"Seriously, why does anyone give a sh*t if Zac Efron sports dreads?"
I know people call it cultural appropriation but without using those words I'd like for someone to describe the harm or disrespect that is being done to anyone by someone wearing a certain hairstyle or wearing Asian prints or whatever. I get when the style has significant religious or cultural meaning (I wouldn't wear another groups religious garb for Halloween for example) but I wish a mofo would try to tell me I couldn't wear a certain hairstyle because it belongs to their culture.
I find this issue particularly annoying because folks getting worked up by this make it easy to dismiss more important issues because they all get lumped together as oversensitive PC culture.
I mean come on, how overwrought "My lifestyle is not something you steal and pick up just for fun”? Your lifestyle? Come one B. Unless you a Rasta that sounds like some bullshit.
No one owns culture and if your culture spreads that's typically (granted no always) a good thing.
1. "Lol our generation of complainers are the worst " In response to Reply # 0 Sat Jul-07-18 09:31 AM by Heinz
Theres times where important battles are fought and it makes you smile with a sense of pride. Then there's things like this. Our generation no matter the cause they are fighting for, no matter their race, sex or sexuality.
"You can take an African out of Africa, but you can't take Africa out of the African" Afro-Americana/Afro-Caribbana/Afro-Latino unite. We are ALL Black!
2. "I’m ok with black people going extra" In response to Reply # 0
I don’t agree with it. But a generation of black folks that feel safe enough to claim shit that may or may not be ours and go for each and every neck is one that I can admire. I know our generation had to assimilate and compromise a lot just to get better footing, but there’s a part of me that laments that we didn’t fight as much.
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disproportionate and sensational coverage of the limited backlash.
disproportionate and sensational coverage of the limited backlash amplifying the odds, scope and intensity of a backlash to the backlash.
disproportionate and sensational coverage of the backlash to the backlash.
disproportionate and sensational coverage of why either backlash is bad for society.
youtube recommending a clip from a joe rogan podcast episode where he and another socially displaced white male 'intellectual' whine about the 'crazy times' we live in, how you cant do anything anymore, and how we are headed towards becoming nazi germany or stalinist russia if we arent careful.
7. "RE: thats the cycle." In response to Reply # 6
damn post modernists!!
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8. "Ben Shapiro DESTROYS cuck lib" In response to Reply # 6
>youtube recommending a clip from a joe rogan podcast episode >where he and another socially displaced white male >'intellectual' whine about the 'crazy times' we live in, how >you cant do anything anymore, and how we are headed towards >becoming nazi germany or stalinist russia if we arent >careful. >
>limited backlash. > >disproportionate and sensational coverage of the limited >backlash. > >disproportionate and sensational coverage of the limited >backlash amplifying the odds, scope and intensity of a >backlash to the backlash. > >disproportionate and sensational coverage of the backlash to >the backlash. > >disproportionate and sensational coverage of why either >backlash is bad for society. > >youtube recommending a clip from a joe rogan podcast episode >where he and another socially displaced white male >'intellectual' whine about the 'crazy times' we live in, how >you cant do anything anymore, and how we are headed towards >becoming nazi germany or stalinist russia if we arent >careful. > >
10. "I don't like it at all but...." In response to Reply # 0 Sat Jul-07-18 06:14 PM by NoDrawls McGraw
...I understand the vast scope of our indelible influence on everybody the world over.
If the person is at least melanated, I'm not too much trippin but if the person is of European descent, his anti-racism game gotta be super on-point or its violation.
Like, he can't be no cock racist azz mofo devoid of the culture that he's borrowing from, thats just reckless and grounds for gettin ya azz beat. But of Duke got love for da culture on some flattery shit, its whatever.
"You can take an African out of Africa, but you can't take Africa out of the African" Afro-Americana/Afro-Caribbana/Afro-Latino unite. We are ALL Black!
13. "That's not what cultural appropriation is" In response to Reply # 0
Cultural appropriation is when a culture creates something and is looked down upon or stated as being inferior for it, then another culture comes along and utilizes that creation in a way the originators were not afforded.
An example is how things like chakras and study of the pineal gland is considered "new age" now that white people got a hold of it, but Africans were called savages and demon worshipers for coming up with it in the first place. Or how white women can wear braids and be seen as fashion forward, but black women can't wear them to work because it's deemed "ghetto" or inappropriate for work environments.
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16. "I know you've worked a lot in the corporate sector " In response to Reply # 14
I got out of it as quickly as I could, so you may be able to answer this for me (if you want to, of course).
How often have you encountered black people that are more than willing to perpetuate that sort of thing in the workplace, from a genuine place? I know there's a difference in mentality between somebody trying to keep a job and somebody that's all on board for this madness, and in my short time in that world I ran into more of the latter than the former.
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17. "But White folks are always "exercising their privilege". " In response to Reply # 14
White Privelege isn't a super power that they activate at times to get certain benefits. They are constantly benefiting from it.
As a similar example, white boys in my office can come in looking ratty wearing sneakers and beat up polos. I wouldn't even try to get away coming into the office dressed like that.
Are they exercising white privilege? I don't know but they are fully benefiting from white privelege. Should they not dress like that? I don't know.
I guess I am having a hard time with the rule that white people shouldn't exercise their white privilege because it's like asking them to stop being white.
Also I don't think this definition explains why Jeremy Lin got shit for wearing dreds or why people screamed Cultural Appropriation when the girl wore an Asian Print Dress.
>excellent. > >basically Zac exercising his white privilege by rocking a >hairstyle that would prevent many black people from even >getting certain jobs > >d
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