Vicariously Offended

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It's kinda funny when some crazies are asking to see your family tree and genealogy sample to know if it's alright for you to wear a certain piece of clothing.

Let's observe the chart

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Most is just over 50%. That’s not a great ratio.

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Maybe you should try actually reading the content of the paragraphs. ChatGPT and the like do not write like that. It’s too judgmental (rightfully so to be clear).

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that’s just racism

Yes. Welcome to the discussion of cultural appropriation. It’s rooted in racism.

Participating in something or wearing the clothing of another culture is not automatically racist/cultural appropriation. But it often can be. It’s like people here don’t understand nuance.

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So if I find you a couple of YouTube videos of people of other cultures complaining about cultural appropriation, you’ll stop saying this dumb shit?

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Thankfully we have religious freedom so it doesn't matter if doing something offends another person's religion

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Tell that to the American right

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Depends on the kind of mockery.

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Speedy Gonzalez is also literally a 70 year old cartoon, so context comes in to play. If speedy Gonzalez was created today, that would not ok and rightfully so.

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When you deprive examples of context you do a disservice to the point.

If a Japanese person asks you explicitly to wear a kimono, then yes of course you wear a kimono. There isn’t a progressive/leftist/etc. in the world who would disagree with that.

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I just said that the formatting reminded me of AI. I didn't talk about the content

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Most could be anything from just over 50% to 99%.

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Oh good grief. Of course the Nazis had a chart. I hardly know any German, but there sure is a lot of "verboten" on that.

Makes me wonder if there was a similar thing for Jim Crow laws in the deep south.

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I take issue with this.

Main point being that, no matter how respectful the appropriating individual is, they are now being judged for actions that they themselves may have never taken.

Secondary point, and I know this is a nitpick, you say "minority" and "non-minority", but those terms can always flip when you change view points. I doubt you would give white people from African Countries a pass on their cornrows for being minorities in their country, and if you did, what if they move to the US?

I think people should be free to enjoy whatever hairstyle no matter the actions of unrelated other people. But what do I know, I'm just a person from a culture nobody wants to appropriate anyway.

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it still matters

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If it was as high as 99% you would’ve said so.

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There was definitely an implied accusation

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To be honest, all that just seems like an incident blown out of proportion

As I see it, someone else is referring to this dude as papi, which is basically daddy but in Spanish, and then added a hashtag on Instagram that says "boricua", which might as well be related to food as the guy is apparently a chef?

It never says he is cosplaying as a Puerto Rican. At least in the picture they post, nor it looks like it's the intention.

Then there is a lot of people saying something about brown face or black face? What, can't people be tanned? Or somehow do they think everyone from LATAM is brown or black?

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Are you for real, I said "most" because it's a vague guess and not some actual number.

But sure, let's say it's 99.919191%. Repeating of course. Better? lol

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Not my intention