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Re:Russia to legalize software piracy by throwaway22032 on Monday March 07, 2022 @07:29AM (#30586966)
"Cultural appropriation" is newspeak. It defacto must be considered to be wrong because the term was invented in order to put a negative spin on sharing.

By the same token "discrimination" is seen as being defacto wrong even though no-one would take issue with the fact that you literally distinguish people by their physical attributes "yeah, he's the one with the brown hair".

It literally means "the bad form of cultural copying". As "discrimination" in common parlance means "the bad form of discrimination".

Contrast with the sentence "how do I discriminate between French and German words in this text". In that context, 'discriminate' doesn't have a negative bent. But in basically any context to do with real people it does.

Linguistics(?) is hard...

Re:Russia to legalize software piracy by denton-scratch on Monday March 07, 2022 @08:44AM (#30587633)
> "discrimination" is seen as being defacto wrong

Discrimination is the act of deciding whether two things are the same, or different. Even "racial discrimination" would be OK in principle, were it not for the fact that the concept of races has been widely been debunked by scientists.

To be clear, discriminatory treatment based on people's characteristics is deeply objectionable to me.