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[โ€“] webadict@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Nobody has ever yelled at me for eating or posting a picture of my American Midwest grocery store sushi, get the fuck outta here.

The irony here is that the term cultural appropriation has been politically appropriated, the same way that many of these explorative racial theories are, like woke, like social justice, like critical race theory. They are taken from their academic settings and eventually used to suppress actual concerns raised by denegrating it and reducing it to something that is both laughable and fundamentally not what it is.

[โ€“] lurklurk@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

oh yeah, as an academic term it's probably useful