All "authenticity" actually means is white people feeling like they having a proper experience looking at other people. That this desire for authenticity--whether in food, music, clothing, language, or whatever--gets normalized and then used as an oppressive force against people who do not conform to...
against “authenticity”
I know we need another discussion of the relationship between food and authenticity like we need another post about Hillary or Bernie, Which One Will Save America and Which One.
Authenticity is basically a meaningless concept that says everything about the desires of the user and nothing about the history or meanings of an actual thing which the term is.
I think our commenter Bob sums it up well: If authenticity mattered Billy Ray Cyrus, born into a Pentecostal family in KY, would be a much better musician than Ingram Cecil Connor III, better known as Gram Parsons, who was driven to prep school by...
The post below about Rob's immortalization was somewhat embarrassing for me, as I actually own the album in that "compact disc" format your grandparents may have told you about, but.
Essentially, the only remaining interest in the "revelations" about John Edwards at this point is that they provide a good example of how narratives are put together by political journalists.