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user-inactivated · 2735 days ago · link · · parent · post: Cultural Appropriation Is, In Fact, Indefensible
I think a good example of that would be the swastika for cultural appropriation. You'll see it all the time in Asia still because they don't associate it was Nazi-ism, but instead with Buddhism. Clearly it does damage. But I don't feel that religion has any special significance above any other form of culture.
user-inactivated · 2735 days ago · link ·
The swastika would go back to my point of appropriating a symbol with significant meaning could devalue that meaning. Now to a large number of people, instead of it meaning something auspicious and good, it means something hateful and sinister. I think we're only in disagreement as to whether or not religion should be treated as a sacred cow (heh.)