why does the term "cultural appropriation" piss people off so much.

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Cultural appropriation is a perennial nonissue being blown up into a BIG DEAL. People "appropriate" other cultures constantly, and imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
 
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I think this is as good a place as any to post this story. I met an old black man at work the other day and he and I began discussing the state of Alabama. At one point he decided to tell me about how his next door neighbor was Grand Wizard or whatever for the KKK and how he used to babysit his kids for him. He said it wasn't anything unusual because he understood that while the man he was babysitting for hated aspects of his race he didn't hate him. In fact, he went on to say that the Grand Wizard once told him he didn't even really hate black people, he just didn't want them sleeping with white people specifically. It's one of the most eye opening conversations I've ever had regarding race relations. I never thought I would see a black man whom I know to be very 'anti-racism' speak so kindly of a member of the KKK.
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Reminds me of a black guy I know that is into the same music as the stereotypical skinheads are. He has a lot of very racist skinhead friends that hug him when they walk into him in the street; sometimes to the aghast faces of their friends who don't know him.
 
Because it's only ever used against white people, no other race, mainly by black people.
"Cultural appropriation" is a phrase used in order to be racist towards white people but still come out as the victim.

If this was used in a fair way then I wouldn't have a problem with it but it isn't.
White people created so much that there's no possibility of going through life without heavily relying on the products of "white culture".
Cars, trains, planes, discovering and harnessing of electricity, phones, the radio, television, computers, the internet, the list goes on and on.
Even some of the most popular and commonly used clothes have been created by and for white people, such as the suit. Imagine if white people acted like woke blacks whenever a non-white person wore the suit, shit would be insane.

This is just one of those things which need to be tackled as they happen.
I don't let someone say this shit and get away with it IRL, I call them out and make them feel dumb right then and there.
 
In the war of the first world problems the first battle is racism, or any derivation or slight instance of. In other words: these issues are discussed by faggots/cunts who used to be happy till they went to college and were convinced by college professors teaching subjects that will never benefit them in the least that the society they live in is secretly horrible.


Meanwhile in Africa... niggers commit genocide because they are from the wrong tribe and nobody waging a twitter war on those caught wearing a Pocahontas/Aladdin costume cares lol.
 
Mostly its because it's simplification, despite certain short bus riders assumptions (like the poster most cultures) don't really hold the bulk of their cultures traditions as sacred. It's pretty reasonable that a sacred prayer or artificact not be used in some corporate shit shit but nobody should really give a fuck if you make a meal or wear some clothes which are traditionally associated with some other culture. Not in the least because most cultures tend to want to profit from and proliferate their culture to the point where it gains genuine clout.
 
I think it started out as "don't use something that's a very sacred religious practice as just another fashion statement" (people who think warbonnets are just bad ass, or little goth shits who use rosary beads as necklaces), but has expanded to the usual dumbasses thinking ANY kind of cultural sharing as "stealing". Dreadlocks and kilts are not the same t hing.
There's a difference between turning a major spiritual ritual into some kind of big skit at Half-Time, vs a school cafeteria having Taco Tuesdays.
 
I think it's stupid because cultural diffusion is just a part of being human. Everybody shares and borrows customs and ideas from each other. If I didn't know they believed in social justice, I would think the people screaming "CULTURAL APPROPRIATION!" were racial separatists.
 
So, lemme just get this straight: Leftists demand everyone to stick to their native heritage, because it's supposedly racist to borrow from other cultures? Uh... isn't this exactly what the far-right, especially European nationalists, say all the time?

So, they really believe something like:

"Multiculturalism good, cultural exchange bad." -- the postmodern left

Whatever you think about nations, races, cultures, migration and the like, but isn't holding these two viewpoints simutainously, a huge contradiction in itself?!?
 
That would be if multi-cultural meant a multiplicity of cultures. But what it actually means is the subjugation and suppression of the previously dominant native culture and people.
 
Cultural appropriation is one of those ideas that's been foisted onto people from collective academics who didn't go beyond a 8th grade level of critical thinking and comprehension. There is no such thing as actual cultural appropriation.

There are two distinct categories regarding cultural exchanges, one of celebration, one of emulation and adaptation.

In a case of cultural adaptation, one culture coming into contact forced or otherwise, adapts aspects of that culture that are beneficial to its own culture, this might be language, sciences, technology, or cultural evolution. And this makes sense since culture is never relatively static where there is a wider cultural exchange. Aside from isolated tribes in Africa and the Amazons, all cultures evolves over time, and even within those cultures regional differences occur as part of this evolutionary change. The modern U.S. is not one singular homogeneous culture, and even if it was, there would be variation that would have occurred from cultural influences over time.

A multitude of examples can be found throughout history both within the development of western cultures, and within indigenous cultures as well. The modern world for the most part has adapted a majority of elements of western culture, democracy, English as a trade language, pedagogical methods, technology.

The other element, celebration is the one that tends to cause the most controversy among the modern woke crowd, despite the fact that it is used usually in good spirit. Someone who buys indigenous clothing, or learns a language, or elements of that culture, isn't in the act of appropriation, they are in the act of self discovery and self enrichment. Something which these luddites of course fear, because independent thinking and life experiences interfere with the hive mind/mob mentality. Likewise those people who celebrate an aspect of world culture, by dressing up as an indigenous person. This is perfectly acceptable, other cultures partake in this as well and the majority of sensible people simply don't care. They don't see it as a problem.

And that is just it, the majority of people do not see it as a problem. Any claim at cultural appropriation is usually a pathetic attempt at someone with excessive levels of white guilt, or a sociopathic desire to get revenge for their race by deliberately being a pedantic dickhead, while often not knowing anything about the specific group they claim to be standing up for. (Your average person is often woefully ignorant of the subjects or cultures they pretend to have an affinity with.)

TLDR: Cultural appropriation is a myth invented by the woke left and minorities in order to use as racial leverage against gullible guilt ridden middle class whites and idiots.
 
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It is an argument based on a non-existent problem, and portrayed as some really offensive bullshit, when in fact it is just people having fun and no one is actually offended. Literally a made up problem.

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I'm still waiting for the SJWs to apply some consistency to their ukases on cultural appropriation.

For starters: no more non-white people as musicians in symphony orchestras. In particular, Asians playing the piano is outrageously offensive. And no, after their Steinways have been confiscated -- and Yamaha's factories have been burned -- the racist yellow bastards are not allowed to play Beethoven on their little bamboo xylophones.
 
It's just what happens when rootless and alienated coomsumers try to force an identity for themselves.
 
Demon King dijo:
It is an argument based on a non-existent problem, and portrayed as some really offensive bullshit, when in fact it is just people having fun and no one is actually offended. Literally a made up problem.
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SJWs don't want to solve problems and make the world better, they just want to get angry at people, they're the kind of guys who are only happy when they have something to complain about, because they just love playing the victim card. Even in places where they're the clear majority and in power, they pretend to be oppressed minorities.
 
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