Who were the first to wear dreadlocks. Some people say in India, others claim Vikings wore them first.
Who's going to be offended when I see somebody with no english ancestry speaking english or wearing oxfords? holds breath while waiting.
I mean, for a bunch of moral relativist, commies who generally speaking don't believe in private property or absolutes, then what is the actual problem?
Free societies exchanging ideas and culture has lead to countless innovation and enrichment. Not always, of course.
-I always thought imitation was a form of flattery even if poorly done.
-What happened to the whole diversity is our strength narrative?
When dealing with brain damaged, petulant children of the SJW brand what can you expect?
I guess one positive is: Most of these SJW types are abortion advocates and population control alarmists. So they most likely won't be reproducing at replacement rates. Hence the empahsis on recruitment/indoctrination.
Very well sourced article with lots of detail and many good points!
Good points, all. Nobody ever claimed the social justice crowd is consistent or logical, it is an outrage de jour mentality where what was important yesterday is fodder more outrage tomorrow. True enough that they are on the population reduction bandwagon, the problem is they want to force it on everybody else. Maybe there is some kind of self-effacement gene that causes this kind of behavior...? Anyway, thank you for the comment!
I think this is very important and a very interesting and detailed post.
I was thinking about this this morning actually as it came up in something else recently - I think it's absurd the number of people who get offended on someone else's behalf these days... people who take it upon themselves to be white knights for the poor oppressed individuals who, when asked directly, often don't care in the slightest.
Did you see the social media outrage over the Mexican Mario announcement? The response from many Mexican gamers illustrated this perfectly... they were really stoked to see the stereotypical icons of their culture (which these individuals did not consider offensive in the least) make it into a videogame series as huge and popular as Mario. And those who were so angry?
Privileged non-Mexicans who feel they need a soapbox for every little thing that can conceivably be offensive to someone, somewhere. I'm hoping this is just a passing craze and that most of them will put their energy elsewhere when they find something better to do. :)
Yes, what you are describing has become known as "virtue-signaling", which describes it pretty well. Because they believe the target group (Mexicans in this case) should be offended about their culture being misappropriated, they start trumpeting the social justice ideology so that they themselves look good to their in-group of social outrage warriors. Really beyond ridiculous. And no, I didn't see the Mexican Mario outrage while working on this unfortunately, I looked it up just now and read a few of the reports ... just... unbelievable.
I had to enjoy the comments here including: "As a Mexican, I would appreciate if white ladies would stop "defending" my culture. A lot of us believe it's cool for people to learn about traditions we love, sombrero and fiestas at the top of it. This people have already taken Speedy away from us, they should not take Mario with a Sombrero too." LOL
Your comment about playing white knight is dead on by the way, I will have to include that consideration in a future post. Thanks for the thoughtful comment!
No worries - I definitely stand firmly in this camp. Pretty crazy the way the world has gone so far to the left that it is now being referred to as the "regressive left", and what's happening in the way of blocking invited speakers from talking at universities (the contradiction there is hilarious), how white males are simply born with original sin these days, and how you can basically never do enough to a) make up for the sins of the past, and b) avoid responsibility for something someone did on the other side of the world, that you neither caused nor benefited from.
I really can't see this persisting for too much longer - it's a very vocal minority rather than a huge shift in mindset from a large % of the population. And it really, really doesn't stand up to reason (hence the recent attacks on "truth" and "science", particularly from those in the social sciences who are heavily influenced by (in my opinion very poor readings of) the post-modernist thinkers - leading to statements like "there's no such thing as objective truth", "science is a western construct", and "don't confuse science with truth" and so on.
Just absurd - taking theory about the reading of a text (death of the author, birth of the reader etc) and applying it to matters which are not subjective is just intellectually dishonest and a large part of the absurdity we see today. Where the most privileged and literally the free-est young people that we've ever had claiming to be part of some oppressive system - I really believe many of these people need to spend a year in parts of Africa or the middle-East then come back to their privileged universities with a real understanding of what oppression, intolerance and patriarchy really can be like.
Hehe... I totally agree. I wish a Russian would run out there while they are carrying their hammer and sickle flags and tell them to stop misappropriating his culture as oppressive westerners. Now that would be funny.
Very thorough analysis! I never realized how much of capitalists the SJW actually were. "Cultural misappropriation" is essentially a cry for copyright infringement of a "culture."
I gather that the typical SJW does not know that ideas cross boundaries; and fashion is and has been adopted and exchanged by the various cultures that have existed and exist on this planet. Not even the greediest, robber-baron capitalist would have imagined that he could monopolize and copyright an entire thoughts, custom, rituals, and beliefs of an entire people!
I hadn't considered it that way, good point. I will have to use that the next time I find myself having to discuss cultural appropriation. I also find it amazing how this is all predicated on the white majority in anglophone countries, whereas anywhere else in the world the whole idea just implodes under its own inanity. The free flow of ideas is essential to human progress, what they want isn't progress, its regression.
I read somewhere that the most radical revolutions will become reactionary the day after the revolution. It may be that the SJW consider the revolution to be over and that they are governing. I think the SJW do not recognize that the mere fact of their birth is predicated upon their ancestors having "offed" some other poor sucker. We all have victors and vanquished in our ancestry; the "victimized/colonized" Mexicans were ripping peoples' hearts out for religious rituals, before the coming of Conquistadores. The true victims were never granted the option to reproduce.
I believe that where this is headed is a complete collapse of society, and that this collapse is intentional and planned. Do you remember the collapse of the Soviet Union? It rendered the entire eastern bloc open for exploitation and plunder. It is a sad, sad thing that the hatred many minorities harbor towards others is being fanned into a major conflagration. Very sad that some people actually want this type of apocalypse to happen and are working towards it.
Thanks for your reply. I too fear it is too late to stop some sort of conflagration of rage that may cripple the USA as a geopolitical power and in doing so hurt the normal population much worse than the corruptocrats in power. I haven't heard of the deepthink community, I will check it out, thanks for the recommendation.
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Very thorough and insightful post. I think what is termed cultural appropriation is what leads to real progress. The best ideas are recognized and adopted by others which leads to them benefitting more people. The hypocrisy of claiming to be against racism but still treating people primarily according to their group identity just makes my head hurt. I don't think we will see its effects in 2040 though. Real change is on the horizon. Thanks for sharing it with me. Keep up the good work!
I am curious what higher education will look like in 2040, it will be dismantled by the population at large if it keeps churning out professional victims. Thanks for your response!
Seriously...
Who were the first to wear dreadlocks. Some people say in India, others claim Vikings wore them first.
Who's going to be offended when I see somebody with no english ancestry speaking english or wearing oxfords? holds breath while waiting.
I mean, for a bunch of moral relativist, commies who generally speaking don't believe in private property or absolutes, then what is the actual problem?
Free societies exchanging ideas and culture has lead to countless innovation and enrichment. Not always, of course.
-I always thought imitation was a form of flattery even if poorly done.
-What happened to the whole diversity is our strength narrative?
When dealing with brain damaged, petulant children of the SJW brand what can you expect?
I guess one positive is: Most of these SJW types are abortion advocates and population control alarmists. So they most likely won't be reproducing at replacement rates. Hence the empahsis on recruitment/indoctrination.
Very well sourced article with lots of detail and many good points!
Excellent work.
Good points, all. Nobody ever claimed the social justice crowd is consistent or logical, it is an outrage de jour mentality where what was important yesterday is fodder more outrage tomorrow. True enough that they are on the population reduction bandwagon, the problem is they want to force it on everybody else. Maybe there is some kind of self-effacement gene that causes this kind of behavior...? Anyway, thank you for the comment!
I think this is very important and a very interesting and detailed post.
I was thinking about this this morning actually as it came up in something else recently - I think it's absurd the number of people who get offended on someone else's behalf these days... people who take it upon themselves to be white knights for the poor oppressed individuals who, when asked directly, often don't care in the slightest.
Did you see the social media outrage over the Mexican Mario announcement? The response from many Mexican gamers illustrated this perfectly... they were really stoked to see the stereotypical icons of their culture (which these individuals did not consider offensive in the least) make it into a videogame series as huge and popular as Mario. And those who were so angry?
Privileged non-Mexicans who feel they need a soapbox for every little thing that can conceivably be offensive to someone, somewhere. I'm hoping this is just a passing craze and that most of them will put their energy elsewhere when they find something better to do. :)
Yes, what you are describing has become known as "virtue-signaling", which describes it pretty well. Because they believe the target group (Mexicans in this case) should be offended about their culture being misappropriated, they start trumpeting the social justice ideology so that they themselves look good to their in-group of social outrage warriors. Really beyond ridiculous. And no, I didn't see the Mexican Mario outrage while working on this unfortunately, I looked it up just now and read a few of the reports ... just... unbelievable.
I had to enjoy the comments here including: "As a Mexican, I would appreciate if white ladies would stop "defending" my culture. A lot of us believe it's cool for people to learn about traditions we love, sombrero and fiestas at the top of it. This people have already taken Speedy away from us, they should not take Mario with a Sombrero too." LOL
Your comment about playing white knight is dead on by the way, I will have to include that consideration in a future post. Thanks for the thoughtful comment!
No worries - I definitely stand firmly in this camp. Pretty crazy the way the world has gone so far to the left that it is now being referred to as the "regressive left", and what's happening in the way of blocking invited speakers from talking at universities (the contradiction there is hilarious), how white males are simply born with original sin these days, and how you can basically never do enough to a) make up for the sins of the past, and b) avoid responsibility for something someone did on the other side of the world, that you neither caused nor benefited from.
I really can't see this persisting for too much longer - it's a very vocal minority rather than a huge shift in mindset from a large % of the population. And it really, really doesn't stand up to reason (hence the recent attacks on "truth" and "science", particularly from those in the social sciences who are heavily influenced by (in my opinion very poor readings of) the post-modernist thinkers - leading to statements like "there's no such thing as objective truth", "science is a western construct", and "don't confuse science with truth" and so on.
Just absurd - taking theory about the reading of a text (death of the author, birth of the reader etc) and applying it to matters which are not subjective is just intellectually dishonest and a large part of the absurdity we see today. Where the most privileged and literally the free-est young people that we've ever had claiming to be part of some oppressive system - I really believe many of these people need to spend a year in parts of Africa or the middle-East then come back to their privileged universities with a real understanding of what oppression, intolerance and patriarchy really can be like.
Very nice post and interesting, I am very interested in this post and happy to see it, hopefully you succeed ....thanks for sharing in in
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leftists pretending to be Americans?
now THAT is Cultural Misappropriation ;>
Hehe... I totally agree. I wish a Russian would run out there while they are carrying their hammer and sickle flags and tell them to stop misappropriating his culture as oppressive westerners. Now that would be funny.
they'd just say it was collusion with Trump ;>
the road goes on forever
and the goalposts always change
Very thorough analysis! I never realized how much of capitalists the SJW actually were. "Cultural misappropriation" is essentially a cry for copyright infringement of a "culture."
I gather that the typical SJW does not know that ideas cross boundaries; and fashion is and has been adopted and exchanged by the various cultures that have existed and exist on this planet. Not even the greediest, robber-baron capitalist would have imagined that he could monopolize and copyright an entire thoughts, custom, rituals, and beliefs of an entire people!
I hadn't considered it that way, good point. I will have to use that the next time I find myself having to discuss cultural appropriation. I also find it amazing how this is all predicated on the white majority in anglophone countries, whereas anywhere else in the world the whole idea just implodes under its own inanity. The free flow of ideas is essential to human progress, what they want isn't progress, its regression.
I read somewhere that the most radical revolutions will become reactionary the day after the revolution. It may be that the SJW consider the revolution to be over and that they are governing. I think the SJW do not recognize that the mere fact of their birth is predicated upon their ancestors having "offed" some other poor sucker. We all have victors and vanquished in our ancestry; the "victimized/colonized" Mexicans were ripping peoples' hearts out for religious rituals, before the coming of Conquistadores. The true victims were never granted the option to reproduce.
I believe that where this is headed is a complete collapse of society, and that this collapse is intentional and planned. Do you remember the collapse of the Soviet Union? It rendered the entire eastern bloc open for exploitation and plunder. It is a sad, sad thing that the hatred many minorities harbor towards others is being fanned into a major conflagration. Very sad that some people actually want this type of apocalypse to happen and are working towards it.
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Thanks for your reply. I too fear it is too late to stop some sort of conflagration of rage that may cripple the USA as a geopolitical power and in doing so hurt the normal population much worse than the corruptocrats in power. I haven't heard of the deepthink community, I will check it out, thanks for the recommendation.
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Very thorough and insightful post. I think what is termed cultural appropriation is what leads to real progress. The best ideas are recognized and adopted by others which leads to them benefitting more people. The hypocrisy of claiming to be against racism but still treating people primarily according to their group identity just makes my head hurt. I don't think we will see its effects in 2040 though. Real change is on the horizon. Thanks for sharing it with me. Keep up the good work!
I am curious what higher education will look like in 2040, it will be dismantled by the population at large if it keeps churning out professional victims. Thanks for your response!
Everyone will just be in college and protesting will be the only job, lol