This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoJK Rowling slammed for asking if she can be Black if she likes “Motown & fancy myself in cornrows”www.lgbtqnation.comexternal-linkmessage-square298fedilinkarrow-up1593arrow-down177
arrow-up1516arrow-down1external-linkJK Rowling slammed for asking if she can be Black if she likes “Motown & fancy myself in cornrows”www.lgbtqnation.comThis is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square298fedilink
minus-squarePrettyFlyForAFatGuylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down5·7 months agoImitation is the highest form of flattery “Cultural appropriation” cunts can fuck off
minus-squarem0darn@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down1·7 months agoAvoiding cultural appropriation is a easy as treating people and cultures with respect. If you don’t have trouble doing that then great. It’s not something most people need to worry about.
minus-squareTheRealKuni@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 months agoLike I said in my reply to phoenixz, the term is overused and over-policed on the internet. Culture is meant to be shared. But there is such a thing as cultural appropriation. Participating or celebrating a culture is fine. Naming your mascot “Chief Wahoo” is not.
minus-squarePrettyFlyForAFatGuylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 months agoI would call that a racist caricature, not cultural appropriation
minus-squarebarooboodoo (he/him)@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down8·7 months agoSo you’re cool with black face?
minus-squarePrettyFlyForAFatGuylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoNope, you don’t have to be black to be immersed in black culture
minus-squarebarooboodoo (he/him)@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 months agoWait a sec, now I’m confused. Aren’t people in black face imitating black people? I thought that was the highest form of flattery? Hold on, could that maybe be a form of cultural appropriation?
Imitation is the highest form of flattery
“Cultural appropriation” cunts can fuck off
Avoiding cultural appropriation is a easy as treating people and cultures with respect.
If you don’t have trouble doing that then great. It’s not something most people need to worry about.
Like I said in my reply to phoenixz, the term is overused and over-policed on the internet. Culture is meant to be shared.
But there is such a thing as cultural appropriation. Participating or celebrating a culture is fine. Naming your mascot “Chief Wahoo” is not.
I would call that a racist caricature, not cultural appropriation
So you’re cool with black face?
Nope, you don’t have to be black to be immersed in black culture
Wait a sec, now I’m confused. Aren’t people in black face imitating black people? I thought that was the highest form of flattery? Hold on, could that maybe be a form of cultural appropriation?