also look at things like the almost complete ownership of black-beauty stores by Asian Americans (though not saying that the OP isn't concerned about this too).

Also, everyone quote tweeting and saying she's appropriating y'all and stuff.
1) that's not an appropriation it's a pretty common gender neutral way to refer to a group of people
2) you can't really appropriate the dominant culture anyway, because like, it's dominant already.