Here’s the thing about cultural appropriation in dress:

There is a difference between someone dressing up as a different culture or race and then acting like a hurtful stereotype to belittle that race or culture for their amusement, and dressing up as a different culture or race, and then doing NOTHING disrespectful at all. I really don’t think the latter deserves any hate or special attention, really.

Above there is a picture of Celine Dion in a cheongsam. Is it cultural appropriation? I don’t think so. Celine has a right to wear whatever she wants. She acts like a normal person, and even if she got drunk and farted on stage, she is not representing the Chinese- the Chinese culture is more than a dress.

If someone dressed up as a Geisha for Halloween or a party, that’s not offensive. If they went around bowing obsequiously saying things in a Japanese accent like “Me rikey candy” and such while squinting their eyes, then they are mocking the culture by trying to represent it and by specifically doing so in an ignorant manner.

Similarly, SJWs hate little more than when a light skinned person cosplays as a darker one and aids this with makeup of any sort. They relate it to blackface. But in blackface, whites dressed up as stereotyped caricatures of blacks with the express purpose to insult and belittle them as a joke.

That is not at all like trying to look like someone or something because you think it’s cool, because you want to celebrate it. It just isn’t.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Intent matters, and if you look for racism everywhere, you will find it.