@stillgray wanna comment on this?

Lol

He is here

Who?

Ian? I know

Brb

probably has this server muted

I don't agree with Tommy's choice to deplatform Ali dawah from the day of freedom march.

deplatforming anyone is censorship. It comes across as unprofessional for defenders of free speech to want to silence specific people.

You start to sound no better than the radical left.

https://twitter.com/TheSafestSpace/status/991785989629718530

Does this mean mexicans cant enjoy Taco tuesdays?

i don't necessarily think people should be grateful when their culture is appropriated from, but cultural appropriation is basically a non-issue imo

at best it's probably only tangential to real issues

culture is a set of ideas, you do not own them, so they cannot be "appropriated". They are shared and spread naturally, through human interaction.

ie the only representation of a minority culture within the mainstream is crude due to the marginalization of said culture, but in this case i don't think cultural appropriation the causal factor behind said marginalization

you can feel offended all you want, but that just makes you look like a complete and utter fool

cultural appropriation is a specific type of cultural exchange though where you take aspects from a culture in a superficial manner

no, it is nonsense

ie people wearing the indian dot thing as a fashion statement

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and not understanding whatever significance it has to dot heads

a complete non-issue. If anyone takes offense at something like that, they are free to dry their eyes, and grow a pair.

i think when it comes to immigrant cultures it's a definite non-issue because assimilation should be the focus with immigrants

They do not have to lose all of their cultural identity, but if their culture is mostly harmful, superstitious nonsense, then assimilation is preferable to 'integration'.

when it comes to aboriginal peoples like with native americans i can understand why it might sting for a marginalized and indigenous group to see their culture absorbed in a superficial manner by the dominant culture though here i think the real problem is the marginalization and not people wearing feather bonnets because they think they look cool or whatever

I can understand why they might feel such emotion as well, but I hold little sympathy for it.

They do not own the ideas, customs and behaviors of the culture they were born into. It is tribalist nonsense to feel such attachment in the first place. Especially when it comes to superficial stuff such as clothing and food.

i hold sympathy for it i just don't think the response should be for petite-bourgeois university students to castigate people for doing it

I can certainly agree with that

also i'm not sure that most actual native americans care anyways

most of them probably don't

iirc the vast majority of native americans were cool with that one football mascot or whatever people were angry about

there was that thing they parodied in South Park, with the Red Skins, or whatever.

pretty sure most of the outrage came from non-native americans, where that was concerned, but I could be wrong.

noobs

Go away, Jew.

tfw your muslim grandma calls you her little lamb

@Mal
Yeah, actually, the majority of people that scream "cultural appropriation" are people that don't belong to said culture.


Over here, I saw an African women getting shit for "cultural appropriation" for people that never even have been to Africa

my girlfriend brought me Japanese garb to wear for a Japanese cultural festival held in Europe. She'd probably be branded a heretic cultural-betrayer by Korean-Americans <:pepe_smug:378719408341909506>

Yeah lol