"Cultural Appropriation"

[The Grand Nudger]

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

What was leftist about it?  Is it the lefts position that rebulicans should be shot?  Is it the position of authoritarian socialism that private citizens should be engaged in the assassination of political dissidents?  

A crazy leftist does not equal aggressive leftism.  So, maybe some other example (I know there are plenty)?  Aggressive leftism is -not- killing dissidents, whereas aggressive rightism is facism.  

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.

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Plenty of true socialists™ have done horrible things.......that goes without saying though,..doesn't it?   

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.

Yes, "both sides" piss me off too.  Both sides, however, are not fascism - not even in the extremities, certainly not where Benny pointed it out..and even though both sides do have crazies, authoritarians, and can be aggressive. That is the sole purvey of a single side, wherein it is no longer an issue of the crazies, but mainstream...and elected to highest public office. These -actual- fascists apparently feel that the way tpo deflect criticism of their being facists, is to say "No fascism, not a fascist, you're the fascist"..and unfortunately, some people believe them.

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.

Cultural appropriation isn't the wake, it's the wave. The wake, is, for example, a culture like ours with a horrible history of cultural appropriation becoming, perjhaps to the horror of our ancestors...a multicultural society precisely -because- of that cultural appropriation.  Yes, it's always a bad thing -for the people who are it's victims-...even if it's not always a bad thing for us..the inheritors of that appropriated wealth.

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Consider this.  By and large, what african america knew about their own heritage after bondage was largely what we had decided to keep, since it had "flavor".  Now, we could..if we were a usual suspect™, characterize this as cultural appropriation being a good thing..because what would they have known if we hadn't done that?  We saved their history!

To anyone who isn't a usual suspect™, the cruel indifference required to propose such a thing is sickening.