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Social Justice Activist gets called out for using racial slur

Tim Pool Daily News

Timcast Media

Politics, Society & Culture, News

4.47.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2018

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

A woman posted a photo of herself wearing a "qipao" a traditional Chinese dress. This prompted the ire of a Twitter user who complained about cultural appropriation. However other users surfaced(presumably) old tweets where this activist used racial slurs against black people. Support the show (http://timcast.com/donate) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

On April 22nd, an 18-year-old woman posted a photo of herself wearing a cheap

0:03.8

hat, a traditional Chinese dress, that she said she was going to wear to prom.

0:08.7

This prompted a massive backlash after a Twitter user accused her of cultural appropriation,

0:14.6

and since then there has been a massive debate as to whether or not what she is doing is offensive.

0:19.3

With many people saying it's not, and many people saying it is, she even appeared on Fox

0:24.2

News.

0:25.2

The debate over cultural appropriation has been a key aspect in what we call the culture

0:28.9

war for some time now.

0:31.1

But there's been an interesting turn as it appears now that the individual who called her

0:35.7

out might actually be racist themselves.

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