Everybody knows that cultural appropriation is just about the worst sin imaginable. Because.
Yeah, why is that, exactly? I mean, isn't it a compliment if you pick up somebody else's cultural practice? What about Jazz? What started out as black music, and then crossed over to white guys, eventually has become a white-bread thing. You don't see many blacks these days at downtown jazz clubs. Why, there was even a dumbed-down Jazz for whitey, called Swing.
Anyway, now we have this beautiful bit of cultural appropriation by Black Lives Matter.
Willing and alienation of property are western things, and should not be casually appropriated by leftist activists that don't know nothing about nothing, except the latest vile protest chants from their liberal masters.
Look, the fact is that everything human, except genes, is cultural appropriation. We humans see a cool idea and we copy it.
OK. Steal is more like it.
Of course, I get it. What people are really getting at with the cultural appropriation gig is that, in this global world, our own little corner of paradise is only years, maybe months, away from being submerged in the flood tide of modernity and whirled away into oblivion.
Moreover, the whole point of practical politics is to keep our voters divided from their voters. Thus, cultural markers are a good way of defining the border. If you allow other people to recklessly appropriate our people's cultural markers how soon will it be before the vitally important divisions, upon which political careers and political power depend, are blurred over and people forget what they are so angry about?
I will tell you the real grounds for the left's cultural appropriation obsession. The whole point of the left, since at least 1848, is to be a nostalgic and reactionary movement against the cultural and economic tsunami of capitalism. Leftism is a neo-feudalism that returns responsible individuals into the serfdom of the agricultural age, doffing their caps to government teachers, government pensions, and government health care administrators. We often think that the cultural and economic ferment of the modern era is damaging to the bourgeois ethos of individual responsibility. But probably the opposite is true. The modern economy and the modern service culture are probably more damaging to the old agricultural patron-client culture of lordly power and peasant subordination that we now see continued in the neo-feudal welfare state.
We live in interesting times, and nobody can know how it will all turn out. All across the political scene reckless activists are pursuing agendas based on their fervent idea of the truth. But suppose their rage is all sound and fury signifying nothing? Suppose they are energizing the opposition more than mobilizing their own supporters?
Practical politicians know you need to be careful. They know that you need to be really careful about how you go poking around riling people up. You never know when you might poke a hornet's nest and rile up the opposition rather than your own supporters.
Right now we have all kinds of activist groups, from left and right, issuing ringing declarations and damning their opponents to hell and back again.
On the left, the accusation of cultural appropriation seems to be one of the preferred ways of marginalizing opponents, right there alongside "white supremacist" and "racist." And so that's what the lefty activists do.
But I think the lefties over at BLM should stick with their neo-feudalism, and stop their vile appropriation of western cultural practices.
I mean, once you start appropriating western concepts like "wills" and "private property" where will it end?
Yeah, why is that, exactly? I mean, isn't it a compliment if you pick up somebody else's cultural practice? What about Jazz? What started out as black music, and then crossed over to white guys, eventually has become a white-bread thing. You don't see many blacks these days at downtown jazz clubs. Why, there was even a dumbed-down Jazz for whitey, called Swing.
Anyway, now we have this beautiful bit of cultural appropriation by Black Lives Matter.
White people, if you don’t have any descendants, will your property to a black or brown family.What's this about "will" and "property," homeboys? Are not the cultural phenomena of "last will and testament" and "alienable private property" white things? So how come that BLM activists are culturally appropriating these western cultural traditions? What will be left of the Western Canon by the time that BLM activists have done with it? I dare say that back in the day in West Africa the descendants of a deceased man got to inherit the movables, but I dare say that land and all the important things belonged to the tribe and could not be willed, as we do in the west.
Willing and alienation of property are western things, and should not be casually appropriated by leftist activists that don't know nothing about nothing, except the latest vile protest chants from their liberal masters.
Look, the fact is that everything human, except genes, is cultural appropriation. We humans see a cool idea and we copy it.
OK. Steal is more like it.
Of course, I get it. What people are really getting at with the cultural appropriation gig is that, in this global world, our own little corner of paradise is only years, maybe months, away from being submerged in the flood tide of modernity and whirled away into oblivion.
Moreover, the whole point of practical politics is to keep our voters divided from their voters. Thus, cultural markers are a good way of defining the border. If you allow other people to recklessly appropriate our people's cultural markers how soon will it be before the vitally important divisions, upon which political careers and political power depend, are blurred over and people forget what they are so angry about?
I will tell you the real grounds for the left's cultural appropriation obsession. The whole point of the left, since at least 1848, is to be a nostalgic and reactionary movement against the cultural and economic tsunami of capitalism. Leftism is a neo-feudalism that returns responsible individuals into the serfdom of the agricultural age, doffing their caps to government teachers, government pensions, and government health care administrators. We often think that the cultural and economic ferment of the modern era is damaging to the bourgeois ethos of individual responsibility. But probably the opposite is true. The modern economy and the modern service culture are probably more damaging to the old agricultural patron-client culture of lordly power and peasant subordination that we now see continued in the neo-feudal welfare state.
We live in interesting times, and nobody can know how it will all turn out. All across the political scene reckless activists are pursuing agendas based on their fervent idea of the truth. But suppose their rage is all sound and fury signifying nothing? Suppose they are energizing the opposition more than mobilizing their own supporters?
Practical politicians know you need to be careful. They know that you need to be really careful about how you go poking around riling people up. You never know when you might poke a hornet's nest and rile up the opposition rather than your own supporters.
Right now we have all kinds of activist groups, from left and right, issuing ringing declarations and damning their opponents to hell and back again.
On the left, the accusation of cultural appropriation seems to be one of the preferred ways of marginalizing opponents, right there alongside "white supremacist" and "racist." And so that's what the lefty activists do.
But I think the lefties over at BLM should stick with their neo-feudalism, and stop their vile appropriation of western cultural practices.
I mean, once you start appropriating western concepts like "wills" and "private property" where will it end?
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