Didn't vikings have dreads or is that just a Hollywood thing?
Has political correctness actually gone mad?
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
They had braids.
Aren't Malone's braided?
What does that question have to do with your previous question?
you're the only one who does that though.
Honest question : Does anyone every talk about cultural appropriation offline? I’ve never experienced a single person actually giving a Fcuk about it in reality. It forever feels like an online construct rather than a reality.
Adult conversations in the real world tend to revolve around authenticity rather than appropriation, then judge accordingly. Exploitation and Appreciation have been stupidly smashed together and posited as Appropriation. Idiots seem to throw Race into it online, all the while they celebrate Drake, perhaps the worlds biggest culture vulture.
Without doubt it’s complicated, there are many dickheads in the world, but the framing online is completely divorced from the real world experience.
Adult conversations in the real world tend to revolve around authenticity rather than appropriation, then judge accordingly. Exploitation and Appreciation have been stupidly smashed together and posited as Appropriation. Idiots seem to throw Race into it online, all the while they celebrate Drake, perhaps the worlds biggest culture vulture.
Without doubt it’s complicated, there are many dickheads in the world, but the framing online is completely divorced from the real world experience.
I have nothing new to add except what has already been explained multiple times by several posters. IMO, he is a terrible rapper but that's just me.
I'm just wondering if Post Malone might have had people with a similar hairstyles in his ancestry. I don't know if he has any viking ancestry, I'm just trying to show how illogical it is ban someone from having a hairstyle because of their race
It's just another one of the many new phrases people online use to try and dictate what other people can and cannot do. Some folk are just born bossy and like to try telling everyone else how they should live, despite it being absolutely none of their business. Before the internet, these folk probably just bothered their neighbour or local village committee. Now they can get a virtual audience and do it worldwide. Must be heaven for them.
That's ridiculous.
There's a fine line between appropriation and appreciation. If someone wants to celebrate another person's culture without adapting their lifestyle then it should be viewed as a positive. The cases where they try to act and pretend that they are of that particular race are the ones that need scrutiny. Beyonce wearing a sari or Minaj wearing a kimono are all just artists appreciating a particular culture. Post wearing braids goes with his whole look and he'll still be awesome with our without it. He isn't tanning or trying to look darker. People are too sensitive these days and are always looking to cancel people for simply adapting a style. Cancel those who adapt a whole culture and are pretending they're that race.
I have an aunt who is white and she wore a sari at her wedding. I guess she would be accused of cultural appropriation too ?
I have an aunt who is white and she wore a sari at her wedding. I guess she would be accused of cultural appropriation too ?
If he has Irish heritage then he could maybe argue that tattoos/braided/dreadlocked hair is something you’d see on his celtic ancestors.
Seems to be a thorny topic though. Just googling “celt dreadlocks” drops you smack bang in the middle of endless online bickering. There’s evidently a lot of people who think this stuff is all VERY. IMPORTANT.
So people have to do a whole DNA analysis now before they can braid their hair?
As white people, we should probably apologise for Halloween costumes over the years.
Exhausting isn't the word.
Imagine how fast David Beckham would have been cancelled today. Sarongs and corn rows 
So then did the Afro-American's culturally appropriate from the celts? That's not a serious question. It's not cultural appropriation, it's fashion choices.
I can give you another "cultural appropriation", silk. The Chinese tried to keep it secret for centuries.
It's dreadful, isn't it, and hardly unexpected. Completely managed to wash over the actual issue without fail.
You can petition for the matter to be reviewed in the next sitting of the Council of White People
Y'know, I've never been invited.
What's the issue? That Jesy should have studied American black history before she got a tan on holiday and braided her hair?
If that's your opinion, fine, but also demand that anyone wearing a wig of straight black hair studies the histories of India and China.
Of course you haven't, who do you think you are?Y'know, I've never been invited.
Just make a petition like the rest of us plebs and the Council will review it in due time.
Yep, i'm done.
Do you have sources that prove this isn't the case today?
I promised myself I’d avoid these topics but like a car crash on the motorway, I can’t help but look.
I think it's made more difficult with musical artists because of the influence record companies have on their image.
Good point.
So tell me then, why is she not allowed to get a tan on holiday and wear her hair however she likes it?
And there, if it was a corporate decision, I could see the case of cynical exploitation of black culture, but if its just the way she likes to dress, then it's just fashion
What a bizarre response.
I checked and apologise. I think I mistook you for someone else and framed your reply the wrong way. Sorry.
Bingo. It's just another twitter fad.
Guys, I'm sorry. I had therapy today and I was on one a bit.
If I've offended anyone, I'm really sorry.
If I've offended anyone, I'm really sorry.
I feel you... Personally I don't have the time/patience but appreciate what you tried to do.
Yeah i'm at my limit on here personally, no point engaging going forward.
I get it. Why bother expend the energy giving your perspective on an emotive subject when nobody really listens? A very pertinent pov I might add given the subject. You tried to shed light on the latest post in this mess of a thread, politely and articulately, and were met with handwaving and whataboutery.
If the mission is to dissolution and silence then... Mission accomplished I guess. If it's to gain understanding on a subject that is not understood? Spectacular failure...
All the drama, moralising and apologies in here because some girl got braids and a tan. 
The last few pages of this would make pretty good material for the hypernorm thread.
The last few pages of this would make pretty good material for the hypernorm thread.