Cambridge students cancel theme party over &#x27;cultural appropriation&#x27; fears

Being an alumni of KCL,I'm going to go back and check if we have a safe spot for students to discuss cultural appropriation issues on campus

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somesomebody

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Original post by Unkempt_One

What does this mean?

Think about it.
Ethnic as in usually that refers to person of colour
and sellout...someone who is a person of colour and doesn't show integrity against the social and racial issues that affect people of colour..for being people of colour.

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Original post by queen-bee

No,mocking somebody else's culture isn't acceptable. Cultural appropriation is a real issue,I've seen and heard the stories . I don't know why y'all are trivialising it.

Why is it not acceptable? Does mocking someone's culture necessarily cause severe harm to that culture? Also, culture in principio is not necessarily a positive thing. Is the culture of white nationalists not something to be mocked? This is one of the problems with this loose movement, they've cottoned on to the idea that racism is illogical but have no idea how to get the message across in a practical manner without contradicting themselves. Of course, the only solution to the latter problem is free speech.

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DiddyDec01

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Original post by queen-bee

No,mocking somebody else's culture isn't acceptable. Cultural appropriation is a real issue,I've seen and heard the stories . I don't know why y'all are trivialising it.

Because it is bull****.

Cultural appropriation is only ever mentioned when it is a culture not involving white people. It essentially means white people can't do x or y.

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Original post by DiddyDec

Because it is bull****.

Cultural appropriation is only ever mentioned when it is a culture not involving white people. It essentially means white people can't do x or y.

Why is that so?

What are you talking about?

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Original post by Unkempt_One

Why is it not acceptable? Does mocking someone's culture necessarily cause severe harm to that culture? Also, culture in principio is not necessarily a positive thing. Is the culture of white nationalists not something to be mocked? This is one of the problems with this loose movement, they've cottoned on to the idea that racism is illogical but have no idea how to get the message across in a practical manner without contradicting themselves. Of course, the only solution to the latter problem is free speech.

So free speech for almost anything and everything including hate speech again groups of people in society? Really?

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Original post by somesomebody

Think about it.
Ethnic as in usually that refers to person of colour
and sellout...someone who is a person of colour and doesn't show integrity against the social and racial issues that affect people of colour..for being people of colour.

This is a pretty good example of where anti-racists go off the rails. They realise that racism is illogical, but get themselves into knots by going against free expression, in this case by implying people have special responsibilities due to the colour of their skin, which is an inherently racist idea.

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Josb

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Original post by somesomebody

Oh yes resorting to calling someone a troll who disagrees with you. That's a new one. Look if you aren't intellectually capable of discussing this productively, please click on another forum. You must be "triggered" with these embarrassingly vapid comments.

Says the one who called "ethnic sellouts" the people of colour who disagree with him.

The irony.

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Roofas

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No one seems to have a problem appropriating Western culture of modern medicine, industry and democracy. I suppose the rest of the world's people don't want to go back to living in a poverty and pestilence ridden hell hole where you were lucky to live beyond the age of 35.

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DiddyDec01

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Original post by queen-bee

Why is that so?

What are you talking about?

You have read all the stories, when has cultural appropriation ever been about someone appropriating Western Culture?

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somesomebody

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Original post by Josb

Says the one who called "ethnic sellouts" the people of colour who disagree with him.

The irony.

That's not even a properly constructed sentence, nor is it completely thought out.

Do you understand what is going on here?

(Oh Lord here comes DiddyDec! :rolleyes:

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username2313507

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Original post by queen-bee

Being an alumni of KCL,I'm going to go back and check if we have a safe spot for students to discuss cultural appropriation issues on campus

They already do -
http://www.kclsu.org/pageassets/policyzone/KCLSU-Safe-Space-Policy.pdf

From looking at this, it would appear KCL's Safe Space staff have the power to forcibly remove anyone they disagree with.

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Original post by Roofas

No one seems to have a problem appropriating Western culture of modern medicine, industry and democracy. I suppose the rest of the world's people don't want to go back to living in a poverty and pestilence ridden hell hole where you were lucky to live beyond the age of 35.

If I recall,the Arabs gave us algebra,numbers,knowledge on medicine or am I wrong?

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Original post by queen-bee

So free speech for almost anything and everything including hate speech again groups of people in society? Really?

Yes, actually. Free speech encompasses practically anything that's not illegal. 'Illegal' would be explicitly inciting violence or otherwise law-breaking actions. This seems to be a surprising concept to a lot of people but it's not productive or even necessary to legally enforce every potentially harmful action. And 'potentially' is the key word here since the threat of a non-inciting comment is something entirely construed in the mind of the supposed victim.

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Original post by TelAviv

They already do -
http://www.kclsu.org/pageassets/policyzone/KCLSU-Safe-Space-Policy.pdf

From looking at this, it would appear KCL's Safe Space staff have the power to forcibly remove anyone they disagree with.

Thanks sis,gonna check it out!

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Original post by queen-bee

If I recall,the Arabs gave us algebra,numbers,knowledge on medicine or am I wrong?

You're not wrong, but the vast bulk of the increase in life expectancy was thanks to scientific and medical advances by western countries, in particular the Anglosphere.

I guess you could cultural appropriation is even essential to the advancement of civilisation ???

(edited 8 years ago)

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