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[–]SADoctorNick 19 ポイント20 ポイント

Thanks for the moment of cultural appropriation.

[–]AnSRSterStealing peaches. Jacking sperm. The Family Business 9 ポイント10 ポイント

That's not what this is.

[–]coobatisI'd pull myself up by the bootstraps, but I'm wearing high heels 9 ポイント10 ポイント

Species appropriation?

[–]MattIsTheGeekInPink -1 ポイント0 ポイント

The idea of twerking as a joke is rooted in anti-black misogyny

[–]AnSRSterStealing peaches. Jacking sperm. The Family Business 10 ポイント11 ポイント

Okay no. It's a bird. So that aspect doesn't even come into. This isn't cultural appropriation. This isn't species appropriation and this isn't anti blackness. Even suggesting that shows a fundamental misunderstanding of what they are.

[–]ghost_kitten -5 ポイント-4 ポイント

joking about black culture if you aren't black is anti-blackness

[–]AnSRSterStealing peaches. Jacking sperm. The Family Business 10 ポイント11 ポイント

Twerking isn't part of my culture and I'm sick of people, namely white, acting like it is. Even suggesting this is anti blackness is an insult.

[–]ghost_kitten -4 ポイント-3 ポイント

I apologize, I don't mean to derail or whitesplain so I really shouldn't have phrased that so authoritatively :( I've read from black women bloggers that appropriating or joking about twerking is an act of misogynoir because twerking was created by black women, but I shouldn't imply there's a singular "black culture" or that I know anything about it myself.

[–]AnSRSterStealing peaches. Jacking sperm. The Family Business 1 ポイント2 ポイント

It's fine :)

[–]Turd_PartyCurator of the Ron Paul Presidential Library 8 ポイント9 ポイント

Yeah but I think the funny bit here is that it's a cute brd bobbing to TWRK.

Not someone going "lol twerking how ridiculous"

Brd. TWRK. Lol?

[–]ghost_kitten 0 ポイント1 ポイント

but in the current cultural context where twerking in general is seen as a joke to white people, it's kind of tasteless. unless someone is black they really shouldn't be making fun of it.

[–]Turd_PartyCurator of the Ron Paul Presidential Library 4 ポイント5 ポイント

What's missing from this, though, is the white people and the making fun.

It's a bird video that synchronizes to a rap song.

[–]coobatisI'd pull myself up by the bootstraps, but I'm wearing high heels 2 ポイント3 ポイント

You'e right, I shouldn't have been so flippantly tongue-in-cheek. Wasn't trying to imply that cultural appropriation isn't a real thing or anything, so sorry if that's the way I came across.