Slow news day, I guess. Someone had time to shoot some fish in a barrel.
Yeah, because the death penalty has such an awesome record of success in crime prevention.
For all the bleating people do about an alleged rape victim's credibility (see the comments here), they seem to forget that the same can and should be applied to the accused, his or her witnesses, and the investigators as well.
Hey Salvation,
"problematic" is probably the best weasel word of the 21st century. It doesn't mean that something is outright WRONG and so attempts to avoid actually making a strong judgement, but it casts aspersions and suspicion on whatever it is talking about. An excellent way to split the difference!
Good topic and some good points.
"Bees clearly perceive/feel things" <— the most hilarious thing I've read all day. To conclude that bees resent other animals taking their honey, not only must one assume that they have an exceptionally high level of intelligence, but that they have a culture which contains the same belief in the validity of…
That's kind of what I got from this too. A bunch of jargony words thrown together in an angry way, boom, Jez piece.
I agree that cultural appropriation should be discussed, but at what point are we drawing lines between people and saying, "only white people can do this, black people can do this, and latino people can do this" etc. That is problematic. Melting pot has to count for something. Playing ethnicity police is pretty…
I'm with you. I didn't really come away from this article impressed by Lana Del Rey's racism so much as I came away from this article impressed by Crosley's racism. Whether LDR's hodge-podge Angelino/So-Cal aesthetic is pulled off in this video, or whether she slides into the dangerous territory of representing "a…
Hi Ari! I like you, but I just want to add this to the convo. Gangster culture is not Latino culture. It is Latin@ gang culture and as a Latina I am not offended when white folks dress up as Cholos, because not all of us, in fact most of us do not subscribe to this lifestyle. So I am totally whatever here with Lana…
As a Mexican and duly appointed representative of our culture, I would like to say that we collectively do not give a damn about how this woman dresses. The fact that the author has a latino friend seems to give her the impression that she has the authority to be outraged for us. We do not give a damn about this…
As a Latina woman, who has been at it that my whole life, I do not feel offended because cholo culture is not one that I feel represents my people. If she were wearing huipiles, and caites maybe, MAYBE I would feel upset. Chol@s is more East LA, gangster culture. Also my tattoo artist is white, his mother is white…
White people who think they're being non-racist by shouting about how gangs and teardrop tats are "Latino culture" is the new white people who think they're being non-racist by shouting about how shaking your ass is "black culture."
The outrage over cultural appropriation will go down as one of the more idiotic bits of ideology in history. Apparently Jezebel does not understand how culture evolves or is transmitted.
I don't want to read a lecture on race from someone who says "her albino boyfriend" and pulls a "I know all about this because my neighbor is Mexican." Learn the basics of jargon before you talk about this in public. Every single person on this site knows more than you about this.
You're not defending North Korea, a country that's basically a concentration camp with international borders, are you?
How is this "carrying water for American hegemony"? This is a hilariously bad photoshop job that a sovereign country saw fit to publish. If you can't find humor in that the only reasonable conclusion is that you work for the Korean Central News Agency that published this.