The appropriation of a cultural element from one position to support a counter-position
The alt-right used culture-jamming to mimic civil rights movements during the 2016 election
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The act of attempting to control peopleβs thoughts, posts, and real feelings. The attempt to try to force people to only say what some people find acceptable.
P.C. Culture is too much
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The antithesis of individuality, the ultimate conformity, homogenization of the unique and unusual, the engine which drives corrupt consumerism and "mass produced" artwork.
Since tattoos were deemed acceptable by popular culture everyone and their brother now has one or twenty unique demarcations.
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The first generation raised with the internet. This group attempts to be defined by ideas rather than stereotypes. They are multi-cultural, tech-savvy, and fashion independent. Connected and innovative early adopters, these tastemakers lead the consumer market in music, fashion, technology, and lifestyles.
Q: How do you find out today's weather?
A:
Baby Boomers Read the Farmer's Almanac.
Generation X Watch TV, dude. There's like a weather channel and stuff.
Verge Culture Check the weather app on your smartphone, duh.
Q: Where is the uvula?
A:
Baby Boomers Let me check my Encyclopedia Britannica...
Generation X uh...I think my girlfriend knows.
Verge Culture You guys are soo slow! Have you never heard of wikipedia?!?!
Q: Who was the...Verge Culture interupts
Verge Culture I don't have time for all this!! I've got music to make, jewelry and clothing to design, and viral messages to spread. Later! Verge Culture leaves...
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a member of one of the two major political tribes who have come to dominate US political discussion with their irrational and divisive culture war
You need to get out of your echo chamber more often, culture warrior.
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A new culture brought on by rich suburban white kids, with rich parents. These are the kids you see at Dutch bros in a jacked up (sometimes only the front) diesel (with no hitch, never towing) wearing Pit Vipers sporting a mullet.
My friend went to North Carolina and came back wearing awful sunglasses, that look like snowboarding goggles, drinking bud light, vaping, chewing wintergreen Skoal, with the front of his truck higher than the rear. What happened? Thats that "Yeet culture".
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The idiotic conflation of culture with racism. Essentially the absurd belief that the cultural exchange that has served to enrich humanity throughout all of human history is wrong because racists exist.
SJW: OMG, look at that white girl with dreadlocks! That's cultural appropriation!
Sane individual: Eat a bag of dicks.
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