So basically, animal crossing added hairdos from black culture, and white people put them on their character in game, and people are genuinely going nuts about it.

  • Cummunism [they/them, he/him]
    3·
    4 years ago

    dreads are the least offensive because for most of humanity people didn't bathe everyday so dreadlocks arent specific to one culture. They can be used as a religious thing but it doesnt have to be.

    • AlfredNobel [comrade/them,any]
      1·
      4 years ago

      The issue with dreadlocks is that very curly hair will naturally form them far more easily. They are a great low maintenance hairstyle for Black women with the right kind of hair. But if someone mentions dreadlocks the first image that pops into mind for many is normally a white stoner guy and "people didn’t bathe everyday". So that association makes them "unprofessional" and against uniform policies for many jobs.

      Think if your default hairstyle was co-oped by a group of people that then made it harder for you to get a job, and resulted in you having to spend money to keep your hair in a different style.

      I should back this stuff up with some theory, so here is a bachelors thesis that I think reading the introduction for would help many people here. It's nicely written and not overly academic, if you want to go deeper you can follow the links in that text.

      and a quote from that text.

      Tiana Parker was banned from wearing her hair in dreadlocks at her Oklahoma charter school. According to local news outlet KOKI-TV, Parker’s father (who is himself a barber) was told by school officials from the Deborah Brown Community School in Tulsa that his daughter’s hairstyle wasn’t “presentable,” and felt her hair could "distract from the respectful and serious atmosphere [the school] strives for"

      • Cummunism [they/them, he/him]
        1·
        4 years ago

        i know and understand what has happened to black people and their hair, especially at work and school, and that's wrong but i dont think it necessarily makes the other wrong. It's weird to want some blended society but then also say some things are exclusive. It's a hair style and it's natural for some people but not a religious symbol for most. This sort of topic loses everyone except at the most extreme end where people say they are anti racist but then say WHITE STUFF IS WHITE AND BLACK STUFF IS BLACK. And it's ridiculous and it's an extension of the bubble known at Twitter.

        Also black culture has never been more popular than it is right now and we have a lot of different people here. It's literally unavoidable for this to happen.