hello,

i was just informed that a vegan company based out of portland, oregon US is claiming to have made a breakthrough in “Asian cuisine.” they premise the necessity for their product based off of ignorant, disrespectful claims -

CLAIM 1: “the number of vegan alternatives [to fish sauce] is staggeringly small” -  to which i say do you think maybe you’re just ignorant? that you didn’t grow up SE asian? so you don’t have access to our vegan fish sauce? are you saying that it doesn’t exist because white people can’t have it? because surely you aren’t so deluded as to think that SE asian buddhism didn’t mean that veganism was a thing there long before it was a thing here, in the white american world? do you think that that white supremacy and first world veganism have colluded to make everyone think that non-white vegans don’t exist or that we do but we’re just doing it wrong? because i assure you, it exists

CLAIM 2: fish sauce is “gross.” i don’t know where to start with this one. i haven’t let this culture’s white supremacist anti-vietnameseness translate into raging self-hate long enough to still tolerate this disrespectful “FREAKY EXOTIC ASIAN FOOD” bullshit. fish sauce is vietnamese blood. you cannot begin to understand its role in our culture. i’ve said it before and i’ll say it again, you know your veganism is shit when you rely on old racist tropes to promote it

yeah yeah. fuck you too.

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