You can't make fun of this fictional character's hair, it's racism

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[–]Alienhunter糞大名 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Most of the time it's people who have drank the "cultural appropriation" Kool aid and have gone straight to behaving exactly the same way a xenophobe behaves, white people cannot corrupt themselves with the cultures of lesser life forms, except uno-reverse white colonials are wrong to steal the culture of other countries, as if culture is something that can be stolen.

Sure it might be offensive if you dress like a medicine man and make mockery of some kind of sacred ritual or whatever, I can see that, but the kimono shit was funny because it's literally just a historical piece of clothing that people still wear when they want to feel fancy. Go to Japan and there's loads of businesses for kimono dress up, many of which cater to tourists even because tourist money is just as green.

The people whining about it are the same bitchy kids that would get pissed at you for "stealing" their joke or something when you share something you've heard with another. They've got nothing going on for themselves, no talent themselves, beyond their "exotic" asian-nes or whatever, so they feel the need to guilt trip anyone else taking an interest in their special whatever because it makes them feel less unique when white people know what ramen is or can use chopsticks.

It'd a problem with centering your whole Identity on race though. Most people have their own individual personality and their racial or cultural background is not that important to them beyond family ties and tradition and what not. I think what happens is teenagers looking for a "tribe" so to speak start to bond with other people from their same ethnic background which in and of itself is fine, but it can lead to problems when they take it past the point of adulthood so that it becomes their whole identity.

This person is claiming to be Okinawan. Which might be true idk. But it's definitely the one to pick for the oppression Olympics since you can identify as Japanese for the cool factor but also get your colonial overlord association get out of jail free card since the Okinawans did get a bunch of shit from the empire and it's not like the American presence is totally problem free either.

[–]LyingSpirit472 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Most of the time it's people who have drank the "cultural appropriation" Kool aid and have gone straight to behaving exactly the same way a xenophobe behaves, white people cannot corrupt themselves with the cultures of lesser life forms, except uno-reverse white colonials are wrong to steal the culture of other countries, as if culture is something that can be stolen.

Even then, their own argument breaks itself for logic:

To the cultural appropriation Wokester, white people cannot appreciate anything from another culture as cultural appropriation is racist.

To the same people, white people have no culture and the only white culture is racism.

Therefore, by their own logic, it is white people's moral imperative to immerse themselves in other cultures, since to do so is to be racist and thus engage in white culture.