Students asked if St. Pat's 'drinking holiday' is 'cultural appropriation' - reactions are priceless

The Blaze ^ | March 16, 2018 | Sarah Taylor

[Zakeet]

Here are the best responses to Phillips' question, "Do you think that is committing cultural appropriation?":

• "Uh ... what?"
  
• "I guess it could be perceived as that."
  
• "I don't like when people do it to my culture, so, it's just kind of, like, how can I say I don’t like people who do it to my culture and then do it to someone else's?"
  
• "Uh ... hm. I honestly don't know."
  
• "I honestly have never even thought about it."
  
• "That's, like, a really touchy subject. I don't like, to, like, make an assumption about that when I'm not Irish."
  
• "Honestly, it might be."
  
• "If you're not actually, really, like, educating yourself on why it's celebrated, then it could be offensive."

[Zakeet]

Me Cherokee princess name of Gray Beaver ... me on warpath against people who commit-em cultural appropriation ... that heap bad ... nobody worse than white man who get-em loaded on firewater on St Paddy's Day ... Freeper remember squaw not bad to claim to be Indian when have high cheekbones, write Pow Wow Chow Cookbook and suckle Papoose while take bar test ... that why Freeper no more ask squaw to take DNA test ... !!

[BenLurkin]

They have to hear it from their pinko professors first.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

"I don't like when people do it to my culture, so, it's just kind of, like, how can I say I don’t like people who do it to my culture and then do it to someone else's?"

Sweet Pea, I am going to get really mad at you and likely will go round the bend if you eat WHITE bread, WHITE rice, WHITE chocolate, WHITE cauliflower, WHITE whipped cream, or WHITE potatoes. I DARE you to appropriate my WHITE culture like that! Your sorry ass will be REALLY sorry for such evil appropriation. You've been warned.

[Thumper1960]

“Cultural appropriation” is a construct of the mentally disturbed.

[jjotto]

Since the raucous tradition of St Pat’s originated in America, are tody’s raucous celebrations in Ireland considered cultural appropriation from America?

[Snickering Hound]

[foundedonpurpose]

Give them some green beer. They will then deal with it, hopefully with joy.

[Twotone]

We just need to tell them they’re saying it wrong. It’s not cultural appropriation. It’s cultural APPRECIATION!

Let them stew on that for a minute.

[miliantnutcase]

Irish were the first slaves in this country, and today we all dress up and make fun of them.

[semaj]

That is funny.

[AbolishCSEU]

High cheekbones, my arse! More like nasal labial folds to rival the San Andreas Fault.

[poinq]

I still have no problem with cultural appropriation. And I am Irish. This is a new ethic I will not take part in. I will sit indian style, sing Going Japanese, walk like an Egyptian and I will even say, What’s up Willis with a profound glare.

[fruser1]

[RightGeek]

good one

[Albion Wilde]

James O'Keefe's priceless Lucky Charms video, scamming an academic non-discrimination officer

[Dr.Deth]

In that case

[Bonemaker]

““Cultural appropriation” is a construct of the mentally disturbed.”

There is another term the users of which should be executed.

[Yaelle]

I think the Irish have a sense of humor too. ;)

I have so been there. When I was the only American in a group of international university students drinking in France, oh how much fun we all had laughing at the typical American tourist. I laughed as hard as any of them. But I did think it was fair for me to then joke about the European tourists wearing black socks and sandals on the beach in California. They did NOT laugh. They could only laugh at us. It’s a problem, if you can’t laugh at yourself.

[Bonemaker]

“High cheekbones, my arse! More like nasal labial folds to rival the San Andreas Fault.”

Or “flaps” in the Olde Sod! On the face no less.

[Bonemaker]

“Irish were the first slaves in this country, and today we all dress up and make fun of them.”

Descendant of one here...indentured servant about 1740. Wound up marrying his masterette. Cunning family ever since.