Hoop Earrings and Hate
Pitzer College maintains a free wall where students are invited to paint whatever they would like. A recent critique of white women who wear hoop earrings has attracted far more attention than most writing on the wall -- and the debate has escalated well beyond jewelry.
College officials have seen and are investigating written threats -- including some that could be read as death threats -- against the Latina students who wrote the critique on the wall. And Pitzer's president, Melvin L. Oliver, has issued an open letter condemning "a cycle of violent hate speech that threatens the safety and well-being of every member of our community."
The students, whose identities Pitzer declined to confirm, citing their privacy rights, are fearful for their safety, the college says. But others say Pitzer is unfairly blaming a conservative student newspaper for the students' problems.
Here is how the controversy has played out.
The line that was written on the wall was simple: "White girl, take off your hoops."
After that went up on the wall, students on an all-campus email asked for clarification about what it meant.
Two of the three Latina students who were involved wrote back in other all-campus email messages, in which they explained that they viewed white women wearing hoop earrings as engaging in cultural appropriation, which is when a privileged group adopts part of the culture of an oppressed group and in so doing erases the role of the oppressed group.
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Signed,
white woman wearing hoop earrings.
and then select a hoop size of approximate ratio for yourself which accurately reflects your mixed heritage percentage to the aggrieved group claiming cultural appropriation.
Next say 10 Hail Marys, 2 Our Fathers, and fast from ethnic food for 1 week.
Then you should be good.
For example: I'm 1/4 Scottish, so I'm permitted to wear a 1/4-length kilt. (wait, that can't be right... 
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1/2 Spanish 1/2 Italian which means I have the right to yell all I want and I'm never wrong
it seems that the threateners got away with it. No indication of how thoroughly they were searched for, although I suspect it's difficult to track this sort of thing down... 
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1600BCE Greece
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Is it cultural appropriation if I mix New Guinea tribesman with Latina style? If so, whose culture would I actually be appropriating? 
