Do you think that celebrities aren’t making money off their personal brands? Kim Kardashian was credited for making “boxer braids” aka cornrows a trend. Miley Cyrus made $$ off of twerking in music videos and live perfomances. Little Alison down the street who wears a war bonnet to Coachella might not be making money…
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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.
Nah bruh. Everything about America conveniently forgets about the contributions of it’s actual huddled masses. It even goes to the point where minority cultures have to struggle to be included while actively being shit on in the mainstream eye. When they say “Hey, a little attribution please, we contribute.”, and…
Nope. It isn’t. The entire point of the word is to make people feel bad for questioning an objectively bad ideology. That doesn’t make all of its adherents objectively bad. For instance, being anti-Zionist doesn’t mean you hate Jews. If that distinction is meaningful, then so is this one.
Nah. If true, the correct response is to remove the kid from that home. If you read the article, it sounds like a pretty terrible situation. They are denying the girls freedom of religion.
There is no such thing as Islamaphobia. You can be bigoted towards Muslim people, but Islamaphobia implies it is bad to ridicule an ideology. That isn’t a thing. That is why there is not Jewaphobia or Christianaphobia, just anti-semitism and anti-Christian. You are falling into a trap built to use your fear of offense…
oh their weird fetishizing of Lupita gives me the creeps. Like they are SO EXCITED to add a dark skin girl to their collection because the Performatively Intersectional Starter Pack only came with Beyonce.
Im a dude and I read Jezebel because I miss Gawker and Slate is crap.
That thread during Charlottesville where a bunch of commentators randomly started chatting shit about The Root for being “Anti-White” was a fucking mess.
My favorite last week was the evilness of Joss Whedon for cheating on his wife and how devastatingly fatal to the earth he was and should die. Then a lesbian chimed in that she cheats on women, too, because everybody cheats on everybody. The Jez hive mind did not know what to do with that and presumably brains were…
Trust me, I don’t agree with a lot of what Ali says, even though she makes some good points. Given her experience I also think it’s understandable that she would come to reject and despise Islam. And yes, side eye away when it comes to her association with Wilders. My point was more to highlight the blatant hypocrisy…
I don’t respect religion, but we have to respect people and we have respect their identities. Its a hard line to walk.
what minority population would that be? her own?
Maybe a lot of her back story is dramatically exaggerated but she is a victim of FGM. Her friend and a movie director she was working with was murdered by a religious extremist with a note left behind that Ayaan is next. She has long been subject to death threats by the type of people who genuinely believe murdering…
Thank you for bringing that up. I have no strong feelings about any of these ladies but that tweet by Sarsour really is disgusting. Unless she comes out with a press release apologizing and calling her previous self a misguided idiot I reserve the right to be cynical of her current “liberal” persona, riding the…
I’m not a Jew....I wasn’t born a Jew. I was born a Muslim...into a Muslim family. I know for a fact that in Israel, if a Jew killed a Jew for being an “atheist”... he’d go to jail and charged for murder under Israeli constitution. I know that if I lived in Saudi Arabia, and proclaimed that I was an atheist, I would…
Islamaphobia isn’t and never will be a problem because Islam is an ideology and all ideologies can be shit on with impunity. People stupidly conflate hating the most popular regressive religion in the world with hating muslims. It isn’t the same. Islam deserves to be criticized like all religions, but progressives…
It’s not just this one infamous tweet, Sarsour is a total 360* trainwreck . Can you really “demonize” someone that is already demonic?
I can’t equate Christianity, Judaism with Islam. You can be a different varying degree of a Christian, or a Jew and still be considered a part of a family. Even be gay or an atheist, and still be considered part of a family, where family would defend you. In Muslim Community, if you voice your opinion, practice it,…