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Originally Posted by JFK
This.
Never understood the big brouahaha about cultural appropriation. No, having borderline racist sports emblems and names are poor, but most appropriation is simple innocent and fine. I shouldn't eat ginger beef?  |
It's an example of what happens when an originally neutral academic concept gets hijacked by the academically illiterate for pseudopolitical reasons.
Here's an excellent youtuber talking about the issue. The cultural appropriation part starts at 12:24, and the first part isn't really necessary to understand that part. Hence the direct link. You get the jist in about 3-4 minutes, but it's well worth watching longer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ARX...tu.be&t=12m24s