Petition: Deport Man From Texas Because His Article on Tacos Was ‘Cultural Appropriation’

A petition is demanding that a man be thrown out of Texas because he wrote an article about Austin’s being the home of the breakfast taco — and that’s such a serious instance of cultural appropriation that it’s apparently unforgivable.

Yes, seriously. In fact, the petition had more than 1,300 signatures at the time of publication. .

It all started when Matthew Sedacca — who, according to his Twitter bio, will graduate from Columbia Journalism School this year — wrote an article titled “How Austin Became the Home of the Crucial Breakfast Taco” for the Austin Eater.

It was, apparently, a terrible mistake.

“We, the people of San Antonio and affiliated communities of South Texas, demand that the City of Austin throw Matthew Sedacca out of an unmarked van well outside the boundaries of the state, or make equally suitable amends,” the petition calling for his removal begins.

“It’s [sic] wild inaccuracies, which dangerously approach libel, have already stirred the ire of many South Texas communities and further discord may loom on the horizon,” it continues.

#share#The petition claims that “the subject of tacos . . . has long been a sensitive issue and constant source of inter-regional strife within Texas,” and that Sedacca must face consequences for  “presuming to blunder into a long-running, deep-seated, and hot blooded Texas turf-war armed with the equivalent knowledge of a 30-minute Andrew Zimmern special.”

Now, to be fair, the petitioners do have a few other acceptable solutions to the Sedacca problem other than his deportation. You know, some totally reasonable stuff like “surrender of the offender into custody of the City of San Antonio for mandatory re-education and re-habilitation [sic]” or “prohibition of publishing or disseminating information directly pertaining to topics of Texas heritage and social realities by the offender until (a) the completion of a minimum of ten years’ residency in the state and (b) the completion of 30 hours of state-approved courses including, but not limited to, Texas History and Heritage, Special Topics in Cultural Pluralism, Applied Taqueria Studies, and a seminar in Tex-Mex Disambiguation.”

Yikes.

For what it’s worth, Sedacca doesn’t seem to be all that bothered — he just tweeted a photo of himself eating a burrito accompanied by the caption “burritos 4 life.”