• @[email protected]
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    12 months ago

    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.

      • Maeve
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        22 months ago

        Yes. Cause it’s different when I do it. I really have to sit with this.

      • @[email protected]
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        32 months ago

        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.