"Protests continue in D.C." is a headline that could be written every day, with left-wingers never tiring of holding bullhorns and screaming various grievances. The entire modern protest movement centers on radicalized ideas of "social justice," spanning everything from claims about climate change to supporting terrorists. Whatever the cause of the day is, and remember, the cause is never really the cause, the one constant is being utterly insufferable.
That theme continued in the nation's capital on Wednesday after a police officer triggered a pro-Hamas protester by asking her if wearing a keffiyeh is cultural appropriation. With all the rage of the most affluent, white, female, liberal to ever walk the earth, the woman ranted and raved in absolute disbelief that her logical inconsistencies would be challenged.
This is one of those videos you need to hit play on to get the full effect because the transcript just doesn't do it justice. The shunned theater kid vibes are off the charts.
🚨 Protester argues with BASED police officer who asked if wearing a keffiyah is cultural appropriation:
— Elise McCue (@EliseMcCue) August 20, 2025
She says she is “wearing a scarf that is trying to stop a genocide.” @DailySignal pic.twitter.com/pw4c4nD7as
PROTESTER: Appropriate?!
OFFICER: Yes, you are.
PROTESTER: By wearing a scarf that's trying to stop a genocide?! You think that's appropriating a culture?!
OFFICER: Yes, you are.
PROTESTER: Okay, (inaudible) how is that appropriating Palestinian culture? How is my wearing a keffiyeh appropriating Palestinian culture?! You're the one who said it, you're the one who said it, you're the one who said I was appropriating Palestinian culture by wearing a keffiyeh scarf!
OFFICER: You're not Palestinian.
PROTESTER: I...I support Palestinians, and so I am appreciating Palestinians (crosstalk from another protester)! How is wearing a scarf, given to me, in fact, by my Palestinian friend, because I stand in solidarity against the genocide?!
You simply can not fathom how unbearable the average AWFL is. There is no other demographic on earth that even comes close to their ability to make one's ears bleed. They will wag their finger and lecture you until you curl up in a ball and beg for mercy.
Let's just pick through this, because it's a buffet of stupidity, and in some ways that you might not recognize at first. Putting aside that there is no "genocide" in Gaza, no matter how much Hamas and its global network of left-wing supporters claim it, how would wearing a cheap scarf help stop "genocide?" That's probably the wrong question, though, because effectiveness never comes into play for these protesters. Their virtue signaling over the supposed concern of the day only serves their greater goal of ripping apart Western civilization. Sometimes that means stumping for Islamic terrorists, even when those Islamic terrorists would subjugate and murder them if they had the chance. If you want logical consistency, you've come to the wrong group of people.
Ironically, though, the officer is both right and wrong about the whole cultural appropriation thing. He's right that an AWFL strutting around in one is appropriating another culture to feed her savior complex. He's wrong that it's "Palestinian" culture being appropriated. Why? Because the entire idea of being "Palestinian," including the keffiyeh, was appropriated by Arabs for political purposes.
In the early 20th century, the entire idea of being "Palestinian" was not a concept. Instead, the Arabs of the time proudly proclaimed themselves as Arabs (because they were and remain just...Arabs), while the term Palestinian typically denoted Jews in the area of the then-British Mandate. It wasn't until the 1960s that Islamists figured out they could appropriate the idea of being "Palestinian" as a political grift to claim perpetual refugee status while championing their cause of destroying Israel.
As to the keffiyeh, that came from Iraqi culture, with its specific origins in ancient Mesopotamia. It began to be used during the 1930s Arab Revolt (again, there was no concept of being "Palestinians" back then), but was not broadly popularized until PLO leader Yasser Arafat in the 1970s. As with all things "Palestinian," the entire identity and its symbols are modern constructs invented for political aims. They are not deeply rooted in a specific ancient indigenous people.
So I guess this protester is in the clear for appropriating "Palestinian culture." Unfortunately, she's not in the clear for appropriating the culture of the ancient Mesopotamians.
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