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veen  ·  2492 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Cultural Appropriation Is, In Fact, Indefensible

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.





kleinbl00  ·  2492 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    You know, sometimes language pushes our mind to think in a certain way about an issue.

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.

am_Unition  ·  2492 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    ... Democrats are talking about intersectional politics and cultural appropriation.

Nah man, it's just that the Dems' argument was so thoroughly dismantled.

user-inactivated  ·  2492 days ago  ·  link  ·  

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.

am_Unition  ·  2491 days ago  ·  link  ·  

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.

user-inactivated  ·  2491 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Also, I'm going to have to correct you, buddy, she was a VJ.

So. This brings the number of VJ's I'm aware of up to two.

someguyfromcanada  ·  2491 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Maybe even three.

Fox News Channel chief White House correspondent John "J.D." Roberts.

kleinbl00  ·  2492 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well.

Now I am stupider.

am_Unition  ·  2492 days ago  ·  link  ·  

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.

kleinbl00  ·  2491 days ago  ·  link  ·  

We all have different coping strategies.

am_Unition  ·  2491 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I can do better.