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White girl attacked for getting box braids
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The Faceless Master
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i see nothing wrong with her hairstyle. are these even actual upset racist people or just typical twitter trolls? many of the comments are hilarious!
teruterubozu
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ugh. Twitter "news". I thought she was physically attacked.
AdventureMike
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It's just a hairstyle for fucks sake. Those twitter comments are so sad and unwarranted.
What are the concerns to understand? I'm not seeing them through them tweets.
Angelus Errare
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I would imagine it'd be about the same as people who watch shows featuring black people and think it's an accurate depiction of all of them.
People are going to take what they want from a show if it fits their already decided world view.
Ehhh....
It's a problem when this rule exists, and the people who created it, enforce it, and live by it, don't understand it.
"Blackish is hilarious daddy..."
Really what? That i'm not cool on either side calling anyone "brown/yellow/white people"? Maybe that's totally cool in your neck of the woods on this planet but try that shit at a bar, party, whatever and you'll have everyone's eyes on ya.
The Faceless Master
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they're actually not really well done. they're a bit uneven in size and shape.
Tinfoilhatsron
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What? What are you trying to say? I don't know what Girls(?) is.
Angelus Errare
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Are you okay with saying "black people?"
I really think you took the post you originally quoted way out of context.
hes talking about "Girls" in general..............
jk, its a tv show, i think o.0
Hair is hair, style is style.
If we are going to start putting ownership based on colour then a lot people are going to be missing some vital things from their lives.
Also I assume this is America, anywhere else this child would be laughed at for a stupid looking hair do, not racially abused.
Madness.
If we are going to start putting ownership based on colour then a lot people are going to be missing some vital things from their lives.
Also I assume this is America, anywhere else this child would be laughed at for a stupid looking hair do, not racially abused.
Madness.
Opus Angelorum
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I thought as much.
As someone who has never experienced racism, surely your own culture is harmed when you set definitions as to who can be 'part' of that culture.
Gordon Shumway
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HANG THEM!
Girl looks fine. The style suits her. Some folks need to ease up. We drawing a line in the scalp now? Twitter always brings out the best in the worst people..good grief.
The Faceless Master
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you missed blue, green and purple.
Granted, I'm not talking about anyone in this thread, I'm talking about the twitter response to the sheer idea of a woman getting box braids. It's as if being heavy handed with your argument and dabbling in diet racism seemed okay because you thought Lena Dunham was being super cereal last night when she was screaming about how crazy she is in the streets of new york on HBO.
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R - Why do people think that it's so acceptable to be so abjectly terrible to other people for literally no reason?HA! Ah...::wipes a tear away::
This attitude is probably why some of them are on the defensive.
She did do something innocent, nothing wrong whatsoever.
shinobi602
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Braids are a patented hairstyle little girl, didn't you know?
No mayo whites allowed.
No mayo whites allowed.
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Because they've deemed the other person wrong on a social issue, therefore the person who is wrong is not worthy of respect due to their wrongness.
I mean, it's a thing. But it's only a bad thing when the double standard behind certain races doing the same thing results in overt racism, like a 14 white year old girl getting taken to task for getting her hair done, or a 14 year old black girl getting her shoes stolen because she does her homework every day and "doesn't act black enough".
The Elite
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I think people watch that show and believe it's trying to be serious.
The Faceless Master
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this isn't comparable to blackface. it's innocent. period.
Pilgrimzero
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I want to be called "Mayo".
Dang, I love Mayonnaise.
Dang, I love Mayonnaise.
The Faceless Master
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fixed.
Juke Joint Jezebel
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Well, we have mayo and white bread as white racial slurs now. So at least we can make a nice verbal mayo butty now.
Gordon Shumway
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Oppo
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I'm not so sure its valuable as a construct. Context is so key in these situations that applying a blanket label like that "cultural appropriation" I just can't see the utility. It's a verbal bludgeon. So many counter examples.
If someone had accused Beyoncé of cultural appropriation when she dyed her hair blonde people would have laughed their asses off, and rightfully so.
Clinton514
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Exactly what I was thinking. People can be assholes. Nothing new. Get off of the social media if you think you'll be upset by what people have to say.
My memory is a little fuzzy on the subject, but iirc many Nordic/Germanic/celtic tribes wore their hair braided or in various forms of dreadlocks. Historically, these are hairstyles that white people have already used. Can't appropriate something you already did in the past, but you can certainly bring it out of retirement.
Also, fuck the haters. It's hair for gods sake, get some perspective.
Also, fuck the haters. It's hair for gods sake, get some perspective.
BumblebeeCody
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Wow those tweets were racist.
She seems fine. Nice apology too, even if she didn't need to issue one.
She seems fine. Nice apology too, even if she didn't need to issue one.
Angelus Errare
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It's a damned if you do, damned if you don't situation for black people. You act differently, you'll get the whole "whitest black person I know" or "you don't act black" or "You're trying to act white".
Though to clarify. Both Mesoian and Cream are wrong. Black people don't see straight hair as "white culture" they see it as the standard of beauty they must conform to.
Asian, Hispanic, Middle Eastern, Caucasian all women have straight hair, and as such they too feel that they must have straight hair. That and you have the pressures of American society telling you daily your hair ain't shit if it's not straight, get denied jobs because your hair doesn't fit dress code, all magazines and TV shows are about women with straight hair and you're going to feel like shit. The end result is black females feel they must have straight hair to be accepted by society at large. They're pressured to conform.
Boiling it down to "white culture" does the entire thing a disservice. As Slayven said watch Chris Rock's Good Hair if you really want to understand.
Stevey
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You better shave that off, straight hair is all I've got left.
Concern was probably a bad choice. I mean I understand the motivation behind these tweets. The appropriation of black culture by a society that we're still largely excluded from is real and people are gonna react to it. Some will get angry and some (like me) will just find it amusing. I think singling out individuals is pretty silly and hateful though.
generaldane
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As a black man I find this outrage stupidly ridiculous
JadedWriter
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I'm all for tackling racism, but ganging up on a white woman for wearing a "black" hairstyle is also another form of racism. I've seen white women wearing box braids since I was in high school and they were never attacked or heckled by their black classmates. Sometimes people just take shit too far. Black face is racist, this, this is just a hairstyle.
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