Yeah, I can’t say that I look forward to seeing a tape of a possible sexual assault. I will avoid it.

Something tells me too some of those arrests should never have happened either (especially with this level of ... competence ... this police department already displayed).

White guilt makes people stupid.

A few weeks ago a white artist’s show in Toronto was cancelled because of complaints about appropriation. Personally, everyone should be allowed to write or paint or compose whatever they want and be inspired by other cultures. Most white popular music wouldn’t be here without the contribution and inspiration of black…

Mostly agree. Cultural appropriation is in many ways the life blood of the arts, and always has been. And writers imagine themselves as people other than themselves as a living, that’s the nature of what they do, thank god, and their ability to do it is conscribed only by their imagination and empathy.

Are you saying that white writers should only write books with white characters? Should men also only write books with male characters? Should able-bodied people only write books with able-bodied characters?

This has become quite the issue here in Canada the last year, it is something important that needs to be talked about but far too often gets lost in reactionary thinking and not rational thinking.

Creativity and freedom of expression trumps cultural appropriation. If you don’t like it, don’t read it, see it, listen to it, etc. but don’t you DARE tell someone what they can and can’t do with their own mind, thoughts, etc. You are NOT the thought police. This isn’t 1984. You don’t own anyone. You don’t get to…

Let people write about what they want to write about. Something they do know about, something they don’t know about. The reading public will be the ultimate judge. Work can be praised or criticized or critiqued .... that’s freedom of speech.

So if white writers were to avoid writing about people of other cultures, genders and communities, would that be a good thing? To essentially tell them to take care to whitewash their work even more so than ever before? Movies, television and other arts are inspired by writing. If you think Hollywood so white now,…

There is no such thing as cultural appropriation, once something is created it is its own thing, with its own life, nobody owns it.

You know how it’s every person’s prerogative to care about unimportant things even though important things are also happening in the world? I’m using the inverse of that prerogative to not care about cultural appropriation. I promise, that any moment I can afford to worrying about things outside my personal concerns…

Except she isn’t a psychologist. That’s key here: she has no experience in diagnosing behavior. It’s like calling a phyiscist to a trial about medical mal-pratice: while the phyiscist is a scientist their expertise is not really in identifying if a plastic surgeon was sucking the fat out of your chin too hard to cause…

this is shitty but it’s not really shitty in the way that anthropologie or zara or urban outfitters stealing designs is shitty? it’s shitty because, most likely, some intern never had anyone explain to them how image licensing works and got tasked to do a thing with little oversight, leading to a really tiny print run…

Except I’m not sure how that makes sense, the newspaper could have made the decision to refer to her as Alicia, they are not under any legal obligation to continually refer to her as “Jimmy Joe”.

Jezebel is neither a court nor the police. They are under no obligation to use legal name. The AP, NYT, and Reuters style guides all say to use a person’s identified name and pronouns unless it is specifically newsworthy to provide their dead name.

Wasn’t someone in Florida just sentenced to ten years in a similar case?

Then don’t post your place on airbnb. If you have a house for rent in the US, you are subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act. so legally, you cannot turn away a renter based on religion or race.

And welcome to the black experience.

“Muphry’s Law”.. good tag on a story about the cost to accuracy in the rush to post content..