"Cultural Appropriation"

[Crunchy]

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.

Khemical is a bigot and a particularly dumb one. He actually said that denial of cultural appropriation is built into the definition of cultural appropriation therefore if you deny it, you prove it... LOL That's the low level his mind works at.

As far as cultural appropriation goes, I'm glad to see that most people see it for what it is. It's the inevitable result of people using ideas they like from one another and it goes in every direction. There is no way to stop it and nor should it be stopped. We would all be the poorer for it. 

But, Khemical wants you to feel bad about it or else you're all racist bigots. But don't worry, he's so great he's willing to overlook this about you.