The concept of "cultural appropriation" being bad is absurd, and fundamentally racist at its heart.
Every era has had a "melting pot", where the best ideas are agglomerated into a highly evolutionary, almost always, improved, society. The USA is this era's melting pot. This concept is, and always has been, a benefit to the societies in which it has occurred. Our material wealth is linked to the fact that every problem has had multiple cultural approaches for solutions to it.
Automobiles were developed by white people(Henry Ford was a racist) for white people. The concept of cultural appropriation, applied uniformly, would leave you to believe that black people shouldn't drive automobiles, since they were developed by white culture. That is absurd.
"Cultural Appropriation" is a means by which left wing fascist racebaiting bigots rationalize extracting money, power, and privilege from working folks, using the plunder to purchase control of society. No more. No less.
Originally Posted by kehaar
Lol. This is shit white people say when they want something someone else has ('someone' being another race or culture). I'm pretty sure black people couldn't own cars for decades after they were invented. Why? Because, for one, they weren't privileged enough to have the money to get one. Two, who would teach them to drive anyway? When they finally did learn to drive, it was for chauffeur type purposes. But they still couldn't own shit.
Sure, over the years black people have been "cultured" along by white people, but it's been a slow, agonizing, drawn out process.
You think things were just hunky dory when slavery ended? Fuck no. Born soon after was a 'hooded' resistance force, who made sure that any culture mixing would be hard and painful.
Some of you have gotten really good at picking and choosing your words to justify anything. This in itself has become the culture of America...your America in particular.