It's not her job educate you, entitled asshat. I was able to Google and refresh myself on this shit in two minutes. You don't even need to get off your ass to do that much, you're already at the keyboard.

Ah! She tricked them by caring. Because apparently only white liberals looking for something to bitch about care about racial shenanigans. And only other white people can be the arbiters of when racism is real enough to discuss. There is no one else.

Fellow whiteys: There's a difference between emulation and caricature—which is what Katy is doing in her videos. She's playing "wacky" characters by exaggerating racial stereotypes for laughs. How exactly is that cool? Like someone else said here: Black is a racial identity complicated by centuries of enslavement,…

She literally put together "black" hairstyles, watermelon, peace signs thrown up like gang signs, and all the "sassy" expressions. These are ALL black stereotypes. You are being really willfully ignorant right now.

Why do so many people think you're white? At least my avatar is actively trying to trick people...

White people are never going to learn. You sit them down and try to explain to them why something is offensive but they get defensive. It's hard to be told that you can't do something, act/dress a certain way, or say certain words when your whole social/ethnic group has been given free reign over the world for…

Your point is clear. It's just ahistorical and makes no sense. To be fair.

But...but Kara, your name sounds so "normal".

Except with more cultural appropriation and racist tones.

Kara Brown is white? You might want to adjust the color settings on your monitor...

I am not white.

or idk maybe black people are tired of white people going "Hmmm I want to do something "urban" (read: black) today...Wait, I know! Watermelon! Braids! Sassy Black Girl™ expressions!"

Everyone wants to be black, aside from the burden of actually being black. Welcome to America, people.

You can't call something Japanese "Japanese-y." Full stop. I'd argue you shouldn't even refer to a fashion trend as "Japanese" — there's always a more descriptive adjective. It's not as though middle-aged Japanese men are walking around with those nails!

Yeah right, Japanese nail art is totally a thing. But Japanese-y in no way conveys that. To me at least.

I think the word "cultural appropriation" is a bit of an oversimplification. There are people who believe someone depicting a culture that isn't their own, whether through music or literature (or in your case manga), is "cultural appropriation". I vehemently disagree with this, as do most reasonable people.

"Maybe I'm just a bad liberal on this."

just the tip???

It's working.