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Merf. Thinking is Hard.: "Cultural Appropriation."

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butwithawhimper:

I hate when people talk about “Cultural Appropriation.”
Like freaking out on hipster white chicks for wearing a “native american” headdress.
If you’re going to pull that, then don’t you dare wear clothes that were made in a textile factory, because those originated in England, and if you’re not from there, then you should get bitched at every time you wear a shirt made in a factory. 

Explain to me how that is justifiable again?

You’re ignorant of history.  The clothing industry has its roots in India, which is where most Europeans in the pre-industrial era traded for textiles.  England got there in 1600 through the British East India Company and over the next 200 years proceeded to plunder and then destroy the Indian textile industry in order to make room in the global market for their own mechanically-produced products, which still couldn’t compare with the Indian products in either quality or price.  So the English set about making rulings that Indian cloths could only be made of low-quality materials, saving the better materials for British use, and mutilating Indian artisans who protested unfair sanctions (see: the 1690-1721 Calico Acts).

Next time you assume it’s lily-white European men who are solely responsible for the good things about the way we live today in the modernized West, do your homework first.  They didn’t pull clothing and mathematics and architecture and philosophy out of thin air, you know.  They mostly stole it.

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    The theft of history.
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    I honestly don’t understand why people think wearing Indigenous headdresses are okay. For a lot of Indigenous cultures,...
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    90% of your shit was invented somewhere else,...another country by non-americans. its
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    respond to this post but nothing makes sense whenever i try to read it i give up guys is he saying
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    Also, I see you putting “native american”...‘it’s totally bullshit’ quotes
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