Imagining a beautiful world where white people understood the concept of cultural appropriation as in misappropriation, misuse of cultural practices, doing things Wrong out of their original context simply for your own gain whether it's financial/spiritual/aesthetic whatever. Rather than thinking it's about, like. Copyright infringement
Like the majority of poc will have no issue with actually respectfully engaging with their Things, a lot of the time you'll literally be invited if you're chill! People like sharing! But white people only know stealing, anti miscegenation, and lying
It's really and truly not a matter of "you're not allowed to do xyz if you're white" we just keep having to reduce it to that so they'll listen. That's babytalk. It's like telling a kid it's illegal to have the light on in the car. But then they repeat the oversimplification and start scolding other white people for, like, being in interracial relationships and participating in their partner's culture ??? Which is transparently weird if you think about it for 2 seconds
