Adele accused of 'Cultural Appropriation'

31-08-2020 4:37pm

the purple tin wrote: »

Maybe her real name is Dorothy > Dot > Bindi.
It might be her nickname.

I looked it up, she's named after her fathers favourite crocodile, but it's also an Aboriginal word meaning little girl.

Dot, as a name, makes me hear the Eastenders theme tune in my head.

sydthebeat · 31-08-2020 4:46pm

eternally offended get offended again.......
the world turns, the sun sets......

Church on Tuesday · 31-08-2020 4:59pm

cannotlogin wrote: »

The world is gone mad at the moment and we seem to be in the era of where the voice of the crazy and offended is loudest.

On one hand people are fighting for inclusivity and equality and on the other a lot of those same people are calling out people for cultural appropriation for anything that is considered specific to a certain minority. It's a real case of I want it all but only on my terms.

Which is completely tokenistic and often not based on actual talent or appropriateness of role to be undertaken.

storker · 31-08-2020 5:04pm

Guill wrote: »

One twitter user offended = RTE headline. I think RTE are the problem here.

They 're only part of it. The intellectual laziness that causes journalists hacks to treat stuff on Twitter as newsworthy is the problem. There are more news organisations at it than just RTE.

Rothko wrote: »

It gives lazy journalists something to write about without putting any effort into it.

Exactly. Not journalism at all, just copy-and-paste, usually showing a screenshot of the tweet, then repeating the content in the text below, just in case you missed it. :rolleyes:

A few rules for *cough* journalists that would improve the current low standard of journalism:

1. Opinions aired on Twitter are not newsworthy, they're just opinions.
2. Twitter is not an entity, stop treating its pronunciations as it they come from a hive mind. Twitter does not "go crazy", "have a meltdown" or "go ballistic", it's just some ejits who use it that occasionally do.
3. Get off your arse and go out and find a proper news story to report.

kenmm · 31-08-2020 5:09pm

storker wrote: »

They 're only part of it. The intellectual laziness that causes journalists hacks to treat stuff on Twitter as newsworthy is the problem. There are more news organisations at it than just RTE.

Exactly. Not journalism at all, just copy-and-paste, usually showing a screenshot of the tweet, then repeating the content in the text below, just in case you missed it. :rolleyes:

A few rules for *cough* journalists that would improve the current low standard of journalism:

1. Opinions aired on Twitter are not newsworthy, they're just opinions.
2. Twitter is not an entity, stop treating its pronunciations as it they come from a hive mind. Twitter does not "go crazy", "have a meltdown" or "go ballistic", it's just some ejits who use it that occasionally do.
3. Get off your arse and go out and find a proper news story to report.

Fewer people paying for news, more of this click bait stuff going on.

Boards.ie even has a "bargain" alert discussing how to get free newspapers over VPN etc.

GT89 · 31-08-2020 5:12pm

The usual virtue signalling nonsense. Who actually cares.

Piehead · 31-08-2020 5:13pm

o1s1n wrote: »

Writing in the comments section of the Instagram post, a user said: "Bantu knots are NOT to be worn by white people in any context, period."

It would look absolutely daft on me, but I kind of want to get them now purely because I've been told I can't.

Through '66 and 7
They fought the Congo War
With their fingers on their triggers
Knee-deep in gore
The days and nights they battled
The Bantu to their Knees
They killed to earn their living
And to help out the Congolese

JohnnyFlash · 31-08-2020 5:20pm

The modern left is very amusing. It’s all so made up, and vaguely religious in tone.

kenmm · 31-08-2020 5:26pm

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

The modern left is very amusing. It’s all so made up, and vaguely religious in tone.

Can you explain that a little more, particularly what this non news story has got to do with left of centre political leanings?

I don't think accusations of cultural appropriation are indicative of either left or right?

Psychiatric Patrick · 31-08-2020 5:27pm

Candie wrote: »

No, Bindi (as in Irwin) does seem to be of Aboriginal origin, to be fair. I wouldn't name a daughter Bindi because I'd just feel I called her Spot. I wouldn't even call a dog Spot. I'd probably feel differently if I was Australian.

I think they're worn as part of a more bohemian aesthetic by the festival-going-bindi-wearing public. it's just a fashion or style thing. I suppose it's reserved for festivals because a bunch of white girls in shorts and wellingtons with their foreheads decorated in wedding bindi might look a little over the top for your average night out in downtown Dublin or Cork or Newcastle, but I'm no expert on the subject.

Some Aussies do seem a bit mad

Everybodyjay · 31-08-2020 5:28pm

Welcome to the Left

kenmm · 31-08-2020 5:29pm

kenmm wrote: »

Can you explain that a little more, particularly what this non news story has got to do with left of centre political leanings?

I don't think accusations of cultural appropriation are indicative of either left or right?

Everybodyjay wrote: »

Welcome to the Left

Same question.

ctrl-alt-delete · 31-08-2020 5:48pm

It will be fine as she is of African descent like the rest of us.

Sebastian Dangerfield · 31-08-2020 6:00pm

Cultural appropriation as the term is commonly used is, for the most part, a load of bollox.

Adele tying her hair in knots is no more offensive than Beyonce dying her hair blonde and straightening it, or rappers using classical music in their tunes, or a Western chef cooking an asian dish. Every art that we enjoy has been influenced by or borrowed from another source as it evolved. There was a fuss over a black girl doing Riverdance recently - it's nonsense of the highest order. She was a very talented girl doing a very popular routine - end of story.

The only people who are offended by stuff like this are permanently on the hunt for offense, and should be muted at all opportunities.

DelaneyIn · 31-08-2020 6:20pm

Candie wrote: »

It's the usually red, yellow or sometimes blue dot worn between the eyebrows by women in India. Usually Hindus. Wedding bindi can be a bit more elaborate, a pattern above both eyebrows or a series of dots petaling the usual centre one.

Calling your daughter bindi is a bit nuts. It means dot or spot in Hindi.

She is named after Steve Irwins favourite female crocodile at Australia Zoo.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts · 31-08-2020 6:25pm

Errashareesh wrote: »

Bjork used to have that hair in the 90s. No little bitches complained about it. Bet lots of the whiners are white too.

Bjork would have little time for cries of cultural appropriation.

Adele looks fab. There was such butt hurt when she lost all the weight.

Yeah, that was odd. Did some people feel betrayed or something?

.anon. · 31-08-2020 6:32pm

Candie wrote: »

Dot, as a name, makes me hear the Eastenders theme tune in my head.

py2006 · 31-08-2020 6:37pm

Every St Patricks Day people ALL over the world wear green and celebrate it. But they are not Irish so now the must be 'cancelled' as us Irish are now all offended!!

FFS

whisky_galore · 31-08-2020 6:49pm

Kaybaykwah wrote: »

I can't wait for the hardcore Aran Islanders to demand removal of all those Aran sweaters on the market. Oy veh!

Aran jumpers were an invented tradition for providing employment and the tourist market.

31-08-2020 6:51pm

kenmm wrote: »

Can you explain that a little more, particularly what this non news story has got to do with left of centre political leanings?

I don't think accusations of cultural appropriation are indicative of either left or right?

Hilarious post. I guess cancel culture is equally bipartisan?

Gregor Samsa · 31-08-2020 8:14pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Hilarious post. I guess cancel culture is equally bipartisan?

“Cancel culture” is just a form of boycott. There’s plenty of calls for boycotting for ideological reasons on both sides of the aisle, and there always has been.

kenmm · 31-08-2020 8:49pm

Gregor Samsa wrote: »

“Cancel culture” is just a form of boycott. There’s plenty of calls for boycotting for ideological reasons on both sides of the aisle, and there always has been.

Like the 500 page 'defund' RTE' thread where a lot of posters in favour of cancelling RTE would support right wing policies.

kenmm · 31-08-2020 8:52pm

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Hilarious post. I guess cancel culture is equally bipartisan?

Nothing funny about our rush to emulate our American cousins with the race to the bottom of polarised politics.

Because you believe in the welfare state you must therefore attack cultural appropriation?

Never had a conservative that thinks it's a load of ****?

Yeah, you are right it is a pretty hilarious way of thinking.

Roger the cabin boy · 31-08-2020 8:53pm

With shoite like this becoming more common and normalised, I fear for the species tbh.

Kaybaykwah · 31-08-2020 9:16pm

whisky_galore wrote: »

Aran jumpers were an invented tradition for providing employment and the tourist market.

Totally, and don't forget, Dun Aengus is merely a bunch of stones piled up from all the farmers' fences.

Kaybaykwah · 31-08-2020 9:18pm

Roger the cabin boy wrote: »

With shoite like this becoming more common and normalised, I fear for the species tbh.

Ahh... I wouldn't worry about that, it acts as a cheap aphrodisiac for certain females.

Oranage2 · 31-08-2020 9:42pm

Wtf is wrong with these social justice warriors.

Yeah if she was wearing a real lion cloth and dancing around a fire with a spear then yes that would be inappropriate but that is just people looking to be offended. Just like there were people saying that black Irish dancer was being in culturally inappropriate, these people need to get a life

Jimbob1977 · 31-08-2020 9:47pm

By extension of the logic:

A Japanese man should not wear blue jeans or dye his hair blonde = not his culture

A black woman should not eat at a Chinese restaurant = not her culture

Cultural appropriation is an overreaction, unless it's done in very bad taste.

Whestsidestory · 31-08-2020 9:52pm

The only crime committed is a fashion one...ffs the state of her

Quantum Erasure · 31-08-2020 9:54pm

Just seen the picture, are you sure that's not Katy Perry?

Strumms · 31-08-2020 10:03pm

The last ‘culture’ or mobs ON this continent that tried to decide what people should WEAR...should THINK...should SAY...should DO...should BE were led by a lads who believed in a swastika and a hammer and sickle. She can dress the hell what way she likes...a hairdo is not the cultural property of anybody... you’d want to be an absolute shît for brains human being to get worked up about somebody’s hairdo and then claim that your ‘ culture ‘ own it and people of other nations cannot look like or adopt this hairstyle...

Ok.. lets get down to their level...

Tomorrow Michael Martin calls for the banning of non Irish people worldwide from participating in St Patrick’s day parades... drinking Guinness, speaking Irish or owning an Irish Setter dog...

Rothko · 31-08-2020 10:15pm

I wonder how many of the people telling her what hairdo she's not allowed to have also say that a woman can do whatever she wants with her body. It'd be quite a contradiction.

31-08-2020 10:16pm

I'm still convinced it's Katy Perry.

Hego Damask · 31-08-2020 10:21pm

The problem is when they bow down and apologise to this utter nonsense, as Ricky Gervais said getting annoyed about all this nonsense online is like getting annoyed by graffiti in some obscure public toilet - problem is , obscure graffiti in a public jax doesn't get people's lives ruined, this nonsense does cos the media fuel it , and I really hope Adele doesn't cave and apologise , as this just gives these lunatics an inch...

the purple tin · 31-08-2020 10:27pm

Quantum Erasure wrote: »

Just seen the picture, are you sure that's not Katy Perry?

Deleted User wrote: »

I'm still convinced it's Katy Perry.

Adele for sure. That's a tat of the planet Saturn she has on her arm.
Why, like

Strumms · 31-08-2020 10:29pm

Hego Damask wrote: »

The problem is when they bow down and apologise to this utter nonsense, as Ricky Gervais said getting annoyed about all this nonsense online is like getting annoyed by graffiti in some obscure public toilet - problem is , obscure graffiti in a public jax doesn't get people's lives ruined, this nonsense does cos the media fuel it , and I really hope Adele doesn't cave and apologise , as this just gives these lunatics an inch...

Correct, and if they win getting to decide what people may or may not get in terms of a fûcking hairdo, what next ?

Be like the French banning the export of Peugeot cars, Renault and Citroen too... with this covid, people have seriously to much time on their hands.

Psychiatric Patrick · 31-08-2020 10:54pm

Strumms wrote: »

Correct, and if they win getting to decide what people may or may not get in terms of a fûcking hairdo, what next ?

Be like the French banning the export of Peugeot cars, Renault and Citroen too... with this covid, people have seriously to much time on their hands.

No I think Covid has had no affect on these dopes at all. This crap is from pre-lockdown minds to.

ILoveYourVibes · 31-08-2020 11:54pm

JasonStatham wrote: »

It's Notting Hill carnival.... it's a carnival....in London. She's English.

She is wearing the Jamaican flag as a bikini.

Strumms · 01-09-2020 12:29am

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

She is wearing the Jamaican flag as a bikini.

True,

If I was a bikini wearing fella I can pick one up online in basically any country flag. A pic here of 3 girls in an Irish tricolor bikini and a chap in Irish tricolor shorts... I’m trying my heart out to get offended but ...

ILoveYourVibes · 01-09-2020 12:30am

Strumms wrote: »

True,

If I was a bikini wearing fella I can pick one up online in basically any country flag. A pic here of 3 girls in an Irish tricolor bikini and a chap in Irish tricolor shorts... I’m trying my heart out to get offended but ...

Presumably they are Irish.

Strumms · 01-09-2020 12:36am

ILoveYourVibes wrote: »

Presumably they are Irish.

I can’t see their passports but is that Termonfeckin ?

Danzy · 01-09-2020 12:37am

Adele is Hitler.

ILoveYourVibes · 01-09-2020 12:41am

Danzy wrote: »

Adele is Hitler.

Flimsy_Boat · 01-09-2020 12:58am

Danzy wrote: »

Adele is Hitler.

Aaaand /thread

kowloon · 01-09-2020 1:08am

GLaDOS wrote: »

The entire concept of cultural appropriation is nonsense.

Culture is appropriation. People look at how others do things and adopt the same practices and it ultimately becomes a case of this is how WE do things now.
I can wear whatever kind of hat I want and nobody can stop me. Apply that to everything.

01-09-2020 1:11am

Apologies, i didn't read through the whole thread. If anyone is offended by a white person "culturally whateverthe****" then **** off.

You have no right to claim any benefit from "white culture"

Absolute nonsense.

Strumms · 01-09-2020 1:22am

I have a French and Brazilian International football shirts....

I’m neither French or Brazilian, I wear both to the gym from time to time or just flopping on the couch watching tv, going to the shop, going for a drive...whatever.

If somebody in France or Brazil is dying their hair red, wearing an Irish shirt, bikini, tie, tattoo or all the above... good luck to em. If you are upset about it, kindly drown yourself in treacle... democracy, people can wear what they like. Get a grip.... is this where we are at ? 2020, covid running wild and people pissed of at Adele’s hair and Jamaican bikini.... what a fûckin time to be alive.

Rothko · 01-09-2020 1:23am

Danzy wrote: »

Adele is Hitler.

No, that was Adolf

no.8 · 01-09-2020 1:34am

Urquell wrote:

Is there nothing more important happening and where in the world? What a stupid age. Damn kids ... *shakes fist

The world was a much better place before Twitter etc. And all these t*****s who had a platform to be offended by each and everything.

KungPao · 01-09-2020 1:43am

I’m getting too old for this ****.

Imagine a life without all this nonsense. That’s it, phone in bin. Sir Richard Branson, I request termination of our little deal where we exchange internets for monies.

I want out.

Ciao.

Adele accused of 'Cultural Appropriation'

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