Just a though about "cultural appropriation"...

SantaOrange · 2017-06-05T14:57:32+00:00

The Irish people were "historically oppressed." Irish Americans were called "white niggers" and had to perform the most dangerous jobs because slaves were considered valuable property. The great American abolitionist Frederick Douglass was able to buy his freedom from slavery due to donations from the Irish. He visited the country during the potato famine and found them highly sympathetic to his plight. It was also at that time that he realized it wasn't only African Americans who were oppressed for spurious reasons.

Halloween originated in Ireland. Do you find Irish people whining about "cultural appropriation" every year? No. And nor do you find the vast majority of X ethnic/cultural group whining about cultural appropriation. In fact it is typically rich white people who whine on behalf of X group in order to assuage their misplaced white guilt. There are assholes in every group, however, and a Canadian artist was recently accused of "cultural genocide" by a Native American man for embracing a painting style that was somewhat similar to first nations art.

Culture is meant to be spread. If a culture isn't spread it dies. So man the fuck up, stop whining, and create NEW culture.

samsc2 · 2017-06-05T15:15:41+00:00

There is no such thing as cultural appropriation. It's an absolute bucket of hogwash made up to scare people into being dominated by a racist pile of shit. No one appropriates culture because no one owns culture. Culture is something that constantly changes and mutates with the times. Most of the shit people try to claim as being apart of one culture in reality doesn't even originate from them. It's just a concept that's there to divide us all into separate groups so we don't stop fighting each other and notice the actual bullshit going on.

rodvanmechelen · 2017-06-05T16:33:25+00:00

I am American Indian and I might start taking the SJWs who complain about cultural appropriate serious when they include the consumption of corn, tomatoes and potatoes, all of which originated in Central and South America, in their list of things to stop appropriating.

alclarkey · 2017-06-05T21:18:39+00:00

Cultural appropriation has been blown to smithereens. Everyone is OK appropriating anything useful that white men have created IE telephone, microwave, automobiles, certain instruments, etc, but suddenly it's evil and wicked when want to use something of some other culture?

2017-06-05T22:14:42+00:00

Not to mention, the same people who go on about cultural appropriation are very often the same people who want to live in a borderless world.

If we are going to be a global society and a global village like some say, that won't work unless we start seeing all human culture as the achievement of all human beings. If we are indeed one human family, than my culture is yours, and yours is mine.

ee4m · 2017-06-05T15:50:24+00:00

To me its a red herring.

There used to be robust anti-imperialist and anti-war protest on campus.

Now "cultural appropriation" is the real crime perpetrated against other cultures. Feminists attack other people for wearing clothes from another culture and the powers that be are off the hook on imperialism and murder.

Now

Blutarg · 2017-06-05T16:16:39+00:00

Given the immaturity of most SJWs, I think they'd side with the other kin.

2017-06-05T22:02:29+00:00

Oddly, the people who complain about cultural appropriation are never the actual inventors of stuff. They also usually lack the skill to create something interesting which other cultures would like to share in the first place.

Title	Just a though about "cultural appropriation"...
Author	Rasalom72
Upvotes	15
Comments	25
Date	June 5, 2017 2:30 PM UTC (6 years ago)
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