BLACK WOMEN V. WHITE GAYS
A recent ruling by the UK’s National Union of Students addressed the alleged habit of gay men to imitate black female stereotypes, even going so far as to express a desire to “ban” this kind of behaviour from campuses.
The fact that a student body believes it reasonable to ban mannerisms might sound ludicrous, but that’s just how angry the black girls were at having their culture and vernacular appropriated by lisping white dudes who believe that being called ‘gay boy’ at school gives them a monopoly on oppression.
Except, wait, no: it was white people tabling the motion. (Admittedly, the article that kicked it all off was written by a black female student in TIME.)
Sassing your friends at brunch with ghetto put-downs doesn’t make you Rosa Parks, but it doesn’t make you David Duke either. The next logical step would be to ban white girls from getting cornrows – and of course that’s another dimension to Minority Wars: the ridiculous idea of “cultural appropriation.”
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