If twerking is "cultural appropriation", is it appropriation from Africans, American blacks, or Brazilians?
I wasn't saying that it's appropriation, just that I sort of agree with the bit about her coming across as a try hard (in regard to the twerking, et al.). Not that it's entirely her fault -- her publicists and managers are almost certainly the driving force behind the attempt to change her image.
Oh, I know. I brought it up because the entire outcry against Miley from SJWs has been accusing her of trying to "appropriate black culture." My point is that with all of the mish-mash that modern culture is today, and with how so many specific aspects of a culture are present in various forms in other cultures, screaming "APPROPRIATION!" is utterly ridiculous.
Just about every culture that exists nowadays only exists in its current form because of appropriation that took place over centuries past, but no SJW would ever talk about that. They'll gladly eat pizza, burgers, and hot dogs when all of these "American" foods come from other cultures (hamburgers in particular are confusing, as they're believed to have originated all the way back with the Mongols and spread to Germany from there). Maybe they've said "c'est la vie" or other phrases from a foreign language, all while decrying white people who use terminology repeated from black rappers.
On top of their almost definite hypocrisy in talking about appropriation, the entire idea of "cultural appropriation" is ridiculous in more ways than one. It treats culture essentially like a sacred cow, something to be viewed carefully from afar and harshly restricted to very specific people. I'm not talking about genuinely offensive things, like Halloween costumes of racist stereotypes or turning sacred items like Native American war bonnets into cheap fashion statements. I'm talking about any attempt to prevent the intermingling of cultures, and trying to ban people from taking aspects that they enjoy and trying to incorporate them into their lives. It ironically ends up being racist in its own way: only certain people are allowed to do certain things, and another race doing it "just ain't right."
Anybody on here hear about the Nash Grier stuff going on over a YouTube video?
Fuck that kid. Long story short, he and his friends put up a video talking about "what guys want in girls". They were basically setting their ideal standard for a girl and saying that girls should change themselves to follow it if they wanted to get a boyfriend, which included things like:
* Being petite and having a cute smile.
* Shaving all facial and body hair.
* Playing "hard to get" without being too easy, because that makes you a whore. But don't play too hard to get, or guys think you don't like them and they won't care about you.
* You can never be better at video games than a guy. Period.
The video lasted five days before backlash resulted in it being deleted.
Inspired by this, people looked up more about him. Turns out he's got a downright obscene amount of homophobic statements on his Twitter.
