"Cultural Appropriation"

[bennyboy]

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.

I don't know what "native enough" is. You keep alluding to how native you are, and how I'm so wrong about you being an entitled white girl, and how my native background is trivial, but yours is something that matters. So feel free to tell me what you think is native enough-- it's your concept, so own it.

Yeah, and I'm also free to say that your ideas are both ridiculous and unnecessarily sensitive.  The only way to guarantee that nobody wonders about your motivations at ridiculing someone is not to ridicule them.  You did ridicule Tiz, and I do wonder at your motivations, and said so.  Tough shit if you don't like it.

Now, we can go back-and-forth for fifty pages if you want, but I'm pretty much done here and really have nothing more to say to you unless you keep addressing posts to me.  You can decide if that's how you want to spend your time.