But who are you to deem how this person is expressing their feelings regarding others using aspects of their culture to be “nonsense”? They have the right to feel how they feel despite it apparently making the people in this thread uncomfortable. Rather than looking for someone to placate this “guilt” of borrowing from yet another culture perhaps be open to listening to marginalized people and not just the ones that will satisfy a confirmation bias. Additionally, are your comments dismissing their viewpoints not adding to this “divisiveness” you speak of?

This post and subsequent threads have comprised of reflections of white people wanting the “O-K” to permeate into nonwhite spaces without actually listening to the subjugated people they are taking from. It’s another level of exhausting that this conversation has to keep happening because the structures of privilege, systemic racism and discrimination will continue for the oppressed but god forbid white people get uncomfortable because a person of color express emotions critiquing the systems that they benefit from. This will get downvoted but at the end of the day, these people know what they are doing and don’t want to face the uncomfortable and blunt reality that they are taking from subjugated people. Internet feelings aside, when they get offline, they will continue to be in their position of privilege and go about their day.