cultural appropriation
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Bollywood calling Pakistan. Again.
RecoveringNewsJunkie reacts to a Hindi film trailer set among Karachi’s Lyari gang wars, finding it unoriginal. He doubts the cultural appropriation charge but sees a missed chance for Pakistani actors…
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Yoga: do your thing my brownz
Quoting yoga teacher Jessamyn Stanley’s claim that white supremacy has polluted American yoga, the author reacts with exasperation, saying he is not Hindu but has seen yoga work as exercise,…
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What’s in a name? That which we call a Swastika, isn’t exactly a symbol of hate
Recalling drawing auspicious symbols on exam papers in India and learning of Germany’s ban on the swastika, the author argues it is not simply a symbol of hate and traces…
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Food between cultures
Razib Khan, reacting to an essay on reclaiming Indian food from the white gaze, agrees that white cooks of ‘exotic’ food are rewarded more than immigrants, but rejects the idea…
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Pass the samosa, spare the postcolonialism
Razib Khan argues that Edward Said’s Orientalism at least made an intelligible argument, whereas mass-level postcolonialism is inchoate and its academic form unintelligible, using a Juggernaut piece on cultural appropriation…
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Social Justice as white self-regard and self-obsession
Starting from a Kali Yuga remark mistaken for an alt-right idea, the author argues that a certain Western social-justice outlook treats non-Western people as purely derivative of Western agency, ignoring…
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Why I stand with Ivanka Trump and Kim Kardashian
The author explains why he admires Ivanka Trump and Kim Kardashian as smart, successful women with global reach, argues women have long advanced through looks and family connection, and takes…
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Do they even pretend to care about BAME anymore?
The author complains that British adverts cast black and Asian actors in blue-collar roles, blames oblivious well-meaning white creatives, and says he asks for racial sensitivity rather than positive discrimination,…
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Coloniser Alert + Cultural Appropriation Attack
In a self-described rant, the author objects to a Twitter user’s claim that Hinduism is young, argues Shiva worship is ancient, favours the indigenous-Aryan view while urging care over Iran…
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whitening Jain Music
Starting from a catchy song by a French-Malagasy artist who looks white, the author argues crude racial categories are returning, that British period dramas leave little room for BAME actors,…
