The elephant in the room of cultural appropriation. By Seth Frantzman (Jerusalem Post)

MESOPOTAMIA NEWS : CULTURAL PATTERNS IN TIMES OF WHITE SUBMISSION  / The sanctimonious crusade of the Western Left in LBGTQ-Spheres

3 May 2018 – Americans are very sensitive to the concept of “cultural appropriation” which is the latest bourgeoise “I’m offended” crusade. In a recent a story a teenager who wore a dress to prom was attacked by thousands of people online for wearing a “Chinese” dress. The people who were offended were not Chinese, they were white people colonizing Chinese “offendedness” in order to put themselves forward as sanctimonious and crusading as part of the “saving the world” mentality of the old Manifest Destiny.

So the teenager in the prom dress paid the price for the need of the powerful to feel good about themselves by shouting and being angry on social media about a dress. An expert on the dress at CNN came forward to explain to the angry bourgeoise that…actually…it’s just a dress and there’s nothing wrong with wearing it.

But the real elephant in the room here is the overall story of “cultural appropriation.” I went to a high school with a lot of cultural appropriation. Native American “dream catchers”, yoga, Jamaican hair styles, and all sorts of things that kids felt they should appropriate because it’s the latest “cool” fad. Those kids are probably the ones now slaying dragons of appropriation. They’ve got rid of the dream catchers and borrowings of native culture and are now virtue signaling to make up for their sins.

But isn’t there a problem with all this policing of how people dress? Aren’t most outfits a form of appropriation? What is a suit or a tie? What are jeans? The diverse people that make up America certainly don’t dress as their ancestors did in southern Italy or Scotland in the 17th century. Clothing styles change, don’t they?

However, in the crusader culture nothing is allowed to change. People can’t seem to tell the difference between an honest appreciation for a foreign culture or just a new style, and stealing and colonizing that culture to somehow make a mockery of it. Of course it should be quite obvious that one is a healthy part of globalization, and the other is about power and dominance.

That distinction is not made primarily because the mobs and angry bourgeoise on social media are not really interested in thinking, they want victims. They need witches to hunt. So a girl in a prom dress must be sacrificed so they can tell their friends at the next cocktail party that they “stood up” against cultural appropriation. Even though nothing was appropriated, except their anger and their faux-offense they took on behalf of another culture which wasn’t even offended.

The real cultural appropriation then is the people expressing faux-offense for others, they steal from others culture, take the voice of others, just so they can be on their latest crusade.  www.mesop.de