RE: "Cultural Appropriation"
June 8, 2017 at 8:39 am
(This post was last modified: June 8, 2017 at 8:50 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Nothing stops a person from claiming cultural appropriation being wrong. The dreadlocks bit..wrong. The christers and their war on christmas stuff, wrong. Tiz, regarding dreamcatchers....wrong.
It;s related to the whole sorry affair of our history with natives, sure. It may be offensive to natives, sure. It just doesn;t fit the definition of appropriation. Mostly, in that no attempt has been made, in dreamcatchers, to minimize the host culture. It's exactly the opposite. Cultural fetishism. People have gone apeshit over them specifically for their connection and connotation to the host culture...and a decidely unrealistic and positive view -of- that native culture has emerged in recent years - that;s why there's a market for them. Plus, ofc, they're pretty....and as much as we like to imagine muricans to be god fearin folk..they do love their pseudo magical pagan trinkets, and always have.
(take notes not-bigots™ - that's how you respond to a shoddy charge of appropriation...-not- by denying that it happens..............
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It;s related to the whole sorry affair of our history with natives, sure. It may be offensive to natives, sure. It just doesn;t fit the definition of appropriation. Mostly, in that no attempt has been made, in dreamcatchers, to minimize the host culture. It's exactly the opposite. Cultural fetishism. People have gone apeshit over them specifically for their connection and connotation to the host culture...and a decidely unrealistic and positive view -of- that native culture has emerged in recent years - that;s why there's a market for them. Plus, ofc, they're pretty....and as much as we like to imagine muricans to be god fearin folk..they do love their pseudo magical pagan trinkets, and always have.
(take notes not-bigots™ - that's how you respond to a shoddy charge of appropriation...-not- by denying that it happens..............
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