[Saddam Hussein]

Why has this non-issue been getting so much attention over the past few years?

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/27/miley-cyrus-twerking-cultural-appropriation

http://racerelations.about.com/od/hollywood/a/Cultural-Appropriation-In-Music-From-Madonna-To-Miley-Cyrus.htm

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/06/04/pharrell-harry-styles-and-native-american-appropriation.html

This is liberalism going too far.  This is political correctness run amok.  This is white guilt.  This is over-sensitive social justice warriors who are apparently bored and looking for something new to complain about.  This is the kind of thing that Thork would rant about, and he'd be right.  Seriously, this is ridiculous.  It's backwards, regressive, and goes against everything that a multicultural society stands for.  Elements of foreign cultures are assimilated into the mainstream all the time.  Pizza and tacos are the result of "cultural appropriation."  Rock music is the result of "cultural appropriation."  Our culture would literally stagnate if we did what these whiners apparently want us to do - forever restrict white people to "white people stuff," or black people to "black people stuff," etc.

Find an actual issue to complain about, social justice warriors.

[Particle Person]

Literally nobody here is going to disagree with anything you said. We all know people who complain about "cultural appropriation" are retarded.

[Ghost of V]

Concerning The Guardian article: I'm surprised that this is considered journalism. It reads like a blog. Or are those the same thing now? 

[Saddam Hussein]

Comment is free is an opinion section.

[fappenhosen]

Why has this non-issue been getting so much attention over the past few years?

Because those weekend supplements won't fill themselves.

[Pete Svarrior]

Why has this non-issue been getting so much attention over the past few years?

Because Tumblr created a bubble where crazy people can encourage each other to be crazy, thus making them further "develop" their views.

[rooster]

I am an Elvis fan and I agree with everything Saddam said.

He was in the same financial bracket as poor blacks and snuck into their churches all the time. It's the music he grew up on and loved, he didn't steal it.  The except same argument is true for Eminem.

If they want black music for the blacks only then they should get out all of white music and just go ahead segregate themselves competely.

[Saddam Hussein]

I am an Elvis fan and I agree with everything Saddam said.

He was in the same financial bracket as poor blacks and snuck into their churches all the time. It's the music he grew up on and loved, he didn't steal it.  The except same argument is true for Eminem.

If they want black music for the blacks only then they should get out all of white music and just go ahead segregate themselves competely.

But what about headdresses?

[rooster]

That's slightly different. We didn't slaughter all the blacks and then let our super hipster babes wear African skirts and face paint to take selfies.

I don't know if you've noticed but Indians are still segregated and a lot of them want to be.

[Fortuna]

Why has this non-issue been getting so much attention over the past few years?

Because social justice warriors have a socially acceptable avenue in our culture to spread their viewpoints and they're capitalizing on it. They want recognition, money, respect, whatever. You're right that it's labeled as progressive when it's really regressive.

[Thork]

That's slightly different. We didn't slaughter all the blacks and then let our super hipster babes wear African skirts and face paint to take selfies.

I don't know if you've noticed but Indians are still segregated and a lot of them want to be.

No, its all one way traffic. The white man has to keep apologising. Anyone else can do what the hell they like.

http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/worldcup/world-cup-2014-fifa-investigate-image-of-fans-wearing-black-face-paint-during-ghana-vs-germany-9556535.html


These fans - racist


This guy - not racist

Both at the same game. The white guys go get questioned by police.

[rooster]

hahaha, yes. So racist.

[Ghost Spaghetti]

For once, even I'm not going to bother defending this. So long as the appropriation isn't being actively derogatory to the group* then why not assimilate the good elements of a minority culture into the mainstream? Curry is now a staple of the British diet and it's all the better for it.

Dressing in an American-Indian headdress - fine. Dressing that way then doing the stupid 'theyum very niceum peopleum' voice - not so much.

[Ghost of V]

Comment is free is an opinion section.

Oh.

[fappenhosen]

These fans - racist

Not quite.

What are they saying, derogatory or favourably, about any race?

[Thork]

For once, even I'm not going to bother defending this. So long as the appropriation isn't being actively derogatory to the group* then why not assimilate the good elements of a minority culture into the mainstream? Curry is now a staple of the British diet and it's all the better for it.

Dressing in an American-Indian headdress - fine. Dressing that way then doing the stupid 'theyum very niceum peopleum' voice - not so much.

We don't eat curries from the middle east. We invented all our own. Madras, Masala, Coronation chicken, Phall. If claiming Indians invented our curries because spices happen to grow in their part of the world, bare in mind aircraft, cargo ships, world trade networks and industrial agriculture were all invented by us, then I think you are clutching at straws. But keep the myth of how useful immigrants are going if it relieves some of your white guilt.

[Particle Person]

bare in mind aircraft, cargo ships, world trade networks and industrial agriculture were all invented by us

What? The first functional fixed wing aircraft was an American invention. The first cargo ships were built many hundreds of years before the British Isles were inhabited by any civilization that wasn't tribal.

[Thork]

The jet engine is British and we dug the Suez canal. Curry is completely down to us, not Indians.

[rooster]

Thork trolls threads even when we generally agree with his sentiments.

[juner]

These fans - racist

Without reading the post at all or reading the shirts, I immediately thought the guy on the left was Thork and that he put on some weight...  Must've been the camo pic he posted a while ago.