>SJWs complain when a white artists acts distinctly "not-white"
>Doesn't complain when a bunch of black guys put on an eastern aesthetic
SJWs, explain.
Appropriation
Chase Gutierrez
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Benjamin Flores
Well, you see, you're a faggot.
John Long
Found the SJW
Evan Ward
black americans had their "own" culture stripped away from them when slavery began. they became separated from their heritage when they were transported from africa to america. thus they developed their own culture, and for them, part of that is borrowing from other cultures like parts of the east.
white americans already have a culture. many come from europe and have european traditions. or because they are the majority in the nation, they absorb the national culture.
the thing thats actuallly offensive (and a real sjw would argue against what im about to say) isnt white people appropriating from the east. if anything most people celebrate when their culture is embraced. white americans appropriating from black americans is different because black americans developed their culture in opposition to white culture and in place of a culture that was forcibly stripped from them. so when white people are like "look im black, im doing things black people do!" they're ignoring the context of "hey, a hundred years ago you couldnt own land or vote and i could, and now that you finally have your own thing im taking it for myself because i can and no one in history has ever stopped me"
thats whats up with appropriation. maybe in a post racial society it wont matter but for now it kinda does.
Tyler Allen
bump because i want OP to respond
Jaxson Ward
off yourself
because sjw's are only filled with self hate not logic. white people with white guilt are literally the worst kind of people in the world and should all be killed
Henry Ramirez
lol ok actual nazi
Brayden Fisher
triggered
Caleb Ward
This, It's just a complicated topic to begin with and there isn't any right answer to it.
How's Grade 8 going?
Daniel Morgan
To be fair it's fairly explainable. During the time the members of the wu-tang clan were growing up, particularly in New York, the cinemas in black neighborhoods would often be given shitty action movies. Think about Blaxploitation movies, they were at their peak in the 1970s, the RZA was born 1969 and GZA 1966. Another major provider of cheap action movies was China, movies that were quickly dubbed and thrown into these shitty theaters for black people to watch. As much is clearly evident considering 36 Chambers didn't use any vocal samples besides shitty kung-fu movies with a bad English dub.
In many ways this appropriation could be defended because it wasn't the RZA or GZA's fault that they grew up in shitty neighborhoods with bad action movies playing in the theaters. You could even go as far to say that this one interaction with foreign culture was their means of escape from the world they grew up in, resulting in the music they would go on to produce. Though that's likely a stretch.
In short, Wu-Tang had some justification and it wasn't their fault but a consequence of society. A white 20-something from Utah doing the same today would obviously not have the same history and emotional connection and therefore would be exploiting the foreign culture to appear quirky (see what Katy Perry did a few years back).
inb4 I get called a SJW or a cuck, you wanted a legitimate point and I provided it, I would genuinely like to hear people refute it