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No One Is Talking About The Appropriation Of White Male Culture
America has a real problem with cultural sensitivity, and I can’t take one more instance of cultural appropriation disrespecting a maligned demographic of Americans: the white male!
There is barely anything that’s sacrosanct for white men that society doesn’t steal and appropriate for all kinds of offensive and disrespectful purposes, starting with failing upward. That’s our thing! It’s a time-honored tradition going back centuries where, no matter how lazy our work ethic is, or substandard our achievements are, we white men nonetheless get promoted and awarded salary increases. But now that women and people of color are beginning to rise up through the ranks of various professions faster than us white males, they’re beginning to take undeserved workplace promotions for themselves! My white male colonialist ancestors must be rolling in their graves!
Even more insulting, it’s now considered cool and “edgy” to denigrate our longstanding cultural tradition of puns and witticisms. They’re not “Dad-jokes,” they’re just jokes! I’m often disappointed how our sense of humor is always being hyphenated, and kept marginalized outside the mainstream of comedy. Our corny jokes and pithy, droll maxims are just as valid as any other form of humor! “Working hard, or hardly working?” “Don’t spend it all in one place!” “Fish and…
