oh shit cultural appropriation is open borders for egregores
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What do you call it when a more powerful group takes a symbol that has meaning to a less powerful group, and decides to make it mean something else so they don't have to deal with the old idea? Like Easter is now seen as a Christian holiday
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or like when normies took Online away from the weirdos
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But what do you call that besides "Eternal September"? Since you don't like the term everyone else is using
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death of the author, I guess what do you call it when a less-powerful group takes an idea from a more powerful one and makes something new of it? why is power even really particularly important here?
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it seems like you might be concerned with discrete cases of people being assholes, which I agree are bad! but the "cultural appropriation" meme is in practice a sledgehammer applied to a problem that might be better excised with a lancet or a simple entreaty to not be a dick
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the entire point of philosophy is that ideas never had actual borders to begin with other than Stupidity, which may be the only true, human universal
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