tenaflyviper:

pissedoffnobody:

tenaflyviper: I’d say that’s ridiculous, especially because, if you were to express that you didn’t like those things in some way, you’d be considered a “racist”. There is nothing wrong with finding the beauty in other cultures and their traditions, and wanting to understand them. People that try to tell us otherwise are actually just encouraging racism, because they’re telling us that we could never truly accept or find beauty in them without it being “cultural appropriation”. What people who throw that term around like glitter are doing is just straight-up segregation. It’s basically telling people to “stay on your side!”, and sure as hell isn’t going to encourage equality and acceptance. You can like another culture’s traditions and history, accept the value of their offerings, but still respect them enough to not rip them off. Acceptance and tolerance does not equal entitlement to rip them off or disrespect their culture. Appreciation but not committing cultural appropriation doesn’t mean you’re racist, it means you value and respect the culture enough to not defame it selectively for your own ends. I’m not gonna throw on a dashiki, a yamulke and a pair of clogs just to try show off how fucking worldly I am if it actually is self indulgent and goofy bullshit that’s disrespectful.

Well then, hon, I hope you don’t own a bathrobe, as it was based off of the kimono.

And you probably shouldn’t eat hamburgers either, as that dish can be traced back to ancient Rome.

And I sure hope your mother doesn’t wear bras, unless she’s Greek.

And you probably shouldn’t go to hospitals, use banks, use numbers, speak English, or celebrate most of the holidays that are celebrated in the U.S., because ALL of those things either came directly from other cultures, or were in part derived from other cultures.

You see, there’s also a little thing called “culture exchange”, and without it, you’d likely not have a lot of the things in life you completely take for granted. On top of that, wearing something does not automatically mean disrespecting it. If you wear it in mockery, then yes - that is disrespecting it. If you wear it in the form it was intended, in the setting it was intended, and maintain the correct behavior as expected in that garment because you find it to be something beautiful to embrace, that’s hardly something to be punished for. After all, are people who embrace Buddhism as their religion because they believe in its teachings being “disrespectful”?

By your logic, we should never have a deeper understanding of our fellow human beings, and never encourage genuine acceptance of other cultures, which would actually provide a valuable foundation upon which to build trust between people, and eliminate the cultural alienation that we inflict upon ourselves.

It’s funny how, in trying to be so “supportive” of “racial equality”, you’re actually just furthering the divide between cultures, as well as being extremely ethnocentric, and culturally insensitive.

You will NEVER encourage acceptance by trying to keep human beings all locked up in separate cages like fucking Fabergé eggs.

