This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoJK Rowling slammed for asking if she can be Black if she likes “Motown & fancy myself in cornrows”www.lgbtqnation.comexternal-linkmessage-square318fedilinkarrow-up1592
arrow-up1592external-linkJK Rowling slammed for asking if she can be Black if she likes “Motown & fancy myself in cornrows”www.lgbtqnation.comThis is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agomessage-square318fedilink
minus-squareTheRealKuni@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·7 months agoLike I said in my reply to phoenixz, the term is overused and over-policed on the internet. Culture is meant to be shared. But there is such a thing as cultural appropriation. Participating or celebrating a culture is fine. Naming your mascot “Chief Wahoo” is not.
minus-squarePrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 months agoI would call that a racist caricature, not cultural appropriation
Like I said in my reply to phoenixz, the term is overused and over-policed on the internet. Culture is meant to be shared.
But there is such a thing as cultural appropriation. Participating or celebrating a culture is fine. Naming your mascot “Chief Wahoo” is not.
I would call that a racist caricature, not cultural appropriation