Cultural Appropriation

Doctor Phibes · wrote on 8 Jun 2020, 23:48

Fucking hell, guys, I've just had my dinner.

Copper · wrote on 9 Jun 2020, 01:49

Jolly · 9 Jun 2020, 02:08

@George-K said in Cultural Appropriation:

@Rainman said in Cultural Appropriation:

I do like the scarf everyone is wearing. Looks cool. American Indian, right?

I would guess some African thing.

ETA: Found it.

Pelosi, who like other kneeling lawmakers was draped in a colorful Kente cloth scarf that pays homage to black Americans' African heritage, spoke afterward of the "martyrdom of George Floyd" and the grief over black men and women killed at the hands of police.

They should wear scarves to grieve over black men killed by other black men.

Hmmm...Does that make her Kunta Kente?

George K · 6 Sept 2020, 02:08

@Jolly said in Cultural Appropriation:

Hmmm...Does that make her Kunta Kente?

~~I'm sorry, but I had to...~~

~~You got the first syllable right.~~

Never mind.

Rainman · wrote on 9 Jun 2020, 02:12

My mom, being Estonian, could look at all the different cultural costumes, look at the fabric, the designs, and the accompanying jewelry, and tell me where the person, at least based on the costume, was from.
My mom would also find it very offensive, if for some reason, a bunch of politicians decided to wear even part of Estonian ethnic costumes.

I think the Dem leadership, even if well-intentioned, might have struck out on this. There is much symbolism in what they have around their necks.

This from me, a white guy.

jon-nyc · wrote on 9 Jun 2020, 02:59

Aqua Letifer · wrote on 9 Jun 2020, 03:31

Fair.

Larry · wrote on 9 Jun 2020, 10:25

Trump didn't do that either.

taiwan_girl · 9 Jun 2020, 19:06

@George-K said in Cultural Appropriation:

I would guess some African thing.

That is so goofy that they are doing that. Africa is a big continent with many different cultures. Black people in the US (and around the world) are not all from the same place.

That is like they are wearing something Asian and claiming that it represents all asian people.

Copper · wrote on 9 Jun 2020, 17:16

Democrats believe that Africans are their pets. They all look the same to Mr. Biden. And they all vote only for democrats.

Horace · wrote on 9 Jun 2020, 17:21

The identity of your typical high status progressive would be devastated, I mean literally devastated, if they began to see cracks in their notion that everybody with black skin views them as saviors.

Copper · wrote on 9 Jun 2020, 18:02

A well earned notion, I'm sure.

Copper · 9 Jun 2020, 19:19

Jolly · wrote on 9 Jun 2020, 19:06

@taiwan_girl said in Cultural Appropriation:

@George-K said in Cultural Appropriation:

I would guess some African thing.

That is so goofy that they are doing that. Africa is a big continent with many different cultures. Black people in the US (and around the world) are not all from the same place.

That is like they are wearing something Asian and claiming that it represents all asian people.

Was friends in college with a guy who had a lion skin and a spear in his dorm room. He had used the spear to kill the lion, but I guess that's something young Swahili men do. Or at least they did back then. He came to school in America on a Baptist Mission Board scholarship.

Frank thought most American blacks were nuts. All this opportunity, all this wealth and they constantly complained about being persecuted.

Don't know how Frank paid for medical school, but last I heard, he was working as a family practice guy in Houston...

Horace · 6 Sept 2020, 19:20

@Copper said in Cultural Appropriation:

If there was only a way we could have caught these sorts of people in the act of expressing their contempt for people they find to be beneath them. Like for instance if there had been a larger group of people who split up into two smaller groups, based on self-selection where one group is the folk who consider themselves superior thinkers and feelers, and the other group just wanted to be able to discuss anything without being interfered with by the self proclaimed superior thinkers and feelers.