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⌈ Secret Post #2256 ⌋

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I think she was saying the cultural appropriation isn't that white people are doing it... it's that outsiders have decided they have the right to take a term that's already been clearly established as a community's dance style to mean something different for no real reason. And I don't know a lot about Harlem Shake but could it be considered sort of mocking? Like 'this is what you guys look like to me when you do that dance'? I'm tired and out of the loop so please feel free to correct my ignorance at will.

No, I think that's pretty right on.

But the people's right to make and enjoy dumb internet meme videos shall not be abridged, I guess.

But she even says no one is telling them not to do a dumb dance... just to call it something different.

Oh just fuck off.

that seems to be the problem, yeah

I can understand why she dislikes that it is called that, and I think in a broader context, for younger people who didn't know that there was an actual dance called the Harlem Shake, they will not understand that the original dance came first.

But I wonder what else you are supposed to call it? "Con los terristas?" Cause I think that is the only other line in the 30 seconds of song it samples.

Also, as others have pointed out, I don't feel as though they are calling the dancing that they are doing the Harlem Shake, or even trying to make fun of it? Then again, I was not there when they were making it, so maybe they were.

This is what I got from that video: A random person made a vid with people flailing about that just happened to use the song 'Harlem Shake', because the word "Shake" is in it. People copied the vid because they thought it was funny, and put their own spin on it. I don't think it was ever a joke about the actual dance. Hell, I doubt most of the people making their own 'Harlem Shake' videos even KNEW there was a dance to it.

Just people over-reacting to the internet. Nothing new.

I doubt most of the people making their own 'Harlem Shake' videos even KNEW there was a dance to it.

I don't see how that's any better, to be honest.

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