"Electronic Dance Music Festivals Fraught With White Privilege"

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160. You are so wrong it is truly sad.

Electronic music was created in the 1970's by 'white' Germans. Then it evolved into various genres in various cities from Detroit to Chicago to London to Berlin with such examples as hip hop, house, techno, and trance.

I am bi-racial. I have been a part of this evolution since it began. I have been to more raves, house parties, festivals, etc. then most here could imagine. They are and have always been diverse. No one cares what color your skin is, who you like to fuck, or what your gender is.

What has changed over the last decade or so is the fact that some of these festivals have become large 'corporate' events. They have become extremely expensive to attend. This is one such example, another is Burning Man. To spend a weekend in the forest at this festival will easily cost you $500.00 to $1000.00 for the tickets, transportation, lodging, and food & beverage costs.

For this young woman to have attended means that she, like the whites she is complaining about, both share the only fucking privilege that truly matters. They are all prosperous enough to have afforded it.

But instead of self-awareness around her own privilege while other blacks are not able to go to college like she is or are not able to afford such a festival because they are working two jobs just to make ends meet, she is acting holier than thou and hypocritical while she writes her 'academic discourse' on the 'cultural appropriation' of hair styles by 'whites' at an expensive festival that she herself has the privilege to attend.

FFS is very right!