The Dumbest Idea In History
23rd November 2015
Sarah Hoyt discovers the terrible sin of Cultural Appropriation.
It might be easier, honest to Bob, if they had children or, for the few of them who DO have children, if they’d paid any attention to their kids’ development instead of to the weird movie going on in their heads which leads them believe things like that a baby recoiling from unfamiliar appearance means the baby is racist.
I’ve always thought babies were racist. Perhaps I ought to reconsider.
But innate tendencies do not a culture make. Innate tendencies might dictate whether you leap out of bed with a song on your lips and incite murder in the mind of your roommate who drags self out of bed with groan and crawls till noon by the grace of coffee, but it does not dictate what language you speak, what attire you wear, or whether you think women look best when disguised as sofas. Those are things you learned from your relatives/guardians when you were too young to think. They might be filed under “must do” at a level where you have never examined them, but that doesn’t mean you can’t examine them. And change them. It just means it takes time, is painful, and no one is going to do it without major upheaval requiring it.
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Cultural appropriation? Flummery. It’s called being human.