From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #5045 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Tuesday, September 29 2020 Volume 14 : Number 5045 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Kidney Disease Solution uncovered: Get all the facts. ["**The Kidney Dise] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 09:49:01 -0400 From: "**The Kidney Disease Solution**" Subject: Kidney Disease Solution uncovered: Get all the facts. Kidney Disease Solution uncovered: Get all the facts. http://diseasino.buzz/WoVFTT27YnjBjbZvotevQB5n4YsxUO9vr1tqcQiLs5Q_KcxT http://diseasino.buzz/Y6iQl8OsTLy8WNNKqzX-w0BGrGAgojeoVzdGlXpupl8Xzj4R a hashtag used by some people of South Asian descent who wear traditional garb, and object to its use by people not of their culture. At the 2014 Coachella festival one of the most noted fashion trends was the bindi, a traditional Hindu head mark. As pictures of the festival surfaced online there was public controversy over the casual wearing of the bindi by non-Indian individuals who did not understand the meaning behind it. Reclaim the Bindi Week is an event which seeks to promote the traditional cultural significance of the bindi and combat its use as a fashion statement. Criticism of the concept John McWhorter, a professor at Columbia University, criticized the concept in 2014, arguing that cultural borrowing and cross-fertilization is a generally positive thing and is something which is usually done out of admiration, and with no intent to harm, the cultures being imitated; he also argued that the specific term "appropriation", which can mean theft, is misleading when applied to something like culture that is not seen by all as a limited resource. In 2018, conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg described cultural appropriation as a positive thing and dismissed opposition to it as a product of some people's desire to be offended. Kwame Anthony Appiah, ethics columnist for the New York Times, said that the term cultural appropriation incorrectly labels contemptuous behavior as a property crime. According to Appiah, "The key question in the use of symbols or regalia associated with another identity group is not: What are my rights of ownership? Rather it's: Are my actions disrespectful?" In 2017, Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson described cultural appropriation as "nonsense" and said that with the exception of theft, "there's no difference between cultural appropriation and learning from each other". In 2016, author Lionel Shriver asserted the right of authors from a cultural majority to write in the voice of someone from a cultural minority, attacking the idea that this constitutes cultural appropriation. Referring to a case in which U.S. college students were facing disciplinary action for wearing sombreros to a "tequila party", she said: "The moral of the ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #5045 **********************************************