• HallmarkHenry
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    1 day ago

    Cultural appropriation is a bullshit concept only the dimmest of wits take seriously.

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      1 day ago

      So are you okay with the scenario I laid out? Surely there is something out there that you’d recognize as offensive to someone’s culture in that context?

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        15 hours ago

        Nothing is inherently offensive. People take offense to things. Sometimes reasonably so. In the scenario you laid out I think it would be insane to take offense to that.

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          7 hours ago

          I’ll say, I made the mistake of wading into this bullshit on a shitpost, so that’s my bad. But this is a shit tier edgelord centrist take. Like yeah there’s probably a handful of people out there that don’t think black face is offensive, way to miss the point of the conversation completely. Go ask the indigenous people in your life what they think about people shitting on their culture for clout at a music festival. Be better man.

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            7 hours ago

            Sometimes it is absolutely reasonable to take offense. Black face is probably one of those times. I think you’re the one missing the point. Also, wearing a piece of clothing isn’t the same as “shitting on their culture”, at all. Crazy how stating obvious truth can be considered an edgelord take lmao. Think better man.

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              You can see this idiotic take above, you’re not having this conversation in good faith if you’re representing it as “wearing a piece of clothing”. Black face is just “putting paint on your face” why is that reasonable to take offense to? Do you know the history of headdresses or are you just being contradictory for no reason?

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                I think it’s probably reasonable to take offense to black face because I’m pretty sure it’s always done with the intention to mock people. With headdresses I don’t think that applies at all. But no, I don’t know the history of headdresses, and I could be wrong. Both things still aren’t inherently offensive, and cultural appropriation is still a bullshit concept.

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                  5 hours ago

                  Look all I’m gonna say is you’re out here calling people dimwits and you’re “pretty sure” of x and “don’t know the history” of y so maybe try educating yourself a little bit before throwing those stones in that glass house.

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                    3 hours ago

                    If you take the concept of cultural appropriation seriously you are a dimwit. Knowing ‘the history’ of a specific piece of clothing does not change that.

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        1 day ago

        I’m white and currently wearing a poncho and a sombrero while wielding two pistols. I guess that’s offensive, too?

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          I would say ponchos and sombreros are usually worn for their utility, so I don’t think there’s an issue there. But I’d be curious to hear from anyone with more skin in the game than us.