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Originally posted by Colton Haynes
That's what upsets me the most. The fact that the Tumblr users who are not even associated with the culture they are trying to "defend", are the ones that are up in arms about this supposed cultural appropriation. While the ones who are apart of the cultural, don't even mind it.
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This all the way.
And it's ironic for so many reasons. First being that Western/US culture is the most "appropriated" culture in the history of humanity. Yet none of these SJW's are fighting for the exclusivity of said culture, nor do they express any offense.
Second being that the notion of "cultural appropriation" actually does harm to foreign cultures, at least monetarily. Imagine all of the West African fashion designers who would love nothing more than to make it big in the West, or the Henna tattoo artist in India who might want to immigrate to the US and start a business.
Yet SJW's are trying their hardest to create an environment where people (especially white) would be ridiculed and shamed for ever warning a "ethnic African shirt" or rocking a henna tattoo. So in a wonderfully misguided attempt to speak for these so-called "victims", they only serve to make it impossible for them to grow in the way they'd at the very least like to have the option to.
The ignorance is simply epic, and they actually think they're the enlightened ones.
It's Seth Rogen movie material tbh