Conservatives are incapable of original thought. Every joke they have and every insult they sling is just something they heard from a leftist, bastardized.
Yep. There are still swastikas all over Korea because it’s been associated with Buddhists for far longer than Hitler who appropriated it. Freaks out visiting westerners, though.
It’s not just Buddhists. Asatru, Norse/Germanic cultures, too. It ticks me off we have to give up things sacred to us because they’ve been misused. Aleister Crowley reveled in it and played it to the hilt, though. Yeats was not amused.
Is it appropriation if you treat people and their culture with respect? Because i dont think the issue here is how the KKK dresses. It is what they stand for ideologically and what they do. That is what makes it appropriation imo.
I want to agree with you, but I’m not so sure. I think different individuals have very different thoughts on that. And now I need to sit with this for a while.
True, but there are nuances. Stealing a symbol and giving it new meaning by using it for a different purpose is obviously a worse kind of appropriation than adopting language and culture.
Supremacists always appropriate things. Ok symbol, sacred numbers/symbols, clothing, words, deities, and twist it to exclude.
Conservatives are incapable of original thought. Every joke they have and every insult they sling is just something they heard from a leftist, bastardized.
Maybe leftists could drop the insults and adopt healing language…
The right has gone full Reich.
No. I would rather go to prison than ever speak kindly to a Nazi.
Yep. There are still swastikas all over Korea because it’s been associated with Buddhists for far longer than Hitler who appropriated it. Freaks out visiting westerners, though.
It’s not just Buddhists. Asatru, Norse/Germanic cultures, too. It ticks me off we have to give up things sacred to us because they’ve been misused. Aleister Crowley reveled in it and played it to the hilt, though. Yeats was not amused.
And Hindu.
Probably more, too.
Everybody appropriates.
This language that you are speaking is appropriated from a bunch of other languages and cultures.
Is it appropriation if you treat people and their culture with respect? Because i dont think the issue here is how the KKK dresses. It is what they stand for ideologically and what they do. That is what makes it appropriation imo.
I want to agree with you, but I’m not so sure. I think different individuals have very different thoughts on that. And now I need to sit with this for a while.
Yes, has no inherent bias or prejudice.
Are you asking me?
That’s true.
True, but there are nuances. Stealing a symbol and giving it new meaning by using it for a different purpose is obviously a worse kind of appropriation than adopting language and culture.
So it’s not just regular appropriation, it’s the bad kind of appropriation. Because they’re bad.
Have I got that right?
Appropriation implies a form of exclusivity and denying the original’s validity. As in:
KKK took that symbol and forever changed everyone’s association with it to their own org.
It’s not appropriation to use a thing, it’s appropriation to treat your use of the thing as the correct/real one.
Yes. Cause it’s different when I do it. I really have to sit with this.