too often when white people say they want to celebrate another culture it is self-serving. they want to “celebrate” a culture by taking from it, however authentic or unauthentic, to make themselves look spiritual/accepting/accepted/etc. too often celebrating a culture is never about the people from these cultures.
I think it really speaks to Tumblr’s inherent biases that they never talk about non-white cultures appropriating things.
Not that cultural appropriation is a bad thing.
1. ) It is more harmful for a white person to promote racism against another race than it is for a person of color to promote racism against another race.
2. ) People of color get called out on appropriation by several tumblr sites; you choose to ignore it to back up your defensive feelings.
3. ) Cultural appropriation is an act of racism; so yeah, it is a bad thing.
(via intorporial)