Mockery is something else entirely. But just saying, hey I like my hair in tight braids isn't "cultural appropriation". Black face, on the other hand, is an entirely different thing.
Making jerked chicken, if it's called cultural appropriation at all, doesn't seem to be an issue. Minstrels shows are terrible. There are degrees of cultural appropriation in between them. Many of the items under the line can be laudatory with good intentions, but are used as cover by those who are too lazy, self-righteous, or mean-spirited to change.
I can't imagine you with really long hair, or dreadlocks. You should post a picture if you do it and if you feel like posting a picture of yourself.
I agree that is where most of the issues lie.
This doesn't happen in a vacuum. No one is looking into what I said 20 or 30 years, or going through my high-school yearbook pictures. Think about the hours of work it takes to track down the photos or read through a tweet timeline. That only happens when someone is motivated by something.
Generally, people that have made 50 years of progress, or even 10, don't suffer very much. Even those that have made no progress only get delayed a while (Louis CK just sold out Madison Square Garden, and Bill Cosby is headlining a tour this year).
Those damn kids just won't get off your lawn.
Context matters here. For example, is the dress aspirational (modern royalty), or satirical (Cultural Revolution gear)? Has anyone suffered for being criticized over corn rows?
Sometimes you need to be strident to educate, because otherwise people won't care. I agree stridency can be overdone and is occasionally misplaced.
I will. My wife is against the dreadlocks. So idk if it will happen. My hair is pretty long right now though. If I get a chance I will take a picture and post it.
I have wondered why Kelly Olynyk wears his hair the way it is, and I've probably made a comment or two that it isn't flattering to him. Then they mention that he grows his hair out every year and then cuts it off in the spring to donate to a children's organization.
Be ready for dred-stink. My sons did them for a while and it could get, uh, ripe. Takes more than people think to actually take care of it.
Yeah maybe that's better. I know one of my sons has some hygiene issues so we expected it there but the other one is meticulous and he did everything he was supposed to but occasionally it still got somewhat malodorous.
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It’s interesting how you never hear about this anymore. Almost like it was a made up issue, red meat for rubes, so republicans could make gains in the midterms.Just to add to @One Brow's posts, it's a theory taught in law school (if it's taught anywhere). It isn't taught in K-12 schools. In fact, most of the social studies educators I've spoken with don't even know what it is. It also makes sense to teach it in law school since the basic framework is that race and racism have had a much larger impact on our country than just slavery and Jim Crow. Race and racism have impacted the economics, social fabric, and laws in our country. Which is why law schools may want to teach their students about it. It makes sense for law students to know why most in prison are POC, why we'll throw the book at a black person with a sandwich bag of weed while give a white guy who embezzled millions a tap on the wrist, and the issues with policing in urban areas.
While some countries have a caste system based on religion or economics, ours is largely based on race. This is essentially the backbone for CRT:
A Lesson on Critical Race Theory
Coined by legal scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw, Critical Race Theory is the practice of interrogating race and racism in society that emerged in the legal academy and spread to other fields of scholarship.www.americanbar.org
Lastly, the right has found its new ACORN/DEATH PANELS/BENGHAZI/ETC, and that is CRT. They tried Hunter and Dr. Seuss as a rallying cry to distract from their own party's failures and to attack Democrats, but neither stuck. This one did. This guy appeared on Tucker and ever since then, CRT has taken off. He already explained his strategy in March:
Look at what happened to Fox News since Rufo's pronouncement talk of Dr Seuss and Mr. Potato Head dropped and CRT took over:
The other reason why CRT has taken off is that those predisposed to already believing that POC have it easy and just need to "pull themselves up by their own bootstraps" feel threatened by it. If they admit that being white has benefitted them in some way they then feel like they're not as manly or as accomplished as they deserve. So you can see why those predisposed this way would hate CRT; it calls for vulnerability and honesty. Something they don't want to do.
Yeah the most important thing in the world for the MAGAs changes rather rapidly without any meaningful real world change having taken place.
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