re: Blake Lively Posted An Instagram Of Her Butt That Has A Lot Of People Upset

cultural appropriation is literally one of the most mind-numbing concepts i can imagine

a dominant culture enjoys an aspect of a marginalized culture so much that they celebrate it? isn't that the point of multiculturalism? the alternative is that we create segregation where the dominant culture assigns culture by marginalized groups and we do everything we can to ensure everyone stays separate and there is no overlap. that will do great things for cultural progress

People are too sensitive but look at it this way. There's a long history in this country of white people appropriating things from us and taking it to the larger white population. Entertainment, music, dance, fashion, hairstyles, on and on. Often that appropriation meant white people making money off of it.

Thanks. Very nice. I can see a white girl having that arse. That's about as good as they can get without help. Still that's atypical and may have involved some help.

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There's a long history in this country of white people appropriating things from us and taking it to the larger white population. Entertainment, music, dance, fashion, hairstyles, on and on. Often that appropriation meant white people making money off of it.

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I'll never forget the day in HS where some white dude took some foil and covered his teeth with it as if he had a grill.

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Still that's atypical and may have involved some help.

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that arse is attainable by basically all women if they do the right lower body workouts

she's obviously thicker, b/c she had a baby last year and isn't in "movie shape"

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People are too sensitive but look at it this way. There's a long history in this country of white people appropriating things from us and taking it to the larger white population. Entertainment, music, dance, fashion, hairstyles, on and on. Often that appropriation meant white people making money off of it.

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They are called contributions, good or bad, to society. And, black people have made money of of it, too. That's kind of the point.

You want black people to advance in American society? Cultural assimilation can help with that.

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People are too sensitive but look at it this way. There's a long history in this country of white people appropriating things from us and taking it to the larger white population. Entertainment, music, dance, fashion, hairstyles, on and on. Often that appropriation meant white people making money off of it.

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Sounds like black American needs to appropriate whitey's business acumen.

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You want black people to advance in American society? Cultural assimilation can help with that.

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see i think this is the issue

if the marginalized groups (i'm going to use MGs) say, "we need to assimilate into the dominant culture" then that's a major philosophical point. they either have to say they want to adopt the culture they claim is oppressive and has negatively affected their group (making it marginalized), or they have to admit the value of the culture that made them marginalized (which flies in the face of the movement at its core)

the value of those who want a movement exists when they force their own segregation, so cultural appropriation fits perfectly. they promote MGs that aren't built to succeed in this system, which means what? they have to take down the system itself and remake it in the image of their MG image. now THAT is a movement

even the "making money off of it" is a part of this. it's not that people make money off of it (although on the surface those are the complaints). it's that the MGs didn't make the same money off of it (thus, proving the inequalities of "the system" built around the dominant culture).

And now look at how much has changed. Lots of black artists own their brands, studios, production companies, etc. Of course in the beginning it wasn't always fair, but you had one dominant group taking economic advantage of a smaller group because of their race. Of course they weren't going to level the playing field, which would result in less money. That's just human nature.