Can white people wear dreadlocks? (Page 2)

[Anonymous]

Man! You Americans are definitely something to be laughed at. People are dying of wars and poverty everywhere in the fucking world and your biggest issues are cultural appropriation and dreadlocks and shit.
GIVE THE WORLD A BREAK!!!

[Rina_colada]

We can multi-task.

[October808]

You know the Vikings? Yeah them. They braided their hair.

[October808]

Also braids did not originate in Africa in 3500 BC. It's a European thng.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hByJlY1Y-g

[XavierSteele]

It depends on the person, like any style, some people can pull it off while others can not.

[crazy8000]

Why not?

Personal do I see it as damaged hair and doesn't look that appealing.

[Rina_colada]

They’re damaged on white people because it’s not meant for their hair texture.

[crazy8000]

I know. thank's anyway 😉

[Rina_colada]

You may know but clearly white people don’t know.

[Anonymous]

Yeah if you wanna look like you don’t shower often.

[Snakeyes7]

They are physically able to. Should they? Why not? Them wearing dreadlocks isn’t going to hurt anyone.

[Anonymous]

Yeah I saw a guy like that and it looks OK if you're into that kind of thing. And yeah he is white.

[7771999]

It looks stupid on anyone. But especially on whites

[tHISpLACEiSbONKERZ]

If you want to look like you're infested by fleas you should go for it.

[Wewladdy]

Why would they want to? Yeah we can but it looks disgusting.

[Rina_colada]

It’s not good for y’alls hair anyways. And it’s cultural appropriation.

[Snakeyes7]

What culture are they appropriating?

[Rina_colada]

@Snakeyes7 Black culture

[Snakeyes7]

First of all, dreadlocks are by no means exclusive to black culture. Several countries in ancient times around the world did it. The ancient Greeks did it and the native Americans did it for starters. Do you really expect me to believe that they appropriated from black people they have never seen before?

Also what even is a monolithic black culture and isn’t that in it of itself racist? To assert that there is one is to say that black people are all a single homogenous group which they aren’t. It seems to me that the very idea of a “black culture” implies that you can look at a black person and instantly know what their cultural values are such as their religious beliefs, taste of food and music, political stances and so on. How is that any different than stereotyping?

[Rina_colada]

@Snakeyes7 You’re right. It is not exclusive to black culture. It’s exclusive to Black culture.

[ScarletJean]

I need a pina colada to understand this bullshit.. lol

[Rina_colada]

@ScarletJean i mean I don’t know what’s so hard to understand. White people and Black people have different hair textures. Shocker... i know! Crazy right? So with that being said, different hair texture can take certain hairstyles or methods of styling without damage. White people have the hair if they attempt to wear dreads 1.) it looks a mess and 2.) It can be damaging to their hair because that’s not the best style for their hair type. Just like Black folks can’t wash their everyday or every other day because why? We don’t have that type of hair texture and it will make our hair look like a mess and damage it.

[Snakeyes7]

@Rina_colada I get why it is impractical to have dreads but as far as I am concerned, if they want to ruin their hair, they have every right to do so. I just don’t see how it’s racist.

[Rina_colada]

@Snakeyes7 I said nothing about racism. I said that it’s cultural appropriation.

[Snakeyes7]

@Rina_colada That’s fair but you made it sound like it was a bad thing.

[Rina_colada]

@Snakeyes7 cultural appropriation is not a good thing especially since people know how black people are treated when it comes to us wearing our hair. We get fired from jobs, kicked out of schools, viewed a “unprofessional” which ultimately affects us. So wearing locs is not “appreciating” our culture. You can definitely admire our culture and appreciate it. You don’t have to engage in everything that is a part of our culture.

[Snakeyes7]

@Rina_colada Wait I’m confused. You said black people get fired from jobs, kicked out of schools and viewed as unprofessional because of a certain hairstyle? I don’t think that’s a cultural appropriation issue I think that’s a legal issue. I don’t even think that kind of thing is specific to black people either, it is possible to be fired for dying your hair even though the agreement doesn’t say you can’t. In some states like Illinois, you can legally be fired for no reason.

[Rina_colada]

@Snakeyes7 it still happens and either way it shouldn’t. And you comparing someone choosing to dye their hair to how someone’s hair naturally grows? LMAOO!

[Snakeyes7]

@Rina_colada we’re talking about dreadlocks right? Last time I checked, dreadlocks are not the only hairstyle in existence. What does that even have anything to do with cultural appropriation anyway?

[Rina_colada]

@Snakeyes7 1.) they’re not dreadlocks. They’re locs. If you’re gonna talk shit at least be correct. 2.) It’s our hairstyle (Black people) and it belongs to our culture. Therefore it is cultural appropriation. What’s not clicking.

[Snakeyes7]

@Rina_colada
1. If there is no practical or cosmetic difference between “dreadlocks” and “locs”, I will be calling them the former because that is what I have always heard them being referred to.

2. As I said before dreadlocks are by no means exclusive to black culture as there are artistic depictions of people wearing them all around the world eons ago. There are ancient Greek statues of them wearing them. Native American chiefs wore them all the time. Do you really expect me to believe that these people appropriated a culture they have never witnessed to even learn that it was theirs?

[Rina_colada]

@Snakeyes7 That’s what they’re called locs. Not dreadlocks. This is another reason why white people should not wear locs. Ya don’t wven know what they’re called. And locs orginated from Africa and the greeks came along and appropriated it.

[Rina_colada]

*yall even

[Snakeyes7]

@Rina_colada
1. Who cares what it is called as long as everyone is on the same page of what is being referred to? That’s like asserting that people can’t have cell phones because they actually call them “cell phones” while other just call them “phones”.

2. How do you know that the Greeks got the locs from Africans? I don’t remember anywhere in Ancient Greek history saying that they were, in any way associated with the Africans. Even if they did, where did any other form of civilization get it?

3. What is the treat of it? Its a hairstyle. It’s not hurting anyone. It’s one thing if they did it to mock but none of the cases where accusations were made had any intention to mock.

In fact it turns out that many other accusations of cultural appropriation weren’t really a big deal either. Remember when Katy Perry wore a Kimono on stage and people crucified her for it? Yeah, it turns out no one from Japan have a shit. Remember the looney toons character Speedy Gonzales? Warner Bros. removed him to avoid pissing off their Latin American viewers but it turns out that very community petitioned to bring him back.

If you want to do your part in preventing cultural appropriation yourself, why not start with not using bifocals, electronics, practicing freedom of speech, celebrating St. Patrick’s day and voting; all of which are invented or started by white people. Do you see why so many people take issue with the idea of cultural appropriation? This is what would happen if it was taken to its logical extreme. Cultures have appropriated before, they do it now and will continue doing it because that is a natural way of cultures interacting with each other and the vast majority of countries out there today would not be as industrialized as they are now without it.

[Rina_colada]

@Snakeyes7 it’s not just a hair style. It’s our culture. And for the billionth time their locs. It matters if you gonna address the matter. But thank you white man explaining a BLACK hairstyle to a Black woman.

[Rina_colada]

@Snakeyes7 and i said what i said. You can suck my ass with a Caprisun straw.

[Snakeyes7]

@Rina_colada I am not explaining any hairstyle. I am explaining why the concept of cultural appropriation is absurd. If anything it’s actually pretty racist. You are literally asserting that certain people with a certain skin color are allowed to do or wear certain things, thus judging them by the color of their skin not by the content of their character like whether they are going to mock the group they are wearing the clothes that they represent.

[Rina_colada]

@Snakeyes7 I said that I said. You were whitesplaining stuff I know as a black woman. You’re not black therefore can not speak to me about black hair/hairstyle. Good bye peasant.

[Snakeyes7]

@Rina_colada lmao, I love how earlier you were clamoring how you are a victim because people not of your race are trying to appropriate black culture (which sounds like a sugarcoated term for stereotyping to me) and are now trying to shoo me away as if I am below you which I am not. I see you and everyone else as equals but you don’t seem too keen on the idea as you accuse me of “whitesplaining” about something you supposedly known. If that was true, then that makes me question why we are having this argument in the first place because then we would at least agree on some things. However it doesn’t seem I can convince you to see how preposterous the idea of cultural appropriation being a bad thing is and how you fail to see the racism behind it.

But whatever, seeing that my efforts are futile, I leave you with one last thought: if you get offended over something as superficial as hair of all things, that’s your problem not theirs and it is selfish to tell them to change their ways just to appease you.

[Rina_colada]

@Snakeyes7 have you and your white counterparts share your privilege then I’ll consider allowing y’all to wear locs.

[Snakeyes7]

@Rina_colada

1. It’s clear that you didn’t even read my last comment because you didn’t even debunk anything I have said including how you lack the self awareness in the racism in the entire cultural appropriation argument.

2. Counterparts refer to people similar to me with the exception of a specified difference which is the color of my skin. To say that I have “white counterparts” is to imply that I am not white, and since white people seem to be the only people who can be guilty of CA, does that mean I can wear locs if I wanted/am able to?

3. I love how you just asserted that I, as a white person (assuming that’s what you mean by “white counterparts”), have privileges that you don’t without backing it up like it’s such an unassailable argument. Since I am white and I, therefore, have no idea what hardship is, enlighten me on what privileges I have.

4. Again with the transition from victim to holier than thou mentality. Choose one and stick with it otherwise you sound like you are trying to outright dismiss what you can’t argue against.

[Rina_colada]

@Snakeyes7 i said what i said. It’s stealing of Black culture. I’m not asking you. I’m telling you.

[Snakeyes7]

@Rina_colada Let’s put this into perspective. Imagine a black female college student walking along and minding her own business. Suddenly a white male college student stops her and berates her for her hair because it is a “white hairstyle” and she is “stealing from white culture”. She tells him she doesn’t have to justify herself to him and tries to walk away but he grabs her arm and pulls her back to him so he can continue berating her.

Now let me ask you something. Is this behavior acceptable?

[Rina_colada]

@Snakeyes7 I’m not putting my oppression into perspective. It isn’t up for discussion. White people are appropriating our culture when they were braids, locs, afros, or any other black hairstyle. It is ours. I said what I said.

[Slate69]

Don't like them on anyone. Seem unclean and not taken care of.

[MrBurke]

Some people can make it work but it usually looks like actual shit on everyone

[Dr_Spins]

Of course, weren't they a thing when nu-metal was a popular.

[monkeynutts]

Yeah, if your hair naturally knots it going to happen anyway.

[Liam_Hayden]

Who cares? The whole cultural appropriation B. S. is ridiculous.

[The6ix]

Meh im not a big of fan of the dreadlocks look altogether.

[angelicc]

Can you pull it off?
Do you want to?
You have the right to do whatever you want to..
But I've never seen a white person pull it off.

[Anoniemus]

They can wear whatever they want but it is cultural appropriation.

[Anpu23]

No both the Celts and various Germanic tribes had dreads.

[Anoniemus]

Braids originated in Africa in the 3500 BC. So after the migration to northern regions, I’m not surprised to see it at other places.

It is still cultural appropriation since it stems from the privileged making using a cultural aspect in a beneficial way for themselves while others are ostracized.

[englisc]

In what ways were the Germanic and Celtic tribes privileged over Africans?

[Anoniemus]

Stop being obtuse or are you honestly inferring disastrously? No one was talking about the tribes being privileged. That statement was applicable to the northern migration of people from Africa.

Whites are more privileged than blacks.

[SnowMoon]

If I didn’t brush my hair and left it to be, it would naturally form into dreads? How can something that would naturally happen to my hair if I didn’t maintain it be cultural appropriation. They were not formed anywhere.

[whitehide]

What are you going to do about it?

[Exterminatore]

@Anoniemus

Saying one race is more privileged than another race by default is the definition of racism. So you must be a racist then. Sick of these SJW’s who live in a communist fantasy land.

There is no more segregation, no one is sicking dogs on black people and spraying them with fire hoses. There is no poll tax for them to vote. No one is showing up and forcing them to vote Democrat under threat of death as they were when they were first liberated. Instead we live in a time of affirmative action for all blacks, where it is illegal to not hire someone for being black and employers are often forced to hire less qualified people due to affirmative action. We live in a hyper sensitive time where racism or any perception of it will loose you your job. They even took a man’s NBA team from him and banned him from the NBA for making certain statements. If anything blacks are legally given more privilege than whites.

But let’s not talk facts as that bursts the bubble of indoctrination that surrounds the heads of people who think as you do.

[Exterminatore]

@Anoniemus

And if you’re going to throw nonsensical terms like cultural appropriation around, be sure you’re not guilty of doing the same thing. Are you Mexican? If not stop eating Mexican food. Are you black and do you celebrate Quanza? Stop then, you’re American or Western and that’s an African celebration. Do you eat at a table? Stop then that’s a European way of sharing a meal. Do you use a fork when you eat? Forks were invented in Florence, and it’s the way Italians eat. Do you enjoy the concept of democracy... well that’s Greek. I think you can see the point and there is no glory in the perpetual victim hood of blacks or any other race. So if you agree with cultural appropriation, be certain you’re not a hypocrite and guilty yourself.

[Anoniemus]

@Exterminatore LOL. That’s not the definition of racism at all. Whites are heavily privileged systematically over other races. It’s not my fault that you’re ignorant.

[Anoniemus]

@whitehide Are you stupid? I said people can do what they want but it is cultural appropriation.

[Exterminatore]

@Anoniemus

Name one way. There is no systematic system of oppression or racism towards anyone but straight white males these days, to include all males of any color who are straight.

[Anoniemus]

@SnowMoon The point is that the hairstyle was embraced by specific cultures. It doesn’t matter if you left your hair uncombed. Many cultures have traditions, dishes, norms etc that anyone could have done but it originated from that culture.

[Exterminatore]

@Anoniemus

Nope it’s not cultural appropriation... and if you believe it is and that’s wrong then stop doing the very thing you claim it is. No more Mexican food if you’re not Mexican etc etc.

[Anoniemus]

@Exterminatore A lot of your post is ignorant. http://www.antiracistalliance.com/Unpacking.html
There is still segregation and most certainly covert racism which is dangerous. Housing segregation exists as does white flight when a certain number of minorities move into the suburbs. It also assist in inequality of education, where minorities are sent to underfunded public schools because of their zoning area not to mention that curriculums are not teaching children necessary skills to become more than menial worker if they’re aren’t privileged enough to enter a private school.

If affirmative action didn’t exist, less minorities would be hired. This has already been seen in California which abolished affirmative action.

You’re blaming the victims which is one of the central tenets of racism. Everything is their fault: not the disastrous decisions that preceded them

You need to wake up.

[Exterminatore]

@Anoniemus

Yes I’m not surprised you don’t see racism in that. To you I’m sure only whites can be racist and being born white automatically means you were born an oppressor and racist and with certain privilege afforded to only whites.

That’s communist fairy tail lies and indoctrination.

[Exterminatore]

@Anoniemus

Ignorant huh? You’re calling me ignorant and you still believe there’s segregation. I’m not indoctrinated like you.

Segregation in housing doesn’t exist. The house costs what it costs. For me being white or for any race. White flight - oh you mean when people with different values not based on race move in and then the people who were living there leave. Is that the white flight you’re referring to?

Inequality of education... yeah cause whites and blacks get differently mandated by the state who sets the curriculum requirements and scores required to pass state tests... for everyone.

Would they not be hired because their black or because their less qualified?

I’m not blaming victims I’m blaming people with your ideology which is dangerous and false.

[Anoniemus]

@Exterminatore Do the research yourself. Don’t believe me or anyone else. Do it yourself. www.americanprogress.org/.../

[Exterminatore]

You do research you’re self too. Start by looking around you. Do you really see a system of institutional racism and sexism or do you see a bunch of whiny crybabies who want to make certain ethnicities and women be in a “victim” status that doesn’t exist. If you’re such a big fan of affirmative action... why so many blacks in pro sports? Isn’t that unfair to whites, or is it maybe those black athletes are better? Hmmmmm.

[whitehide]

@Anoniemus Yes, I'm utterly retarded. What's next? Are you going to scream "genital appropriation" if someone gets a sex change?
The whole concept of cultural appropriation is complete bullshit dragged back from it's grave by some bored sycophant who wanted the attention of "feminists"

[Anoniemus]

@whitehide That’s quite a story that you made up to hold onto bigoted beliefs. No one cares because it’s not true. What is true is that the privileged take from other cultures and use it as their own without giving credit.

[Anoniemus]

@Exterminatore I see institutional racism and sexism with privileged whites being covertly racist and blaming the victims on issues that were caused by the privileged.

My links were based on research. Your casual observations hold nothing to that. But let’s say if I were to just go off observations.

I’ve seen plenty of minorities shunned, feared, and more simply because of their race while whites weren’t treated the same.

Sorry. The truth hurts.

[Exterminatore]

Your links are based on propaganda.

You should learn what the truth really is instead of engaging in racism and sexism.

[whitehide]

@Anoniemus I know what cultural appropriation is. What it isn't is some white girl wearing dreadlocks because she thinks it looks good on her.

[Anoniemus]

@whitehide You’d be wrong then.

[Anoniemus]

@Exterminatore Lol. Like everything you said isn’t. Stop projecting your ignorance into me. The fact that you blamed communism makes you suspect.

Research yourself and stop your mindless pratter.

[whitehide]

@Anoneimus I guess I'm wrong, I just googled it. I don't see all cultural appropriation as wrong, then.

[SnowMoon]

I’m sorry but that is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard and you are completely ridiculous

[Anoniemus]

And you’re ignorant. When privileged people adopt a marginalized populace norm, it serves to benefit themselves while still demeaning the population and not giving credit where it is due.

[SnowMoon]

Right, are you assuming I’m white? Because your wrong by the way. How dare you assume my heritage based on the darkness of my skin.

[Anoniemus]

When did I make that assumption? Why do I get all the morons coming to me?

What I said is that you are ignorant. I went on to say that the privileged use their status to take from others and use it as their own. There was no mention of you within it that. I don’t give two shits about you. Learn to comprehend or move on.

[whitehide]

@Anoniemus Where are you from?

[Exterminatore]

Yessss. Well. All that Woke nonsense that you are clearly indoctrinated by is straight out of Marx’s play book as well as the methods prescribed by the Soviet Union to destabilize a country.

I’m white, I’m male I get no privilege that anyone else doesn’t get and I haven’t oppressed anyone. That’s the bottom line and that holds true for most white males.

[whitehide]

@Anoniemus ooh, the USA. Nevermind then😂

[Anpu23]

I agree that people shouldn't advance themselves on the backs of others. And certainly not profit on others culture. But cultural appropriation is a very complicated subject as someone could be saying that they're appropriating while honoring their own heritage. This has happened to me, on one side of my family I'm Scott's/Irish the other Welsh and British. I wear a kilt, swordsmith, and listen to a lot of Celtic music. I was in my car listening to Waulking songs and was attacked for "appropriating" native American culture. If you have never heard Irish Waulking songs they have a very similar rhythm and sound to traditional Native songs. And to tell the difference between Gailic (which I speak a little of) and some various Tribal dialects would take a good listen and trained ear.
It seems that in today's PC culture it's easy to point at someone and use a buzz word as a form of bullying. The truth is that even if I had purchased a native music cd and was listening to it, if I had purchased it from a Native American artist I'm not appropriating but supporting. Same as if I was Rastafarian, a religious belief and not a race. To honor Ja dreads are traditional and have nothing to do with racial identity. And I have certainly known white Rastafarians, and have seen many people be yelled at by Rasta's for claiming that the religion is racially biased.

[Anoniemus]

@Anpu23 This is the issue that people don’t seem to get. Cultural appropriation can only happen by those who are in power/privileged over others. So a Latino wearing dreads? Not an issue because they suffer from oppression, are not in power or privileged racially etc.

[Exterminatore]

@whitehide

It’s hilarious she’s American isn’t it. America has become the laughing stock of the would because of the nonsense she actually believes.

America is the only place in the world where female students at Princeton (probably one of the most prestigious universities in the world) can be found screaming at a professor about how oppressed they are and a female college students stripping to their underwear at Cornell (another Ivy League school and rather prestigious) after being told what she’s wearing is inappropriate.

America - the most free country in the world where people put on grand displays over minor issues in complaint of oppression.

Anyone going to an Ivy League school would arguably be privileged not oppressed... but hey I’m ignorant and should not believe my own eyes and thoughts. I have a privilege bias.

So I’d laugh at America too if I weren’t from hear and am to busy being dismayed at what’s become of my country. It’s a cesspool of whiny babies obsessed with imaginary victim status.

[Exterminatore]

@Anoniemus

Oh no. People get it. They just see it’s complete crap. It’s total nonsense. Go live in communist China if there’s such oppression here. You’ll be happier there.

[Anoniemus]

@Anpu23 CDs have nothing to do it with. What about headdresses or clothing that are used to “appreciate” Pocahontas when it has intrinsic value to those indigenous people and are being subverted for personal pleasure? That’s not appreciation. It’s demeaning.

All I see are people trying to justify why it’s okay to be offensive when it’s not.

[Anoniemus]

Not to mention that Native American is a foul way to describe those people when they have suffered due to Brits who came to colonize a country where the indigenous already lived. It’s an insult since they predated America. They are natives/indigenous people.

[Anoniemus]

@Exterminatore I find that extremely amusing especially since white straight religious baked bodied males are the most privileged in this country and you’re victimizing yourself at the expense of others who suffer oppression.

You’re ignorantly or willfully aiding racism and are racist yourself: you just don’t see it. Plenty of research has been done about these issues.

[englisc]

@Anomiemus

I asked you in what way the Germanic and Celtic tribes were privileged over black people for a reason.

You say that cultural appropriation is when a privileged group takes something from a less privileged group. You also say that you think that the reason they had dreadlocks is because they got that from Africans. For that to be cultural appropriation by your definition, they'd have to be privileged. If they weren't, and you say you weren't talking about the Celtic/Germanic people being privileged, then by your definition it wasn't cultural appropriation at that time.

[whitehide]

@Anoniemus The earliest known evidence of dreadlocks comes from Hindu scriptures. So "blacks", "whites" and rastafarians have appropriated it. Also, it looks like you've managed to appropriate the Guy Fawkes mask in your profile picture — he was an Englishman, by the way, and you're a fucking hypocrite.

[whitehide]

@englisc her defintion of cultural appropriation is wrong.

[englisc]

@whitehide

That may be true. My point is that the things she's saying seem to undermine her own argument.

[Exterminatore]

@Anomiemus

I’m racist but you’re automatically ascribing racism and privilege to white straight religious people by default. Without even looking at the content of their character. It’s just automatic with you. That is racism and you’re guilty of it not me.

[Anpu23]

I have a number of first world friends. I've lived with them, ate with them and worshipped with them. And virtually everyone that I know in the culture prefers either native or Indian. They identify more with their individual tribes then as a whole, most of my friends are either Navajo, Ute or Hualapai. I've known members of AIM and other groups. It is an act of aggression to atack their own cultural identity. I will call them Native Americans as that is what they prefer, and how they refer to themselves.

[whitehide]

@Anpu23 You can't call them that anymore. White SJWs have taken offence on behalf of the Native Americans and it's now an atrocity to call them that — especially if your skin is light.

[Anoniemus]

@Anpu23 As you should but plenty disagree with it. Don’t randomly call others you don’t know it. Clearly I wasn’t talking about those that disputed it.

[Anoniemus]

@Exterminatore You’re making assumptions.. lol. When will people learn? No one is ascribing anything. But everyone is guilty of implicit bias. Rejecting the fact that you’re privileged (more so than anyone else) doesn’t dispute that and fighting against it only leads to assisting racism. Plenty who are vehement against it are racists.

The more traditional, conservative, ignorant and uneducated one is the more likely they are to be racist. Many actions (as you’ve clearly shown here) are indicative of covert racism.

[Anoniemus]

@englisc What’s difficult for you to understand? www.thoughtco.com/cultural-appropriation-and-why-iits-wrong-2834561
It originated in Africa. Africans began it. You think that there’s a connection when there isn’t. They cannot claim that it originated with them when it began in Africa.

[englisc]

You said that cultural appropriation is when a privileged class takes something from an under-privileged class. You say that the Celts/Germanic tribes took it from Africa right? Then I asked how they were privileged over Africans? Because in order for the Celtic/Germanic tribes to be guilty of cultural appropriation under your definition they'd have to be. Otherwise what you're saying is that any culture that is influenced by or which takes something from another culture is guilty of cultural appropriation, is that what you're saying?

[Anoniemus]

@englisc You think there is an association when there isn’t. It originated in Africa. To claim it as ones own Is appropriation.
www.thoughtco.com/cultural-appropriation-and-why-iits-wrong-2834561
What are you not getting? The Celts/Germans eventually became privileged and dominant and, as evident in Anpu answer, claimed it as their own.

Only the dominant group can be guilty of appropriation.

[Anoniemus]

@whitehide You’re ignorant of the definition clearly.

[SnowMoon]

I wouldn’t bother with this woman at all, she’s just trying to spread hate. Leave it be guys.

[englisc]

@SnowMoon

Yup.

[Anoniemus]

I’m Spreading hate via educating people that the privileged taking away from other cultures demeans the oppressed and is offensive?
Lol. Ignorant people. Sad.

[Anpu23]

Here's the problem, you are arguing the progressive privilege stack. As you know seeing one's own privilege is virtually impossible, and to compare and contrast would take extraordinary measures. Experiments like "Black Like Me" are the closest way we have as we can only live in and experience life from our own experiences and perspectives. The problem is even more complicated when there are conflicting reports and information involving social privileges. Is it truly worse to be a woman then a man? Some reports say yes, some say no, so what data points do you accept or reject? And it is quite easy to alienate someone by telling them that they are privileged when they certainly don't feel that way (such as my above gender statement did for you). My initial argument is it honestly depends on the white person's intent in wearing them. For religious reasons it is not appropriation, for reasons involving ones own heritage it is again not, to look cool because it's what "they" ware, it is. And from an outsiders perspective it is both wrong and assumptive to put intent into another's actions. So to say in a blanket statement that it's "cultural appropriation" is a broad absolute and patently false.

[-Asca-]

Of course wtf, why not? Because people with a different skin colour used them first? Ridculous.

[sweet87]

Anyone can have any hairstyle they wish, and anyone who tells you otherwise is an asshole!

[Guanfei]

I don't like that hairstyle, but if someone does, he can wear whatever the hell he wants.

[msss98]

Yeah why couldn't they? 😂

[ChgzDaniel]

Some people consider it cultural appropriation or just ugly.

[IdentetarianimSucks]

@ChgzDaniel ahh yes cultural appropriation. The cudgel used by racist organizations to say "no that fashion is MINE and you're wrong for using it" since the 40's

[dkotuh]

Its hair, regardless some can look decent... then some (on anyone) can look nasty af

[Anonymous]

Do what you want to do. Aesthetics are relative. Some will like it, some won't.

[Ianto]

Cultural appropriation?

[ChgzDaniel]

Do you believe in cultural appropriation?

[Ianto]

Probably not. All culture is acquired, and almost always influenced by earlier ideas. But the sort of "woke" white morons that have dreadlocks do.

[A_Bell]

Of course, don't be ridiculous.

[IAMNathanael]

If you want to, go for it.

[WhiteShoulder]

Sure. I think they’d look good.

[Astarlessnightsky]

If they want to, i see no problem with it

[Ripper_E]

dread locks looks stupid either way

[brigfrey25]

Yeah ofcourse. Dreadlocks aren't racist. 😂

[Ice_Sirène]

It looks good on some

[TacosRAwesome]

You can but I think they look terrible.

[EmmaT24]

If they want to then why not?

[OfDeath]

Only in conjunction with black face if you ask me.

[John_Doesnt]

Dreadlocks are gross. Don't wear them at all.

[orangecherry]

CAN they? yes. SHOULD they? no.

[winterfox10]

I think it's a pretty sexy look on white women

[Joebiden2020]

White people get mats not dreadlocs

[chriscdi]

some people can rock em and others can't

[loveslongnails]

It looks stupid on most white folks

[ZeussLightningBolt]

Of course
Blacks don't own that hair style

[NorthwestRider]

Why not, it looks badass on women and men as well

[pizzalovershouse]

can't say depends on if works for them

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

Yes, but they look ridiculous.

[bklynbadboy1]

Maybe would white people hair even dread

[Lunatic1]

It depends on the person, but yes.

[esotericstory]

No it looks disgusting.

[Anonymous]

Of course they can but it looks dumb on whites.

[Rocky_Jocky57]

They can and do

[Plitty-Tank]

They can but nobody should.

[Anonymous]

It looks like ass but sure.

[GayLoner]

Can black people speak english?

[es20490446e]

Whatever they want.

[AngelLily]

I believe they can.

[Iron_Man]

No Just No

[_Phenomenon_]

Yes, they can.

[_Moonlight-Sonata_]

Sure

[sheepdip]

My body, my choice.