I LOVE YOU FOR THIS POST!!!

Holy fuck, you're an evil cunt.

Lets say an American went on Britains Got Talent. He totally loves the Beatles and Oasis, so he decides to study in England for a couple years. He gets so good that he decides that he is going to try out for BGT. Do you not feel that, as an outsider, it is not his place to take that stage? Would you not feel like,…

But I'm not shouting down someone because they are a WOC, nor am I American (I'm British). I'm stridently criticising a view I find hypocritical and illogical - just as I would expect those who find my arguments to be hypocritical and illogical to take me to task over it. I don't care about the external…

...as if there is no merit in recognizing the uncomfortably racialized nature of a show which exists as one of the ONLY public spaces in which the representation of the varying nuances of Arabic culture are expressed and policed almost exclusively by those who possess that ethnic identity, accepting and even praising…

There's a history of demeaning Japan culture and caricaturing it in the US that isn't present in Japan, where they're the majority. In the US, they're in the minority and people make all kinds of stupid assumptions about Asians, but in Japan, silly costumes don't pose that kind of threat. That's my sociological read…

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...since it doesn't seem to be a problem for Arabic-speaking fans of the show, I don't understand why people without a dog in the fight are getting worked up about it.

White devil!!!!1111

The thing that baffles me about this case in particular is that there is a panel of Arab judges, an Arab audience, and - if this edition of the franchise is like the others around the world - the winner will be determined by a democratic vote of people living in the Arab region (I'm not quite sure which Middle Eastern…

A parody of the the stereotypical, hand-wringing, overwrought Jezebellian 'cultural appropriation' shtick?

It is absolutely disgusting that a panel of Arab judges have allowed this WHITE DEVIL to progress, isn't it? Even if they think they like her talent, they're just experiencing FALSE CONSCIOUSNESS and need someone like you to impose your views on them!

No, he's tearing up because his culture has been appropriated and oppressed by a dominant culture white woman from the West!!!!!!! etc etc.

Jezebellian hand-wringing about 'cultural appropriation' - particularly on behalf of others who appear completely nonplussed by the supposed controversy/outrage - always provides me with lots and lots of laughter.

While I don't think singing songs in a language other than your own is necessarily cultural appropriation, this is definitely a shtick in which she, a member of a dominant culture (I know she's in the Arab world but as many have pointed out, her Westerness is still dominant) is reducing the complexity and cultural…

Don't try injecting common sense (i.e. science and medical fact) into a debate on bodyweight on Jezebel. It's apparently better that science and medicine yield to ideology and people's feelings.

I can't speak for the US but it's definitely more expensive to eat unhealthily here in the UK. You can buy 1kg of frozen vegetables for about £1.

"Jemima Puddle-Duck" made me cackle like a banshee.

I'd love to see the methodology behind that figure.

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