Wait, someone actually intended to buy the tire-shaped tar cake on the left? And I'm supposed to be surprised that same person used their acute wisdom to try to sell a slightly lighter tar cake on the internet?

What if she were a typical 20-year-old who wasn't in a sorority having a blast at a hip-hop night at a local club without any kind of offensive theme, doing the popular dance moves and interacting with other people who share similar tastes in music and fashion?

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Republican version of this joke:

Aw man, the White House is really appealing to all of my interests today. A Mean Girls pun, a cute dog, and a Left Hander's appreciation message with comments that are fairly benign and on-topic? Tuesday, you're ok.

A typical 20 year old appropriates cultures because it's "edgy" and "cool?"

So, the person who is in charge of the White House Twitter feed is most likely a woman aged anywhere from 22-35. Also, Bo is adorable.

I never said that anyone should be embarrassed. But if grills hold a place of such importance in a person's culture that they get butthurt anytime someone who doesn't look like them wears one, well THAT'S embarrassing.

Again, that word has several different connotations. Growing up in the South, I remember when the word first became a "thing". Then Lil' Boosie skyrocketed the word to mainstream prominence with the song Let's Get Ratchet at which point the song took on a plethora of different meanings. I grew up in an upper-mid…

Soooooooo, New Zealand has solved ALL OTHER HEALTH PROBLEMS besides obesity? WTG, NZ! No drug issues? No alcoholism? THAT'S AWESOME. Nobody gets the flu? Or a cold? Is anyone allergic to anything? All the doctors are unemployed? UTOPIA, HERE WE COME!

And black people don't twerk just for attention?

I gotta say, props for that gif. Also, I tend to agree. 20 yr olds are still in the having an image/do silly and stupid things phase. The problem isn't necessarily her but culture as a whole. US culture has a pretty bad appropriation problem. She never would be doing that stuff if it wasn't marketable.

Because the whole nonsense about "cultural appropriation" and white people declaring how non-racist they are by reducing the last 400 years of African-American culture to twerking (!!) is just a cover for the huge problem that Jezebel/tumblr style feminism has with catty tearing-down of successful women. If you're not…

OK, so YOU don't think she's "authentic". You able to discern that because you know her personally? Or are you just making assumptions?

I don't like what Miley's doing but I like the way you view this anyway. I recently graduated college and I knew lots of smart people but most people (our age, and in general) aren't social justice warriors lol.

She can't help how she was raised. Some of my best girlfriends today grew up in lily White neighborhoods and hadn't had a Black friend until college, but now they love to get ratchet with the best of them.

I see one the first recommend story on the link is "Dead cat lover eaten by her own pets after her body lay undiscovered for weeks." You can choose one or the other! Exclude no one or end up alone, eaten by your pets.

They're students at her dance studio. She probably means a lot to all of them, and dance teachers have their ways of getting *matching costumes* (says dance teacher sneaking away with 100 pairs of sparkle tights in a cardboard box).

If you feel like you have to play wedding politics to the extent that you have to let 80 people be your bridesmaids, you might want to take a moment to consider who your wedding is for, exactly.

I'm white so I'm not going to speak to the co-opting issue but I don't know that I'd say she "couldn't care less about black people then." That's a pretty loaded sentence. Maybe she couldn't care about the culture? Which is also kind of a limiting statement because I wouldn't equate Jay-Z with black culture. More of…