Comment on thx for the diabeetus

KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• F_State@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Maize (corn) processed into masa like they did for millennia in the Americas is highly nutritious. White people thought it was something dumb brown people did and didn’t reap the true benefits of the crop

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• amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  that’s like blaming potatoes for deaths caused by green potatoes.

  corn doesn’t cause anemia or malnutrition, it’s partly because it’s not processed properly through nixtmalization and partly because of poverty caused by colonialism

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  • KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Potatoes aren’t green by default when ripe.

    “this is like blaming guns for killing people, it’s just that they didn’t have the right bullets loaded”

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    • reabsorbthelight@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      But it’s the bullets fault the potatoes are green!! Is the fascist colonists immigrants hasn’t shot the potatoes, they’d be brown!

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