Cultural appropriation mythicists start to eat their own

[Metaphor]

So somebody named Zipporah Gene wrote Black America, please stop appropriating African clothing and tribal marks. She takes to task black Americans who try to wear African clothing or styles, calling it -- drumroll -- cultural appropriation.

So Julia Craven ignores the progressive stack pecking order and decides it is not possible for black Americans to appropriate African culture.

Even everydayfeminism, a site that is so loony toons it has proclaimed that hating racism supports racism, eating food is racist, and learning languages is racist, even everydayfeminism bristles at the idea that black Americans could possibly do anything so crass as cultural appropriation.

 

[untermensche]

It's an absurd concept.

A fringe phenomena that only a tiny few take seriously.

Almost all of culture is appropriation from previous cultures.

One of the problem with US culture is that a lot of it is appropriation from previous US cultures.

 

[laughing dog]

We must have reached the apogee of progress when people have nothing better to do than argue over this kind of stuff. And yes, the irony is recognized.

 

[Axulus]

The concept is alive and well in my area. I was accused of being a white supremacist by someone in a group I was with because I argued with her against the idea that cultural appropriation is wrong and that a culture isn't owed any money when an item pirchased was derived or inspired by that culture.

 

[crispy]

The concept is alive and well in my area. I was accused of being a white supremacist by someone in a group I was with because I argued with her against the idea that cultural appropriation is wrong and that a culture isn't owed any money when an item pirchased was derived or inspired by that culture.

You can always counter such an argument by calling their hypocrisy of appropriating retard culture

 

[laughing dog]

The concept is alive and well in my area. I was accused of being a white supremacist by someone in a group I was with because I argued with her against the idea that cultural appropriation is wrong and that a culture isn't owed any money when an item pirchased was derived or inspired by that culture.

Where is the apogee of progress where people have nothing better to do?

 

[ApostateAbe]

She hasn't even appropriated her own culture.

 

[untermensche]

It is as silly as being offended by somebody kneeling silently.

One's a much bigger phenomena however.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

You'd have to be a different culture, an oppressing culture, and the target would have to be oppressed for it to be cultural appropriation. Are Black Americans oppressing Africans?

 

[dismal]

Zipporah Gene looks like she's appropriating our people's blond hair.

 

[thebeave]

She hasn't even appropriated her own culture.

God, what a fucking dumb ass. And I didn't think SJWs could get any dumber than the stupid Hawaiian hula girl bobble head incident.

 

[Jolly_Penguin]

It is always funny to see people get one-upped in the oppression Olympics. White guy wears dreadlocks and sings blues and black girl gets upset because he's "appropriating her culture". Then actual African people object to black girl appropriating their culture, as she did grow up in the USA. This could go on forever down the rabbit hole, as most "culture" is appropriated from somewhere.

 

[untermensche]

It is always funny to see people get one-upped in the oppression Olympics. White guy wears dreadlocks and sings blues and black girl gets upset because he's "appropriating her culture". Then actual African people object to black girl appropriating their culture, as she did grow up in the USA. This could go on forever down the rabbit hole, as most "culture" is appropriated from somewhere.

This is one person, not any "people".

The people that upset me are the people who get bent out of shape by things like the NFL protests.

Those are the people that can easily be turned against others by authoritarians.

 

[Jolly_Penguin]

It is always funny to see people get one-upped in the oppression Olympics. White guy wears dreadlocks and sings blues and black girl gets upset because he's "appropriating her culture". Then actual African people object to black girl appropriating their culture, as she did grow up in the USA. This could go on forever down the rabbit hole, as most "culture" is appropriated from somewhere.

This is one person, not any "people".

The people that upset me are the people who get bent out of shape by things like the NFL protests.

Those are the people that can easily be turned against others by authoritarians.

The people who whine about cultural appropriation are not just one person. This one person is just one-upping them and showing how silly they are.

Yes I agree that people getting upset over NFL protests are equally silly, unless of course those protests have spilled out into the streets and caused real problems. I haven't followed the matter so I don't know if they have. Sports don't interest me in the slightest, but I suppose that it is a form of paid entertainment, and the proper reaction to a NFL protest would be the same as to a protest during a performance of Cirque du Soleil.

 

[untermensche]

This is one person, not any "people".

The people that upset me are the people who get bent out of shape by things like the NFL protests.

Those are the people that can easily be turned against others by authoritarians.

The people who whine about cultural appropriation are not just one person.

You mean the two dozen people in the world who whine about it?

 

[dismal]

The people who whine about cultural appropriation are not just one person.

You mean the two dozen people in the world who whine about it?

If there are only two dozen people they sure keep pretty busy.

Readers took serious issue with Bon Appétit’s recently published piece originally titled, “PSA: This Is How You Should Be Eating Pho.” The story was accompanied by a video featuring Tyler Akin, chef at Philadelphia’s Stock restaurant, which serves Southeast Asian food. Akin, who is white, demonstrates how he consumes the dish.

The internet took particular exception to the outlet’s use of a white chef as an authority on the subject. Many also criticized the magazine’s touting of pho as a food trend.

The outlet attempted to amend the article with two updates and removal of the video. But not before it was met with a flood of criticism from people across the internet, accusing Bon Appétit of cultural appropriation.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...stified_us_57d84562e4b0aa4b722ce47d?section=&

 

[untermensche]

A "flood" huh?

What is that?

The two dozen people in the world interested in this nonissue?

 

[dismal]

A "flood" huh?

What is that?

The two dozen people in the world interested in this nonissue?

Read the link. There are at least a half dozen quoted. They amended the freaking article twice in response.

And I know how just much you hate fascists ruining someone's free speech.

 

[untermensche]

A "flood" huh?

What is that?

The two dozen people in the world interested in this nonissue?

Read the link. There are at least a half dozen quoted. They amended the freaking article twice in response.

And I know how just much you hate fascists ruining someone's free speech.

How many people have responded to one bad yelp review of their restaurant?

Responding to complaints is good but it is not evidence of the number of complaints.

Or even legitimacy of complaints. It is just evidence of the desire to not have controversy in the least, even irrational controversy.

 

[dismal]

Read the link. There are at least a half dozen quoted. They amended the freaking article twice in response.

And I know how just much you hate fascists ruining someone's free speech.

How many people have responded to one bad yelp review of their restaurant?

Responding to complaints is good but it is not evidence of the number of complaints.

Or even legitimacy of complaints. It is just evidence of the desire to not have controversy in the least, even irrational controversy.

Well, regardless, they felt there was enough complaining to

1) take down the apparently completely non-offensive to all but like 12 people video
2) Issue an article correction/explanation
3) Issue a second article correction/explanation in which they themselves appear to be deeply concerned over the issue of "cultural appropriation".

From the second correction:

Finally, the video sparked a debate on the issue of cultural appropriation in food, a topic that has deservedly received ample discussion lately. And it's a topic that we editors at BA will discuss in coming weeks, figuring out what role a mainstream food brand like ours should play in regards to it.

Ultimately, as editors, it is our job to understand the impact our words and ideas will have. And when it came to this pho video, our words and ideas caused unnecessary pain and anger. As editors, we failed. And for that, we are truly sorry (something we should have said in our first statement).

http://www.bonappetit.com/story/how-you-should-eating-pho?mbid=social_twitter

Those 12 people you keep talking about must be really good at teh fascist silencing to get all that response.