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> But a lot of people from group ABC feel like it's pretty crappy for me to use XYZ. There is no meaningful comparison between the use of racial slurs and cult
by zepto 5y ago
> But a lot of people from group ABC feel like it's pretty crappy for me to use XYZ.
There is no meaningful comparison between the use of racial slurs and cultural appropriation.
It’s not even a straw man. They just aren’t analogous.
- JohnBooty 5y agoI mean, yes, they are different. One is usually explicitly meant to denigrate another group; another is usually not meant to denigrate another group. In that sense, very different. In another key way they’re absolutely similar: they are modes of expression that (in the eyes of some) harm other groups or (in the eyes of others) are not a big deal. And there are an awful lot of grey areas and nobody agrees on the definitions.
- zepto 5y agoYou’ve simply repeated the contradiction. We know that slurs are meant to denigrate. We not only don’t know that appropriation is intended to do harm. For any given claim of appropriation, we don’t even know that it does harm, nor that members of the group perceive it that way in general. There really is no comparison at all, and it seems like your argument is that they are similar in that people disagree about them, which is not a meaningful point.
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