Vicariously Offended

[delphia@lemmy.world]

You're speaking english on the internet. Not only are you white, you are American and Male by default.

[psionicsickness@reddthat.com]

Just not a football team I guess.

[delphia@lemmy.world]

Like how WB quietly shelved Speedy Gonzalez and the Latin community was like "No, fuck you. He was OUR GUY, we had representation! Now his cousin, the lazy slow one... yeah that shit can go."

[awesomelowlander@sh.itjust.works]

I'm from a time where it was accepted there were no girls on the internet. Only kids and FBI agents. So yes, I'm male

(Reference for those who don't get it)

[gradually_adjusting@lemmy.world]

Keep saying it, you're only offending reactionaries and tankies - and it is not even their goal to be happy, as near as anyone can tell.

[awesomelowlander@sh.itjust.works]

Oh yeah, I've been banned multiple times for being Chinese yet racist against China. I plan to keep being racist by that particular definition.

[figjam@midwest.social]

Besides, no one here knows what the deal is with getting offended on behalf of someone else. If anyone has a problem, they speak up their minds.

I can explain. In theory the person who SHOULD be offended is a member of a minority and speaking their mind would open them to backlash from the majority so they say nothing. Its mental gymnastics that let's a member of the majority "be a hero" for a minority even if that person doesn't exist. But who cares about that as long as the white lady can think she is a good guy.

Its stupid and is not really about the appropriated culture.

[andros_rex@lemmy.world]

And then of course, they named the main university’s mascots/fight song/etc after the “Boomers” and “Sooners” - people so eager to steal indigenous land that they couldn’t bother waiting for the government to make it legal.

There was a group that tried to get them to change it, but culture wars crowd absolutely pissed and shit themselves - they were already pissed after the chemistry building stopped being named after a Klan member.

[andros_rex@lemmy.world]

I think discussions on the qipao are more concerned with it be sexualized/treated as a fetish costume. It’s formal wear.

[sc00ter@lemm.ee]

This is one thing ive never understood about "cultural appropriation." If someone is partaking in your nations/cultures traditions, apperal, food, etc. Why is that a bad thing? Wouldnt people want their traditions known and shared and experienced by many?

Idk im just a white guy who loves dia de los muertos

[andros_rex@lemmy.world]

It seems like literally every Chinese person I’ve talked to is absolutely delighted when a westerner is interested in Chinese culture. I remember being assigned a trip to a buffet for a high school Chinese class, and my atonal 你好 got about as much praise as a baby sputtering out “da-da” for the first time. I posted some calligraphy on 小红书 a couple days ago and I am getting gassed up for it.

[flax_vert@feddit.uk]

I remember seeing a child have a japanese themed birthday. Some white person was giving off to her parents for cultural appropriation while Japanese people were flattered

[flax_vert@feddit.uk]

Found it

[sc00ter@lemm.ee]

The only reason im replying is

being against IP as a concept

Has me hella curious. Can you elaborate? Is it the capitalist aspect of patents/trademarks and licensing or something else? I believe that people who invent a concept/character/world should have ownership to develop it into what their grander vision may be before someone else can come and write the story/use of their tool. Id love to hear your side of this though because I don't know anyone thats ever told me their against IP as a concept

[flax_vert@feddit.uk]

You can say the most basic phrase in mandarin and completely screw it up both grammatically and pronunciation-wise and they'd absolutely love it and applaud you for it

Provided you're white

[flax_vert@feddit.uk]

I know someone who said that America is racist for siding with Taiwan on things and then I pointed out to them that (except a minority) Taiwan is predominantly Han Chinese

[thefriar@lemm.ee]

Idk im just a white guy who loves dia de los muertos

How dare you

[lemminary@lemmy.world]

I have no problem with that at all. Please dress up for the 16th of September, the Mexican Independence Day, or as a catrín on Día de los Muertos. My Korean friend looked so good as an Adelita and I was so proud of her.

I guess I'd only have a problem with a Halloween costume that exaggerates a negative and unrealistic stereotype but I don't think people make those anymore, or at least I haven't seen one.

[racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml]

This is a loud wake-up call that the internet is not reality.

[shardikprime@lemmy.world]

So, virtue signaling?

Ah, as expected