{"id":87393,"date":"2016-02-07T11:03:08","date_gmt":"2016-02-07T19:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=87393"},"modified":"2016-02-07T11:17:07","modified_gmt":"2016-02-07T19:17:07","slug":"sailers-1st-law-of-female-journalism-why-its-okay-for-beyonce-to-culturally-appropriate-bollywood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=87393","title":{"rendered":"Sailer’s 1st Law of Female Journalism: Why It’s Okay for Beyonc\u00e9 to Culturally Appropriate Bollywood"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve Sailer writes<\/a>: “Sailer\u2019s First Law of Female Journalism is that the most heartfelt journalistic extrusions will be demands for how society must be re-engineered so that, come the Revolution, the writer herself will be considered hotter-looking. Maybe Professor Tinsley hasn\u2019t quite worked out all the details of how Beyonc\u00e9 being exempted from criticism over how she chooses to play dress-up rubs off on poor Professor Tinsley in any concrete fashion, but, you know, Hope and Change!”<\/p>\n

* Bollywood itself is appropriation. The Indians took concepts from American cinema and transformed them into something appropriate for their own culture \u2013 and that\u2019s a good thing! Global culture is richer and more complex for it.<\/p>\n

But you can\u2019t paint white men as villains in that situation, so there\u2019s no point in talking about it.<\/p>\n

* There is no social engineering possible that would make these wannabe African feminists hot. I wonder if the taxpayers in Texas are aware that some of their money supports these morons.<\/p>\n

As another iSteve fan pointed out, ok, you can keep your tacos, and sombreros, and rap music, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. Us evil white guys will keep Western Civilization, which by the way we built, and all the good things you a**w**** take for granted. Like clean water, reliable electricity, rule of law, low levels of corruption, the Internet, und so weiter.<\/p>\n

* Seriously, it\u2019s b.s. like this that makes me say bring on the 3rd-world ization of the US cause it ain\u2019t gonna be pretty for the increasingly pampered Afro-American black middle class.<\/p>\n

Never underestimate the provincialism of US blacks, particularly if they have quasi-African made up names. For people who revel ad-nauseum in their \u201ccolor\u201d and how vibrant and diverse they are in their rainbowness, as opposed to us pasty sorts, they tend to assume brown equals kinship and sameness. They tend to down-play the very real importance of facial features and body type in determining identity. As one Afghan put it to me, where he grew up everybody had the same complexion so they used facial features to determine who was what.<\/p>\n

My wife, of mixed ancestry, but South Asian appearance, gets lots of crap from her \u201csisters\u201d in Africa. Told to go back to her country, passive aggressive behavior when dealing with bureaucrats. No doubt it\u2019s the lingering affects of the white man\u2019s divide and conquer. Simple sexual jealousy or just plain old fashioned, perfectly natural bigotry are not factors educated people think about when discussing or theorizing black anger or surliness.<\/p>\n

Blacks in Eastern and Southern Africa definitely do not like \u201cAsians.\u201d Idi Amin didn\u2019t chase all those Indians out of Uganda by his lonesome.<\/p>\n

This is also really interesting considering the Tanzanian student who recently got attacked in Bangalore.<\/p>\n

I suspect, though, these women if they actually learned anything about the regions they purport to study, beyond reading some dumbed-down Franz Fanon, they\u2019d blame centuries of indigenous colorism on whitey.<\/p>\n

* I\u2019d like to see a feminist intersectional analysis of Yemenite Jewish Israeli transgender pop singer Dana International\u2019s song \u201cIndian Movie\u201d.<\/p>\n

Obviously there would be points for being transgendered, and people from Yemen who are not Jewish would definitely be considered \u201cpeople of color\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n

But my guess is that the Jewish and certainly the Israeli part would cancel all that out and this would be seen as terribly appropriative.<\/p>\n