Posted on 06/18/2017 10:47:00 AM PDT by Kaslin
Like me, I’m sure most of you feel that the issue of “cultural appropriation” is one of the defining debates of our time, far more so than petty concerns over things like terrorism, war or an exploding national debt. (Okay… I’ll stop with the sarcasm for a while.) But what to do about it? In the United States we have all of these pesky rules about free speech embedded in our constitution and a history of allowing free expression for individuals. How do you get around that?
Never fear. The United Nations is ready to rush to the rescue. If a major committee in that august body has their way, they will soon try to force all of the member nations to punish people guilty of adopting the visible, culinary or audible benchmarks of other cultures. (Vice)
Indigenous groups around the world are currently calling on the United Nations to make the appropriation of native cultures illegal, reports CBA News. A special committee has been asking for sanctions since 2001, long before Twitter and Instagram became the default ways for offended communities to call out BS and make their cases heard. This week, though, the ball is really getting rolling. Delegates from 189 countries are currently meeting in Geneva as part of a specialized international committee within the UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).
The committee is pushing for three pieces of international law to put sanctions place. This will expand international property regulations to protect indigenous property ranging from designs to language. The UN should “obligate states to create effective criminal and civil enforcement procedures to recognize and prevent the non-consensual taking and illegitimate possession, sale and export of traditional cultural expressions,” James Anaya, dean of law at the University of Colorado, told the committee.
First off, I really love the way Vice titles their piece, saying that the UN, “may finally make cultural appropriation illegal.” Yes. Finally. I know we’ve all been waiting so long for this. (Sorry… that sarcasm reflex is really hard to tamp down.) They also claim that too many of us can’t differentiate between appreciation and appropriation, owing to, “the proliferation of runway chola bangs and high street Navajo panties.” I don’t know what several of the words in that sentence mean but I have a feeling I’d just be ruining my day further if I Googled them.
In general terms I’ve already made my views on so-called “cultural appropriation” known and you can read about them here. We’re a nation of mutts who’ve adapted all sorts of cultural bits and pieces to build our own. And nobody owns cultural signposts unless it’s in the field of commerce and you have legal title to them. Let’s just say I’m not a fan and leave it at that.
And then there’s the United Nations. What once probably seemed like a pretty good idea has turned into an international bastion of incompetence mixed with hate and occasional bouts of pure evil. When they aren’t condemning our allies and trying to make Israel out to be the source of all sin in the world they’re sending “peacekeeping forces” to remote lands in crises where their troops seem to inevitably wind up sexually abusing the women and children of the region and opening their own brothels using slave labor.
And now they want to preach to us about “cultural appropriation” and “obligate states to create effective criminal and civil enforcement procedures to recognize and prevent the non-consensual taking and illegitimate possession, sale and export of traditional cultural expressions.” (Yes… that’s a direct quote.)
Good luck with that. Now come try to enforce it here. We’ve got some other cultural traditions I’d love to show you.
Cracker culture permeates the world!
So oppressed people of color are going to give up the creations of evil whitey?
The only ones subject to these rules will be American white heterosexual males.
I resemble that remark!
Time to outlaw the UN. NOW!
But then, that’s the only valid conclusion to be drawn from any story involving the UN.
Exit and Evict The UN Today
What about things that originally came from other cultures, and are now incorporated into American culture? Latte. Sushi. What about m*slims who first encounter a flush toilet?
This is an impossible thing.
The only purpose of it is to punish White Christians for existing, and to justify taking their money, and replacing them with non-Whites and non-Christians.
What happens to me if I culturally appropriate?
What happens to me if I culturally appropriate?
LOL!!
Yeah! And I’m of Irish descent - does that mean I can’t eat pizza?
First, define the parameters of each culture, Dear United Nations. Do it without asking for anyone else’s money, though, please. Defining the limits of what each culture will allow should keep you guys busy for several years.
Next, define who can be a member of each culture found on the planet. You’ll spend another decade doing that.
Then come up with ways to prevent anyone from one culture ever using a word, gesture, thought, or article of clothing from another culture. And how properly to punish them when they do.
Last, come up with a ruling politburo, who is not allowed any culture at all for themselves, to enforce and decree within your ranks, making sure they dye their skin and hair an unnatural shade of blue, and eating only protein powder and water. They will have no access to the Internet or any media other than three or four specially written neutrality books. They should only wear clothing from an artificial fabric that wraps around them in a way no one has ever done before. The only body parts exposed should be their privates. I will allow the Esperanto language to be spoken amongst them even though that is technically a temporal appropriation from a prior generation of progressive thought.
At that point, I am all for it.
First to arrest is the cultural appropriator, Blonde Beyonce.
I wonder how spaghetti, topped with taco filling, shredded cheddar cheese, and fresh salsa would be?
im a big fan pf fusion cuisine. taco bar at dim sum, green chili pho, collard greens and chimichurri steak, etc. noodles are very generic and mix well with many meat sauces.
Chola bangs bump
Can you volunteer for “high street Navajo panty” checks?
Just want to do my part and all.
I’ll be more than happy to give up tacos and shish kebob so long as the rest of the world gives up cars, planes, computers, electricity, .......
Seems fair to me.
No one, and I mean no one, is more racially obsessed than today’s left.
I know the rule is if you say “Nazi” on the internet, you just lost the argument... well, that’s ok, there’s no arguing with these maximum morons anyway.
So I’ll say it again, with emphasis:
No one in the history of the planet is more racially obsessed than the modern left in the western world today.
Everyone is to dress, eat, and act only in a manner appropriate to his ethnic or ethnoreligious group. All lesser people are to dress so as to be easily identifiable as to their ethnic affiliation. Entertainment is to be strictly segregated so that members of one group cannot see, hear, or appreciate the arts and entertainment of any other group. All groups art to live in ethnically pure neighborhoods in order to reduce cultural appropriation and may only vote for political candidates of their own ethnicity. None of this, of course, applies to the ruling class who have no ethnic heritage, having, by their virtues transcended ethnic identity.
You mean like BLACK Women straight·ening their HAIR?
The Philosophy of the Greeks, The Age of Reason, The Renaissance, ALL of the Scientists in the 1700s, (Who were mostly CHRISTIAN), The Industrial Revolution, The BRITISH Bill of Rights, THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION, The Federalist AND The ANTI-Federalist Papers, The Magna Carta, Andrew Jackson’s A Den of Vipers, The Words of William Jennings Bryan, Enoch Powell’s Infamous Speech, et al.. ALL OF THE INVENTIONS of the Modern World..The World HAS “APPROPIATED America..
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