"Cultural Appropriation"

[Shell B]

I'm not sure how pointing to one individual is even discussing what the "sides" are doing.  

Citing an example is perfectly acceptable. There are plenty more examples of aggressive leftism.

Sure.  You can find a facist at the far end of either side. This was not Bennys statement, this is -your- statemen.  Bennys statements were regarding all that "nuance".  Sure, your statement makes sense, in the main part..that there are crazies at both ends - though fascism explicitly denotes a far right bent.  The far authoritarian left...are socialists, lol.  

Ah, but you could put forth a "no true socialist" argument, I am sure. I'm fairly certain, though I can't pretend I've read all your posts, given that I was responding to only one of them, that Benny didn't say all leftists are fascists. If he did, I agree. He didn't have all that nuance.

I concern myself not with crazies...but with sane fascists.  With facism in the mainstream, not on the edge of the wilderness.

Sure, they're a problem. So are outliers. Outliers kill people. Outliers are loud and get both sides chomping at the bit for each other.

Basically, I'm here to say both sides are pissing me off. When one pretends they're better than the other, they're kidding themselves.

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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.

I'm not sure khemical sends threads spinning off into fantasy land, but I agree with the rest of your post completely. "Cultural appropriation" may sometimes happen in the wake of horrible crimes, but it is not in itself a bad thing.