Oddbean new post about login | logout What if the left doesn't like "cultural appropriation" because it actually damages their ability to sell the idea that everyone who disagrees with them is racist 🤔
Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery unless it’s racist 🤷♂️
I'm a Gael descended from Gaels, water off a ducks back.
I will not apologise for culturally appropriating Guinness and Irish Whiskey into my mouth.
It's also a normal and natural process, Japanese people wear suits now, the Chinese invented paper and fireworks, everyone uses those now. We don't diminish by using things from other cultures, it's how we grow and get along.
Assimilation is bad, cultural appropriation is bad, segregation is bad, erasure is bad, whitewashing is bad, token is bad, making assumptions is bad, asking questions is bad, quotas are bad unless they aren’t, hiring based upon immutable characteristics is bad unless it isn’t, stereotypes are bad unless they’re culture
whites are by far the biggest victims of "cultural appropriation" if such a fucking commie bullshit ever existed. everyone mocks and mimics and replicates the model of modern technological western civ... and they clamor to get in just to use the phone and internet the white man made to do what? to decry him. to thumb through tiktok sludge while on the clock at the nursing home... pretty scummy if you ask me. how much of an ungrateful butthurt poor loser could you be? the capacity is infinite apparently...