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It's important to be clear
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this post was submitted on 27 Apr 2025
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True, but there are nuances. Stealing a symbol and giving it new meaning by using it for a different purpose is obviously a worse kind of appropriation than adopting language and culture.
So it's not just regular appropriation, it's the bad kind of appropriation. Because they're bad.
Have I got that right?
Appropriation implies a form of exclusivity and denying the original's validity. As in:
KKK took that symbol and forever changed everyone's association with it to their own org.
It's not appropriation to use a thing, it's appropriation to treat your use of the thing as the correct/real one.
Yes. Cause it's different when I do it. I really have to sit with this.