It does hurt people. When I steal from you, it hurts.

When someone steals from you, you don’t have it anymore. When someone uses your culture, you still have your culture and the full use of it. What that other person is doing, is not stopping you from living your life. No one has stolen anything from you.

No one…

According to Wikipedia the Cowichan learned to knit from Europeans.

I get that being told how to live their lives was very wrong. You’ll note that I’m against that very thing. Everyone has the right to live their lives how they want.

I can tell you not to take something that belongs to me. That is a choice you are able to make, but it is reasonable for me to ask you not to harm me.

Since Native peoples have sovereignty and never agreed to these laws in the first place, I think it’s not even asking for an exception.

Making decisions about who is a relation and can use/perform these things is about preserving cultural ideals regarding ownership/art/etc.

So when you say “make decisions about their culture”, what you really mean is make decisions about how other people can use their culture? Because I would call those two separate things.

I don’t even think those two dresses look that much alike. There are significant differences. For example, the Yellowtail dress is the same pattern on the top and bottom, the other dress has a different pattern on the top than the bottom. IN the middle of the Yellowtail dress is a band that goes all the way around…

You take away their agency to make decisions about their culture.

Maybe. But that doesn’t change the fact that good guys with guns are the ones who save the day.

I’m not trying to argue that we need less gun control, I’m just pointing out that you are being stupid about good guys with guns.

Which would have been more without them. Guns do actually serve a good purpose sometimes.

As were the officers that ended the situation.

A man who, I say I know his music, but it always turns out I’m thinking of a Bryan Adams tune.

Yeah, my #1 answer when people ask about commissioning a cross-stitch is “you can’t afford it”. It’s just way to time intensive.

He told Nixon to get out because he knew allowing the charade to continue would be a disaster for their party.

whether or not it’s okay to own a machine that does your sexual bidding while also never saying no.

Yes, it’s super annoying.

WHAT IS THIS MADDNESS!!!

Is it just me or did this whole site just flip sides?

Looks like you need a refresher on what a straw man is.