Ugh it's annoying dealing with people on extremes of either end. There are people that don't know what the **** they're talking about on both sides of the coin and it's insanely annoying as a person with a triple digit IQ addressing either one.
I don't think Taylor's video was an example of cultural appropriation, but it's dense af not to see how some people would have a problem with it romanticizing an exploited, imperial era sub-Saharan Africa. And White girls wearing cornrows is not in itself an inherently negative thing, it's the nuanced **** that follows and goes along with it like, it being labeled ignorant **** like "ghetto fabulous" because of the cultural association with Black women. Or being ignored on Black women yet treated like the coolest thing ever as soon as a White woman adapts it. THAT is often the problem that people complain about it have -- inequity in treatment and/or erasure that goes along with the actions. What Iggy does mocking a speech pattern most commonly associated with American Black women (don't even @me with that, "it's just a Southern accent" ********) to sound convincing as a rapper is flat out ****ing offensive. There isn't even a grey area there to me or need to explain something like that.
A lot of the things people have issues with, there are areas where there are things one can genuinely be concerned about; however, I often see people that don't know how to articulate what they have issue with so it ends up going down the wrong path or people that don't know what they're talking about and want to seem knowledgeable and sensitive, so they hop on anything that they think sounds good or people that exploit causes to their own benefit when they really don't care then on the other side you have people that either genuinely just don't understand and then the willfully ignorant that don't want to understand and just want to shush everyone up at all costs because any discussion about race is inconvenient and uncomfortable. People from every one of these groups can and have been annoying af.