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Cultural Appropriation
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A thread talking about PC culture and including the acronym SJW? No trigger warnings? Fine but you can mop up all the jowl froth.
My 2 cents, the extreme outliers shown on social and main stream media annoy me, however I've never experienced this crap in any format in real life so I'm not going to worry too much.
My 2 cents, the extreme outliers shown on social and main stream media annoy me, however I've never experienced this crap in any format in real life so I'm not going to worry too much.
Indian headdress can be worn by anyone too
point is there is a difference between say dressing as a soldier for 'fancy dress' (or even using genuine uniform as a fashion accessory /cringe) and actually impersonating/passing yourself off as one
likewise I don't think anyone is going to mistake a hippie at a festival for an actual Indian
I could certainly see a fairly valid argument if someone was claiming some status within an Indian tribe that they'd not actually earned in the same way that some people claim to have served in the military or in certain military units. But that is a far cry from a simple Halloween costume.
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Fancy dress or fashion, it's still illegal to use certain parts of it, though.
Chances are it won't be prosecuted, but 'technically' if someone wanted to, they could press charges.
Mistake, no, but this CA stuff is about people taking offense at it, regardless of the purpose for which you are "stealing their culture". Totally separate from what is or isn't actually legal.
For example, it wasn't (AFAIK) illegal for Harry to dress like a Nazi/Brownshirt/whateveritwas for a party, but look at the outcry over that one...
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I rode this at Drayton Manor a few years back.
Come at me bro
Come at me bro
I think it's not a matter of stupidity. I think it's a matter of irrational prejudices.
The effect of all those related phrases (<insert biological group here> privilege and cultural appropriation) is to excuse and promote irrational prejudices. That's so obviously what the phrases are for and how they are implemented that I think few if any of the people doing it are too stupid to know what they're doing. Maybe some are so profoundly bigoted that they're too deluded to know what they're doing, but delusion isn't the same as stupidity.
It's not like it's a new thing. Many ideologies of bigotry "rationalise" their bigotry in this way and always have done. Look, for example, at anti-Jewish propaganda in the medieval period. The idea that Jews were privileged was repeated over and over again in it.
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Down with all this PC User privilege, I say. DOWN with it!!!
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Care to tell me what it was about my comment that broke the forum rules to warrant it being deleted, or was it just a case of Amp34 getting his knickers in a twist and crying to teacher?
Apathy led to the Kristallnacht.
To be fair most people aren't smart enough to work on advanced propulsion techniques, and the one's who are most likely aren't telling people to take off their Halloween costumes instead
You upset 10 above you, mums the word.
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You sure the massive inflation meaning you had to run from work to the shop to buy bread for your family before it inflated to more than your pay wheelbarrow caused by massively unrealistic compensation being paid for a war germany didnt even want to enter in the first place but got blamed for anyway and the man promising to end the nightmare, get peoples jobs back and make germany great again oh by the way its the jews fault had nothing to do with it?
Ok, just apathy....
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Same here. Werewolf deleted one of my posts from another thread yesterday and didn't state a reason. I queried it but no response. I feel that censorship on here is getting out of hand lately, including an increasing list of unknown banned words.
You don't expect people with broadly irrational points of view to be consistent do you?
That said there may be something to do with the fact that Native Americans were and have been persecuted for hundreds of years, whereas no one could really say the same about the Vikings.
(I don't actually have any idea on this subject, but the above is something that immediately came to mind).
Just an FYI - I didn't report it.
I'll not go in to why I feel it was deleted as it would bring back up the reason it was deleted.
I don't think so - at least not in the case of wearing say a jacket etc..
I know... I've not claimed it is about what is or isn't legal