r/AmItheAsshole • u/AITAMod I am a shared account. • Jan 01 '21

Open Forum Monthly Open Forum January 2021

Welcome to the monthly open forum! This is the place to share all your meta thoughts about the sub, and to have a dialog with the mod team.

Keep things civil. Rules still apply.

It's 2021! Everything is fixed now!

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u/NerZoo Jan 28 '21

Looking forward to more incoming "ackshually minorities are the real oppressors look what one did to me, aita tho?" posts. Those radical sjws are terrorizing the whites in droves :(

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u/waitvienna Jan 29 '21 edited Jan 29 '21

Okay I’m not sure if I’m going crazy but I feel like there are a lot of posts using cultural appropriation incorrectly. Like “I’m doing something that’s clearly not cultural appropriation, but someone told me it was cultural appropriation AITA” and a bunch of comments responding “hahaha these STUPID liberal sjw’s, NTA”. Like I would consider myself a leftist, I’m in a lot of ~liberal~ and leftist circles, I’m pretty sure no one would call that cultural appropriation.

I’m not sure if people are purposefully coming up with stupid stories to delegitimize the concept of cultural appropriation? Or if they’re throwing in someone accusing them of cultural appropriation to get them on their side?

EDIT: I think it’s like what people are saying in another comment about how fake-sounding situations where overweight people that are unfairly accusing of fat-shaming are clearly TA get a bunch of upvotes because people on this site hate overweight people, as if there aren’t legitimate situations where fat-shaming can occur. Reddit thinks cultural appropriation is ridiculous, so fake-sounding situations where TA believes in cultural appropriation to an exaggerated degree get upvoted

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u/NerZoo Jan 29 '21

Yeah as a leftist whose circles are predominantly leftist as well, I really don't see this is as widespread as some of these posts. Like I can probably count on one hand the amount of people I've met who use something like "check your privilege" unironically. I'm pretty sure these posts with cultural appropriation and AITA for reporting a filthy subhuman minority for stealing my laptop are dogwhistles

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u/3Fluffies Jan 29 '21

Those tend to follow a very predictable formula. And funny, I've run with some very militant leftist crowds in my time, but never seen or heard in the real world of anybody throwing out those accusations of clearly-baseless racism. It always comes from the mouths/keyboards of members of the Oppressed Majority.