Cultural Appropriation
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@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.
@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.
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@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.
@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...
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@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.
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"I knelt and I couldn't get up!"
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@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.
@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.
It's so cringey it's gross. I'm actually just embarrassed for them. It's Borat without the self-awareness.
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If Trump would just break his Twitter fingers and get out of the Dem's way...
“Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”
Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton
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This country has gone completely insane. Every day I wake up and see something even more ridiculous than the last. We've had bearded Incels, sorry I meant libertarians, carrying rifles into government buildings in protest at having to wear a mask, riots and looting in the name of freedom, now we've got what looks like a bunch of extras from Absolutely Fabulous asking people to vote for them.
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I noticed that the right-leaning insane stuff you mentioned is fringe, while the left-leaning stuff is mainstream. If it's happening in the middle of our halls of power and acted out by the highest of high status folk, I think it qualifies as mainstream.
Education is extremely important.
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Repeating my post from elsewhere, specifically in response to Horace's of 9 hours ago and Phibes' just above:
"I wonder if we might validly find hope in the very flagrancy of all this. Surely the very over-the-topness of all that has occurred cannot sustain itself, and a big eyeblink must ensue where people regain their commonsense vision? Where they say, okay, wait a minute, let's take a breath here, dial back the sheer intensity.
How can this mad progression be sustained?"
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@Jolly said in Cultural Appropriation:
Link to videoIf Trump would just break his Twitter fingers and get out of the Dem's way...
