"Cultural Appropriation"

[bennyboy]

I don't disagree with you necessarily about someone having a dream catcher, but I can definitely see a difference.  Nobody is trying to oppress (or at least really has the power to oppress) the Catholic population.  The native culture is hanging on by a thread.

There's a danger in assuming that nobody is gunning for Christians because when people do discriminate against Christians, people laugh at or don't believe it. It's the same thing with whites, especially white men, especially white straight men. People can say and do whatever they want towards white straight men because many people assume they are given everything and on top of everyone. Women can be sexist towards men and blacks can be racist towards whites and nobody cares.

I'm sure there are plenty of people who discriminate against Christians, but for cultural appropriation, I think you have to be stealing cultural icons and ideas with the intent of taking them out of the hands of the oppressed population.

I'm not saying that I care, but I can definitely see that arguments against dream catchers and crosses aren't an exact parallel.

I think in the end, the best would be to mock anyone who thinks either dream catchers OR crosses matter.  We hold the opinion that neither is anything more than the expression of superstitious nonsense, and that superstitious nonsense isn't particularly worth protecting, no matter to whom it belongs, right?