[quote Poptasmagorical]@Reimu
**There is no such thing as reverse racism, it's plain racism, black people can be racist towards white people, white people can be racist towards black people. There is no excuse for terrible behaviour based on skin color.
Stop being racist and telling people what they can or can't do with their hair based on the color of their skin. It's disgusting.**
You're right: there is no such thing as reverse racism. Because BIPOC people do not have the power structures behind them to allow them to be racist. White people are not victims of racism. Understanding cultural appropriation by taking the time to listen to and learn from BIPOC people would show you that it's not racist to expect white people to stop appropriating the parts of BIPOC culture they like without experiencing the oppression that comes with it for non-white originators. But you won't use your time to do that because you're comfortable in your bubble of privilege. [/quote]
Sorry but you are wrong.
rac·ism
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noun
prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against a person or people on the basis of their membership in a particular racial or ethnic group
"White people are not victims of racism. "
-Wrong, there are black people who hold prejudices against white people and judge them based on it, this is true for any ethnicity. That is what racism is, it has nothing to do with "power structures", which are not held by white people in the first place or by any ethnicity in particular, political power in the modern day is held by individuals, not races, not genders. You really need to take time and educate yourself in what racism is and stop drinking that CRT juice, depending on the context it can make you come off as incredibly racist. Imagine saying that being prejudiced and hateful towards a white individual does not count as racism. Ridiculous, you cannot lobby against racism while proliferating it, that is cognitive dissonance.
Rather than being preoccupied on what the skin color of an individual in power is, worry about their policies, so far having white leaders(and many black leaders for that fact) has given people whose skin happens to be white no power that any other race lacks.
I don't need to listen to a person of specific skin color to understand what cultural appropriation is. That statement makes no sense. Cultural appropriation myths are mostly an American and sometimes UK thing to begin with that incorrectly labels any form of cultural understanding and sharing as appropriating. The cultures they claim to defend usually don't care or rejoice on it sharing their culture, Mexicans, PuertoRicans and Japanese are often happy when you learn to make their foods or use traditional clothing, you don;t know what you are talking about and much of the world disagrees.
Oh and finally, dreadlocks is not an African American culture thing, this has been corrected many, many times in this thread, yet nobody tells black people not to get dreadlocks, or not to straighten out their hair. They can do whatever they want with their hair, so can caucasians, and racist people will have to sitdown and accept that.