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Everybody appropriates.
This language that you are speaking is appropriated from a bunch of other languages and cultures.
Is it appropriation if you treat people and their culture with respect? Because i dont think the issue here is how the KKK dresses. It is what they stand for ideologically and what they do. That is what makes it appropriation imo.
Yes, has no inherent bias or prejudice.
I want to agree with you, but I'm not so sure. I think different individuals have very different thoughts on that. And now I need to sit with this for a while.
Are you asking me?
That's true.
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.