Anonymous asked:

Celtic warriors often wore dreads. Vikings were also a group that popularized dreads in early western cultures. Wearing your hair a certain way is not appropriation. My boss is very very white. And if he goes three days without combing his hair he starts to get very intense dreads, not matted hair, actual dreads. His hair is just thick and curly. It's a hair style; yes its a symbol in some cultures, but sometimes people jut like how it looks.

Sure.

(Hey, it’s still appropriation and I call bullshit on that story, but if his hair becomes that way and is not intentionally worn that way, then it’s probably not appropriation, although wearing it that way still might be, I dunno, ask the PoC who have dreads in their culture about it)

And “but sometimes people just like how it looks” is the laziest excuse for cultural appropriation. In fact, it’s a killer argument to any discussion about cultural appropriation. So is bringing up long gone ancient white peoples who no longer exist as an excuse for appropriating a hairstyle that would probably not be worn today by white ppl if it was not appropriated in the first place, OK, because the way it was popularized was not by an attempt to imitate Celts or Vikings. White leftie dudes and gals would not wear it if it was not appropriated from black and brown people, the motivation to wear it would not be the same, the image attached to it would not be what it is, ffs.