"Cultural Appropriation"

[vorlon13]

The "real harm"..is in air-quoting that and not mentioning all of the harm that is required for something to -be- cultural appropriation. To ignore the discussion entirely, talk about something else, and pretend until you;re blue in the face that it either never happened, or was a good thing™.

The harm has a name.  Racial apathy.  It's the new genteel racism.

Well, as long as we got something nifty out of it, no harm...no foul. Just look at all of this cool shit!   Look at all of these sweet, sweet profits - and all we had to do was exploit some browns?  Deal.

The right answer is that there is no harm in cultural appropriation in and of itself.
There's harm in exploitation, stealing, vandalism and so on, but there's no harm in a black person wearing a kilt, a white person playing the blues, or a Nigerian singing an Abba song.

As long as there's no actual theft, vandalism, or exploitation going on it's fine.  

And you can't steal culture. And you if in anyway you can every culture is guilty of it.

I have no problem with black men wearing kilts.


I've been a long time fan of the Scotty Skirt.



They can wear sporrans too . . . .