For the past 25 or so years, social justice advocates and academic elites have loudly denounced 'cultural appropriation.' It has been yet another one of their methods for guilt-tripping people into bowing down and worshipping at their altar of political correctness. But without cultural appropriation, we'd all still be living in caves and cooking our mammoth over an open fire.
The world has culturally appropriated everything from white Europeans. A simple one would be just straightening curly hair. Or how about air flight, or cars, or modern medicine, or roads, or virtually all technology, or Air Jordans, etc. etc. etc. Do we really want to do this? I can't take any of the people screaming this nonsense seriously, as they are texting on their 'smart phones'.
appropriation is that it is generally associated with colonisation. And colonisation is never an equal power balance. So cultural appropriation is where symbols, artworks, music, songs are taken ( without permission!) out of their original cultural context and used exploitatively in another culture, another context. This has happend over and over again to indigenous cultures and peoples who have been colonised. Cultural appropriation is a blatant disregard for
There are always power imbalances when two cultures meet. (And the economic powerhouse doesn’t always hold authority.)
Concluding that ideas can’t freely be exchanged, which is where we are in the Left’s idiotic PC allegiance to no “cultural appropriation”, is just daft. It’s counterproductive, simplistic, and totally unhelpful. It’s just typically used as a weapon by a underclass to shame actions of another group.
Good work taking the absurdity to its logical conclusions.
There’s no such thing as cultural appropriation in a free society
The world has culturally appropriated everything from white Europeans. A simple one would be just straightening curly hair. Or how about air flight, or cars, or modern medicine, or roads, or virtually all technology, or Air Jordans, etc. etc. etc. Do we really want to do this? I can't take any of the people screaming this nonsense seriously, as they are texting on their 'smart phones'.
What you don’t seem to understand about cultural
appropriation is that it is generally associated with colonisation. And colonisation is never an equal power balance. So cultural appropriation is where symbols, artworks, music, songs are taken ( without permission!) out of their original cultural context and used exploitatively in another culture, another context. This has happend over and over again to indigenous cultures and peoples who have been colonised. Cultural appropriation is a blatant disregard for
cultures other than the colonising one.
There are always power imbalances when two cultures meet. (And the economic powerhouse doesn’t always hold authority.)
Concluding that ideas can’t freely be exchanged, which is where we are in the Left’s idiotic PC allegiance to no “cultural appropriation”, is just daft. It’s counterproductive, simplistic, and totally unhelpful. It’s just typically used as a weapon by a underclass to shame actions of another group.
‘ideas freely exchanged’ has nothing to do with ‘cultural appropriation’ not being able to distinguish the difference in meaning proves my point.