A very striking young woman decided to wear an authentic Chinese dress to the prom. The photos she tweeted sparked a tiresome and predictable outcry from the Twitterverse, accusing her of "cultural appropriation" (which is not a thing).

Strangely, no one faults native Chinese people for wearing blue jeans, Air Jordans and business suits, all of which are European/American styles. To say nothing of the McDonald's restaurants that are commonplace in China, or the amount of Coca-Cola they drink.

But that's not how cultural appropriation works. Cultural appropriation only forbids whites from borrowing from other cultures. These same cultures are free to plunder styles that originated with whites without condemnation.

Also, no one seemed to be outraged over the gang signs flashed by the white boys in the group picture on that tweet.

Strange. The link I posted for the tweet in the previous post didn't show up. Oh, well. I'll try again.

Ashya King – who was at the centre of an international manhunt after his parents removed him from a UK hospital without consent – has been given the all clear from cancer.

His life was saved in a “miracle” recovery because he was given treatment in the Czech Republic that was not available for him in Britain on the NHS, his parents have claimed.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/ashya-king-boy-5-free-of-cancer-after-proton-therapy-after-family-flees-uk-for-treatment-10126847.html

You know something funny? In these parts of Latin America, I haven't noticed a single Asian person whine about cultural appropriation at all

https://twitter.com/jere_bare/status/989981023076208640

From P. J. O’Rourke's All the Trouble in the World:

"He asked them to suppose a certain rival college had a hockey team named the “Englishmen.” A large and exaggerated profile of Queen Elizabeth II would decorate the center ice. At halftime (something hockey games don’t have, but the young man didn’t look like a real hockey fan, so never mind) clownish skaters would come out wearing enormous bowler hats and carrying ridiculous, oversized umbrellas. They’d skate right across the queen and do pratfalls on her face. Then the school band would strike up a bawdy parody of “Rule, Britannia” while spectators wore fake monocles and cheered in plumy accents."

"This seemed like a great idea to me. But I’m a Mick. Which brings us to the ugly, pugnacious, and probably inebriated Irishman used as a mascot by Notre Dame University. It looks exactly like my Uncle Mike."

When the squirrels go on a Keto diet

https://twitter.com/TheScaryNature/status/990449212897800192