brotoro:aclockworkcupcake:shatterdome-resistance:plebcomics:im appropriating internet culture by pos
brotoro:aclockworkcupcake:shatterdome-resistance:plebcomics:im appropriating internet culture by posting onlineWearing dreadlocks as a white person isn’t inherently racist, it’s just unfair because you get to wear a hairstyle that many black people can’t because it’s deemed “unprofessional” and “wild” and white people with dreadlocks are seen as dirty hippies just as often as they’re seen as edgy, nuanced or “alternative” whereas a black person with dreads is unkempt and lazy and can and do lose jobs over their choice to wear their hair in a natural state whereas it’s a white person’s “alternative”.Yoga is not racist, doing yoga isn’t racist, but the way it’s been popularized and commercialized and stripped of all DEEPLY spiritual connotation and what little remains is overwhelmingly misinterpreted and misrepresented that it becomes appropriation and is racist. It may not be SPECIFICALLY YOU who did this, but in buying into the commercialization of yoga you are contributing to it which sucks.Eating Mexican food isn’t racist I am Mexican eat all the food you want just don’t steal the recipes and put your stupid TexMex twist on them to make them more palatable(waka waka waka) to an exclusively white audience?White people can joke about white people just understand that the jokes are at your disgust and contempt for fellow whiteys without any of the “This is cathartic because I live it” reasons your PoC friends have? Watching anime and cosplaying doesn’t make you racist, being a fetishizing creep about Japanese people does and the two do not even remotely go hand in hand? Wearing kimonos isn’t cosplay because it’s a culturally significant attire and not a costume and treating it like one IS racist.Wanting to travel the world to culturally enrich yourself is a great thing but treating other people and cultures like they ONLY EXIST to enlighten you is so fucked up I don’t actually know where to begin explaining how self centered and jingoistic it is?Like, okay, the white chick covering the mouth of the black girl, that’s racist, that’s silencing a black woman in her own space, that’s bad, that’s telling her what to think, that’s the blatant overtone of white supremacy in feminist movements in a nutshell, but that idiot got it wrong in the first place about why dreadlocks are racist so she’s as bad if not worse at missing the point and being willfully obtuse than OP is.None of these are very difficult concepts to grasp, like, you’d flip your shit if you saw someone wearing a t-shirt of your favorite band but they’d only heard two songs on the radio by them, why would a white American wear their dreadlocks up in a kimono on their way to yoga and think that was okay instead?I’m glad someone picked this apart because I was just too dumbfounded too. Also, nice job creating the “taking it too far” social activist fat while you and your (imaginary) token black friend are thin, and conventionally pretty. plebcomics is garbage -- source link
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