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Hoop Earrings and Hate [View all] Coventina Sep 2017 OP
Oh FFS. nt B2G Sep 2017 #1
Hadn't read enough of article Sugar Smack Sep 2017 #2
There Are Paintings of Pirates From The 17th Century. . . ProfessorGAC Sep 2017 #3
How about using words from another language? guillaumeb Sep 2017 #4
Sacre bleu!! Sugar Smack Sep 2017 #20
Clearly guilty. guillaumeb Sep 2017 #26
We've got way worse things to worry about mcar Sep 2017 #5
Now earrings. Okay. bluepen Sep 2017 #6
Somebody's not taking sufficiently marybourg Sep 2017 #7
someone is spending their college years... DBoon Sep 2017 #8
This zipplewrath Sep 2017 #9
I'm a mix burnbaby Sep 2017 #10
I have no idea. I never knew this was a thing until I saw this article. Coventina Sep 2017 #11
You need to determine the mean hoop size of the group you're attempting to appropriate's earing, JoeStuckInOH Sep 2017 #27
lol burnbaby Sep 2017 #28
This is ridiculous. smirkymonkey Sep 2017 #12
Too much attention on the earrings, not enough on the death threats Latina students received ismnotwasm Sep 2017 #13
Agree. The earring issue is silly, but the poor women don't deserve death threats for it. Coventina Sep 2017 #14
Its all good! ismnotwasm Sep 2017 #15
I'd thought the threats the central premise to the article. LanternWaste Sep 2017 #17
it is certainly not a matter of either/or. they can both be wrong. nt TheFrenchRazor Sep 2017 #24
Racism is complicated Not Ruth Sep 2017 #16
mmm - no. You can find plain hoop earrings in renaissance paintings. Even big dangly ones. haele Sep 2017 #18
doesn't matter anyway; there is no such thing as "cultural appropriation." of course death threats TheFrenchRazor Sep 2017 #23
from British Vogue, September 1968. Fashion comes & goes. irisblue Sep 2017 #19
While the earring thing is silly, death threats for it is ridiculous. tammywammy Sep 2017 #21
This happened back in March and I can't find any followup, so petronius Sep 2017 #30
"cultural appropriation" is BS; nobody owns earrings, hairstyles, music, clothing styles, etc. TheFrenchRazor Sep 2017 #22
I guess they appropriated them from 2000BCE Minoans, 1600 BCE Greece or from the Ancient Egyptians. TheBlackAdder Sep 2017 #25
kick for the night shift... Coventina Sep 2017 #29
I'm seriously considering a hoop through my septum ProudLib72 Sep 2017 #31
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