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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 16 Apr 2017
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      Oh wait, that's the same thing, nvmd

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    2. Extraordinary Banana‏ @literalbanana 16 Apr 2017
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      the problem is "essentializing" is a close relative of "compression"

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 16 Apr 2017
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      This is an example that really annoyed me...in an attempt to compress what 'bindi' signifies, it essentializes it http://www.teenvogue.com/story/coachella-cultural-appropriation …

      3 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    4. Extraordinary Banana‏ @literalbanana 16 Apr 2017
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      oh man now I want to do those for generic pop cultural fashion things

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 16 Apr 2017
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      A part nat-am white woman once tweeted with zero irony, "don't use 'spirit animal', that's appropriation, use a word like avatar instead' :D

      1 reply 5 retweets 12 likes
    6. Extraordinary Banana‏ @literalbanana 16 Apr 2017
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      yeah I remember that - essentializing in the sense of fixing meanings and making them legible

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    7. Extraordinary Banana‏ @literalbanana 16 Apr 2017
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      I think before I lived in India I thought bindis had one particular fixed meaning and it was Extremely Spiritual

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    8. Extraordinary Banana‏ @literalbanana 16 Apr 2017
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      until people were like "uh it's a fashion"

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    9. Extraordinary Banana‏ @literalbanana 16 Apr 2017
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      also a pimple cream commercial that suggested that teens might cover a forehead pimple with a large bindi, suggesting low sacredness

      2 replies 1 retweet 5 likes
    10. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 16 Apr 2017
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      I have several such examples... :D

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 16 Apr 2017
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      The power gradient part of the argument is legit, but I think it is vastly overapplied outside of clear cases like rap and R&B

      12:28 PM - 16 Apr 2017
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        2. Extraordinary Banana‏ @literalbanana 16 Apr 2017
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          sorry no one will ever convince me that this is wrongly appropriativehttps://youtu.be/chzuvUFMeos 

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 16 Apr 2017
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          Of course not. There's no real power gradient between black and hmong :D

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