I still have a sterling silver one from the 1970s in a box somewhere.

"Janet," huh? Is that short for "Laquisha"?

Truly we are living in a golden age of stupidity. Modern technology now allows dumb people to broadcast their stupidity to the furthest reaches of the world and to spread their stupidity to maximum amount of people. This was not the future we were promised but it seems to be the future we deserve.

Hmmm, black and brown girls show their individuality by.....All wearing identical name tags like good little pieces of property?

I had one during the early 90's revival. Around the same time braids were briefly a thing.

It should have been the future we expected Shtetl.

If you look over the manuscripts of ancient history and seek their knowledge on who should rule and how you find overwhelmingly it is philosophers who they recommend should lead. And this is due to one simple thing, only philosophers had access to paper (or it's equivalents) to write their inane ideas on. Once paper became cheap you find out everyone thinks they should be in charge. As the price has further fallen we now can afford to publish dreck like Meyerson's.

Hooray for capitalism making things every cheaper and easier.

Um huh? Again we keep mixing up socioeconomic status with that ----. I grew up in Woodhaven Queens. Back then it was Irish and Italian all the way. Only ones not wearing those name palates where the charity kids (catholic school). (The one family was so broke the monseigneur was thinking about suggesting family planning after kid 9. that would be the one running the catholic school.) It's urban culture, it's blue collar but it sure as ---- has nothing to do with ethnic background.

Oh I can't wait till that dumb --- sees this. She will be freaking foaming at the mouth. http://www.brit.co/beyonce-just-took-a-page-from-carrie-bradshaws-jewelry-book/

Frankly I think things like Twitter are making things worse. You cannot have anything like a real discussion in 140 characters, but you can easily make virtue signals and develop echos. Likewise facebook tends to allow people to self-segregate and reinforce their own prejudices about the world. I also have a theory that having instant access to large groups through social media gives one a sense of population pressure without the necessity of actually being around people, which has significant psychological ramifications. Add it all up and you get deeply maladjusted people with nonexistent coping mechanisms.

> I (a person who clearly descended
> from a marriage of Wite-Out and
> spilled milk) --

You're like a spring roll in eveningwear... We can look right through at your interior vegetables.

> love listening to Aretha Franklin

Hey Nineteen.

> Is that short for "Laquisha"?

Some TV producer was trying to sell a sitcom about mores in black American culture, and he named the big sister character "Loquaysha."

"Also hilarious is her naive little assumption that her experience defines the world. "

The narcissistic view of culture: "What a do and the way I live defines what is moral and proper. Anything that differs from that is, by definition, deviant."

Dumbest thing I've ever heard.

Speaking of white women with name jewelry: My grandmother had a necklace with her name "Hope" on it. I remember girls in junior high school wearing anklets and bracelets with their names on them. In the early 1960's one of my sisters had a Barbie doll with a "Barbie" necklace. My great aunt Edith had a brooch with her name and a birthstone, which I think was given to her when she graduated from high school, which would have been somewhere around 1915. My father's cousin's wife Theodora had a brooch with her name "Teddy" on it, but she was a Mexican, so she doesn't count, no matter how much we loved her. My sister's 20 year old daughter has a name plate one of my other nieces gave her when she joined our family three years ago, but she's a Mexican too; but the niece who gave it to her is white.

Name jewelry was so common in the 1950's, 60's and 70's you can still buy it today. Not replicas of the stuff made in the 50's, 60's and 70's. The same stuff that's still left over. For about the same price. Name jewelry was also common in the Victorian era.

"Also hilarious is her naive little assumption that her experience defines the world. There is no possibility that anything that she experienced could have been anybody else's experience -- before hers! In an entirely different arena. (Not that this matters.)"-Amy

This is interesting, because I suspect I'm a few years older than Meyerson... And as a white girl who grew up in a shitty neighborhood in Texas, I totally associate those necklaces with Chola ghetto trash from the 90's- much like oversized Looney Toons character t-shirts. My reaction to seeing SJP wearing one is, "Why would she wear that tacky garbage?"

Those name necklaces make it easier to address by name someone so nondescript that you've already forgotten them, their name, and anything you might have learned about them.

1: Nameplate necklaces are nice, aren't they? You sure you want strangers to know your first name before you tell them?

2: Why is there only one, all-encompassing, "black"?
Listen to yourself. You use the terms, Irish, Polish, Greek, Italian, French, English, Scot, Dane, Mexican, Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, Cambodian, Indian, Korean and Australian...

But there's only one "black". This is lazy. This also panders to every shill who uses race as bait.

There's more diversity on the African continent than there is in Europe (you can actually make the case that this is why they can't rise above kleptocracy as a societal norm).

Pay attention. For at least this example, this idiot isn't complaining about cultural appropriation, really, because she hasn't shown she actually has one other than that of a victim, helpless to do anything on her own.

Conan, a funny story related to that... When I was a teenager in the mid-1970s, a thing where we lived was getting a sports jersey with your first name on the back. One day, a friend and I were walking around in a mall, and we see a pretty girl go by wearing one of those. We turn after she goes by and her jersey says "SUSAN" on the back. So we circle around, and he walks up to her and says, "Hi, Susan! Good to see you again!" The look on her face was priceless. You could tell she was thinking: "Is this someone I know? He obviously knows me. Why don't I remember him?" He got her to tell him about a party she had gone to the previous week, and he told her he was at the party. He convinced her that he was someone she had met -- she had totally forgotten that she was wearing a jersey with her name on it. He wound up getting a date out of that.

Sounds like her real problem is with white girls.

""Janet," huh? Is that short for "Laquisha"?"

lol.

Gotta say, if I could put my hands on my nameplate necklace, I'd totally wear it.

If I recall, it was a Christmas gift from my grandmother. She probably bought it at that fashion forward department store chain called Bullocks and at the tres chic location of Santa Ana, California. Because Orange County was just a hotbed of trends and fashion in the 1970s. Okay, not really...

She had better stop writing using a "culturally appropriated" alphabet - and give those letters back to the Phoenicians!

Go back to writing in hieroglyphics - that is if her ancestors weren't illiterate slaves of the Pharaoh.

And as for the gold? Well, she "borrowed" that from Timbuktu. Give it back as well.

Further - she needs to keep away from Chinatown - nothing there belongs to her!

As long as we are going on about cultural appropriation, mexicans appropriated beer for thier german immigrants, so remember drinking mexican beer makes you a racist

Wearing your name on a necklace is just like wearing a name tag at work.

"As long as we are going on about cultural appropriation, mexicans appropriated beer for thier german immigrants, so remember drinking mexican beer makes you a racist"

Actually, I guess any of us who aren't German are racist when we drink beer. Except Budweiser. The Germans will probably be happy to let us keep that one.

If you think the world began when you were 15 and has always revolved around you, then this is totally logical.
I think it would help people if kids had summer camps where they spent a week living like ancient Rome, a week like native americans, a week like US in 1776. Hell, just take them back to 1970 for a week. It would give them perspective they apparently completely lack.

"Wearing your name on a necklace is just like wearing a name tag at work."

So you want the kind of creep you deal with at work to know your name when you're at the club, too?

Sorry. "Sally" on a Target nametag doesn't mean the same thing as "Sally" in gold in her cleavage - not at all. If you want people to call you by name then, too, by all means, go ahead.

That Nword shouldn't wear clothes. Clothes are white people's culture.

They brought an "Amy" nameplate necklace up from the Titanic wrecksite. There were a few women of color on the ship, but none were named Amy. Hence, at least one white woman was wearing one in 1912, and we can assume she wasn't the first.

As Amy Alkon indicates, it is laughable that Collier Meyerson can't conceive that something could exist outside of her own narrow experience.