Posted on 10/11/2017 10:44:33 AM PDT by C19fan
Never underestimate the inanity of college “studies” professors, especially given that they’re usually on a quest for the next gripe du jour.
At a recent University of Texas confab, cultural studies prof Luis Urrieta opined that cultural appropriation — the use of certain aspects of one culture by another — is like an “intellectual property violation.”
“Appropriation is a form of theft,” Urrieta, a member of the Center for Mexican American Studies and a faculty affiliate at the Native American & Indigenous Studies program, said. “It is a nice way of saying that someone is taking someone else’s (idea) and making it their own.”
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Fine. Only white people can have access to things and concepts that were invented by white people.
Sounds fair.
And BTW, no black people can play basketball, since it was invented by a white man.
You mean like how the Mexicans appropriated flush toilets and indoor lighting? And penicillin? And ‘64 Chevies?
Intellectual property?
Things like electricity, indoor plumbing and air travel, all developed by those of European ancestry?
Will the good professor be eschewing use of those elements of modern society?
¡Que tonterías!
It is what happens when you have a true melting pot nation, where no bigotry exists and people celebrate their diversity.
Pueblo Indians had the right idea back in 1680 when they threw the Spanish out. They killed all the sheep, cows, as many horses as they could, all the chickens and were forced to go back to hunting deer and elk. They didn’t like it one bit!
Ten years later the Spanish were back.
The English language, the Constitution, polyphonic music, the automobile, the airplane, the telephone, the computer, air conditioning, and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on and on ...........
I promise not to appropriate his culture’s practice of cutting the hearts out of live victims as an act of religious piety.
Not all IP is protected in perpetuity. Next?!
The idea of Intellectual Property is a Western concept. So piss off.
Stop appropriating our jobs, healthcare, welfare and education.
The term "Melting Pot" is now considered to be racist.
I’ll give up my “white appropriation” of tortillas and nacho chips if La Raza boy at U. Texas gives up his “brown appropriation” of white inventions like the internal combustion engine, the circuitboard, and alternating current.
And ‘64 Chevies Chebbies?
The light bulb was invented by the white man, so anybody non-white is going to surrender all their light bulbs and not do business in any buildings with artificial light, right?
Logically, to re-set the cultural clock, every one needs to go back to where they came from.
That may be a trick seeing as so many are a blend of lots of things.
So we’ll start with those who are the most pure of one culture vs an amalgam.
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