{"id":38365,"date":"2017-05-02T03:00:36","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T07:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=38365"},"modified":"2020-07-06T10:43:52","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T14:43:52","slug":"cultural-appropriation-to-the-max","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/05\/02\/cultural-appropriation-to-the-max\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultural appropriation, to the max!"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the latest issue of Libertarian Enterprise<\/em>, L. Neil Smith<\/a> talks about the logical conclusion to the cultural appropriation discussion:<\/p>\n

Not all of the transgressions that precious snowflake-thugs accuse real human beings of are sexual in nature. The most ludicrous I\u2019ve heard of is \u201ccultural appropriation\u201d. If I were sitting here, writing this in my sombrero and grass skirt, instead of a t-shirt and jeans, I would be guilty of it. If I adopt any custom, article of clothing, item of cuisine, (yes, chili beans are evil, and kung-pao is beyond the pale) or turn of phrase from another culture (G\u2019day, cobber!), I can be accused \u2014 and gotten rid of \u2014 by the Cult of Correctness.<\/p>\n

But here\u2019s the thing: there is no original American culture. The way we live \u2014 pass the spaghetti, please \u2014 is made up of bits and pieces from hundreds of different cultures, all mixed delightfully together. I can have Mexican beer \u2014 made by German brewers \u2014 with my pizza (or kung-pao) and my life is enriched. It is America\u2019s great strength. The leftist crybullies know this, of course. I think it may have been Ayn Rand (we appropriated her from Russia) who pointed out the underhanded collectivist tactic of attacking a person or thing for its virtues.<\/p>\n

If I eschew tableware (a French invention, I believe) and knap myself an obsidian knife before dinner, am I appropriating Neanderthal culture?<\/p>\n

They don\u2019t give a rat\u2019s ass; it\u2019s just another thing to get people they don\u2019t like with. Whether they know it or not (most likely they do not), their moral exemplars are Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, who infamously said \u201cProperty is theft.\u201d and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who commanded them to \u201cEat the rich.\u201d So deep and ancient is their resentment of the achievements of others and despite the fact that their ideological leaders have all hypocritically gorged themselves at the public trough, that they\u2019d insanely rather see the right-wing wealthy destroyed than have enough to eat, themselves. […]<\/p>\n

Proudhon and Rousseau are bandits on the highway of life, their \u201cphilosophies\u201d a crude attempt to render theft respectable. And their vile spawn, Anti-fa, are giving anarchism a bad name. And that is the naked, unvarnished truth. Life is hard enough without trying not to commit \u201cmicroaggressions\u201d which are simply another way of playing the leftist Gotcha!<\/em> game with people who actually work \u2014 and think \u2014 for a living. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the latest issue of Libertarian Enterprise, L. Neil Smith talks about the logical conclusion to the cultural appropriation discussion: Not all of the transgressions that precious snowflake-thugs accuse real human beings of are sexual in nature. The most ludicrous I\u2019ve heard of is \u201ccultural appropriation\u201d. If I were sitting here, writing this in my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,13],"tags":[52,1126,1382,238,1020,1182,932],"class_list":["post-38365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-usa","tag-absurd","tag-culturalappropriation","tag-lneilsmith","tag-offensensitivity","tag-progressives","tag-rousseau","tag-thecrazyyears"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9YN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38365"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58458,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38365\/revisions\/58458"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}