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Another of your mistakes is presuming that we can't do these things today because of some terrible past history, when infact there's still a lot of exploitation and marginalization of certain minorities today. History is a good enough reason too, but don't act like we are somehow past the point of our terribleness and therefore everyone should get an equal free reign on everything. You're still largely dealing with a privileged class whose culture isolates, contains, seeps into, and appropriates the culture and spaces of exploited classes.
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Boing posted:It's hard for me to think of 'reversed' examples of this because secular British people don't really hold anything sacred or important to the extent that other cultures might. The closest I can think of is something like if easterners saw David Beckham wearing his OBE medal and didn't know the context of it and thought it was just some trendy fashion thing, and started wearing cheap OBE knockoffs all the time everywhere. It doesn't happen as often, but it's very short-sighted to think that majority caucasian cultures don't have their own sacred symbols and rituals. One of them may even be just being white! http://gawker.com/redskins-fans-threaten-to-loving-cut-native-american-1640249549
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