Cultural Appropriation
Professor Claiming White Yoga Practitioners Are "White Supremacists" Is Why The Alt Right Exists
When you are familiar with the (admittedly small) intellectual circles in the Alt Right movement, it becomes apparent that much of their nastiness stems from a reaction to the rise of identity politics in the the US. People like Steve Bannon and Milo Yiannopolous cleverly use ...read more
"Poverty Appropriation" Now on List of Behavior Banned by Liberals
I'd like to be very upfront about this: I am a big advocate of cultural appropriation in virtually all its forms. The more humans experiment with cultures outside of their own, the more we can learn to understand and appreciate each other. Sure, there's misinformed, poorly ...read more
College Cancels Yoga Classes Over "Cultural Appropriation," Because College Is Now The Onion
Gather round, children, because it's time for another episode in the seemingly never-ending series "Pissy Little Millennial Snowflakes Ruin Everything." This time, the story takes us to the University of Ottawa in Canada, where a free yoga class originally formed in 2008 to help ...read more
Bristol Palin is Right: Shut the F*ck Up About "Cultural Appropriation"
Halloween is every perpetually aggrieved liberal's favorite time of year to dole out outrage over culturally/racially insensitive choices of costume. On top of the relentless barrage of politically correct language decrees and hostility towards anyone who refuses to abide by ...read more
Yes, White Belly Dancing Is Inexcusable Cultural Appropriation
(Trigger Warning: Words) There's a fine column running right now over at the always-excellent Salon.com that confronts one of the most pressing issues of our time. The scourge of ethnic, racial, and cultural appropriation has run rampant throughout this country for decades and ...read more