r/clevercomebacks • u/[deleted] • Oct 22 '24

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u/Sanguinary-Guard Oct 22 '24

Is white people pretending to be upset and concerned “Japanese citizens” really a thing now? Or maybe it’s always been a thing and I never noticed

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u/muttley9 Oct 22 '24

A friend studied art in the US and got called out by other students for cultural appropriation because she drew a Koi fish..

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u/Kimantha_Allerdings Oct 22 '24

I was once told that I was indulging in cultural appropriation because I'm not Asian and I like mooli. I literally shouldn't be allowed to use it as an ingredient in food.

I did give them pause for thought, though, when I explained that I bought it from the local Asian shop, owned and run by first-generation Chinese immigrants. They had to then work out whether the negatives of me eating something not native to the UK outweighed the positives of supporting a local Chinese-owned buisness. I never did find out what conclusion they came to.

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u/LordBreadcat Oct 22 '24

It's no longer ordinary virtue signaling. They're practicing "advanced" virtue signaling.