Apparently braiding your hair is racist (according to some people)

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**Manchu**

Swastakowey wrote:
CIS people can generally be found trying to increase their wealth, fighting trade agreements and killing clones of the republic.

Two out of three, maybe even all three. I'd have to check with GOP HQ but I am pretty sure we White People oppose cloning. Maybe not for armies though, tough one.

**easysauce**

Manchu wrote:
easysauce wrote:
you shut down any and all legitimate debate
Debate or not, at the end of the day I still enjoy the privileges of being white, male, cis-, and straight. Getting to choose whether I even care about the debate getting shut down or whatever is actually one of my privileges.

That assertion would hinge on non straight, non white, non cis ect people having no agency and cannot think for themselves enough to not care about the debate.

Being able to think freely is not a white male privilege, it never was, even back when actual white privilege was a thing

but again, your post simply states your opinion as fact with no debate allowed or possible because Im an unconscious participant by default.

**djones520**

Sining wrote:
The only privilege is wealth.

Which is also BS, because wealth more often then not is earned as opposed to being "priviliged".

**AlmightyWalrus**

djones520 wrote:
Sining wrote:
The only privilege is wealth.

Which is also BS, because wealth more often then not is earned as opposed to being "priviliged".

I'm not sure if I should laugh or cry at that statement.

**Frazzled**

AlmightyWalrus wrote:
djones520 wrote:
Sining wrote:
The only privilege is wealth.

Which is also BS, because wealth more often then not is earned as opposed to being "priviliged".

I'm not sure if I should laugh or cry at that statement.

When in doubt, a shot of Tennessee sipping whiskey is the way to go.

**djones520**

AlmightyWalrus wrote:
djones520 wrote:
Sining wrote:
The only privilege is wealth.

Which is also BS, because wealth more often then not is earned as opposed to being "priviliged".

I'm not sure if I should laugh or cry at that statement.

http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/real-1-percent

You could educate yourself instead? About 80% of American millionaires are self made. They aren't trust-fund babies.

**Manchu**

I wonder how many of those 80% of millionaires are actually even in the 1%.

Also that CATO propaganda is truly garbage.

**MrDwhitey**

hotsauceman1 wrote:
And I will continue to enjoy my privilidge all the way to the financial aid office while walking there because I dont have a car because mine broke down and I didnt have to 5g to fix.
Im so priviledged

Oh man I'm so glad I didn't miss your threadly example of completely misunderstanding what the concept is in a pathetic attempt to try show it doesn't exist.

**Frazzled**

Currently the top 1% is income over $500,000 a year IIRC.

**Manchu**

Frazzled wrote:
Currently the top 1% is income over $500,000 a year IIRC.

Usually top 1% refers to owning wealth (i.e., assets not offset by debt) rather than being an annual income statistic.

**Jihadin**

You can only go so many tax brackets before taxes starts hurting

**AlmightyWalrus**

djones520 wrote:
AlmightyWalrus wrote:
djones520 wrote:
Sining wrote:
The only privilege is wealth.

Which is also BS, because wealth more often then not is earned as opposed to being "priviliged".

I'm not sure if I should laugh or cry at that statement.

http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/real-1-percent

You could educate yourself instead? About 80% of American millionaires are self made. They aren't trust-fund babies.

I'll refer you back to Capital in the Twenty-First Century. I'll also go ahead and ask if you have any other sources for that claim, seeing as CATO exists to promote free-market capitalism at all costs.

**Manchu**

Jihadin wrote:
You can only go so many tax brackets before taxes starts hurting

Brackets down you mean? Or are you talking about ideological pain?

**Jihadin**

Manchu wrote:
Jihadin wrote:
You can only go so many tax brackets before taxes starts hurting
Brackets down you mean? Or are you talking about ideological pain?

Unsure which side of you is asking me

**Manchu**

Jihadin wrote:
Unsure which side of you is asking me

Lay off the drugs man!

**CthuluIsSpy**

Frazzled wrote:
Manchu wrote:
easysauce wrote:
you shut down any and all legitimate debate
Debate or not, at the end of the day I still enjoy the privileges of being white, male, cis-, and straight. Getting to choose whether I even care about the debate getting shut down or whatever is actually one of my privileges.

Whats "cis"?

My initials.
CthuluIsSpy

It could also refer to ex-Soviet nations.

**Bullockist**

Manchu wrote:
I wonder how many of those 80% of millionaires are actually even in the 1%.

Also that CATO propaganda is truly garbage.

Just what do you have against 1st century BC politicians? That's racialist

**Frazzled**

Manchu wrote:
Jihadin wrote:
Unsure which side of you is asking me
Share the wealth man!

Corrected your typo

**Bullockist**

HiveFleetPlastic wrote:

I think part of the problem is when we culturally appropriate we tend to sort of pillage whatever culture for things we find appealing, then we repackage them in a way that's meaningful to white people and profit off them. Not only does it hurt people's understanding of the culture in question, but it enriches us at their expense. Instead of an actual understanding of their culture we end up with a bastardised version, and then because white people have so much control over the overall culture the bastardised version swamps the authentic one?

I don't want to bring up the box braids because I think it's pretty universally agreed that box braids aren't the core issue, they're just spillover from people being pretty tender around the issue of appropriation.

And there was I thinking appropriation is a good thing, imitation is flattery. Personally i think it's cool when some white imperialist wears a kimono, but apparently thats bad, stick to pilgrim clothes , that's the only way to be safe on tumblr.

**Dreadclaw69**

Manchu wrote:
Two out of three, maybe even all three. I'd have to check with GOP HQ but I am pretty sure we White People oppose cloning. Maybe not for armies though, tough one.

Sorry, it seems armies are an acceptable use of cloning

**Swastakowey**

Dreadclaw69 wrote:
Manchu wrote:
Two out of three, maybe even all three. I'd have to check with GOP HQ but I am pretty sure we White People oppose cloning. Maybe not for armies though, tough one.

Sorry, it seems armies are an acceptable use of cloning

CIS have the droid armies mate. Republic are just a bunch of minorities banded together we want to oppress.

**Manchu**

Bullockist wrote:
stick to pilgrim clothes , that's the only way to be safe on tumblr

Frazzled wrote:
Corrected your typo

Fair enough.

**Goliath**

easysauce wrote:
but again, your post simply states your opinion as fact with no debate allowed or possible because Im an unconscious participant by default.

Oh hey, it's that thing where you simultaneously complain about something whilst doing that exact same thing!

Automatically Appended Next Post:

Sining wrote:
It's a fancy word tumblrinas came up with to mean straight people

Hey, maybe before making a cool, edgy and dismissive comment about how Tumblr sucks, you could make sure that what you're saying is actually correct? Because the word that people (yes, including Tumblr) use to describe straight people is... Straight people. Cis is used to refer to non-trans people (based of the chemical structure naming convention), and no, it wasn't thought up by Tumblr.

**Jihadin**

Wait...Tumblrina's is code for straight people?

What's Twinkle Toe's?

**easysauce**

Goliath wrote:
easysauce wrote:
but again, your post simply states your opinion as fact with no debate allowed or possible because Im an unconscious participant by default.

Oh hey, it's that thing where you simultaneously complain about something whilst doing that exact same thing!

So then it should be no trouble quote me where I told anyone they were wrong because they unconsciously were supporting my opinion.

**Goliath**

easysauce wrote:
Goliath wrote:
easysauce wrote:
but again, your post simply states your opinion as fact with no debate allowed or possible because Im an unconscious participant by default.

Oh hey, it's that thing where you simultaneously complain about something whilst doing that exact same thing!

So then it should be no trouble quote me where I told anyone they were wrong because they unconsciously were supporting my opinion.

I was actually commenting on your continual accusations that other people are presenting opinions as facts, whilst simultaneously making sweeping, opinion based claims and presenting them as facts.

**H.B.M.C.**

HiveFleetPlastic wrote:
Not only does it hurt people's understanding of the culture in question, but it enriches us at their expense.

Prove it. I'm serious. Show how brading one's hair (or eating the food of another culture, or learning another language, or dressing in clothing from another culture) enriches "us" at the expense of the "other"?

Manchu wrote:
What do people think of GamerGate as a case of white males being sensitive about cultural appropriation?

Given all the minorities and women that support #GamerGate, and how #GamerGate only has something to do with race/gender if you don't understand it/buy into the lies of the pathetic websites that peddle that narrative (Kotaku, Polygon, anything Gawker), I'm gonna go ahead and say "Not much!".

**Bullockist**

I'll tell you how, by copying something from anoither culture does, we steal it and make it our own thereby taking something from them permanently. It can only be bad for society when people from other cultures do things like other cultures in a society.

WE cannot have people melding into one, we must keep things separate and different so we all have a reason to be righteously indignant! Some people are so ignant

**H.B.M.C.**

Frazzled wrote:
Whats "cis"?

A scientific term that has feth all to do with gender that was culturally appropriated (or rather, misappropriated) by the Tumblr crowd and is now used as a gender-based slur against anyone who's a man who says they're a man, or a woman who says they're a woman.

**AlmightyWalrus**

H.B.M.C. wrote:
Frazzled wrote:
Whats "cis"?

A scientific term that has feth all to do with gender that was culturally appropriated (or rather, misappropriated) by the Tumblr crowd and is now used as a gender-based slur against anyone who's a man who says they're a man, or a woman who says they're a woman.

You know how people already explained the actual origin? Could we have more of that, and less of... whatever your post is?