"Hey Woke : Shouldn't we be talking about 'cultural appropriation' here if, for the same reason, white people shouldn't wear Rastas? No, we don't have to! You see it yourself, don't you? Oktoberfest2022 FCBayern" #PhenomnCulturalAppropriation #EventOktoberfest #ToponymEuropeGermanyBavariaMunich #OrgDEFssballClubBayernMunchen ^[Wikipedia] 'Rastas' = #SymbolHairstyleDreadlocks ?

#IRLSportspersonSadioMane ^[Wikipedia] and #IRLSportspersonMathysTel ^[Wikipedia] #SymbolTrachtLederhosen

this sets out a #ReasoningFallacyWhataboutism based on a #PoliticsNationalismEthno assumption that being #ToponymEuropeGermanyBavaria.n necessitates that you're white. The logic follows, that if #IdentityBlack people are not criticised for dressing 'white', then #IdentityWhite people shouldn't be criticised for their #PhenomnCulturalAppropriation of the cultures of others. Significantly, #IRLSportspersonDayotUpamecano is French i.e. "is a French professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Bundesliga club Bayern Munich and the France national team" ^[Wikipedia] Given this, cultural appropriation tends to have an 'exploitative' dimension to it i.e. that those appropriating tend to be doing so to gain advantage (from those whose culture is being appropriated) - so, in the sense, any such appropriation would be deemed trivial (surely).

"Deine frisur ist rassistisch...! [Your hairstyle is racist...!]" #CaricaturistGabrielGiger ^[tweet] #PoliticsFascismNaziNeoFarRightAltRightRadicalRight versus #SymbolHairstyleDreadlocks

"Honest question for the woke kids: how many unhappy migrants do I have to fish out of the water to compensate for my cultural appropriation of their hairstyles? Or could I perhaps compensate for dreadlocks with a dozen solidarity-based mRNA "vaccinations"? Like, CO2 certificate-style?" #PhenomnImmigrationRefugee #PhenomnCulturalAppropriation #SymbolHairstyle #SymbolHairstyleDreadlocks #LiteralSubstanceDNAMessengerRibonucleicAcidmRNA #LiteralSubstanceGasCO2

#MetaphorVersusConservativesLiberals i.e. #NarrativeAbortion versus #LegislationUS1791ConstAmdt2RightToBearArms, #LiteralHealthcare, #CatchcryFreeSpeechFreedomOfSpeech, #PhenomnMaskWearing, #LiteralVaccine

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Context #SymbolHairstyleDreadlocks #OtheringCaricatureCollegeLiberal ^{[jpg] [pop culture wiki] [commentary]}

"I can't keep up with the whole ' woke ' society anymore. Is Jennifer Weist still cool because she made a song against the AfD with over 2 million views on YouTube or is she inappropriate because she likes to wear dreadlocks? Almost as confusing as the Corona rules of Lauterbach" #IRLSingerJenniferWeist #OrgClassifPPDEAfDAlternativeFurDeutschland #SymbolHairstyleDreadlocks #ConditionVirusCOVID19 #OrgClassifPPDESozialdemokratischeParteiDeutschlandsSPDKarlLauterbach

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Context paradoxically, the post was made by #OrgClassifPPDEAfDAlternativeFurDeutschlandMarieThereseKaiser i.e. "Zur AfD bin ich gekommen, weil mein Vater mir von einer neuen eurokritischen Partei erzählt hat, mit der ich mich dann befasst habe. Im Herbst 2017 war ich bei einer Veranstaltung mit Dr. Alexander Gauland und Dr. Bernd Baumann und habe noch am selben Abend meinen Mitgliedsantrag ausgefüllt. [I joined the AfD because my father told me about a new Eurosceptic party, which I then started to look into. In autumn 2017, I attended an event with Dr. Alexander Gauland and Dr. Bernd Baumann and filled out my membership application that same evening.]" https://funky.de/2021/09/14/afd-jungpolitikerin-marie-therese-kaiser-im-interview/#:~:text=Im%20Herbst%202017%20war%20ich%20bei%20einer%20Veranstaltung%20mit%20Dr.%20Alexander%20Gauland%20und%20Dr.%20Bernd%20Baumann%20und%20habe%20noch%20am%20selben%20Abend%20meinen%20Mitgliedsantrag%20ausgef%C3%BCllt And ^[Wikipedia]

#SymbolHairstyleDreadlocks

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Context "Now is it cultural appropriation when BIPOC call their plica polonica dreads or dreadlocks? I have no idea and I don't care because that woke toxicity isn't my thing." #IdentityIndigenousBlackPeopleOfColourBIPOC #PhenomnCulturalAppropriation #MetaphorMatterToxin_ ^[Wikipedia]

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Addendum this feels like a #ReasoningFallacyWhataboutism argument seems to point to #NarrativeTruthImmutableUniversalIncontrovertibleAbsolute position i.e. that regardless of contemporary issues and debates, there is ultimately a singular truth (and that the presentation of such should end any further, subsequent discussion). From this perspective, truths take no account of cultural contingencies as we ultimately live in #PleaAWorldOfSimpleStableFixedOperations #TheoryInstrumentalism

"Is the trend now racist (because it apparently disadvantages 'white art')? Or NiritTakele because she wants to stand out with this theme? (I've been wanting to create a woke theme too?, imagining 'white men or dreadlocks are in'?)" i.e. #TheoryPoliticsOfFearAnxietyOfVictimisation #SymbolHairstyleDreadlocks

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Supplementary tweeter is perplexed by the fact that is acceptable to frame discussion in terms of race when the subject is black (in this case of the article's title i.e. "Black art is trendy") but (seemingly) not when they are white (as that might result in criticisms of #PhenomnWhitePrivilege - or worse). The tweeter presumably sees this as a #BehaviourDuplicityDoubleStandards - that "it's not racist to classify yourself as a black artist but it is racist if you classify yourself as a white artist". In this way, the tweeter clearly fails to recognise that language is a cultural construct; where language is deeply embedded with cultural significance (that the meaning of words is the consequence of patterns of everyday use #TheoryDialogic.ally, which informs how their definitions are defined in dictionaries). This is known as a #TheoryInstrumentalism conception of meaning.

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Addendum this 'dictionary definitions' point reminds me of the Basil Bernstein quote: "When children fail at school, drop out, repeat, they are likely to be positioned in a factual world tied to simple operations, where knowledge is impermeable" (2000). ^[Folksonomy]

"Nirit Takele is currently one of Israel's most sought-after artists. From the beginning the Ethiopian was an underdog, in her homeland she was 'the Jewess' and in Israel 'the Ethiopian'. But the artist doesn't give a damn about it. For them, identity is simply a matter of attitude. an encounter. " https://www.welt.de/kultur/kunst/article237313923/Identitaet-ist-fuer-sie-schlicht-eine-Frage-der-Einstellung-Wie-Nirit-Takele-die-begehrteste-Malerin-Israels-wurde.html #IRLArtistNiritTakele #ToponymEastMiddleIsrael

Criticism of a supposed set of rules, which determine what can and can't be #PhenomnCulturalAppropriation.ed i.e. according to this critique, #OtheringCaricatureImperialismBlackfaceBlackingUp is deemed inappropriate while other forms (those seemingly associated with #NarrativeUtopiaWokeLiberal) are deemed appropriate.

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Context this position makes a number of assumptions about the equivalence of various appearances as well as locates the tweeter as someone who is subject to the determinations of others (having to second-guess such 'set of rules').

#PhenomnBodyAdornmentTattoo #PhenomnBodyAdornmentPiercing #SymbolHairstyleDreadlocks #IdentityNorthernLiverpoolScouser ?