as always, a reminder: <clap emoji spacing> CULTURAL APPROPRIATION IS NOT A THING </> or rather, to the extent that it is, it's a good, desirable, and natural thing—a thing the mammalian neocortex is *literally purpose-built to do*https://twitter.com/popehat/status/990655767475716096 …
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always a bemusing overlap between the "cultural appropriation is not okay!" crowd and socialist-sympathetic / copyleft types. you need to pick one
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one of my favorite complaints too is that it's considered fundamentally objectionable that cultural aspects are cherrypicked. this is a core complaint the anti's have like yes this is how it works. we extract the useful and the novel from the not. welcome to having a neocortex
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my hobby: reply to all cries of muh cultural appropriation with "do you even neocortex" (a la
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