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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes cultural appropriation is bad.  So just to satisfy the liberal morons, you'll have to stop eating chinese food unless you're chinese.  No spaghetti for you unless you're italian.[/quote]
Ishare your sentiment and I'm about as liberal as the day is long.  Maybe ease up a little with the broad brush?[/quote]

It's maybe not so much the "broad brush" as it is the selective outrage over certain things while ignoring the fact that given America's nature as the melting pot of the world, we are an amalgamation and "appropriation" of all of the world's cultures.  And it even goes farther back than that - the English settlers who came to America for example were themselves an amalgamation of Celtic, Roman, Germanic, Dane, Norse and other cultures and traditions all overlaid and interwoven with each other.

Again, unless something is directly and tangibly offensive in a very specific way (such as a derogatory depiction of Native Americans saying "how" and making tomahawk-chop motions or whites doing an exaggerated Al Jolson blackface) then it's not really all that relevant or meaningful of a discussion to be having.[/quote]

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