Ths thread is going off into the realms of fantasy the way threads do when khemical gets involved.
Cultural apropriation isn't directly harmful.
It isn't a white master raping a black slave woman in some fields, or led Zeppelin stealing song ideas off black blues artists, or a white colonist stealing land.
Those things are all wrong because they involve stealing, the rape, the land stealing, the stealing of actual song lyrics and riffs are wrong because of the stealing, a white man who raped a black woman isn't wrong because of any reason to do with culture, it's because he's having sex with her by force.
The apropriation of culture, whatever that means, isn't the problem, it's the violent unprovoked force.
Cultural apropriation isn't directly harmful.
It isn't a white master raping a black slave woman in some fields, or led Zeppelin stealing song ideas off black blues artists, or a white colonist stealing land.
Those things are all wrong because they involve stealing, the rape, the land stealing, the stealing of actual song lyrics and riffs are wrong because of the stealing, a white man who raped a black woman isn't wrong because of any reason to do with culture, it's because he's having sex with her by force.
The apropriation of culture, whatever that means, isn't the problem, it's the violent unprovoked force.
Are you ready for the fire? We are firemen. WE ARE FIREMEN! The heat doesn’t bother us. We live in the heat. We train in the heat. It tells us that we’re ready, we’re at home, we’re where we’re supposed to be. Flames don’t intimidate us. What do we do? We control the flame. We control them. We move the flames where we want to. And then we extinguish them.
Impersonation is treason.
