lkeke35:

garrettauthor:

rudejerkface:

I realized that the only people who truly get offended by Cultural Appropriation are Americans. Ask a Jamaican if you can wear dreadlocks and they’ll most likely say they don’t care. Go to Japan wearing a Kimono and no one will be offended. Please remember that these people have voices too and can speak for themselves. You the SJW may be well meaning, but you getting offended for these people is incredibly patronizing to them because you are speaking for them. They don’t need that, they can speak for themselves. Remember that.

“I realized that the only people who truly get offended by Cultural Appropriation are Americans oppressed people living in America.”

Fixed that for you.

The fact that the people complaining are American doesn’t invalidate their complaints. They are complaining BECAUSE they are American, and when America isn’t trying to steal their culture, it treats them like shit.

Of course Jamaicans don’t care if you ware dreadlocks in Jamaica. In Jamaica, a black guy with dreadlocks is your next door neighbor, the guy at the beach, your taxi driver. In America, a black guy with dreadlocks is “a thug,” “a criminal,” someone you cross the street to avoid walking past. 

But then a WHITE person wears dreadlocks…lord almighty, they look so cool, they’re so exotic, it’s so fresh and exciting.

Of course they don’t mind if you wear a kimono in Japan. It’s common there. It’s part of the dominant culture, the one in power. A Japanese woman wears a kimono and she’s not particularly out of place. But a Japanese woman wears a kimono in America, and she’s doe-eyed, passive, submissive, gives a boy that “yellow fever.” 

But then a WHITE person wears a kimono…it’s so cool, so exotic, they’re so cultured, isn’t it wonderful how good their tastes are?

Let people in other countries speak for themselves in those countries. 

Let cultures in America speak for THEMselves in America. 

You have to take an immense logical turd to call minorities in America “patronizing” and telling them other cultures can “speak for themselves,” while DIRECTLY talking over them and trying to explain—with shitty, small-minded, poorly-thought-out arguments—why they need to shut up and listen to you, another fucking white guy.

Basically you have White people attempting to use the words of other people throughout the diaspora to invalidate the arguments of other people in the diaspora. White People do this same thing to Americans of Japanese descent, using the words of people from Japan to invalidate the arguments and criticisms of Americans of Japanese descent. They tried to create this same fight between British Black people and American born Blacks.

Don’t be that person.

The statements about race made by those from homogenous nations do not invalidate the criticism of those from the diaspora. It’s a derailment and an attempt to say that the complaints of those in the diaspora don’t mean anything and are unimportant.