Why I can't stand white belly dancers (re cultural appropriation)

[Shandris]

151. Cultural appropriation is every bit as important and real as white privilege (and the two...

...are inextricably linked, given the number of white people who are refusing to shut up and be educated about the grave oppression done by eating tacos, gefilte fish, and/or learning to belly dance).

Haven't we all learned yet that our group identity is, bar none, THE most important thing we have and that it must be held completely separate and kept intact lest we erase our racial experiences? When you eat a taco, or belly dance, or draw a depiction of a wigwam you are erasing all knowledge and understanding of the oppression and bestowing your white normativity on the cultural icon. If you can't see how -damaging- that is, perhaps it is because you are blinded by your white privilege, unable to see your own culture appropriated by others. And no, others using white things isn't cultural appropriation any more than a black person hating all whites is racist because power.

So put the taco down, stop the belly dancing, quit dressing up as native americans, break your Elvis albums, and shut up. People of the culture you are destroying are talking and, just like when discussing racial matters, nothing you can say has any substantive value whatsoever.

...or perhaps we should reconsider whether basing everything around some kind of self-created group identity is such a bright idea after all.