RE: "Cultural Appropriation"
June 28, 2017 at 6:17 pm
(This post was last modified: June 28, 2017 at 6:28 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(June 28, 2017 at 6:07 pm)paulpablo Wrote: I think it depends who's offended by the apropriation.
If it's non white Christians it is apropriation.
For it to be apropriation the people in the culture need to be of a minority and have a colonial relationship with the appropriators.
The rules are quite complicated but I think it can be boiled down to it's bad when white people do it.
I bolded the only part of that you got right. No wonder you're having trouble identifying those types of transfer they're talking about, huh? Here, let me help you. When the first caliphate spread across the globe, it appropriated the conquered cultures superhard.
Does that help it click in your white skull? Do you understand the type of cultural transfer we're discussing now? It's not the kind where two people hang out together and one of them learns spanish. Get it?
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