(July 1, 2017 at 11:29 am)bennyboy Wrote:(July 1, 2017 at 9:12 am)Shell B Wrote: Your connection with your Native roots has nothing to do with mine. Moreover, just because your connection is ancient history doesn't mean mine is. You're making excuses to be dismissive of my opinion because you imagine I'm too white to be allowed one. Piss off.So if you are "native enough" by your genetics, that means that you get to disregard Tizheruk's feelings about his culture, and the icons which represent it? If you are, in fact, native, then you would not be guilty of cultural appropriation, by any definition, for using a symbol associated with your own heritage. So what are you even talking about? If you had come into the thread and said, "I'm native, but I don't think it's a problem if white people own a dream catcher just because they like it," then your view would have been relevant to the discussion I was having with Tizheruk at that time.
What the fuck is native enough? Also, and for the last time, I did not disregard Tiz's feelings. I said I thought they were ridiculous. Nothing about race, creed or gender revokes my right to an opinion. Furthermore, it doesn't matter at all what discussion you were having with Tiz. I wasn't interjecting on that conversation. I told Tiz what I thought about his or her feelings on cultural appropriation. You were free to carry on with your discussion, as my comments had naught to do with it. I mean, tough shit if you don't like it.