Culture appropriation is problematic. But it’s not as problematic as young people misunderstanding it, and doing the heavy lifting for White Nationalists.
Appropriation is a problem. But preventing the collaboration of cultures in infusion of new ideas because of the color of one’s skin, is the wet dream that our The Fake Left has given to Neo Nazis.
They didn’t mean to. But it’s the awkward wedding can not be denied when Donald Trump is president, and The Left will put more effort into fighting each other with sophomoric Marxist theories and passive aggression than actually taking on The Beast that has us under their jackboot and twitterbrella.
Divide and conquer my friends. The Left pushing a brand of segregation and questioning the validity of Martin Luther King and winning message of Love and protest.
And it is because the skunk works of COINTELPRO have new life on the interwebs and propaganda functions like new on fresh generations who are told it’s the Right Thing to do.
Destroy.
I want to write a series of you might call them rants along the lines of Too Woke To Win.
I am a member of the Left, a true Scotsman if you will (wink). I love history and how it always seem to rhyme and I dislike how each generation falls for the same tricks, especially when for the first time, the tricks have all been published and are accessible via the phones that otherwise enslave us.
The rabbit holes are deep. But my motivations for reason are quite shallow.
Simply stop accidentally working for the betterment of a Neo Nazi future because you think you are Woke. Nobody is more “Woke” than Kanye and look at him now, furthering the stakes of White Nationalists and Evangelicals that espouse a Prosperity Theology Jesus allegedly went full Fred Durst on in a Synagogue, turning money lenders tables upside down, scattering coins like the shrapnel it represents.
It’s almost as bad as the nihilist Armageddon of Evangelicals that Trump represents and Kanye is selling that is little more than the smash and grab pillaging of Vandals coming for New Rome.
How does that relate to cultural appropriation? Combine the best ideas with the best people who will collaborate with you. Credit them, help them, and honor the dead who we steal from fair and square. Say their names and make art and inventions and agreements and solutions that uplift rather than tarnish your memory.
Appropriate well my friends. Save the world by doing so. Copyright laws and patents and the Woke have been weaponized against progress, but they are weak as history proves.
….and if you get one thing from this, always ask yourself,
“How does this stand I am going to make, accidentally and otherwise benefit the empty vessel of Hate that is Adolph Hitler.”
Nazism is the most empty of ideology. It shows the danger of cultural appropriation without credit that is the swastika and his Eagle and his salute.
It is a Pirate ship to be filled but that which can be sunk with one resplendent thought,
“Yo dude, if you are going to steal the all that art from Brown folks in India, can ya at least credit them.”
Which of course destroys that empty ship in the harbor.
Of course back then Germans did not have Google and the fact they were hardly a cohesive country was part of the illusion of the blank canvas of living without history.
But yet in the ying and yang and the technology that gave men of Hitler’s age Uber weapons that are still our shadow, Google is part of a superstructure erasing the analog as fast as it is digitized.
Where did those newspapers go to fight the next Hitler?
I guess they must have been appropriated.
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