Once Utah high-schooler Keziah Daum tweeted several charming pictures of herself on prom night, it was just a matter of time until the grievance and outrage industry found out about it. When it did find out it dealt with her in the usual way. Miss Daum’s offense? Her outfit: a high-necked, close-fitting dress in the style of a Chinese cheongsam, or qipao. Since she is not herself Chinese, her choice of prom dress was deemed an act of “cultural appropriation” and thus an offense to indigenous civilizations and their woke defenders.
“My culture is NOT your [expletive] prom dress,” one young tweeter responded, with impeccable logic. “For it to simply be subject to American consumerism and cater to a white audience, is parallel to colonial ideology.” “This isn’t ok,” another wrote, “I wouldn’t wear traditional Irish or Swedish or Greek dress. . . . There’s a lot of history behind these clothes.”
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