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Michael Jackson never said he bleached his skin to be accepted by white people. He said he had a skin pigmentation disorder (can’t recall the name) that made his skin splotchy. No one believed him, but I believe his autopsy confirmed he was telling the truth.
I have known several black people over my life (and one guy from India) with vitiligo. They all used various means to even their skin tone to the darker tone than the lighter tone.
And that doesn't explain the plastic surgery to make his nose and chin more Caucasian-looking, either.
I don’t think anyone over the age of 35 is on board with the cultural appropriation thing. It seems to have been born in some sociology department of a college and spread like a disease. And I highly doubt that most college students even believe it, but the few that do are very loud.
Isn't this the case for much of crap we have to face today that didn't exist many years ago? Where a very vocal and aggressive minority gains the most attention and affects change that often the majority doesn't even want but are forced to accept because a) most people can't be bothered to speak up to oppose it and/or b) those that do stand up against it are often shouted down and shamed into silence.
In this case, I seriously doubt that the overwhelming majority of people have any issue or are in any way offended by this woman wearing this dress, but thanks to the twitter/facebook etc age where everyone has a voice and can make their opinions known instantly to the world, all it takes is for a few people to get angry and pissed at something and all of a sudden you have controversy and a story.
Its just sad that these platforms that have brought some good have probably brought just as much if not more bad to the world.
You know, I know people who would actually say that crap. My son sent me an article about how using memes and GIFs depicting black people is racist. And the person who wrote the article was 100% serious.
I don’t think anyone over the age of 35 is on board with the cultural appropriation thing. It seems to have been born in some sociology department of a college and spread like a disease. And I highly doubt that most college students even believe it, but the few that do are very loud.
They have to come up with something for their PhD dissertations.
And apparently for Social Sciences, it doesn't have to be anything real.
They have to come up with something for their PhD dissertations.
And apparently for Social Sciences, it doesn't have to be anything real.
Issues around social conflict and their effect on human relationships are not real? I beg to differ. You may not personally value the academic discipline of sociology, but that doesn't render it meaningless.
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Issue around social conflict and their affect on human relationships are not real? I beg to differ. You may not personally value the academic discipline of sociology, but that doesn't render it meaningless.
I didn't say it was necessarily unreal, I said it didn't have to be real.
I don't have a PhD, but my Masters work in Political Science back in the 80s was about the change of character of the Muslim Arab immigration that had dramatically increased that decade. It was totally real, and much of what I predicted has come to past.
But unfortunately, there is a lot of bizzaro shizzle coming out of the Social Sciences as well, and percentage of fantasy in the Social Sciences is a whole lot higher than it is in the hard sciences.
Why would a white girl wear a Chinese dress to a U.S. high school prom? Seems like she is just another student brain washed by liberals making a political statement based on the so-called greatness of diversity. If she were a Chinese student I'd understand it and wouldn't have a problem with it but this....?
That's right, She's 'Merican, needs to wear an 'merican dress- something with the 'merican flag, perhaps?
Why do so many white people speak non-white languages?
OK, is this serious, or is this satire? With anything to do with "social justice," one can never tell.
On the painfully sad chance that this is real, I would respond by saying that there are far more Asians, in Asia, who are able to speak English than there are white Americans who can speak any Asian language. Indeed, in the ESL community, it's a running joke that Americans can't (or won't) speak any language other than English.
So, SWJs, when are you going to ease up on us mono-lingual white people and start criticizing the Asians for culturally appropriating our mother tongue? Never, that's when. It's only called something negative when white people do it.
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