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I'll trade you 2 buffaloes

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 14 Apr 2019 18:36:27 +0000

In reply to Now the American Indians are

I'll trade you 2 buffaloes for 1 tomahawk & a teepee kind of stuff?

Sounds fascinating.

It's because the common good,

artappraiser — Sun, 14 Apr 2019 18:35:17 +0000

In reply to Now the American Indians are

It's because the common good, share a creed thing is just so wrong. Look, the 17th century was so much better. People are finally realizing it that Zionists have shown the way. Don't ever trust "the other". Forget shit like EU and NATO, how stupid it is to think that tribes can align for common goals and protections under an agreed creed. Shared genes are everything, no one is going to care for you like family. No one without the tribe's genes can make great grandma's recipe, nor should they be allowed to try. You've got to be careful about too much mixing, if if it seems okay to marry one of "them", you got to watch em every minute, even if they seem to have converted to your tribal ways they might turn on you, their genes might be dangerous.

More seriously: see Hatfield and McCoy, inbred to death. What is really going on with this is anti-evolutionary, it's a refusal to evolve and change.

Now the American Indians are

ocean-kat — Sun, 14 Apr 2019 16:19:48 +0000

In reply to So you're saying without

Now the American Indians are subdividing into the old tribes and fighting over who can use which culture.

So you're saying without

PeraclesPlease — Sun, 14 Apr 2019 14:42:36 +0000

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So you're saying without racism, the issue of cultural appropriation goes away? That seems untrue.

Also, when do I get to challenge appropriation from my culture? Pretty sick of people freely and indiscriminately using calculus, electricity, telephones and trains, lightbulbs and transistors, and dare I say it, computers? Why can't they stick to their traditional ways and technologies?

The cultural appropriation

rmrd0000 — Sun, 14 Apr 2019 14:18:53 +0000

In reply to Who polices the cultural appropriation gatekeepers?

The cultural appropriation battles are to be expected because the source of the problem is not addressed. The author concludes with the following ends with the same advice that all critics of so-called cultural appropriation makes:

It’s true that cultural engagement does not take place on a level playing field but is shaped by racism and inequality. Confronting that requires us, however, to challenge racism, not police cultures.

The problem is that the racism is not addressed. Here in the United States, we have a President who has no problem putting the life of a Muslim member of Congress at risk. Democrats were out front condemning comments perceived to be Anti-Semitic regarding Israel, but have been quiet on the threats against her. Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib addressed this in a recent tweet.

https://mobile.twitter.com/RashidaTlaib/status/1117126415357497344

Hate crimes against minorities have increased in the Trump era. Until there is a sense that the racism is being addressed, we will have repeated complaints about cultural appropriation. Critics of complaints of cultural appropriation will resort to ridicule instead of addressing the source of the problem, the racism. We will see people dismiss complaints of racism as pity olympics.