There are many terms that are commonly used in modern English that have a vague sense of 'what it means' about them but no hard definition. Cultural Appropriation is one of those. The people who take the concept seriously have no agreed, universal or even high-percentage consensus opinion on what it means. As I understand it, making sushi at home if you're not ethnically Japanese is cultural appropriation. Going out for sushi is also cultural appropriation. Children dressing in kimonos as part of an art exhibit praising Japanese history and design is also cultural appropriation. It's a meaningless phrase used to make the person saying it feel superior to the object of their attention.
http://www.foxnews.com/food-drink/2017/05/24/portland-burrito-shop-forced-to-close-amid-accusations-cultural-appropriation-stealing-recipes.html Compare and contrast. The minute you say "cultural appropriation" I have discounted you as an intellectual, and I am no longer listening to anything you say. You are demonstrably an idiot, and you need to shut the fuck up.
You know, sometimes language pushes our mind to think in a certain way about an issue. I once read about a municipality here in the Netherlands un-ironically introducing the word 'horsification'. The idea was to use that term to highlight the 'problem' they had with the large amount of farmlands being converted to grazing fields for horses, making the landscape uglier in the process. See, this graph of the amount of horses is going up! So you, rural farmer, should not add to the dreadful horsification of our precious landscape. It highlights the fact that once you have a word for it, you can beat people over the head with it. Culture is multi-faceted, and appropriating culture is just one thing you can do with it. You can observe it. Judge it. Love it. Institutionalize it. And each of those verbs can be done in a respectful, appropriate (heh) manner, or you can be a dick and entrench decades-old power structures. But that doesn't make the act itself necessarily a terrible, indefensible thing.
It says something that the Republicans managed to get everyone talking about death panels but now that they're trying to take healthcare away from 22 million people, Democrats are talking about intersectional politics and cultural appropriation.You know, sometimes language pushes our mind to think in a certain way about an issue.
Nah man, it's just that the Dems' argument was so thoroughly dismantled.... Democrats are talking about intersectional politics and cultural appropriation.
What. The. Fuck. Kennedy. The DJ on MTV who came off as the dumbest human being in front of a camera. The one that could not pronounce Eddy Vedder's name. SHE IS A FOX NEWS TALKING HEAD? Fuck this timeline. Fuck this timeline with a bag of dicks.
Next, Carrot Top is appointed as the new White House head of media relations. Also, I'm going to have to correct you, buddy, she was a VJ.
Maybe even three. Fox News Channel chief White House correspondent John "J.D." Roberts.
I thought about including an offer to pay for the hole in your wall I might be causing. Shouldn't post that shit, sorry everyone.