This is what I mean when I say she's not just a bad writer and a bigoted person but profoundly lazy Her worldview is shaped by this amazingly self-confident willingness to just glance at something once or twice and be sure she understands as much of it as she needs to
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Was there ever any need to go back and look up what "Alohomora" meant? Nah Was there ever any worry that someone from the culture she was shamelessly lifting from might be offended or take issue with her? Nah Just plow on ahead, Jo, let your imagination be your compass
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Go ahead and name that girl "Cho Chang" Who the fuck cares It sounds like a name to you and that's all that matters
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Lol I went back to get the full context of the original quote where she scolds Steve Vander Ark for getting the etymology of Alohomora "wrong" (he guessed it came from "aloha") and Jesus Christ the sheer audacitypic.twitter.com/Gmyp2RPtne
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"Maybe he should do some actual research" Jfc listen to yourself woman
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"Let your imagination be your compass"....FANTASY. And there was no such nonsense for what passes for "cultural appropriation" when she wrote the novels. How can you accuse her of a crime that didn't exist when she allegedly committed it? Furthermore, if there was no"Cho Chang"
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What? Here’s the Lakota Nation, in 1993, passing a resolution against exploiters of Lakota spirituality.https://web.archive.org/web/20160209203058/http://www.thepeoplespaths.net/articles/ladecwar.htm …
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Yeah Wikipedia's summary argues that the term was first defined (under the similar name "cultural colonialism") in Western academia in 1976, "cultural appropriation" became the more common term in the 80s
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But obviously the *concept* is much older, and known by people who aren't lefty academics Everyone knows that it's fucking cringe to fake some deep connection to a culture you don't have when it's a culture they care about
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To be fair, historically speaking, English people have not known that.
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They certainly know it when it's *their* culture being appropriated They still won't fucking shut up about Dick van Dyke's accent in Mary Poppins decades later
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There's no excuse for claiming British people were unaware of debates about colonial appropriation in the 1990s. The fucking Stone of Scone was repatriated in 1996, FFS.
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