“Rules for thee but not for me,” am I right?
The Social Justice™ left has been on jihad for a number of years now against something called “cultural appropriation,” an egregious genre of “micro-aggression” defined thusly by the now-defunct malignant cancer Everyday Feminism (emphasis added):
Appreciating another culture looks like cultural exchange. You’d have consent to participate in someone else’s culture, and both sides would mutually benefit and gain understanding of each other.
On the other hand, appropriating another culture includes taking from a marginalized group without permission, and usually without respect for or knowledge about their culture…
I want you to consider the fact that real appreciation would include learning about and listening to the people of those cultures.
So, an essential element of avoiding “cultural appropriation” and rather practicing kosher “cultural appreciation” is having and exhibiting “respect for or knowledge about their culture.”
At which point we come to this total travesty of a news segment in which The Race Lady, as Tucker Carlson has dubbed her — adorned in the height of fashion with her blonde highlights, heavy on the chemical and light on the natural — and her colleagues Richard Maddow, brutal lesbian kingpin of cable news, and former-White-House-propagandist-turned-MSNBC-analyst (one and the same job) Jen Psaki brutally mock the flyover peasants over their self-reported concerns about unchecked illegal immigration flooding their homes.
Can’t you feel the “respect” emanating from the Manhattan MSNBC studio?Of course, we’re missing the major Social Justice™ special carve-out for Persons of Color™ such as The Race Lady: the evil whites are not alleged to be “marginalized” — despite the vitriol directed at them in the above segment that would never fly if directed against any other group — and so therefore cannot, by definition, be the victims of cultural appropriation or any such similar horrific crime.
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When you invent concepts out of thin air, why not arbitrarily invent the self-serving rules too?
Continuing via Everyday Feminism, with an extra naughty Halloween costume fatwa added in for good measure:
Don’t you feel the most appreciated when people listen to you and try to understand your perspective – especially when you’re trying to teach them how to stop hurting you? Well, that’s what people of color do when they speak up about cultural appropriation. We want you to know that you can support and appreciate our cultures without appropriating our cultures.
For example, you could support a Navajo artist by purchasing designs directly from them. You could wear a South Asian bindi when invited to do so at an Indian festival. You could research the meaning of Japanese décor and honor that meaning when you include those items in your home.
You would consider the impact of what you’re doing. For instance, if you’re white and include these items in your Halloween costume, you’d be perpetuating harmful stereotypes about people of color. So instead of treating other people’s cultural items as a masquerade, you stick to using these items as they’re intended…
So if you really are trying to help, honor, or appreciate the traditions of other cultures, you should know that appropriation is not the way to do it.
