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I mean, if they celebrated those things, white people would just accuse them of cultural appropriation anyway.
by antepodius 6y ago
I mean, if they celebrated those things, white people would just accuse them of cultural appropriation anyway.
- wpietri 6y agoThat is not actually the case. Celebration and domination are different behaviors.
- antepodius 6y agoWhat is celebration to some is exploitation to others. It's subjective, and there'll always be some subset of people who think you're on the wrong side. (And to the extent that the problem of cultural appropration is emotional harm caused to members of the affected culture, if you take the idea seriously, you can't actually write someone's criticism off just because it seems trivial to you and your friends; it's THEIR pain, not yours, you can't understand because you haven't had their lived experience.) If 1% of the population would agree with the idea that you're committing a social sin, and the direction of their rage matches the current social trends, then that's enough tinder for a twitter-firestorm that could end your livelihood. You can never have enough mea culpas to entirely remove social risk to yourself.