I think YOU don’t understand the wider context here. The “deeply unjust relationship between Indigenous people and settlers” is called colonialism, or, if we’re talking about modern day North America “Ongoing Genocide”. It’s not Cultural Appropriation, which is, once again, meaningless.

Despite what you may think, you don’t bother me, and I’m not here to troll. The Root is the best blog with the best discussions, but it’s new, and it’s small, and it doesn’t need rookie mistakes.

You can check my comment history. Sometimes I’m an ass, and sometimes I’m not, but I’m pretty clearly not a troll.

You know, I did, because for some reason being called a twat didn’t answer my question, and it turns out they have an entire page devoted to obtaining and using content from the NYT:

Oh no, the popular girls are coming for me.

Why should I be grateful to reread an article I just read in the New York Times?

I didn’t know you could just copy and paste from the New York Times and call it a blog post.

Yes this exactly.

It’s amazing that people think it is worth hating celebrities. The people doing bad shit don’t get famous on their own name so you don’t know to be mad at them. that’s the whole reason they invented corporations! It’s so you could fuck shit up, and instead of saying you did it, they’ll say something…

Thanks for clarifying the gradations of thought crime! Super handy next time I give a fuck.

Neither of these things are cultural appropriation. Also, you really really love the passive voice, which is weird for someone so focused on the perpetrators of injustice. You know all the victims, but when asked about the perpetrators the best you can give is “white people”.

I suppose, but a bunch of pretty ladies parading around on stage in order to determine which one is the... ladiest? is not one of those things that has value in its own right. That’s like a fun friday night activity (that I have actually done many times), not a good way to choose aspirational figures to scrutinize for…

Well since you are feeling complimented, let’s make sure my reality wouldn’t change that. I’m a white man, and I feel conditioned from a really young age to value this idea of like, being a sales executive in a suit. I know with every fiber of my rational brain that I hate sales people, hate executives, would not…

I went to my college because they had no core curriculum, just an advisor encouraged requirement to take courses in all three major disciplines, Social sciences, humanities, and STEM. I double majored in Computer Science and Political Science and then took some dance classes.

Like, you wanna charge me HOW much and then…

I love your comment! My favorite remark is:

I love your whole comment, and it only got better and better. My favorite standalone remark was:

My husband is from Ecuador, and I asked him, and he said he’s tired of being considered Latino instead of Ecuadorian. Does that help?

They’re not sacred, and neither is your dumb book.

Well see, now you’re talking about serious things. Like actual theft of art, which is not anything like “theft” of culture, and isn’t cultural appropriation, but instead colonialism, or theft, or genocide, depending on the specifics. You’ve also conflated every perpetrator under the label of “white people”, which,…

Hey buddy, you replied to me. So feel free to fuck off with your polite insults, asshole.

I care about listening to marginalized people and staying knowledgeable on current political discussions, so I read many different things. Then I comment my reaction if I feel strongly about it.

Your reply is almost unintelligible because of your unchecked use of the passive voice to disguise the fact that the perpetrators of the various unrelated injustices you are trying to connect are vastly different in form and constituency.

That just means the book is dumb too.