“Cultural Appropriation” has reared it’s sombrero-sporting head in the literary community once again in another series of critiques and critiques of critiques and critiques of critiquing and those doing the critiquing, over something that should, in the end, be a fairly straightforward caution for authors to just get it right, that somehow never ends up that simple.
Rather than attempt to spill more words into this never-ending tumult, I instead present a series of videos in defense of “Cultural Appropriation:”
So white dudes can’t rap…
This is really problematic…
If this isn’t cultural imperialism, I don’t know what is…
A university costume party goes really off the rails…
This has to be because we nuked Japan…
…or this is…
Italy, Fascism, Eastwood, that empty chair, it all makes sense now…
A movie this fun must be bad for you…
That don’t look like Deep Purple…
And we all know country music is problematic…
