Clothing that promotes “cultural appropriation” has been banned by a leading music festival. The Telegraph has the story.
Wireless Festival organisers have banned dozens of items from this year’s three-day event in Finsbury Park, London, which begins on Friday. They include “clothing/garments/items which promote cultural appropriation”.
The information on Wireless’s website does not specify which items of clothing fall under the ban – raising questions over whether the prohibition extends to sombreros or keffiyeh scarves, a symbol of the Palestinian cause.
It comes after Reading Festival banned clothing that could be deemed offensive last year following rows over the perceived cultural insensitivity of donning sombreros, which are seen as typically Mexican.
Worth reading in full.
Down with cultural cross-pollination! But will it include a ban on non-Westerners donning Western clothes? I somehow doubt it. And you can be sure it won’t include banning keffiyeh scarves, because that’ll be a “symbol of solidarity with oppressed peoples” or some such quasi-Marxist excuse. As ever, the woke authoritarian idiocies only go one way.
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