[Harp-L] Cultural appropriation.

[Jim Lee]

Polar opposite thinking (with strawman arguments no less!).

Getting back to the subject of the original post, cultural 
"appropriation" is universal.

All cultures borrow from the cultures around them.  That's how cultures 
are formed.

Can only Irish people play Irish Traditional Dance Music?  Can only 
Jamaicans play Reggae?  Are the blues culturally appropriated because 
they have roots in Africa?

It's like the people who cry about the nasty European settlers who took 
over the land of America from the native Indians.  Yet they fail to 
acknowledge that every nation on earth was formed by conquering the 
people who were there before them.  As if the Americans were doing 
something new.


On 6/1/2021 10:23 AM, 46long Blake wrote:
> If someone makes you feel ashamed because you hurt them, good! Feel 
> that shame. Don’t fight it. Learn from it. Grow. You can be a better 
> person.  It is possible, you know.
> If someone says, “That’s hurtful or discriminatory language,” and you 
> say, “Screw your feelings! I don’t care!” Well, then we’ve all learned 
> something about you, haven’t we?
>
> On Tue, Jun 1, 2021 at 12:33 PM Jim Lee <jlee54 at xxxxx 
> <mailto:jlee54 at xxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     No. "Political correctness" is a way of forcing others to believe as
>     you do through shaming.
>
>     In other words, "group think".
>
>     On 6/1/2021 7:47 AM, 46long Blake wrote:
>     > "Political correctness" is another way of saying, "I am capable of
>     > considering and respecting other perspectives than my own."
>
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