{"id":1801048,"date":"2023-01-10T10:51:01","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T15:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1801048"},"modified":"2023-01-10T10:52:36","modified_gmt":"2023-01-10T15:52:36","slug":"lizzo-cancel-culture-is-appropriation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lizzo-cancel-culture-is-appropriation\/","title":{"rendered":"Lizzo: \u201cCancel Culture Is Appropriation\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flizzo-cancel-culture-is-appropriation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1801048&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Lizzo-cancel-culture-cultural-appropriation-2.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Lizzo is the leader of the wake charge via her social media pulpit.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The \u201cTruth Hurts\u201d The singer regularly monitors cultural headlines via Twitter (2.1 Million followers) and Instagram (a staggering 13 million flock).<\/p>\n<p>And she\u2019s been doing it for some time now. This missive was written in 2017, the year of the unofficial beginning of the woke movement.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BY55NiGBe0c\/?utm_source=ig_embed&#038;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The superstar isn\u2019t immune to the woke mob, though, despite her progressive bona fides.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodintoto.com\/elon-musk-drops-bomb-woke-hollywood\/\"><strong>RELATED : ELON MUSK DROPS BOMB ON WOKE HOLYWOOD<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/culture\/2022\/08\/beyonce-renaissance-lizzo-spaz-ableist-slur-lyrics-history.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lizzo swapped the word \u201cspaz\u201d<\/a> From her song \u201cGrrrls\u201d After critics called the lyrics &#8220;lyricist&#8221; last year \u201cableist.\u201d She also gained heat when she claimed that she had a 10-day smoothie plan, which some suggested was indeed designed.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/lizzo-responds-backlash-sharing-smoothie-detox-big-girls-do-whatever-n1251285\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0To lose weight.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dieting for health is frowned upon in woke-world. \u201cfatphobic.\u201d Lizzo is proud and loud about her figure, and encourages everyone to be happy with their bodies, no matter what size.<\/p>\n<p>So the singer\u2019s cryptic Tweet over the weekend likely caught some by surprise.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This may be a random time to say this but it\u2019s on my heart.. cancel culture is appropriation.<\/p>\n<p>There was real outrage from truly marginalized people and now it\u2019s become trendy, misused and misdirected.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that we can stop this madness and instead focus our anger on the true problems.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FOLLOW @YITTY (@lizzo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lizzo\/status\/1612074796774486017?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 8, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Let\u2019s look at the different ways to interpret the Tweet:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lizzo is well aware of the ways the Left uses Cancel Culture and fears that this overreach will damage the progressive movement.<\/li>\n<li>The singer realizes the woke revolution hit some roadblocks in 2022, and she\u2019s backpedaling to prepare for the social movement\u2019s expiration date.<\/li>\n<li>She recognizes that woke criticisms have some valid points, especially when it is about how the movement undercuts creative expression.<\/li>\n<li>She wants to remain a leader for the cause, and this is warning shot across the bow of those who weaponize woke in ways she doesn\u2019t like.<\/li>\n<li>She\u2019s reacting to a recent surge of \u201cwoke\u201dArticles that are based on -themes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/business\/wokeis-a-political-term-with-a-long-and-complicated-history\/2022\/12\/31\/3b53193a-8914-11ed-b5ac-411280b122ef_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The word itself is a product of black culture, suggesting that it was coined.<\/a>. It is cultural appropriation as well as something worse.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Guardian recently attacked woke critics and called it a fight against a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2022\/dec\/20\/anti-woke-race-america-history\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cmade-up menace.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s just one text, but the phrasing suggests the subject is top of mind for a high priestess of the woke movement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lizzo is the leader of the wake charge via her social media pulpit. The \u201cTruth Hurts\u201d The singer regularly monitors cultural headlines via Twitter (2.1 Million followers) and Instagram (a staggering 13 million flock). And she\u2019s been doing it for some time now. This missive was written in 2017, the year of the unofficial beginning &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1801051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[10643,5458,4420,4421,9306,3819],"class_list":["post-1801048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-appropriation","tag-bongino","tag-cancel","tag-culture","tag-lizzo","tag-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1801048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1801048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1801051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1801048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1801048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1801048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}