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Is this what Sixty would be like on a date?

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P.S.: We know he likes redheads. Who doesn't?

The best LOL is lyrics that the band sings -- something about pickin' cotton all day long.

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Who started the whole "cultural appropriation" uproar?

One of the funniest parodies of it was in Terry Zwigoff's "Ghost World" (2001). Check it out:

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Oh and Sixty, in case you're wondering who the redhead is, her name is Dylan Jones. You're welcome.

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As another Blue Bonnet commercial* from the time said: "En bread, en coo-King, no dif-fer-rance!"

Yet there was a difference, at the molecular level. Margarines were made from vegetable oils -- "hardened" by hydrogenation using catalysts which created trans-fats. You just can't say a bad word about trans these days unless you're a fat.
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*I have been unable to find that commercial to strengthen my point.

Crossover Appeal

CBS Baltimore:  An Ocean City marina is selling T-shirts featuring the phrases “White Lives Matter” and “Blue Lives Matter” to spread awareness about the conservation of marlins. The White Marlin Marina is selling two types of the shirts — one in honor of white marlins and another in honor of blue marlins.

Worcester County NAACP president Ivory Smith tells The Daily Times of Salisbury that the shirts could be interpreted as a mockery of the Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter movements. Those two phrases have been rallying cries following police shootings of African-Americans and shootings of police officers, respectively.

The designer of the shirts, employee George Lamplugh, says his shirts promote billfish conservation by featuring images of marlins on safe-release circle hooks, unlike Swagger Fishing, which sells “Kill Whitey” shirts and stickers promoting non-release white marlin fishing.

Meanwhile, in San Francisco, this picture which appeared in a police monthly journal is causing controversy.... (Link to NBC Bay Area distressed coverage)

"Black Labs Matter, All Labs Matter"

SF GATE:  The photo, submitted by a union supporter, is accompanied by a plea from the union: “Maybe it’s time we all just sit back and tone down the rhetoric,” a reference to many months of heated national debate over police shootings and, recently, the targeted slayings of police officers.

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"On campuses across the country, students are standing up for Donald Trump"

College Chronicles

"[W]hite student was... accused of 'cultural appropriation' for having dreadlocks"

The 47-second clip shows a woman physically stopping a white boy with dreadlocked hair and confronting him for 'appropriating her culture'.

SF Weekly has identified the man with the dreadlocks as Cory Goldstein.

Both the woman and Goldstein are San Francisco State University students and the confrontation is believed to have happened on the school's campus.

In the video another male student, who is also black, defends the woman.

Elsewhere... "University Cancels ‘Vagina Monologues’ Because a White Lady Wrote It"

“I felt that limiting women to only Eve Ensler’s work was doing a disservice to both the women performing and to the audience at large,” Rachel Arco, the sophomore who organized the performance, told the Megaphone. “This performance will largely be done with works by women of color,” she continued. “In doing so, it will be more representative of the experience of women, rather than only offering the white woman’s experience.”

But wait, that's not all... "Atheist group targets Muslim prayer rooms at University of Iowa"

“The presence of such religious venues on a public campus raises a number of issues,” the group argued. “By instituting areas that are exclusively used by specific religious groups such as Christians and Muslims, the University of Iowa is violating the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment. … The organization is also concerned that the university is facilitating the discriminatory practice of gender segregation practiced in the Muslim prayer rooms.”

"It’s Now Racist to Wear Toe Rings"

National Review Online: Yep. According to the article’s author, Aarti Olivia, wearing these kinds of jewelry amounts to an appropriation of South Asian culture.

Olivia explains that in her culture, “it has been traditionally expected that married women wear bangles,” and that although that tradition is no longer “imposed upon women,” they do “wear them for religious or festive occasions.”

“In pop culture, you have probably seen the likes of Iggy Azalea and Selena Gomez wear them for music videos and performances,” Olivia writes. And that, she continues, is not okay.

In fact, according to Olivia, there is only one very specific situation in which a non-South Asian person such as a yucky whitey can wear this type of bracelet: “If you are in attendance of a Hindu friend’s matrimonial functions and the dress code is Indian ethnic — but [yes, there’s more!] be sure to check with your host first.”

"Everything the World Has Culturally Appropriated from the West"

"In my research on cultural appropriation, I’ve uncovered a shocking truth, a great, unspoken crime against humanity, hidden in plain sight. It is the greatest, longest-running, and most heinous act of appropriation in global history."

The appropriation of Western Civilisation. 

Half-Pakistani in descent, I feel a personal sense of guilt at how non-western countries have unapologetically oppressed their fellow nations. I’ve therefore taken it upon myself to compile a list of all the things the world has culturally appropriated from the west, in hope that this injustice might one day be corrected. 

Philosophy 

Alfred North Whitehead described philosophy as “a series of footnotes to Plato.”

Architecture 

Look out at the skyline of any modern, non-western city, and you will find it looks strangely similar to a modern, western city.

Free Speech 

People are so obsessed by free speech that they’ll actually fight their own countries just to appropriate it. 

Due Process 

This is another western cultural creation that causes non-westerners to go into rabid fits of appropriation-addled hunger. Entire wars have been waged and governments deposed for the chance to appropriate these.

Political Ideologies 

Aside from Islamic countries, some of which are making a commendable effort to restrain themselves, most countries around the world have adopted a western political ideology of some kind.

Vaccines 

Country doctor Edward Jenner invented the vaccine in England, 1776. 

The Scientific Method 

Yes, science can be appropriated. As postmodern feminists tell us, science is just another cultural/social construct. And it’s one that’s been stolen from the west.

The Automobile 

Asian drivers might not have the greatest reputation, but the fact that they’re driving at all is down to the western invention of the car.

Video Games 

Have you ever been beaten by a Korean person at Starcraft? Now you can feel personally racially victimised. 

The Computer 

Every time an Indian worker answers a tech support call, they are stealing another piece of western culture. 

The Internet 

“This is for everyone,” said the British inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, at the 2012 London Olympics opening ceremony. A traitor to his own culture if there ever was one. 

Campus social justice warriors insist that the greatest victims of cultural appropriation are non-western cultures, like the Native Americans, Japan, and Mexico. No doubt, they would use some sort of intellectual contortion to claim that western culture can’t be appropriated. Something about “punching up,” or “culture plus power” no doubt. 

But looking through history, a neutral observer can’t fail to see that western culture is the most appropriated of them all. Other countries have been borrowing, imitating, and remixing western culture for centuries. 

And that, unquestionably, is a good thing. Look at what the Japanese have done with video games, computers, and animation. Look at the brilliance of Korean composers, trained in classical European music. Look at the industriousness of China. Western culture has enriched the world, just as non-western cultures have. It’s certainly possible to condemn it. But then, as demonstrated above, your arguments would look ridiculous.

Via Instapundit.