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Ultra-woke U. of Colorado Anthropology Department fights two pushy Indians claiming to be victims of Pungent Odor Racism.

From the New York Times news section:

Couple Receive $200,000 Settlement After ‘Pungent’ Indian Food Complaint

The University of Colorado, Boulder, denied liability in the civil rights lawsuit, which the couple filed after a comment about a dish that one of them was heating in an office microwave.

By Michael Levenson

Jan. 23, 2026

It started with a comment about a graduate student’s lunch, a creamy Indian dish called palak paneer made with spinach and cheese, that he was heating in an office microwave in the anthropology department at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

“Oof, that’s pungent,” the student, Aditya Prakash, recalled an administrative assistant telling him.

Mr. Prakash, an Indian citizen who was studying for a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology, said the administrative assistant then told him there was a rule against microwaving strong-smelling food in the office.

Mr. Prakash said it was the kind of remark that made many Indians in the West afraid to open their lunches in public spaces.

What could be more racist than the anthropology department at the University of Colorado, Boulder? Clearly, a nest of MAGA white supremacists like this secretary with the sensitive nose.

When he told the administrative assistant that he did not appreciate her comment, she started shouting at him, he said. Two days later, he and four other students, including his partner, Urmi Bhattacheryya, who was also studying for a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology, responded by heating Indian food in the same microwave.

This sounds like a Curb Your Enthusiasm episode among the terminally Woke. But who is Larry and who is Suzy in this drama?

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