Pants-of-dog wrote:@XogGyux
That entire post seems based in your misunderstandings. I have already tried to point out all the places and ways you have misunderstood, but you seem to be making the same errors of understanding.
Until you start to address your own confusion, it seems unproductive to try to clarify all your mistakes again.
What a coincidence. I think the same thing about you! Your entire posts seem to be based on your misunderstandings. I have tried to point out the points that you have misunderstood, and I will continue to point them out since you seem to make the same errors.
It is not clear if white people using dreadlocks is an example of cultural appropriation.
But why is it not clear? I wonder why....
With the moccasins, a person could look at the shoe and see which specific Indigenous culture is being copied, or look at the words of the company themselves if they made a claim like “authentic Native American”.
So if instead, they were advertising "made with authentic unicorn hide" you think this would be more acceptable? If they are lying, the problem is with the act of lying itself, not with the specific content of such lie. I don't really care so much about what they are lying, what I care is that they are lying at all.
I would not argue that dreadlocks are part of the culture of most black US citizens, since most do not and would not wear dreadlocks because of the stigma associated with untidy hair on black people.
O wow. Let's combat racism with moar racism
Here is the thing. The very first post you made in this thread, and you were the first person to reply, is to brag about buying your footwear from
https://www.manitobah.ca/.
Pants-of-dog wrote:Not mine.
I get my mocs from here:
https://www.manitobah.ca/
You seem so proud about doing so, surely this company is impeccable. I am sure the founder or CEO is a native american and that they produce everything within native american reservations and that they sell a lot of their products to native americans.
Quick search later, the CEO and founder is a guy called McCormick (not a very native American name), they produce a portion (don't know what % but suspect is not insignificant) in vietnam and other asian countries. And who are the famous people wearing this? Native Americas? It seems the very Native American celebrities are cindy crawford, jeniffer love hewit, Kate Moss , Megan fox.
For someone so obsessed with colonialism like you are, liking a company founded and lead by a white guy, employing marginalized people/poor people, producing an exotic product for the benefit of other rich and powerful white people seems to draw a damn exquisite parallel to white plantation owners having slaves work tobacco/cotton/etc for the benefit of other white patrons.
The fact that you willfully are oblivious to this rather disturbing picture, while at the same time, trying to lecture us about what constitutes and not constitute "cultural appropriation" seems rather odd.
Let me be clear before you go into a rambling of nonsense. I don't have much problem with the arrangement that I described above. If the workers for the company are treated fairly, they are given a decent salary (and I am sure they are because it is Canada, not a third world country such as the US
) and they are enjoying sharing their craft with the world, I would welcome it, even if people of other ethnicities and/or races also benefit from this. Stop with the virtue signaling please (and believe me, it hurts me to utter that term out loud, but I think it does apply in this case).