air139:

jamaicanblackcastoroil:

trelesire:

bornabitch-allthedaysandnights:

hevnlysten:

As a history student, the most ridiculous thing that tumblr social justice warriors ever made up is “cultural appropriation”. If you only had mild historical knowledge of any cultural exchange that took place before colonialism (the ultimate times of evil oppression besides the third Reich) you’d realize that what you consider your culture is probably just a mashup out of thousands ancient cultural aspects from many different cultures. “Culture” itself is an umbrella term for basically anything that might be associated with a certain group of people – and it is both fluid and highly subjective. Your political system has been culturally appropriated from somewhere once, and so has your educational system, your economical system, your religion and your language. If you want to get mad about cultural appropriation, how about you start with those monumental cultural appropriations before complaining about white girls wearing dreads?

If you were actually a student of history instead of just someone talking ignorance out of their ass you’d know what forced assimilation, cultural exchange, cultural diffusion and cultural appropriation are, and when to use them. You’d know that cultural appropriation is a concept postcolonial historians have researched and used themselves. 

Cultural appropriation is an anthropological concept supported by decades of research and there are over a quarter million scholarly books and articles discussing it in academic fields as varied as anthropology, sociology, law, political science, social psychology and philosophy. But of COURSE you know better ‘TUMBLR SJWS’ must have made that ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL UP!

Cultural appropriation is “taking intellectual property, traditional knowledge, cultural expressions, or artifacts from someone else’s culture without permission … when the source community is a minority group that has been oppressed or exploited in other ways.” –  from Who Owns Culture?: Appropriation and Authenticity in American Law by Fordham law professor Susan Scafidi

“Two ways in which cultural appropriation can be harmful are easily identified. The first sort of harm is violation of a property right … The second sort of harm is an attack on the viability or identity of the cultures or their members. Appropriation that undermines a culture in these ways would certainly cause devastating and clearly wrongful harm to members of the culture … Other acts of appropriation potentially leave members of a culture exposed to discrimination, poverty and lack of opportunity.” – from The Ethics of Cultural Appropriation (edited by Young and Brunk)

Those quotes from academic books and peer-reviewed journal articles? ALL MADE UP BY TUMBLR SJWS, right? 

OP typed that while connected to the internet and could have taken four entire seconds to check Google to see if they were right about the origins of the concept they’re crying over.

Peak white fragility.

‘No one talked about it til Tumblr’ head ass

[I never heard about it untill I was on tumblr and I didnt like it based on my previously unchecked opinions- more like it]