TheRealKuni

Patternless. Plain white. Which works well, because if you break a plate you don’t have to worry about whether they still make that pattern.

In the Netherlands? What a shame to learn that level Americanesque idiocy has found a foothold.

(Sorry, I didn’t intend to write an essay here. It just sort of happened. This is a subject I have some amount of passion about.)

I can see where you’re coming from. I’m probably a little triggered by the word. I find the idea that any use of or participation in another culture is “appropriation” to be problematic.

Culture and language (which are largely inextricable from one another) are meant to be shared. That’s their entire purpose. If you participate in aspects of someone else’s culture in a respectful way, that isn’t appropriation. Appropriation, rather, is one part of the broad spectrum of behavior with regard to other cultures.

Humans do this innately. We adjust our manners of speech and behavior subconsciously to better reflect that of those around us. We are social creatures and by nature will act like those we interact with.

Societal views operate on pendulum swings, going from extreme to extreme around the nuanced truth. We went, as a society, from “acting however you want about other cultures is fine, even if it’s offensive,” an unhealthy extreme, to “participating in a culture not your own is not okay and is always offensive,” an equally unhealthy extreme. We like extremes because they are easy to categorize and require much less brainpower to contemplate. They are mental shortcuts our brains make.

But the world doesn’t operate on those extremes. The world is a nuanced place.

An example: a Nigerian-American opera singer was telling me about a time he was teaching a spiritual to a choir of white people. He corrected them when they said ‘they’ instead of ‘dey,’ saying, “The West African slaves who sang these didn’t use the ‘TH’ sound, it didn’t exist in the languages they had grown up with or the accents they had handed down. The proper way to approach this song is to sing it like they would. So you should say ‘dey’ instead of ‘they.’”

But this idea made many of the white singers uncomfortable, because we have shifted to seeing that type of cultural mimicry as offensive. I have seen white people even suggest that they shouldn’t sing spirituals at all, an idea that same Nigerian-American singer found silly. Singing is a way that humans connect with one another, and the best way to do it is to do it as genuinely as possible. It’s a shared experience. But where we are as a society these days, we find that uncomfortable.

And it’s understandable we do, because the extreme, blackface minstrel shows, is rightly seen as horribly offensive. But accurately performing a spiritual is so far removed from the horribly offensive and inaccurate mockery that were minstrel shows that the comparison isn’t a useful one.

We should strive to understand context, strive to be respectful, but also strive to share in the culture of others in constructive ways.

(Also, not that this matters at all on Lemmy, but for the record I wasn’t the one who downvoted you; I upvoted you. I like constructive conversation. 😅)

Edit: fixed a mistake

Yeah but the steak breakfast Crunchwrap (with extra creamy jalapeño sauce) is still the best fast food drivethru breakfast I’ve found.

Man. I like wraparound sunglasses. They keep the sun out of the corners of my eyes.

My brother-in-law once said to me, rightly, “We gotta find you some sunglasses that make you look less…Republican.”

Conservatives ruin everything.

The use of the word “appropriation” and “appropriated” seems unnecessary when discussing someone’s name, IMO. Especially given you also used the phrase “a celebration of the Western Australian aboriginal culture.”

The connotation of “appropriation” just doesn’t fit.

This is an old screenshot. The Quesarito, God rest its soul, has been gone for a while. And the scroll at the bottom is talking about George Floyd.

I must admit I love my P1S. It makes me torn, I don’t like the locked down nature of the firmware and slicer, but at the same time, their stuff is damn good for its price.

It’s getting closer and closer. A good modern printer is largely fire-and-forget. Still takes some know-how, but far less than it used to.

if you think someone not being genetically of Jewish decent would spare them while they were living in a practicing household, then you’d be similarly misinformed on how bigotry functions

Where did I say that, or anything like it?

Being a Jew isn’t about genetics. It’s a fucking religion first and foremost.

Oh, well in that case, Hitler still wasn’t Jewish. He was raised Catholic. Later described himself as “not a Catholic and not a Protestant, but a German Christian.”

So how do you interpret someone saying “Kind of how Hitler was Jewish”? Seeing as how he wasn’t part of the religion, and given how “Jewish” is both a religion and an ethnicity? Because I interpret that as someone saying he’s part of the ethnicity, which was long rumored, and which was very recently shown not to be the case.

Do you think Hitler really cared about lineage when he was clearing out Jewish homes?

Yes? Eugenics was a big part of Nazi ideology.

New genetic analysis has shown that Hitler had no Jewish ancestry.

He did however have Kallmann Syndrome, a genetic sexual disorder characterized by an incomplete puberty, as well as genetic markers making him more likely than the general population to have had autism, schizophrenia, and/or bipolar disorder.

Fuck off, you groomed your stepdaughter and fathered children with her. No one should give a flying fuck what racist shit you spout.

Bruh. Try therapy. Air those very concerns if you’re worried about them.

The way I like to think about therapy is you’re paying for access to a second brain, a well-trained one, to help you think through stuff. A good therapist guides you instead of leading you.

Yeah it’s horrific to me that that’s considered a perk. There is so much wrong with the American prison system but that…that’s wild.

Also in some cases it gives them a built-in sense of community and belonging, something they haven’t experienced. The documentary Behind the Curve does a good job of pitying flat earthers rather than just ridiculing them. (Though they are absolutely subject to ridicule.)

They need to be deep cycle marine batteries for that!

You mean the Series X?

It’s about the same footprint but much shorter.

My understanding of volume is awful. 3.8L sounds so much bigger than the volume described by 16.2 x 15.6 x 15.2cm. Like, my brain goes, “that’s almost two 2L bottles and those are huge!”

Like I said, Protestant churches come in many flavors. MANY flavors.

What you’re saying is like, “Every quadrilateral I’ve seen lately has four equal sides and four right angles, I think you’re wrong about them only needing four sides.”

Evangelicals are (generally) Protestants (although “Evangelical” isn’t really any sort of organized body but rather something people identify as), but not all Protestants identify as Evangelicals. Those who preach the Prosperity Gospel would profess to be Protestant or Evangelical, but not all Protestants or even all Evangelicals buy into Prosperity Gospel.

Again, the most progressive denominations of Christianity are Protestant. That said, so are the least progressive denominations. It’s a huge category.