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Originally posted by Troll Idle
I don't think that those tweets from 4 years ago *represent [*edited/] today's Iggy anymore. She's not a racist. And ask her hairdresser if she's homophobic. And watch the Bounce video if you think she doesn't like Indian people.
Hopefully Azealia will stop aswell and maybe we get the album in 4 years,
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I don't think you understand what racism is.
This is an example of racism from @babyblonz
The fact she believes that, because she's able to sing blues, the origin of the style is forgotten and whitewashed into this ambiguous American thing. That's what artist like Miley Cyrus, Macklemore and Iggy Azalea do, because they want to try it out themselves. That's racism and I'm sure she doesn't know any better. They usually don't.
It usually becomes the infamous. "hiding under a lampshade effect". Where to ignore the big purple elephant in the room we call race, that person (usually white, the ones that have to live with the shameful truth of their exploitative and abusive ancestors) says with the most disarming smile:
"I don't see color or I don't see race" when that is more insulting and racist than anything.
Don't ignore someone's ethnicity. Face and respect the ethics and bounds that come with it.