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Cultural Appropriation
A special kind of so-called “racism” that has been discovered in recent years is “cultural appropriation,” which is described by the Thought Police as a white person “stealing” another race’s “culture” or using their culture in an “offensive” way. Since everything offends liberals, it’s hard to nail down a concise definition of what exactly cultural appropriation is, so in this chapter I’ll cover a few examples that illustrate the concept and show how pervasive they think this “problem” is.
The most familiar example involves Halloween costumes, but the insanity is so much worse than these isolated incidences. It involves the names of sports teams and their mascots, music genres, hairstyles, and even food!
White rappers have often been accused of “stealing” black music, thus committing “cultural appropriation.” Singer Halsey once ripped Iggy Azalea, calling her a “fucking moron” for her “complete disregard of black culture,” simply for being a white rapper.163 Singer Bruno Mars has also been accused of the “crime” because they say he “copies black music and profits off of his racial ambiguity in a way that other black artists are not able to do.”164 Bruno Mars (whose real name is Peter Hernandez) is half Puerto Rican and half Jewish.
In 2017 members of the World Intellectual Property Organization urged the United Nations to ban cultural appropriation by expanding international intellectual property regulations to protect “Indigenous designs, dances, words and traditional medicines.”165
It’s getting so bad that a school board in Toronto decided to stop using the title “chief” for various job positions and changed it to “manager” out of concern that “chief” was offensive to Indians. No indigenous person or group even complained about the word “chief” being used for various titles, but some SJWs on the school board decided to take it upon themselves to make the change after imagining that calling people “chief” of a certain department is a “potential microaggression.”166
Sports Mascots
A student at Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota wore a Chicago Blackhawks hockey team shirt to class one day and triggered a professor who vented on Facebook, writing, “So your college professor is a Native American. A Native American who has spoken multiple times about the offensiveness of Indian Mascots. Yet you come to class with an Indian mascot sprawled across your shirt… Bold move sir.”167
The student then met privately with the teacher and shortly after that he offered a public apology. So either out of fear or ignorance, or maybe succumbing to the liberal brainwash—instead of the student standing up for his right to wear a shirt supporting his favorite hockey team and ridiculing the snowflake professor for getting offended—he apologized! The professor then said, “They have truly matured and learned from this experience and we have taken big steps in the reconciliation process.”168
The Adidas shoe company actually encouraged censoring the name “Indians” on sports jerseys during a commercial because they consider it to be cultural appropriation.169 In an ad titled “Create Positivity” the person doing the voice over says “many teams are starting to change their names” as it showed what looked like a high school basketball team called the “Indians,” but the players put a piece of tape over the name on their jerseys.
Adidas also offers financial assistance to high schools if they will change their logos or mascots from Native American imagery to something else.170
The Washington Redskins football team had their trademark canceled by the U.S. Trademark Office because they deemed it to be “racist” against Native Americans. The Redskins then waged a legal battle to keep the trademark, and after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on a related case about a different “offensive” trademark, they were luckily able to keep the registration and prevent others from producing knockoff merchandise using the name.171
After President Trump launched a few Tomahawk missiles at a Syrian airbase in response to the Syrian Army using chemical weapons on the rebels in the ongoing civil war, the editor of Mother Jones expressed concerns that “a lot of Native Americans” were probably “outraged” because the missiles are called “Tomahawks.”172 Someone responded to her on Twitter saying, “Probably just Elizabeth Warren.”173 Another said, “Real journalists must be enraged that you call yourself one of them.”174
Food Appropriation
A burrito cart in Portland was forced out of business after some lunatic locals accused the two white women who ran it of “cultural appropriation” and said they stole Mexican “intellectual property” after the owners admitted that they “picked the brains” of taco stands in Mexico to find out what kinds of ingredients would taste the best in order to come up with their recipes.
The website “Mic” wrote a story with the headline, “These white cooks bragged about stealing recipes from Mexico to start a Portland business,” and complained that, “The problem, of course, is that it’s unclear whether the Mexican women who handed over their recipes ever got anything in return.”175 They later changed the headline to read that the white cooks “bragged about bringing back recipes” instead of “stealing them” after backlash over such an incendiary claim.
The local Portland Mercury newspaper posted a follow-up article covering their investigation into more “food appropriators” but later took it down, possibly after threats of a defamation lawsuit for such a ridiculous story. An editor’s note reads, “Due to new information that has recently come to light, we have taken down our blog post, ‘This Week in Appropriation: Kooks Burritos and Willamette Week.’ It was not factually supported, and we regret the original publication of this story.”176
The story read, in part, “Week after week people of color in Portland bear witness to the hijacking of their cultures. Several of the most successful businesses in this town have been birthed as a result of curious white people going to a foreign country. Now don’t get me wrong: cultural customs are meant to be shared. However, that’s not what happens in this city.”177
It went on to say that, “Because of Portland’s underlying racism, the people who rightly own these traditions and cultures that exist are already treated poorly. These appropriating businesses are erasing and exploiting their already marginalized identities for the purpose of profit and praise.”178
The food appropriation controversy in Portland got so big that it made national news. The Washington Post asked, “Should white chefs sell burritos?” and reported that a local resident had created a list of businesses that are committing “food appropriation,” including one named Voodoo Doughnut which was accused of unethically profiting from African Voodoo!179