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Post by Lilith on May 11, 2019 22:03:13 GMT
Okay, you're just arguing for the sake of it now. Time to take a break I think. Nope, just demonstrating the stupidity of thinking something normal has been changed because a few people say so. Okay? It's another word du jour: " appropriation" Everything is "appropriated" now-a-days, and all it takes is for someone to feel uncomfortable, if you look hard enough you'll find various hand signs and arm movements done just out of sheer joy, like when you've scored a goal or crossed a finish line, or a wave to the audience in the grandstands.... We've totally lost CONTEXT. No one gives a damn about context or intent anymore. That's all gone out the window... There's no winning. You want your culture/life/history to be accepted/tolerated/embraced.....but no, stay away, don't get too close, don't "accept" too much.... The world is bonkers.
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Post by Flying Monkeys on May 11, 2019 22:38:31 GMT
It's another word du jour: " appropriation" Everything is "appropriated" now-a-days, and all it takes is for someone to feel uncomfortable, if you look hard enough you'll find various hand signs and arm movements done just out of sheer joy, like when you've scored a goal or crossed a finish line, or a wave to the audience in the grandstands.... We've totally lost CONTEXT. No one gives a damn about context or intent anymore. That's all gone out the window... There's no winning. You want your culture/life/history to be accepted/tolerated/embraced.....but no, stay away, don't get too close, don't "accept" too much.... The world is bonkers. Bonkers indeed.
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Post by OffTheBoatPsycho on May 12, 2019 0:31:24 GMT
You shouldn't be assumed to be a white supremacist and punished just because you flashed something that might be a symbol of white power. It might not. The idiots are those that jump to conclusions to keep pushing the narrative of there being white supremacists everywhere. People use the symbol of a black fist to mean black power. For most it's a symbol of empowerment for some it's a symbol used the same way a white supremacist might use a white power symbol. I highly doubt any black person would be assumed the worst of or punished for a black power symbol. "might be a symbol of white power" It is a symbol, you know it, I know it and most people know it. You may think it should be perfectly okay to make the symbol and if so then fair enough, but to pretend it could be something else shows you to be either shockingly naive or simply disingenuous. Your argument about the acceptance of a "black power" salute is a fair one, it is viewed less harshly I would suspect due to the fact that it came about through being a sign of empowerment when racism was very bad in the US, should that acceptance have a life span now? It's certainly something to debate but in these times debates like that are fraught with PC dangers so are avoided. Yeah, I have heard it has been adopted as a white power symbol. In this case we don't know that is the intent.
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