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Conspiracy theorists are often mocked and called tin-foil hat wearing loonies, but whatever people may say, they have got the occasional thing correct. And s...
I’d call these Conspiracy Facts This video does a good job of giving overviews on some of the most famous conspiracies… and a few others.
• MK Ultra The CIA committed horrific acts against American and Canadian citizens… this shit makes sick just thinking about it.
• Diamonds are worthless In the late 1800s Diamonds flooded the market and should have been worthless. That is until the most prominent diamond companies joined together to form a monopoly called DeBeers. They then used major advertising campaigns and movies to invent the diamond engagement ring. It worked.
• The public was told a false story of why America went to war in Vietnam.
• U.S. Public Health Service purposely infected African American men with Syphilis and gave them no treatment just to see what would happen. Many of them died.
• Operation Northwoods U.S. Military planned to attack its own citizens and blame it on Cuba in an effort to start a war with Cuba. The plan was approved and ready to go into action until President Kennedy rejected it.
• Our government is spying on us… yep The excuse that spying is necessary to prevent terrorism is a lie.
• WWE Wrestling matches are planned… duh
• The FBI intentionally poisoned liquor during prohibition to get people to stop drinking it. Many people died from poisoning and blamed it on the alcohol.
• Many of the most powerful men in the world meet once a year to perform pagan rituals and secret meetings at Bohemian Grove. In fact every Republican President since Coolidge has attended.
• The CIA invented and used (uses) a heart attack gun that uses a tiny bullet made of ice, injected with a non-detectible shell fish poison. The ice melts and leaves only a tiny red dot in the person’s skin.
Yeah almost all of those are well known but what the FUCK @ that last one
Could go over these.
1: MKULTRA. The thing so horrible and useless it got defunded about a decade before it came to light. What was actually learned was that things that tend to release inhibitions tend to get loose lips flowing and in fact we found the best “truth serum” is ethanol, or as it’s calked on the streets, wine, beer, and spirits. As for the other parts that get bandied about, they’re basically hypnosis, they can’t make somebody do what they wouldn’t do. Hence the fact it’s considered a failure.
2: Debeers Diamond Scam. This is why monopolies and laissez faire capitalism is bad. Nuff said. There’s a good reason it should be considered a racket.
3: the publically known one is that it was a proxy war between the US and soviets, caused by the fallout of French decolonization
4: and everybody knows this, only recently was this considered bad, not just because of who it was but because ethics became a thing, also why MKULTRA was defunded.
5: Operation nobody was gonna do this. Not just because we had gotten a little smarter (the USS Maine was considered an excuse as far back as WWI), and because we knew it was gonna turn to shit after the Bay of Pigs.
6: no shit sherlock, theyve been doing it to track gangs and kiddy diddlers. Yep the whole point was to fuck organized crime and pedos and goes back to Raegan.
7: no fucking shit, it hasn’t been called the male soap opera for almost 40 years for nothing. The only people who believe kayfabe nowadays are extremely young kids.
8: last I remember about this one was that it was done to ruin the stuff coming over from Canada to drive down rum runner profits, and used wood spirits, something known to happen with moonshine.
9:oh man Bohemian Grove. AKA upper class Elks go have fun in the woods and the most pagan they get is a stage play made by the late 1800s equivalent of edgy hipsters with performance art degrees. In fact just about every conspiriscam show (like Alex Jones) brings on the types who would unironically say D&D is satanic, and the Satanic Panic of the 80s was real, and probably has some book that’s laughably out of date by say, calling Saddam the Antichrist.
10: so does every other spy agency, see Alexander Litvenenko.
I just love the fact that #9 is ‘The republicans go and LARP in the woods! It’s a conspiracy!’ Like bitch, tell me when they’re doing a VtM larp and I’ll be surprised.
Like seriously. It’s fucking hilarious. It’s almost as good as famous rappers making fun of the Illuminati thing or the actually funny Drake’s October’s Very Own graphic being the “Bohemian Grove” Owl (in reality a very old stock image to the point that it’s been used as a general owl symbol), it’s like saying that S/8 everybody and their entire family does is some secret symbol.
you know hes like. a known abuser right lol
*she
Amber Heard abusing Johnny Depp
For two years now we know that she abused Johnny, yet everyone keeps ignoring it. Today Johnny made a claim in court papers which he can proof with photos. there also are a lot of other things that proof her abuse:
At the Sept. 14 premiere of Johnny Depp‘s new film Black Mass at the Toronto International Film Festival, photographers captured the passion on the red carpet between the star and his wife, Amber Heard, who kissed and cuddled for the cameras.But away from the shutterbugs, a source says, the newlyweds got hot and bothered in a different way. Amber, 29, hovered near her hubby as he schmoozed, and when she saw him chatting with a young woman, the source says, “she stormed over and tried to butt in.”When Johnny, 52, continued the conversation, she “looked livid” and quickly pulled him aside. The source says, “She talked to him like a child. Johnny smiled awkwardly and seemed to calm her down, because the next minute they were holding hands again and she was all smiles.”According to the insider, this volatility is nothing new for the couple, who wed in February and bicker about everything from his female fans to Johnny’s recent weight gain. She’s bothered so much that Amber has begun dictating his diet. “She says he looks like a mess now,” says the source.“Amber is very loving toward Johnny — but if things aren’t the way she wants, all hell breaks loose,” the insider says.Friends who’ve witnessed the actor bend to Amber’s controlling ways are wondering what happened to his rebellious spirit. “He’s blinded by love,” the source says. “He’ll do anything she wants — and she knows it.”http://www.celebitchy.com/449943/star_amber_heard_was_livid_at_johnny_depp_but_all_smiles_for_cameras/
there are more stories like this example: at the lone ranger premiere in disneyland she was super rude to everyone basically,
when they were on their honeymoon Johnny was greeting fans and got annoyed by that
she hits him multiple times during that stupid Overhaulin’ episode he did specially for her
she pulled him away from his fans at a Japanse airport in 2013 (notice how she really pulls him and just refuses to let go)
she also pulled him away while he was in the middle of a conversation with someone at the hollywood film awards in 2015
she taunted him on instagram by posing with her fist and adding a comment about ink (referring to his former slim tattoo) she had made countless of refs to him in interviews in such, still taunting him
she can’t do an interview without mentioning him, bullying him
combine this with Doug Stanhope’s statement:
We’d watched it build like this since before they were married. We’d watched her manipulate and f— with him for years. We didn’t say a word. To each other, yes, but never to him. When your friend is in an awful, abusive relationship — man or woman — …http://www.thewrap.com/johnny-depp-is-being-blackmailed-by-amber-heard-heres-how-i-know-guest-column/
and here abusing her ex-wife:
http://www.tmz.com/2016/06/07/amber-heard-domestic-violence-arrest-partner-tasya-van-ree/ (in this link you can find an audio of her in the court room)
https://people.com/movies/amber-heards-arresting-officer-speaks-out-i-am-so-not-homophobic/http://www.inquisitr.com/3185259/amber-heard-arrest-the-homophobic-cop-is-a-gay-woman-tasya-van-ree-was-lying-to-protect-amber/
and the statements from his bodyguards and the police:
normally she was the one who had to be physically pulled off of Johnny. Reportedly she would throw bottles, scream and “charge” at him. The guards will testify during the restraining order hearing in June. http://hollywoodlife.com/2016/05/31/amber-heard-johnny-depp-bodyguards-no-abuse-claims/
On May 21, 2016, officers responded to a domestic incident radio call…” LAPD Sgt. Marlon Marrache says. “The person reporting the crime [Heard] did not insist on a report and no report was warranted. There was no evidence of any crime. A crime did not occur so the officers left the scene and left a business card.”Marrache adds that if there had been any signs of abuse, officers would have conducted an investigation, regardless of what Heard said had happened.http://ew.com/article/2016/05/27/johnny-depp-amber-heard-police-investigated-abuse-claim-no-evidence-crime-found/
a part of the court doc (from johnny suing the sun for defamation because the called him a wife beater which he clearly isn’t) in his evidence list which can be found below you can see that johnny has photos as evidence that match the timestamp of this attack
the complete document can be found here:https://www.docdroid.net/JU2xOOU/johnny-depp-assault-amber-heard-iphone-incident-doc.pdfit describes in detail her abuse and lies
and his evidence list: (which includes text, photos, witnesses)
see full here: http://bybyeblackbird.tumblr.com/post/168411141303/so-it-turns-out-that-the-evidence-and-witness
after that witness list was revealed she dropped the case and ro with prejudice:
court doc: http://becauseitisjohnnydepp.tumblr.com/post/173707760332/since-the-link-i-was-using-doesnt-work-anymore
also this interview where he talks about the false accusations: https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/johnny-depp-interview-2018
And this:
“In his GQ interview, Mr. Depp is simply defending himself against Ms. Heard’s lingering, false abuse accusations,” Adam Waldman, Depp’s lawyer, said in a statement issued to Newsweek. “Johnny Depp is a victim of violent abuse.”
Depp’s team rejected that statement, and his attorney suggested the “shameful psychological abuse” it mentions stems from Heard’s “continuing cynical manipulation of the important #metoo movement and its real victims.”
“Ms. Heard has been previously arrested and spent the night in jail for domestic abuse (an arrest that was initially blamed on police homophobia, although the arresting officer later averred to being a gay rights activist),” Waldman said in the statement to Newsweek. “Ms. Heard has admitted to multiple violent attacks against Johnny Depp that caused serious injury. Eyewitness, photographic, and previous sworn testimony will be presented to the court.”
Added Waldman, “Regarding the confidentiality agreement of which Ms. Heard’s counsel complains, Ms. Heard started violating it before the ink dried, first with a statement, and soon after with a domestic violence PSA asking ‘how is this happening to me?’ purporting to give advice to real victims. More breaches followed.”
Waldman confirmed to Newsweek that court proceedings into the abuse allegations will take place in November in Britain. Depp’s team intends to submit evidence proving Heard “faked” all allegations of abuse. Depp’s camp will present “clear evidence of the violence committed serially against him by Ms. Heard and the serious injuries that he suffered,” Waldman added.
https://www.newsweek.com/johnny-depp-victim-abuse-amber-heard-1153422?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=NewsweekTwitter
and this:
“Two days ago, Amber Heard’s lawyers professed their ‘outrage’ to the media that Johnny Depp had finally spoken in self-defense,” Depp lawyer Adam Waldman of The Endeavor Group wrote in a statement to The Hollywood Reporter on Friday. “I responded with what happens next — we will submit overwhelming evidence to a U.K. court next month that Ms. Heard repeatedly violently attacked and severely injured Mr. Depp, and then faked abuse allegations against him. Ms. Heard became in the process an imposter in the #MeToo movement who abused the trust and experiences of real survivors for her own reputational gain.”
Depp’s team is previewing the evidence that it will present in the upcoming court hearing in the U.K. this fall tied to a defamation lawsuit against The Sun for an article that labeled the actor a “wife beater.”
“Our evidence will include photographs, sworn testimony and admissions, and eyewitness accounts,” Waldman wrote. “Ms. Heard, who has a prior arrest for domestic abuse, and her lawyers have responded to these remarkable disclosures with two days of profound silence, excepting social media posts of Ms. Heard wrapped in an American flag asserting: ‘we survivors…’”
Waldman concludes, “Ms. Heard’s lawyer publicly claimed Ms. Heard has unconsulted witnesses, but none have materialized. We would like to hear, and believe the public should hear, what, if anything, such ‘witnesses’ have to say, so that those statements may be held to account against our imminent court filings.”
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/johnny-depps-legal-team-prepares-court-hearing-amber-heard-abuse-claims-1149731
and this:
An attorney for Depp tells PEOPLE in a statement, “Were Ms. Heard’s faked abuse claims presented yet again at a real #metoo event this week a ‘confidential arbitration’? Ms. Heard (and lately her new attorney) have been peddling easily disproven fake abuse claims for over 2 years in public, and now that real evidence is coming, exhibit a sudden and predictable desire for confidentiality.”
https://people.com/movies/johnny-depp-speaks-grindelwald-jk-rowling-supporting-him/
Amber Heard is an abuser
When you falsely accuse your husband of domestic abuse, but instead end up bringing your abuse of him to light.
……..
Holy shit
Wow. I feel terrible that I thought Johnny Depp was the abuser. I made the same mistake with Evan Peters, thinking he was the abuser, and not Emma Roberts. Amber Heard is horrible!
Okay so first of all I want to make it very clear that I don’t blame anybody for believing Johnny was guilty. Nobody’s perfect and everyone makes mistakes.
That being said we must never forget that
We do nobody any JUSTICE when we RUSH TO JUDGMENT.
We only succeed in hurting innocent people in a way that cannot be undone.
The court of public opinion is a terrible place to look for Justice. No to mention, THIS is just another one of so many reasons why so many of us scream at the top of the mountain that
EVERYONE GETS DUE PROCESS.
I mean even the people we don’t like deserve due process if for no other reason than to protect ourselves should we find ourselves in the same boat.
Until we have all the evidence we can’t be 100% sure. THERE’S ALWAYS A CHANCE THAT WE CAN BE WRONG.
Even if someone wants to do the spiel about there not being enough arrest/ convictions, putting an innocent man in a jail DOSE NOT take a guilty man off the street.
I can’t stress enough that we should never take accusations like these as a proof guilt because we can not turn the clock back.
We might be wrong, but I’m keeping this anyway because this is the first time I’ve seen like all the counter-evidence in one place.
Wow…I feel really bad for Depp now, after all the things I said about him.
bc some people refuse to believe that a woman can also be abusive…
In highschool, there were a lot of girls who were violent. You know, the “cute violent” but in reality, it wasn’t like that…
I fucking knew it
Imagine you have to drag a library of well documented instances just to show people this woman is trash but a guy can get crucified without so much as a sticky note of evidence to prove he did the crime. We have a long way to go to undo this double standard.
Reblogging this again in light of the recent news.
Gonna start a post with blank memes. Please add any you have on hand and reblog to spread them.
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Here’s a few I’ve accumulated over the years
Ah, some gold!
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This is a blessing look at all of these templates
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Reminder this literal fag fucks dogs
I don’t doubt you but I need a source
He’s gone to bat defending bestiality way too often. This is from his reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/YMS/comments/7k5ztn/adam_yms_supports_and_endorses_beastiality/
His argument involves some really retarded whataboutisms including equating meat eating to raping dogs and other stupid shit; pretending you can’t accept one without tolerating the other otherwise you’re a hypocrite. And again, he’s very outspoken about defending dog fucking and has shilled for it many times in many different places. I’m sure if you looked up the kiwifarms page about him there’s more but I don’t go there often.
Sure you can say there’s no definitive proof but how many times do we have to hear a guy who likes furry fetish art and dresses up in dog costumes defend bestiality before we can assume there’s some personal investment on his part? At this point I’m surprised to hear of a gay furry who doesn’t rape dogs to death so he’s not a rare example; just a prominent one.
Heartbreaking: The worst person you know just made a great point.
This is just calling out the hypocrisy of meat eaters. Similarly, if you eat cows, it's pretty laughable that you'd get morally outraged if someone eats a dog.
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If you know how to stop witch trials then don't bother telling me. Go out there and make that happen. Until then though this will keep happening. Reputations being influenced by public opinion is just kind of a reality of being a public figure. Facts don't matter in the mass general public. I don't know how to change or fix that. I just accept that's the inherent reality of being more well known. Celebrity life has it's downsides and this is one of them.
Yeah! August Ames killing herself was just the downside of being a celebrity.
Results of witch hunt culture among normal people instead of celebrities.
Jay Cheshire and his mother. Both committed suicide.
Brian Banks lost his career and several years to a lie. His accuser, last I heard, admitted to her lies and got a big fat nothing for it.
Ross Bullock, killed himself after a woman accused him of rape. Although the police told him he was free to go they also told him he could be charged later to spite the lies.
Thomas Klocke killed himself after having has name drug through the mud by his college and a gay student who accused him of harassment.
But witch hunts and the court of public opinion are not going to stop any time soon. Regardless of how many lives they destory.
Jesus, I didn’t know Jay Cheshire’s mum had killed herself too. That’s really sad.
She may have killed herself after her son committed suicide. It’s not uncommon for close friends and family to do that under emotional distress of loss of a love one.
She did, she also lost the house they were living in and couldn’t cope not having his room to sit in anymore.
What the FUCK did I just witness?
LMFAO… I don’t know either…
this is what happens to your brain if you do too many uppers while watching msnbc
Cultural appropriation?
@dogpompeii Those of us who aren’t culturally marginalized could and should just take responsibility for our own feelings and actions instead of backlashing.
If you live in a western society like the US, the only way for your culture to become un-marginalized is for it to be absorbed into the broader American culture. Like the Italians and Irish; people always point to them, and how they used to be marginalized groups, but they assimilated and their culture was absorbed into the wider American culture.
This isn't me lashing back at anyone. Again, I'm not being defensive. I'm saying that this mentality is actively harmful for minorities.
You want white Americans to stop "othering" you? To stop making you feel like you don't belong? Get them hooked on your culture. Normalize wearing kimonos as a fancy dress. Normalize sugar skulls as a halloween decoration or costume.
"It's taking it out of the original context, they're messing it up!"
Welcome to America, Babey! Strap in!
We took pizza from this to the greasy stuffed crust monstrosity you see today. We took St. Patrick's day from a reverent honoring of Irish ancestry to drunken parades. If you're going to be an American, and not a foreigner living in America, you're going to have to relinquish ownership of your culture. You just have to. To do otherwise will guarantee that everyone else sees you as an other.
I saw this on Instagram last night and it is such a great idea! I wanted to share with my followers in the business game ✨
Cultural appropriation?
Genuinely, why do people get so worked up about “cultural appropriation”? Like I understand things that are genuinely meant to mock other cultures like offensive costumes and shit but really what is the big deal if someone who isn’t black has corn rows? I’m not really about the whole “you’re being so sensitive!1!1” thing but this really do be feeling like people just getting upset over nothing. Especially when it comes to getting offended FOR other people like people in other countries who don’t even care (or even think that it’s cool) that people partake in their culture.
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)
The problem with appropriation is not in people getting offended but in the tangible harm listed above that affects the people in the culture. I may not “care” if someone appropriates my culture, but that doesn’t stop it from have negative consequences that affect me.
And I assure you, there is someone in every country that “cares.” They may just not want to or be able to communicate that to you. For example, my grandmother has never heard the words “cultural appropriation,” but she has still conveyed to me over the years that she has a problem with our cultural traditions being misrepresented and misused.
I understand certain things that it would be harmful with. But something like wearing your hair a certain way, to me, makes for no reason to get angry over, it does not cause harm (as long as one is not mocking others of the culture that came up with it)
“To me.” There’s your problem right there. You don’t have the experience or knowledge to understand the context of why people misrepresenting traditional hairstyles is a problem. You don’t know about the discrimination people experience because of that misrepresentation.
Think outside yourself for once.
Likewise, think outside yourself. To be clear, I’m not on the defensive like OP, I don’t think it’s “not that bad” I think it’s actively harmful to constantly decry things like this as wrong.
Sure, in the moment, you see some white highschooler wear a Kimono to prom and you think to yourself “man… She doesn’t understand the cultural significance of that. That is very deeply personal to my heritage, and for that white person to wear it makes me think they don’t respect it as such, and that they’re just treating it as a disposable fashion trend.”
You might feel justified in calling out people for this, and say “this cultural artifact doesn’t belong to you, it’s inappropriate for you to wear it.”
You’ve gotten your satisfaction in feeling like you’ve defended your culture from foreign takeover, but the ripple effect is now you’re driving wedges between people based on race. What a precedent. Now what was once someone appreciating something has turned this white person to viewing your racial croup as an “other.” They’re not just humans anymore, you’ve drawn a distinction, and said “go away we don’t want you near us.” White people are people all the same, and I personally don’t want to befriend someone who views me as an adversarial force, so you’ve just made another white person whob is more likely to avoid or discriminate people of that racial group.
If that’s your intention and you’re fine with that, that’s acceptable. Would you agree that ideally, in a perfect world, all humans would be considered entirely equal? Or would you prefer some groups of humans stayed segregated from others, to avoid inappropriate cultural mixing? Honest question.
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A person from a culture being bothered by the misrepresentation of their traditions isn’t the one driving the wedge, honey. It’s the person who decided to marginalized cultures’ traditions in misrepresentative ways.
Moreover, culture is not race. No one here is talking about “racial” appropriation. If I saw a black Mexican person using an aspect of Mexican culture it wouldn’t be an issue, even if I’m Mexican and not black. We’re both Mexican despite being of different races. Honestly your comment makes you sound extremely ignorant.
Lol again, it’s the person who decides to appropriate who is doing the “othering.” Not the people in the marginalized group asking that their traditions not be fetishized or misused and actually “othered”! In what world do you live in where the person being harmed suddenly becomes the problem because they speak up about how they are being harmed? Moreover, more than white people are capable of appropriating (see the kpop industry for example), so is plainly obvious you’re more worried about how white people are perceived than anything else.
On top of that, if you are more likely to discriminate because someone told you there is a cultural boundary that is inappropriate to cross, then you were always a racist in the first place. When my friends tell me I cannot use their belongings however I want, that doesn’t mean it’s ok for me to start mistreating them. In what world would that be logical or decent human behavior? Respect peoples’ boundaries, whether they be individuals or cultures.
Cultural appropriation is not “cultural mixing” so your question doesn’t even make sense. You’re thinking of cultural exchange, a completely different anthropological concept. If anything, cultural appropriation itself is what segregates people: a) because it’s consequences are discrimination, racism and poverty and b) because it reinforces that some cultures are for using as accessories and costumes.
Ideally we’d all live in a world that is equal, but that’s not the world we currently live in. Power imbalances exist and pretending they don’t will only make them more imbalanced.
Honestly you have nothing to stand on argument wise when you obviously don’t even understand basic terms and concepts, much less the underlying problems which create cultural appropriation. Your hyperfocus on white people when they haven’t been mentioned once in this conversation is also extremely telling.
Bad logic, bad faith and bad research do not an honest question make.
Cultural appropriation is such an american thing, in the sense that the concept of “Cultural approproiation” is, to some extent, the application of the capitalist concept of interlectual property to Culture. An idea which both disgusts me and fills me with fear.
Culture is naturally a boundryless concept, as it represents a person, or a societies experiences. Culture cannot belong, cultural concepts, traditions and objects have origins however they naturally spread, evolve and change, inevitably becoming something new and different, sometimes even inherantly different from what they used to be.
To maintain that everybody should stick to their culture is a non-sensical thing to say, as well as being inherantly nationalist, it stems from the american search for an identity and a culture beyond the traditional “american” one.
tl;dr cultural appropriation is a uniquely american concept that mixes capitalism and culture in an attempt to fill the existential void that is american identity. It is a concept that is misunderstood, vast, badly defined and generally vague.
The list of things that have been taken from other cultures and bastardised is immense and dates back centuries, and everybody has done it, without exception. The reality is that the act of copying is the very essense of what culture is.
Now this^ this right here is how I wish I could put my thoughts into coherent and articulate words.
Cultural appropriation?
Genuinely, why do people get so worked up about “cultural appropriation”? Like I understand things that are genuinely meant to mock other cultures like offensive costumes and shit but really what is the big deal if someone who isn’t black has corn rows? I’m not really about the whole “you’re being so sensitive!1!1” thing but this really do be feeling like people just getting upset over nothing. Especially when it comes to getting offended FOR other people like people in other countries who don’t even care (or even think that it’s cool) that people partake in their culture.
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)
The problem with appropriation is not in people getting offended but in the tangible harm listed above that affects the people in the culture. I may not “care” if someone appropriates my culture, but that doesn’t stop it from have negative consequences that affect me.
And I assure you, there is someone in every country that “cares.” They may just not want to or be able to communicate that to you. For example, my grandmother has never heard the words “cultural appropriation,” but she has still conveyed to me over the years that she has a problem with our cultural traditions being misrepresented and misused.
I understand certain things that it would be harmful with. But something like wearing your hair a certain way, to me, makes for no reason to get angry over, it does not cause harm (as long as one is not mocking others of the culture that came up with it)
“To me.” There’s your problem right there. You don’t have the experience or knowledge to understand the context of why people misrepresenting traditional hairstyles is a problem. You don’t know about the discrimination people experience because of that misrepresentation.
Think outside yourself for once.
Likewise, think outside yourself. To be clear, I'm not on the defensive like OP, I don't think it's "not that bad" I think it's actively harmful to constantly decry things like this as wrong.
Sure, in the moment, you see some white highschooler wear a Kimono to prom and you think to yourself "man... She doesn't understand the cultural significance of that. That is very deeply personal to my heritage, and for that white person to wear it makes me think they don't respect it as such, and that they're just treating it as a disposable fashion trend."
You might feel justified in calling out people for this, and say "this cultural artifact doesn't belong to you, it's inappropriate for you to wear it."
You've gotten your satisfaction in feeling like you've defended your culture from foreign takeover, but the ripple effect is now you're driving wedges between people based on race. What a precedent. Now what was once someone appreciating something has turned this white person to viewing your racial croup as an "other." They're not just humans anymore, you've drawn a distinction, and said "go away we don't want you near us." White people are people all the same, and I personally don't want to befriend someone who views me as an adversarial force, so you've just made another white person whob is more likely to avoid or discriminate people of that racial group.
If that's your intention and you're fine with that, that's acceptable. Would you agree that ideally, in a perfect world, all humans would be considered entirely equal? Or would you prefer some groups of humans stayed segregated from others, to avoid inappropriate cultural mixing? Honest question.
author: her power is that her nipples shoot boiling milk so she has to be topless always
fans: she isn’t sexualized, the author had to draw her like that because its her power. its out of his control.
i hope you all know i didnt make up the example i used
I would rather have not known that thanks
It’s the pink one. I read through the whole wiki page. I need a drink.
That isn’t what this is about. This was a slightly exaggerated description of a demon from Devilman. I will not allow you to imply that I’ve watched that Queen’s Blade shit.
HOW ARE THERE TWO THINGS THIS APPLIES TO
Why are men like this
Its art you wouldn’t understand
can’t complain about men when swim anime exists.
we all sexual.
Saying “Small Foot (the Zendaya is Meechee film) is about how religion is created and used to control the masses” sounds like a shitty theory and someone digging too deep, but that is literally what it’s about and it hits you over the head with it
The priest/leader of the yetis has a rap musical number explaining how the yeti’s beliefs and rituals all exist soley as a means to control the population and to keep them content while also obscuring information to prevent their society from collapsing
The song is also about how humans tried to commit genocide against the Yeti
meechee from the meme founded a conspiracy theorist cult/club as a means of rebelling against her religious father and is the the yeti equivalent of a college age atheist/bigfoot nerd
@maidofsalt