cultural appropriation has gotten deeply confused as a topic, and it doesn't help that it was poorly named; it was never about appropriating things from other cultures, which happens all the time. it's about profaning what other cultures regard as sacred
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only sacred to the Red Tribe, i think? in the
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True. At first I thought it might be more universal because of the sacrifice associated with it, but then I realized one man's sacrifice is another's colonialist expedition.
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