“Fashion’s Cultural-Appropriation Debate: Pointless”
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1 min readFeb 9, 2015
“The popular chorus of cultural appropriation! cultural appreciation! quickly becomes a performance, in which neither side misses a cue nor forgets a well-learned line. This continues for several days and maybe weeks until it peters out or until the next racist fashion event crops up — whichever comes first. The debate around the event often gets more press and social-media attention than the event did itself, and nobody seems to change opinions for the next go-round.”
This sounds like a lot of unproductive conversations — I think the root cause is that we aren’t ever listening to one another, or communicating to or with people who don’t agree with us
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