# I pit the anti-Trader-Joe's petition

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-anti-trader-joes-petition/915844
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Created:** [July 20, 2020, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-anti-trader-joes-petition/915844 "2020-07-20T15:38:05Z")
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### Author: ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2020, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-the-anti-trader-joes-petition/915844/50 "2020-07-21T01:27:55Z")

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Squabbling about “cultural (mis)appropriation” again now, are we? We’ve done this here before.

Remember about a year ago, the Utal girl who wore a traditional-style Chinese gown to her prom that sparked an international conflagration?

Pit thread on the subject:

> [@Fuck the fashion police.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fuck-the-fashion-police/813462):
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> A high school girl in Utah finds a pretty red dress in a vintage clothing store, wears it to the prom. Non-story, right? Except that the dress is in a traditional Chinese style, and the girl is white. So of course [she is attacked by a Twitter mob](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/05/01/its-just-a-dress-teens-chinese-prom-attire-stirs-cultural-appropriation-debate/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.fb5121492399) [for the racist colonialist imperialist](https://www.themarysue.com/cheongsam-prom-dress-nope/) [that she is](https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/cultural-appropriation-prom-dress-chinese-keziah-daum-a8331326.html). I’m not very into the long-winded strings of obscenities often seen in the pit, so I’ll go with a simple “can’t that doomsday asteroid hurry up already?” (Feel free to hijack the thread with other in…

(Note, there are actually three separate links in the above-quoted OP, all of them still alive.)

Article in USA Today:

> **[People are furious at teen for wearing a traditional Chinese dress to prom](https://www.today.com/style/teen-who-wore-traditional-chinese-dress-prom-faces-backlash-t128426)**
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> Keziah Daum of Salt Lake City thought her prom dress was beautiful — but others saw it as disrespectful.

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