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United Nations Wants to Outlaw “Cultural Appropriation” Worldwide
thegatewaypundit ^ | Matt Miller

Posted on 06/15/2017 11:09:16 AM PDT by davikkm

United Nations Wants to Outlaw “Cultural Appropriation” Worldwide

Matt Miller Jun 15th, 2017 12:37 pm 20 Comments

The UN wants to expand intellectual property regulations to include cultural entities and concepts, such as clothing, dances, arts, medicines, etc. The UN’s efforts would allow for legal action to be taken by minority groups against those who supposedly steal or monetize a piece of their culture.

The United Nations has been making efforts to outlaw “cultural appropriation” for over fifteen years. Via CBC:

Delegates from 189 countries, including Canada, are in Geneva this week as part of a specialized international committee within the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a United Nations agency.

Since it began in 2001, the committee has been working on creating and finishing three pieces of international law that would expand intellectual-property regulations to protect things like Indigenous designs, dances, words and traditional medicines.

The meeting takes place as concern grows worldwide about the rights of cultures to control their own materials. In the U.S. this week, designer Tory Burch agreed to change the description of one of her coats for women after Romanians protested that it had been described as African-inspired when it actually appropriated a traditional Romanian garment.”

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To: nickcarraway

Irish don’t get potatoes.

No Peaches for Georgia! (Doom, despair & agony on me!)

No Tomatoes for Italy.

No Popcorn for movie goers worldwide other than ‘Native Americans’.

The list gets really interesting!


81 posted on 06/15/2017 12:39:30 PM PDT by BwanaNdege ("The church ... is not the master or the servant of the state, but the conscience" - Luther)
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To: davikkm

No more black Twitter?


82 posted on 06/15/2017 12:39:32 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: davikkm

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Let’s just outlaw the UN.
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84 posted on 06/15/2017 12:41:07 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: warsaw44

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>> “Western medical advancements” <<

A mythical concept to be sure!

Western Medicine out-laws life itself.
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85 posted on 06/15/2017 12:43:29 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: davikkm

Dear UN,

Please cease consuming from and operating all AC based power plants.

Sincerely,
Serbia


86 posted on 06/15/2017 12:44:21 PM PDT by bar sin·is·ter
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To: Two Kids' Dad

“And until every black woman in America is sporting a natural ‘fro they can leave me the “F” alone about anything I do.”

Long as they are still wearing shirts then all bets are off.


87 posted on 06/15/2017 12:48:35 PM PDT by TalonDJ
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To: davikkm

There goes the pizza place and the Chinese food joint.


88 posted on 06/15/2017 12:49:47 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("We will be one people, under one God, saluting one American flag." --Donald Trump)
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To: MrBambaLaMamba

Shoes, shirts, reading glasses.... books! The list has no end.


89 posted on 06/15/2017 12:50:12 PM PDT by TalonDJ
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To: Lexington Green
No more tacos for you, Whitey.

White man legacy is to do all the work and pay all the taxes.

90 posted on 06/15/2017 12:51:52 PM PDT by Fightin Whitey
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To: davikkm

How could something like this even be administered. Oh I get it. Hire another million EU bureaucrats. More Star Chambers.


91 posted on 06/15/2017 12:52:50 PM PDT by Seruzawa (FABOL)
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To: BwanaNdege

It sure does get interesting following it down the rabbit hole.

While some the indigenous folk in this hemisphere raised maize, not to be confused with the general “corn” of Europe, had they actually developed some form of a “popcorn popper”?

And even if they had, they could have their popcorn feed but without the movies, not part of their culti-techno heritage.


92 posted on 06/15/2017 12:56:01 PM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: Secret Agent Man

“I think a lot of nonwhite people will be unhappy they have to give up the white mans medicines, machines, clothing, music and cuisines.”

Yes. Ban the world from appropriating American culture. Cars, electricity, internet, phones, liberty, etc.

They’ll be cooking their food with animal dung once again.


93 posted on 06/15/2017 12:56:32 PM PDT by Electric Graffiti (Obama voters killed America. Treat them accordingly.)
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To: Electric Graffiti

Dr. Naismith was white.


94 posted on 06/15/2017 1:14:56 PM PDT by FirstFlaBn
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To: rightwingcrazy; All
Got it. Ban the export of antibiotics and vaccines immediately, and their use abroad. Wouldn’t want American culture to be “appropriated”.

No no no you don't understand...this 'cultural appropriation' stuff DOES NOT apply to normal, Caucasian male heterosexuals, since we are the oppressors and all...
95 posted on 06/15/2017 1:23:10 PM PDT by notdownwidems (Washington D.C. has become the enemy of free people everywhere!)
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To: a fool in paradise

I think its way more than that.


96 posted on 06/15/2017 1:54:00 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: davikkm

So I guess this means Disney will be required to completely dismantle the EPCOT Showcase of Nations. Maybe the American Adventure Pavillion can stay.


97 posted on 06/15/2017 1:56:41 PM PDT by utahb52
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To: baltimorepoet

No more Italian pasta.


98 posted on 06/15/2017 1:57:06 PM PDT by CityCenter (Words have specific meanings.)
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To: davikkm

bookmark


99 posted on 06/15/2017 2:46:35 PM PDT by snooter55 (People may doubt what you say, but they will always believe what you do)
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To: davikkm

Wrll the UN was a Western idea imposed on the world so I think the UN needs to go


100 posted on 06/15/2017 2:50:56 PM PDT by tophat9000 (Tophat9000)
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