How a Pretty Prom Dress Helped Reveal Rot in the American Soul

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   How a Pretty Prom Dress Helped Reveal Rot in the American Soul
By David French

May 1, 2018 2:30 PM



Keziah Daum and the insidiousness of the online cultural-appropriation police

I’m going to tell you perhaps the dumbest story you’ve ever heard — a story that is stupid with a heaping helping of malice on the side.

On Sunday morning, a teenage girl named Keziah Daum posted pictures taken on her prom night to Twitter. Daum isn’t a public figure; she’s a student at a Utah high school. Her message simply said, “PROM,” and it had four pictures:

If you’re a normal human being, like the majority of Americans who saw their Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter feeds fill up with prom pictures last weekend, you thought that was a pretty girl in a pretty dress. Nothing more.

But if you’re a toxic social-justice warrior, you saw something else. You saw oppression. You saw exploitation. You saw bigotry. You saw — gasp — “cultural appropriation.” The dress, you see, had obvious Asian influences, and Daum isn’t Asian:

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[skeeter]

The appropriate response is to laugh and tell Mr Lam to blow his cultural appropriation charge out his arse.

[Frank Cannon]

It's long past time to start ignoring these cranks. That dress is hot.

[GrouchoTex]

Baseball and Levi's are part of my Caucasian-American heritage.

The next time I see someone not of my heritage wearing jeans and a ball cap................

Younger people have to be Outraged an Offended by something, having not gone through things like the great Depression or WW2, or having parents that did, they create their own angst and inner- hardships to be upset about.

Wimps.

[skeeter]

Baseball and Levi's are part of my Caucasian-American heritage.

The next time I see someone not of my heritage wearing jeans and a ball cap................

Younger people have to be Outraged an Offended by something, having not gone through things like the great Depression or WW2, or having parents that did, they create their own angst and inner- hardships to be upset about.

Wimps.

When the next Great Societal Trial comes I'm afraid there'll be one helluva lotta wash outs.

[GrouchoTex]

It's long past time to start ignoring these cranks. That dress is hot.

True dat.

BTW, when did it become okay for an adult male to harass a teen female about her dress, or anything else?
I wished her father would have stepped in and said something to this Jackoff.

[Frank Cannon]

True dat.

BTW, when did it become okay for an adult male to harass a teen female about here dress, or anything else?
I wished her father would have stepped in and said something to this Jackoff.

The problem is that there are losers who do nothing but hawk social media for outrages hoping to make the next news cycle. The only way to stop it is to tune it out.

[mountaineer]

I believe Mr. Lam's other tweets revealed that he pretty much has appropriated black urban culture and its language, like so many American yoots.

[Taxcontrol]

There is something wrong with a man that complains about a pretty girl who wears a pretty dress. 

Perhaps too much soy or not enough testosterone.

[Fishrrman]

Frank Cannon wrote:
"The problem is that there are losers who do nothing but hawk social media for outrages hoping to make the next news cycle. The only way to stop it is to tune it out."

I never "tuned in" in the first place. Never will.

Tell the complainers to take their "grievances" and shove 'em where the sun don't shine.

[goatprairie]

The appropriate response is to laugh and tell Mr Lam to blow his cultural appropriation charge out his arse.