**** if no one is gonna speak up in favour I almost feel like I should take the mantle up and offer a different perspective. I just can’t though, it’s utter ****.
People who cry cultural appropriation are just people that are desperate to be offended ..................... usually on behalf of other people. In theory the 'argument' should work both ways, but sadly it never does with these people. So if white people 'appropriate' from black culture that's an outrage, but if its the other way around .................. well that's just diversity, so that's ok. These people need to take a long hard look at themselves .................... if they are that desperate to get offended about something (on other peoples behalf) there is a lot more things to shout about other than what some lass from Little Mix's new barnet looks like!!!
Just another example of people taking a minority viewpoint in society and trying to make it a big thing that is a problem. Yes, there are people who accuse others of "cultural appropriation", but they are few and far between. People need to start filtering out nutters from their social media feeds. It's like the whole "PC gone mad", "PC brigade", "libtards" kind of argument. Folk who hear something through the always on/anyone has a voice media channels we have now and they take a random voice in the ether as an actual mainstream thing/idea/opinion. Back it up with a viral video and "hey presto", society is breaking down and the sky is caving in. Cultural appropriation as a concept is nothing. Move on.
Your picture suggests your being jonjo-ist. Your basically being racist about bald people- you should be ashamed..... In fact I’m being frenchist for having a picture of ginola............ The queen is being posh-ist for being different than me with more money than me...... You can basically turn anything into a racist/abusive slur. All this pc crap has gone far to far. In my simple opinion racism and abuse should be judged not on what was said but how it was intentionally meant to come across.
Almost. If a perfectly nice old dear refers to people as Pakis because that's what her late husband always called them, you should inform her that the term is inherently offensive whatever her intention. Extreme examples of this sort aside, though, I generally agree.
I just searched "dreadlocks" on google image search. At least 10% of the images were random white people including the twat Bieber and Johnny Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean. But noooooooo. It's obviously a black/plymouth rock/malcolm x/rodney king/race hate thing.
This is a subject that is very close to my heart as I have actually been accused of cultural appropriation. However as I explained to them, there is very little I can do about the size of my penis.
I don’t think it would be fair say you’ve appropriated that from another culture though. No culture is that ugly. It’s just the damage of dark side blood.
And if you think that was in extremely poor taste I apologise but am getting mighty sick of all these internet terms which appear to have been coined for people who get their kicks out of insulting people on the internet. I just heard another one the other day: Virtue Signalling - expressing sympathy for a cause to make yourself look better in the eyes of others rather than because you are sympathetic to the cause. Amazing that we now have to have a whole set of new terms to enable us to criticise each other and says something about how social media wirks.
It is in part a creation of the creation that is social media, I do however think that people like actors, musicians and the idle wealthy such as Paris Hilton, or those Star Trek lot who come down from their rarefied strata to pronounce on poverty, famine, sexual harassment and whatever other virtuous cause they have to promote to the little people should receive as critical a reception as is possible. I thought Mata who made such a fuss of the notion of giving 1% of his salary to charity was a complete bellend, Zaha very quietly has always donated 10% of his salary, he didn't feel the need though to go out and say look at me being virtuous though, Bono who has a net worth of over £600 million is another who wants us to all give so he can look virtuous, the term comes from their actions and the simple motivation that drives it of "Look at me being good", now though thanks to social media the little people can go online and say how they feel rather than just down the pub to a couple of mates, it's not the sentiment that has changed just the ability to deliver it to a wider audience just like the great and good.
Reminds of a story that Richard Branson says is the funniest thing he heard. Apparently during a U2 concert Bono stopped the music and suddenly started clapping his hands every few seconds. He said “Every time I clap my hands a child dies in Africa” and some bright spark in the audience shouted “then stop clapping you twat”.
I think it's the attention seeking attitude that has been propelled by social media. After all the **** LGBT and minorities went through in the name of who they are, it must seriously piss them off to be in a world where racism and homophobia is socially frowned upon, but see these people bitching about clothing or creating 2,462 different genders (and one that's none) to get attention by shamelessly piggybacking on the actual **** they went through. Years ago these people were beaten in the street, now these self-entitled moronic arseholes act like they're facing the same kinds of prejudice just because of a few comments on YouTube, or an ad, or because a squirrel looked at them funny. But when you get to the bones of it, where are they professing their 'struggles', their 'plight'? All over Facebook for a few ****ing likes. We've created a self-obsessed society where social image reigns over actuality and likes are more important than friends. My mates one of them, you say something amusing he'll put it as his status, goes allover the place for work and 'checks-in' everywhere and neglects to mention he sees newt of the area, honest to god puts pictures up with lasses looking as if he pulled them,30 pictures up of a night-out as opposed to actually enjoying it. Yet meet him in person you'd think he was the most 'no-nonsense' bastard you ever met. Im 26 so if anything It's my generation and the next responsible, but ****ing hell I hate the world we live in. My concern is this **** only really ends when either we live in a world where every other word in the English language is offensive and therefore unspeakable, or we get a counter-culture of extreme prejudice. We've lost all sensibility as a species man. The Rooney rule still gets me: "We must interview BAME candidates because we believe in absolute equality" "Ok, so do I have to interview a white guy if I want a BAME manager?" "No, equality doesn't work like that"
They should do, every other bloody sexually defined group has it's voice on the PC stage, let's stand up for ****ers.............................
If they do need a spokesman then ACS is the obvious candidate. He wouldnt need to claim cultural appropriation.
