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Slack.com slash DHQ. So let's talk about cultural appropriation. Okay. Over the weekend,

a high school girl, just a random high school girl, not a public figure, not a celebrity.

She tweeted a picture of herself in her prom dress, innocent enough, she thought, right?

And she was tweeting it out to her, whatever, a few hundred followers. And she was wearing,

I guess, a Chinese style dress. And so a Chinese man, Chinese American man, it seems, saw

this tweet and he thought, well, let me attack this high school girl. And yeah, let me just

do that. Let me try to ruin her day and her week for no reason. So he screened, she

got out of the tweet and he sent his own tweet saying, my culture is not your damned prom dress.

My culture is not your prom dress, which I mean, he's right about that. She never claimed

it was. I don't think she ever, I didn't, I didn't scroll through all her tweets, but

I don't think she ever said, I'm wearing Chinese culture today. I'm wearing the entirety

of Chinese culture today. No, I think she's just wearing a dress, just a dress is a dress,

you know. But his tweet attacking this girl, cyber bullying her basically got somehow 170,000

likes, 170,000. And it sparked this avalanche of criticism on this girl. And it started a

conversation about cultural appropriation. And this goes back to something I talked about

last week, where you see now how everybody who's on the internet now gets treated like

a public figure that everybody gets this intense scrutiny over everything they say and do.

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