Student Assaulted for "Appropriating" Dreadlocks

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You know who doesn't give a s**t about cultural appropriation? The Scotts. Any guy of any race can put on a kilt and they won't batt an eye. Because it doesn't matter. It's clothes. You take them off. Hair grows out too. Your wearing something that's from their country, not digging up the bones of their ancestors to carve into Scottish themed decor to put in your house.

Scotts don't care because they also have balls under those kilts that prevent them from whining about something that doesn't matter. Scottish women have them too

Go find a Scott and ask him about it. I'm not talking about a college kid buying into the trend, I'm talking about a for real kilt wearing Scott.

Can I use the Ludovico Treatment?

And if you're an easily traumatized college student, don't look up #thechalkening

That is not quite what she is saying, though. Did you watch it?

Also I think he understand perfectly well.

She has not even seen the series. She has no idea about what happened, why that character is leaving. She has no idea about numbers. She is just spouting off her own conspiracy.

She just wants everyone to check their privilege. Have you checked yours in the last hour, if not why not? Do you know what happens if you forget? You don't want to know thrust me.

Are you still male?
Are you still white?
Are you still cis-gendered?

(forget all other socio-economic factors...)

You're you are Titanic proportions privileged. Boo!

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Well for one a a decent kilt isn't cheap, so it fuels the economy. They want you to get fitted.

A lot of the clan patterns/colours (tartan) are fairly new though, the oldest kilts were more plain.

I'm sure you will get some nationalists that take offense. There is always somebody.

Btw the celt were one of the first to wear what we would recognize as trousers, in patterns not not unlike clan colours.

Then on behalf of the Celts I think someone should go after The Gap.

A young woman says something controversial in college, and now she's infamous for all time. A young man with an unconventional hairstyle is now international news because of it. There was a time when surveillance camera's on street corners would make most people shiver at the implications.

Its Andy Warhol's prophecy coming true thanks to the Net. That everyone in the World will be World famous...for 15 minutes.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/peopl ... 67201.html

That's a bunch of crap. I don't like Justin Bieber, but it's stupid. Using the logic from some of the comments, then all the black people that straighten their hair need to stop because it's not a natural black hairstyle. And any race that doesn't naturally have blond or red hair is appropriating another culture if they dye it those colors.

Since my hair is curly, I guess I can have dreads if I want to? Because it does grow out curly, and I let it go, it will turn into some messy dreads fairly quickly.

The whole thing is ridiculous. Numerous cultures have had braids, cornrows, dreads, for thousands of years. People of many races. Why is it only cultural appropriation to do something that some black people consider to be something unique to them (which it's not)?

No more eating foods from other cultures, wearing clothing, following religions, using technology, nothing. Let's all just stay in a stupid bubble and keep to ourselves.

No one is who isn't an American is allowed to wear jeans or I'll be offended at the cultural appropriation. This guy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_W._Davis# was an American immigrant originally from Latvia. He invented jeans. But the jeans were invented here in the United States. He had the help of this guy, a German American first generation immigrant:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi_Strauss to help get the patent.

If you are wearing jeans, you'd better be American, or face the consequences

Yep.....Yingeren nailed it on the head.

This kind of stuff is only worthy of a comment because somebody got beaten up because of it.

It's indescribably ridiculous.

What do you mean? There are actually people to subscribe to this, and are pushing this form of decisive politics.

If it wasn't noteworthy it wouldn't come up.

The woman involved didn't come up with these ideas on her own, they are taught. These are social theories and cultural philosophy, they just happen not be not very good ideas. That doesn't stop them gaining traction.

I know this is a "real issue" with some people. So it has to be addressed.

But, if one really thinks about it thoroughly and objectively, one would find this concept to be ridiculous.

The people with dreadlocks must have "appropriated" the dreadlock concept from SOMEWHERE. Then adopted it as their own. They certainly didn't get it from Haile Selassie (whom the rastas worship).

Every form of totalitarianism looks ridiculous to outsiders, until it gains power and they come under its boot.

Sure that is what I'm saying.

The sad thing is the people who are behind the ideology that this woman is expressing, are getting her to look at herself and her identity in such a limited way.

In that sense they have more in common with far right nationalist/supremacists.