Kulturkampf

[Potato]

Look at this traitor to the cause

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-30/don-t-ask-me-what-s-culturally-appropriate-i-don-t-know/106815392

People of colour don't have a secret guide. There's no update from a global people of colour association that says, here's the new flowchart on how to arbitrate on what's appropriate this quarter.

Many of us are as confused as everyone else. We're a large group bound together by only one factor — we're not white. So different things matter in different degrees to all of us, it's near impossible to speak as one.

I don't even like the term people of colour. The first time I heard it I thought of the Smurfs because they're blue. 

But there was nowhere to lodge a complaint or make a follow-up query. 

I woke up one day and was already behind on the new polite way to refer to myself.

Every couple of months, there's a new issue that I must have the correct, concrete stance on otherwise I betray my group. My first experience of this was when I moved to Melbourne in 2017. 

At a dinner party, debate raged over the depiction of Apu in The Simpsons. At one point, everyone looked to me, the one person of colour at the table for my guidance. 

I apologetically shrugged. I wasn't Indian and I didn't watch The Simpsons.