Thank God.

I am totally on board with the Navajo being able to stop someone from selling something as a “Navajo” product if it was not actually made by a Navajo. This makes good sense, and has plenty of precedent. (see Champagne, Tequila, Parmesan cheese, etc...)

It seems especially hard considering the entire history of art and design is built on artists and cultures being inspired by other artists and cultures. Rome took almost their entire culture from the Greeks and Etruscans. Every movement in art is built around many artists all inspiring one another so they have a…

Apparently, you are already an expert, so please enlighten us. Not everyone believes we should be reinventing the wheel every time. Although that would be culturally appropriating the Sumerians, so I can’t even invent the wheel.

I’d argue that it’s a ill-meaning can of worms. Only a rank idiot could not forsee the the problems with this entire line of thinking. Even the biggest Trump stan possesses enough foresight to see this spiral out of control.

This is pretty fucking stupid. I am an artist and have paid major homage to the First Americans of the PNW in the US in my art. That being said, misleading and misrepresentation are bad, obviously, but banning/punishing “cultural appropriation” is an absurd notion.

I mean, the dude is up there advocating for the termination of up to 4 police officers for the kinds of shit that every other department has thus far tried to ignore and sweep under the rug. Cut the fucking guy a break. By all accounts he’s doing the right thing. He can use every bit of cop speak in the world if it’s…

I could only imagine that either A) his air filter is so clogged that it has water resistance properties...or most likely B) they were probably driving fast enough that were was probably a nice air bubble where the intake is. Had they completely stopped, I bet hydrolock.

Caution: long post upcoming. A lot of this is from a good summary at Reddit.

Sounds like you can get on the job training for about $1,500.