Most parmesan, and all parmesan reggiano, is made with rennet gathered from the stomach lining of calves.

Remember the good old days when most people were fine with slavery?

So, if I understand you correctly, as long as you have some personal anecdote to provide and plausible ignorance, a statement isn’t insensitive? If some kid from Mississippi, where they use the gas chamber, told a Jewish kid “In my state we gas people like you.” that would be an acceptable thing to say?

“The mascot was portrayed by a student dressed in Sioux regalia to represent the Illiniwek, the state’s namesake.”
Hmmm, using Sioux, of the Dakotas, dress to represent the Illiniwek, of Illinois, tribe. I’m pretty sure that isn’t any more accurate than having a team called The Italians with a mascot dressed in…

Rather than just point out what a laughable straw man that is, I would be super interested to have you cite any of the things I’ve written above that reflect what you are saying. Because at present it seems like you have little more to offer in defense of your position than inapt comparisons and bizarre, yet…

Cultural appropriation does not need to be modified to indicate whether it is good or bad, because it is always some shade of bad. It is stealing the culture of another people. You don’t need to clarify that someone did ‘bad stealing’, because stealing is generally understood to be bad. Saying something is a case of…

You mean how I used it like a noun?
The teams using these names aren’t doing it in any way that benefits the culture the are taking it from. It’s also not a mutual exchange. They are just reducing a race of people into a mascot for their teams. It’s not respectful. It’s just shitty. 
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Well that solves it, everyone. The day we’ve been waiting for has finally come. av2218 has weighed in, and through his anecdotal evidence proven that no person of Native American descent has ever had any issue with Chief Wahoo or the name Redskins. What a fucking relief...

Naming your team the Chiefs and the Braves may not be as obviously racist as the Redskins, but it is cultural appropriation none the less.
Let’s have a little exercise in empathy: Imagine you are a person of Native American descent. Your ancestors were the first settlers of the land that is now the United States. Your…