Student Assaulted for "Appropriating" Dreadlocks

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I can't believe this is real it is too dumb to be real. There were police reports, and the university responded.

I can't believe she assaults him then, turns it round like she is the victim as if he assaulted her.

This is the victim complex and identity politics personified.

Apart from the fact that her friend seems to appropriated Inspector Gadget, she clearly doesn't know what she is talking about yet was so righteous.

I love when she says, "Do you know what dreadlocks mean?". Like she knows, I would like to see her write an essay on what she think dreadlocks mean, without waffling.

Modern dreadlocks are actually appropriation under their definition.

I lived in Jamaica. The whole Rastafarian movement is "cultural appropriation", not that that should matter.

In the 1930s a group of people decided to form a religion based on little understanding of the culture they appropriated, holding up an East African king as a divine (this was before Ganja was part of the religion).

This was religion that this king didn't even follow, as he was Orthodox Christian. When Haile Selassie visited Jamaica he thought these people worshiping him were crazy, confiding in Norman Manley. The irony is this culture that they adopted and made their own had little to do this the culture of their ancestors in Africa, which came from totally different area on the west coast.

I don't have a problem with this, after all I understand the nature of culture, which not a fixed thing.

Dreadlocks have been in many culture it was never just a black thing.

This is what happens when you push these buzz words on naive people in an environment without critical thinking.

What there hell is happening in universities these days? It is so disappointing, given that places like San Francisco were so forward thinking at one point.

what's next? eating a banana when you're not a monkey?
taking off your shoes inside your home when you're not a muslim?

Who is willing to educate these people? I'm not talking about patronising them, but encouraging some nuance and critical thinking so they are less single minded.

Whether or not phrases like "cultural appropriation" have validity, some responsibility lies on those that coined them to ensure they are used correctly or understood.

Personally I think often the wrong approach or wrong concept is perused though these buzzwords rather than the real problem being addressed. So when citing more valid examples, often it is another type of behaviour that is more significant, and their choice of phrase is just confusing the issue.

The whole problem with the cultural appropriation, is the whole nature of culture from the beginning involves copying and changing. There is no higher or pure culture. Very few memes are not based on soemthign else.

So for example double standards regarding dress code and acceptable hair styles. The think is this can go in any direction. We already make accommodations for various religions.

When it comes down to it the attitude of this woman is illiberal and regressive.

Yeah it is funny until you think about it.

When I first saw this, I thought it was some ametuer dramatics, partly becuase how all of them were talking. However that can be explained by the environment they grew up in. It seem to me that these fairly sheltered people comparatively.

I feel bad for the guy, and he is free to do what he wants, but all three of them came across as pretentious in their own way. Maybe him the least, but it was funny when he responded with "bruh". That seemed too put on to be real. Yet it was clear he was nervous. It was ugly and unnecessary.

Apparently she was going to try cut his dreads off with scissors.

Just ridiculous.I've seen more dreads on white people than black.My daughter had them,so did her ex boyfriend.His were down to his butt,the longest ones I've seen on anybody.Then she cut her's off and became a professional hair stylist.lol So should we now get down on black folk that use hair relaxer?

They're all morons.

Everybody "appropriates" something from everybody else.

Shakespeare even "appropriated" existing plays, and used them as a template to create new plays.

Jesus Christ, man.....people have to wake up, and smell the roses!

Rasta generally put them under a a hat if they are long.

I never met a black Rasta that was up in arms about white rastas, they encouraged anyone to join.

It just happens to be an example of a culture based on some misconceptions, happy misconceptions but misconception nonetheless.

Then that is not unique for religions.

They were exploited politically by Micheal Manley using the "staff of correction" as a gimic, which was in reality non-descript present to his father given by Haile Selassie. It just didn't have any religious significance, it was just a gift. However the idea it had significance, won Micheal the Rasta vote.

Shakespeare's company literally stole theater, deconstructing it and moving it to another location:
http://shakespearesolved.blogspot.co.uk ... heist.html

sigh...just typical TNB, on part of the woman.

Don't agree, in fact a lot of these ideas are pushed by white academics.

Most people don't think like this.

What is TNB?

These people are literally cultural Marxists

I wish there had been folks around like that girl when I was in eighth grade.

I would have happily volunteered to stop the "appropriating Arab culture" we were forced to do by studying algebra. Cutting algebra class (out of sensitivity to Arabs of course) would have been fine with me!