Kevin Simler

@KevinSimler I think that's an applicable thing but don't think it's appropriation. Disruptive in a different way, like funeral rapping

@KevinSimler being in someone's space is different than copying their thing in your own space

@KevinSimler in a sense complaints about cultural appropriation are an attempt to enclose the commons

@drethelin btw I've never used the phrase "cultural appropriation" before... not a concept I'm trying to defend so much as understand

@drethelin What about "appropriation" (scare-quotes) of nerd culture by non-nerds? Is that an example worth thinking about?

@KevinSimler the biggest problem there is the feminist war on the concept of fake nerds. Sabotages costlier signals with no replacement

@drethelin @KevinSimler Non-nerds have always been welcome in nerd culture, it's just that they're called groupies. Bands work the same way.

@maradydd @drethelin Groupies = fanatics = adds fuel to a subculture. The concern is mops http://meaningness.com/metablog/geeks-mops-sociopaths …