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Does that mean you automatically distrust brown people with dreadlocks? If the answer to that is yes, then you are being racist. If I see a white person with dreadlocks I tend to think they are more likely to be people with perhaps an unconventional outlook on life, nothing more. Even then I recognise that to be a huge sweeping statement, they may lead completely conventional lives, hairstyle doesn't tell you much about the thinking of the man or woman underneath it. Reserve judgement until you've got to know the person under the hairstyle I say.If I automatically do not trust 'white' people with dreadlocks? Until proven.
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I say if your distrust of white people with dreadlocks stems from the second Matrix movie, then you're fully justified.If I automatically do not trust 'white' people with dreadlocks? Until proven.
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But if someone said "I don't trust black guys who dress like 'gangstas'." many would claim that's a racist notion.Racist? No, but definitely prejudice against someone with a certain look.
Not racist, just silly.If I automatically do not trust 'white' people with dreadlocks? Until proven.
Discuss?
In the example mentioned by OP, they probably getting some notion of appropriation, whether it be legitimate or not.
So the reason why they might feel untrustworthy around them would be because of a perceived social injustice which directly involves race.
Even if the whole "gangsta" look is associated with a culture that glorifies crime, violence, misogyny, etc? It would only be racist if someone thought that such a culture represented black people as a whole.However, there isn't a not-racistly motivated reason I can think of that would explain why a person who would dress like "gangstas" would be more untrustworthy on the basis of race.
If I automatically do not trust 'white' people with dreadlocks? Until proven.
Discuss?
There is nothing at all "legitimate" about the notion of "appropriation".