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Re:Is Cultural Appropriation Always Wrong? by lwhalen on Friday October 02, 2015 @03:17PM (#10320623)
To co-opt and mimic is completely normal human behavior that cuts across all cultures, nations, sub-groups, etc. The article even acknowledges this right up front, "It’s a truth only selectively acknowledged that all cultures are mongrel". The premise smells like just another manifestation of outrage-culture to drive clicks. Don't let your humanity be redirected into anger, downvotes, etc.
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Re:Is Cultural Appropriation Always Wrong? by djtriptych on Friday October 02, 2015 @03:29PM (#10320699)
Violent overthrow of other people can also be described as "normal human behavior" as is polyamory, and hunting and gathering. Is it ideal behavior? Is it civil?

Your sense of smell smells like another manifestation of privilege. Don't allow yourself to believe you do not operate from a position of extreme privilege. Be human, but not delusional.

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Re:Is Cultural Appropriation Always Wrong? by lwhalen on Friday October 02, 2015 @07:49PM (#10322000)
FWIW, violent overthrow of other people is normal human behavior, as is violent (ideally armed) resistance to same. It may be distasteful to a sunflower with such delicate sensibilities, but that doesn't make it go away.

As for my supposed 'privilege', whose accomplishments are so ideologically pure that you can't trot out that old chestnut? Do I have to be a gay black irish trans jew to be able to take pride in anything I've achieved, or is there some other marginalized minority who is even more downtrodden that I should aspire to, if I want my accomplishments to mean anything to the workaday SJW?

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Re:Is Cultural Appropriation Always Wrong? by venomsnake on Friday October 02, 2015 @03:34PM (#10320744)
The fact that GP operates from a position of extreme privilege, doesn't mean that what he says is not true or invalid.
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Re:Is Cultural Appropriation Always Wrong? by djtriptych on Friday October 02, 2015 @04:00PM (#10320916)
To the question of whether something is wrong, it being "normal human behavior" is not an argument for or against.

Normal doesn't mean fair or right or harmless or good. That's what the article is about.

So why did he say it?

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Re:Is Cultural Appropriation Always Wrong? by venomsnake on Friday October 02, 2015 @04:32PM (#10321121)
Fair is meaningless in context of culture exchange. So is right. Harmless - in the majority of the cases it is. So is with good.

A person whining against somebody using "his" culture, blindly ignores the fact that "his" culture is crossbreed that is constantly changing and evolving.

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Re:Is Cultural Appropriation Always Wrong? by djtriptych on Friday October 02, 2015 @05:06PM (#10321328)
Should we all pretend that "fair is meaningless in context of culture exchange" is a reasonable thing to say now?
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