Cultural Appropriation

[Aegon]

Yet majority of members here do that with religious people every day...

To be fair, mainstream religions of all stripes have fairly well-defined views, while you will hopefully have noticed that this topic is not quite as clear-cut.

And even if it were, tu quoque is fallacious thinking.

I'm not sure what you mean, to be honest. Are you saying the line you quoted isn't true? Because I'd direct you to the majority of Donald Trump supporters as evidence.

I'm saying that you can't say why someone thinks a given way given your paucity of information. Assuming things about the inner thoughts of someone is not tight thinking, and when it's as corrosive as your opinion was, is almost surely the result of bias on your part.

The fact that your baseless assumption is so uncharitable only further weakens whatever point it was you were trying to make.


I notice you didn't address the points I made earlier in the thread, as well.

You're saying that the differences between the 3,000 different sects of Christianity and the differences in the beliefs of every individual Christian and how many different things a Christian could believe from their own religion and how it could or could not affect their opinions on other matters is less complex than this topic? No. A blanket statement about Christians is almost always bound to be incorrect. Yet I see it all the time here. But nobody calls anyone out for it. Perhaps because they agree with the poster.

Explain to me how my "assumption" was "baseless." You don't agree that there are people who hate the politically correct culture because it inhibits their ability to be racist/bigoted? I don't know why that that statement in particular is any more baseless than anything anyone else in this thread has said (see: another user say something along the lines of "Cultural appropriation is a made up thing by SJWs to moan about something") It's not an assumption though. Donald Trump has an influx of racist supporters who are supporting his anti-PC rhetoric for the very reasons I stated: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/dona...d3359dc41a 

As for your post earlier, IIRC I didn't have much to say in response. We're talking about different types of cultural appropriation, as you stated. Though I'd argue that blues and jazz being played by white guys is cultural exchange more so than cultural appropriation. I'm talking about forms of cultural appropriation than are more obviously offensive and harmful to the culture.