A lot of things I do are really bad to my parents and my old community. You could use the words "disrespecting" or "offending" them - including stuff like me roleplaying as an extremely convincing, bible-quoting christian girl while slowly stripping on a camshow. (cont)
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This is how I make sense of cultural appropriation. Does it cause pain to people? Yes. Is it shitty to tell offended people to 'buck it up'? Yes. Do I support people voluntarily not appropriating because of compassion? Yes. Do I support people self expressing anyway? Also yes.
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A caveat: Some things that look like 'cultural appropriation' are actually targeted hatred (like racist people using blackface), and this does not fall under the umbrella I'm discussing here, because it's done without a compassionate contact with the people they're hurting.
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I think one could easily argue that "pain" *is* in itself a kind of harm (think emotional abuse and stuff); hence a harder question is, who's responsible for the pain: the one feeling the pain, or the one "causing" the pain?
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Right - I don't think there's an easy answer to this, or maybe I think the question is poorly formed. I think both people are individually responsible for their experience - the person in pain for feeling it, *and* the person having caused pain for causing it.
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