Cultural Appropriation

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Neologisms

For some reason millennials are wont to make up two-word neologisms for previously common  concepts. Why our traditional words for these ideas are no longer operable is strange ...  perhaps our "snowflakes" have a pressing need to reinvent things? Here are a few of their new ways of expressing things ... along with the traditional words:

virtue signaling = sanctimonious

cultural appropriation = mimicry

safe space = sanctuary

fat (etc.) shaming = ridicule

white privilege = snobbery

false flag = imposter ... or a misdirection

gender fluid = asexual

cultural incompetence = savagery

Trigger warning = heads-up

Toxic masculinity = machismo

Headlines

These headlines are real ... they have all been discovered on Internet news sites. Guess which ones came from Politico?

Finger pointing in London intensifies ...

Exclusive: John Podesta may have been target of Russian influence campaign

Manafort offers to testify in Russian probe ...

RNC paid intel firm for Clinton dirt

College basketball player attacked over hair braids, 'cultural appropriation'

Illegal immigrant accused of murdering teacher

FACEBOOK: 'Hunt and Kill White Women' post [is] not hate speech ...

Iran sanctions bill unveiled by bipartisan Senate group

Report: Bannon says 'AHCA written by the insurance industry'

Joy Behar says Trump 'never paid any taxes' despite tax return release

Reports: State Dept. tightens visa approval process in Muslim majority countries

USA Today: NCAA teams 'should boycott' Arkansas over campus carry

Cultural Appropriation

Whites sporting dreadlocks is "cultural appropriation." Sexy burka Halloween costumes is "cultural appropriation" ... see: RT! Story. White rapping such as with Eminem is "cultural appropriation." Is wearing moccasins "cultural appropriation?" Is adopting the annoying speech patterns of valley girls "cultural appropriations?" Such silliness! Is one sector of society not allowed to imitate any aspect of another sector without opprobrium?

It would seem to this observer that such imitation is flattery and should not be condemned. When such "cultural borrowing" occurs, it suggests that the borrowing sector somehow admires the passive lenders. Why the lending sector would deny the borrowers such liberties seems selfish and almost paranoid. That famous ditty from My Fair Lady, "Why Can't a Woman be More Like a Man?", suggests that men actually want their idiosyncrasies copied by the distaff side. (And it looks like we may be finally getting our wish.)

We have recently seen that this cultural pilfering has even gone so far as 100% WASPs claiming to be blacks ... and males claiming to be females ... often just for a day or two. (I have no problem with transgenderism as long as one's plumbing is changed.)

So, you grudging lenders of culture ... please relax and consider yourselves flattered by the borrowers. At some point, these borrowers might want to return the things appropriated ... all ragtag and rusty. Then you can get upset.

Cultural Appropriation

Dreadlocks are now apparently the sole privilege of the black community. A white student at San Francisco State University was sporting this scuzzy hairstyle when confronted by a black woman as he left his class ... see: Yahoo Video. She accused him of "cultural appropriation" ... a new-age semantic foofaraw that tries to describe our increasing social insanity. For another of these catchy crazy cliches that those peacocks in ivory tower land concoct while they sit around grasping for sympathy, how about the term "white privilege?" What exactly does this lamentation mean? Perhaps it is a cultural appropriation?