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I’d have to wait months or even years for another chance to reblog this, so why the fuck not?

TODAY

I’m not doing it for the 20th Feb today, I’m gonna queue it cos I wanna try it. See you in 6 months!

happy thursday the 20th

“i like your personality!” thanks! It’s a complete copy of others traits I picked up along the way to fill the empty shell of the person I am!

as a general rule. if what we’re calling ‘cultural appropriation’ sounds like nazi ideology (i.e. ‘white people should only do white people things and black people should only do black people things’) with progressive language, we are performing a very very poor application of what ‘cultural appropriation’ means. this is troublingly popular in the blogosphere right now and i think we all need to be more critical of what it is we may be saying or implying, even unintentionally.

this is a good post.

Thank you, I was trying to sort this out in my head but you explained it very well.

#free exchange of culture is great - taking that culture without invite and pretending yours is an original take#(worse still profiting off it)#is cultural appropriation (by @gnimaerd)

This. When I was a kid, there would be roadside tourist traps that sold “Indian” jewelry and clothes that were Made in Taiwan (good LORD shows how old I am) and even my family knew to not buy that crap. But when vendors from the area Choctaws would have booths at the folklife festivals selling authentic wares, they WANTED us to. It was a sharing of their culture and the money went back to native families. The same when my dad visited Oklahoma; he brought back art made and sold by Cherokee artists.

Cultural Appropriation occurs when one culture is denied the right to freely practice and observe their culture without judgement whilst it is often celebrated when majority culture engages in that action. Its an aspect of marginalization and discrimination. People are denied their culture or shamed for it and then have to watch people more supported by society get rewarded for it.

who has a car i will pay u $10 to run me over