Even worse than that on the object-level: the original arguments on cultural appropriation were concerned about the cultural losses from Bollywood selling India back the funhouse mirror version of its own culture, not Americans in Bindis.
If you ever doubt the power of the motte-and-bailey technique, take a look at the convo around cultural appropriation & try to work out how we went from "definitely don't do blackface" to cyberbullying celebrities who wear chopsticks in their hair https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Motte_and_bailey …
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Basically a complete reversal from "we must not enforce a centrally approved culture" to "I am in charge of centrally approving culture"
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Instead of motte-and-bailey, isn't that a particular position taken to an extreme, so more like people burning the motte & never leaving the bailey? Anyway, agreed that this is so annoying. basically Kipling's "East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet"
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^but justified with postmodernism. It's a dangerous idea; that everyone gets an island & anyone who sails around is a racist. All of us today access & use tons of human history, culture, music, food, dress, etc & are the better for it.
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