You’re right, it isn’t. Some white communities have had dreadlocks for literally hundreds of years before the practice was appropriated by the Rastafari...

How you are using the term “cultural appropriation “ is completely out of line with how most of its advocates use it.

What do you do when people of the same ethnic group have vastly different opinions? People who complain about cultural appropriation represent an incredibly small part of minority populations. To assume their opinions should wipe out the majority’s views is all sorts of problematic.

It should also be noted, almost all of the people who weaponize it do so for profit, just like Rich and many of the other writers here.

Please stop appropriating white people hate....

What about the huge number of African-Americans who don’t give a fuck if white girls wear corn rows? Does their opinion matter? The problem with most accusers of cultural appropriation is that they think they speak for entire communities when they don’t.

So when a small group of Asian Americans get outraged by an Avril a Lavigne video, claiming it is cultural appropriation, while the fucking Japanese government says they think it’s great, who is she supposed to listen to? One group finds Here gesture awesome and kind, the other is outraged. Most criticism of…

Man, that girl who showed up on her free time to give you some soup because you were wick is really a cunt for her choice of hairstyles. Really getting to the heart of racism in America here.

Truly some next level victim blaming!

Green Day is a million more times more influential to modern punk music then Hot Water Music...

Or maybe “punks” could start to appreciate more black artists who don’t make songs with minimal technical proficiency that are largely about finding something for white suburban “rebels” to complain about. Most black artists are too good for punk rock.

Punk is literally the music of the suburbs...

How do you gloss over the fact that he was a pimp? Like an actual make women have sex with other men then taking the money, pimp. It’s so weird that he always gets a pass for this.

No, they should not sue his family, unless they are somehow involved. Punishing people for what their relatives due is incredibly fucked up and one of the draconian practices that very early legal reform eliminated centuries ago.

Exactly, what he is charged with right now is meaningless.

They only reason he is charged with anything right now is so they can keep him in jail indefinitely, the full charges may take weeks to be announced. Without charges they can only hold him for 72 hours. It’s very rare that the charges on a case like this would be finalized within hours of the incident happening.

Do you seriously not know that the Dominican Republic, Cuba and Puerto Rico are all American?

This just isn’t a serious analysis. Virtually all experts on North Korea understand the Kim isn’t just some crazy guy trying to pick a war he could never win. The regime is rational and using the threat of a nuclear attack to strengthen its bargaining position, just like they have for the last several decades. Guam…

None of these numbers make sense. If you were doing 20 to 30 hours of overtime per week you could have paid the loan off a lot quicker than 2 years. Probably in under 6 months.

You clearly have no idea how the legal process of bankruptcy works. They can’t give women “their” dresses unless a judge allows it.