"Cultural Appropriation"

[Shell B]

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.  

Is this the only place you hang out on the Internet?

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

Well, no. Your argument seems to be that socialism can't be fascist. It absolutely can. These are not mutually exclusive things. Just because something's an ism doesn't mean it occurs in a vacuum of isms.

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.

They can certainly both be fascists, both the finger pointer and the pointee.

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.

You're talking about stealing wealth, not cultural appropriation. A pizza is culturally appropriated. A baguette the same. You're looking at instances where people wound up with culture because of some horrible colonization. You're ignoring the vast majority of cultural appropriation, which simply occurs because people travel. Go figure.

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.

The part where bits of their culture were saved is morally neutral. What they did to come about that culture is horrific. People enjoying that culture today is neutral. Not using any of that culture at all for anyone's enjoyment will not stop what happened or make restitution for it. Furthermore, knowing that people in the future would ignore the culture stolen from these people would not have demotivated slavers from keeping slaves. I will never feel personally guilty for that which people did hundreds of years before me. I will not suggest that people refrain from enjoying African-American culture because of it, either. Not to mention the fact that most of what we know of African culture comes from actual Africa and not what slavers "saved." That culture is still well alive. I know this is a tough one, but we know this because we travel.