‘Cultural appropriation’ is a term which is currently doing the rounds among ethnic minority advocates and liberal-Marxists, and which is being used to abuse White people who have adopted some method of doing something, or some artifact or style that has in recent times become associated with non-White, predominantly sub-Saharan African or African-American culture.
As an article on The Root website states, the term “cultural appropriation” is normally thought of as “white people taking an interest in some aspect of minority culture and profiting from it”. Notice here, that just as with racism, according to those who use the term, ‘cultural appropriation’ is something that only White people can exhibit. It is a concept that is intended to be used as a verbal weapon with which to shame and abuse White people and White people only.
Let us examine an incident that has been widely publicised within the last few days, based around a video which has gone viral, and in which a black woman, allegedly identified on social media as San Francisco State University student employee, Bonita Tindle, verbally harasses and physically assaults a young White man, named as Cory Goldstein, for wearing his hair in dreadlocks.
Tindle, together with a black male, confronts Goldstein at the foot of a stairwell and accuses him of ‘appropriating her culture’ for wearing his hair in dreadlocks and following an exchange in which Tindle blocks Goldstein’s path as he attempts to escape from her, and despite his protestations pulls him back down the stairs by the sleeve of his clothing, Goldstein succeeds in freeing himself exiting the scene.
My first impression of watching this video was of how feebly Goldstein behaved throughout, but the robustness of his demeanor is not the real issue here, it is the feebleness of his verbal response.
Setting aside the argument that dreadlocks have throughout history been a feature of many cultures, European, Asian and African, an argument that most commentators have voiced in response to this incident, the hypocrisy of Tindle’s accusation of cultural appropriation has not so far been exposed.
Goldstein’s response should have been to state that he would be happy to remove his dreadlocks if Tindle and her companion would also divest themselves of all of the European cultural artifacts they were using – like their European clothing, their purses and wallets and bags and their money, credit cards, keys and cell phones. Furthermore he should have asked them to walk home instead of driving their cars, or riding on the bus or train, and he should have asked them in future to stop attending the SFSU, the European institution of learning that they currently attend, and to eschew ‘White man’s medicine’ the next time they are ill.
If non-Whites want to invent a concept such as ‘cultural appropriation’, and to use it as a weapon to denigrate and attack White people, then they should at least have the integrity to abide by that principle themselves. As we all know of course, they are unlikely to want to do that.
To conceive of a principle such as ‘cultural appropriation’, to use it to attack White people and not be prepared to have it ‘cut both ways’, is to be both a hypocrite and a racist, and what the advocates of minority rights tend to forget and would do well to remember, is that in the inventiveness stakes, we Whites hold a position that is at least an order of magnitude greater than any of our rivals.
By Max Musson © 2016
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Stefan
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Yes I think they have had more cultural appropriation than we have had, I’d be happy if they cease immediately & they would appreciate what we have done for them but without our medicine & the like they probably wouldn’t be here.
Also of course the irony of the name.
Stefan
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The other aspect is the fact that this nonsense is actually taken seriously for a moment, when it should be slapped down hard & Ms Tindle sent back to her ancestral homelands.
It shows how rotten our institutions are to accept the logic of something so corrosive & hypocritical.
Michael Woodbridge
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Once we realise that Multi-Culturalism and Multi-Racialism are a Capitalist ploy to destroy any natural order and replace it with the power of money, we can appreciate that in this instance Marx was right to say that Capitalism will perish under the weight of its own contradictions. Once we realise that Racism is a natural instinct for all normal White people (at least) the only hypocrisy will be for us to pretend to be Racist when we’re not.
Frederick Dixon
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Gold stein should have his head shaven by Whites outraged by his pathetic aping (pun intended) of a typically hideous negotiate “style”.
Heather
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If I heard it correctly she also asks him not to put his hands on her, directly after physically blocking him.
A feminist bully possibly? typical of the kind of women who verbally and physically go on the attack with men, safe in the knowledge most men would be uncomfortable retaliating, so they pretty much have the upper hand.
I wonder what it’s called when black girls who spend a fortune on having their hair straightened to emulate white peoples hair. Is that cultural appropriation?
I understand they are literally killing each other in certain parts of the States for hair weaves, and straightening products.
Why? So they can look and wear the same styles as whites.
If she is so proud of her culture, and nothing wrong in that, then she should spend the time lobbying or bullying her cultural/racial peers into ditching the white girls hair styles and go Afro.
Walter Greenway
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Heather; if the negro woman, featured in the video was really proud of her ancestral culture, she would need to wear that hair style naked!
Antony Flowers
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Technically speaking for even non Europeans to speak English would be cultural appropriation in that regard..
Max Musson
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It would indeed and your observation shows just how our much analytical abilities are impaired through the subliminal impact of multi-culti mores, that even someone as racially and politically conscious as I, did not make that seemingly obvious observation in my article!
diane green
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Oh Walter,how very true!Total agreement. The video accurately exposes the violence of certain cultures.Need I say more?
NEWS Reporter
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Yes it does Diane.
Personally I am deeply offended by the hypocrisy of those type of Negroes.
One could describe them as extreme simpletons.
Furthermore I am offended at the way many of them abuse my native English language and then have the gall to tell me I can’t use it in the way I wish to myself.