Vox Media's food website says it's OK to throw milkshakes and eggs at people you don't agree with politically (what could go wrong?)

Greg P. | 7:33 AM on June 24, 2019

Eater, which is Vox Media’s food vertical, has a new piece up that says “throwing milkshakes and eggs has become the perfect act of protest”:

Why throwing milkshakes and eggs has become the perfect act of protest https://t.co/Aq1JUk5bkw pic.twitter.com/co8UzBjrNb

— Eater (@Eater) June 22, 2019

You see, the author of the piece, Jenny Zhang, thinks it’s totally cool to throw “milkshakes and other foods” at fascists:

I'm not sure why this is published at something called @Eater. I guess @Thrower didn't want it. pic.twitter.com/qLrAP6BuBa

— Some guy tweeted something ??‍♂️ (@jtLOL) June 23, 2019

What possibly could go wrong?

I’m going to respond in a way you don’t like.

— EducatëdHillbilly™ (@RobProvince) June 23, 2019

You throw something at me and I will respond to violence with violence. https://t.co/QPETlTKv2D

— alexandriabrown (@alexthechick) June 23, 2019

We expect Eater would have a different view if people threw food at people during, say, a pro-abortion rally:

If people threw milkshakes and eggs at abortion rights protesters in front of a Planned Parenthood, @jennygzhang would have never written this garbage word vomit

— Cameron Gray (@Cameron_Gray) June 23, 2019

What’s possibly worse is that Zhang ignored the vile history of “milkshaking” here in America. She writes:

Symbolic or historical resonance: In the U.K., “milkshakes have replaced eggs as the protest projectile of choice,” Dan Kaszeta wrote recently for the Atlantic, following a few weeks of non-stop “milkshaking” directed at right-leaning political figures. According to experts interviewed by the New Statesman, there are multiple ways to read into the milkshake as a symbol: an object of youthful fun wielded against bullying bigots; an “everyman” choice enjoyed by the masses; a subversion of the alt-right’s seizure of milk as a symbol of white supremacy.

In all likelihood, though, the first milkshake that was thrown — at Tommy Robinson, in early May, twice in two days — was simply out of convenience and spontaneous outrage. Sometimes, as Kaszeta wrote, “a milkshake is just a milkshake.”