Im not even aware of the situation but I doubt whole-heartedly whatever she did was cultural appropriation.
THAT BEING SAID, even if she was doing what most would consider cultural appropriation if a white person did it, she gets away with it because shes a woman of color. Its an example of these dumbass tumblr social justice idiots picking and choosing when to get on a moral pedestal and when an artist of color they like does something they would normally deem "problematic" they look for every and any excuse to rationalize why when white person (A) does something its bad but when person of color (B) does something its okay. Blah blah blah. Hypocrisy and ******** from self involved young people trying to mask their superficiality with a thin veil of supposed social consciousness. **** everyone to be honest.

Oh lord, this has gone way past too far These white bitches love to tell everyone what they can and can't do. Ironically a little culture would do them some good

Ugh STFU saddos.

(the SJWs)

I love that everyone is against SJWs now that a person of color is accused of cultural appropriation. And why should it matter if the SJW is white or not? If you people are against cultural appropriation then why should the skin of the person calling it out matter? You guys are nitpicking just as much as the white woman is.

By your logic, only POC can call out others for appropriating cultures and only white people can culturally appropriate. This is why the whole argument of cultural appropriation is stupid to begin with.

I love her and admire what she does, and I am a white ho, hunty.

Isn't that M.I.A.'s whole thing since the beginning though?

And I thought she always did it in a correct way because she had something to say?

Either way, why do people care so much about this?
Like get a life, for real.

White liberals are THE WORST.

Damned if ya do, damned if ya don't.

SJW culture is exhausting sometimes.

mte

the outcry over things regarding cultural appropriation always seem so disingenuous.

Ever notice how white ppl get offended on behalf of people of color without even checking if people of color are offended but when ppl of color say they're offended they're all omg get over it!!!! it's not racist~~~

This is why no one takes SJWs seriously. You aren't going to change society by sitting behind a computer complaining about cultural appropriation (don't even get me started on how moronic that phrase is) instead of actually focusing on things are society really needs to change.

whites still trying to control us

Um... why are people are blaming this on white liberals? The "white girl" is Arab and while many are technically "white," they're still minorities like their fellow Semites Jews.

The Arab woman is complaining that a South Asian like M.I.A. is "hijacking" her culture just for $$$, which isn't accurate at all.

And how did the white woman responding to her think that M.I.A. is an Arab in the first place? Is she blind or just dumb? The Internet is giving all these dumb people a platform to share their stupidity.

Except the "SJWs" in this case ARE criticizing a non-white person so your rant doesn't apply to this all.

The only issue is here that people don't understand what cultural approproation is, but thanks to the Internet everyone has a platform to pretend they're educated professors with doctorates on these subjects.

The whole argument of cultural appropriation isn't stupid. The problem is that thanks to the Internet, people who have no idea what they're talking about like these Tumblr pseudo-intellectuals who have little to no education on the topic are hijacking these issues. It's like TIME and Billboard's websites have become a joke because of online bloggers writing articles on their websites.