This. Is. the. Thing. https://twitter.com/eveewing/status/902916562524495878 …
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She engaged the most cartoonish version of the arguments against appropriation, which is an incredibly complex, messy topic.
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But it's disqualifying to talk about production --- cultural production, economic production --- and wave away disparities in power.
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Contemporary disparities. Historical disparities. That's easy to do if this is all just much ado abt "feelings."
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it's annoying but also, like...this is why our discourse around race looks the way it does.
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Some our most important outlets treat it as opinion, like folks are disagreeing over whether America just put too much garlic in the sauce.
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"Hey, you might see it differently! Reasonable people can disagree!"
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Imagine how our society might be materially different if our leading outlets were not this way, or if they had not ALWAYS been this way.
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