• Maeve
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    3524 days ago

    Supremacists always appropriate things. Ok symbol, sacred numbers/symbols, clothing, words, deities, and twist it to exclude.

    • @Underwaterbob@lemm.ee
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      724 days ago

      Yep. There are still swastikas all over Korea because it’s been associated with Buddhists for far longer than Hitler who appropriated it. Freaks out visiting westerners, though.

      • Maeve
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        1024 days ago

        It’s not just Buddhists. Asatru, Norse/Germanic cultures, too. It ticks me off we have to give up things sacred to us because they’ve been misused. Aleister Crowley reveled in it and played it to the hilt, though. Yeats was not amused.

    • @prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      23 days ago

      Because fascists have no creativity.

      As a general rule at least… I guess you can end up with a Leni Riefenstahl every now and then, but for the most part, if you were a good artist at the time in Germany, you were a target. And I guess one could call Josef Mengele “creative” if you remove all positive connotations from the word.

      • Maeve
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        123 days ago

        I had to wiki her, and read about Blue Light and her first propaganda film. And her “how could we know.” I guess for me it shows how easily anyone, dreamers and realists alike, can fall under the spell of skilled orators, especially the disenfranchised, wounded, left behind. Which is why I think it’s important to leave pettiness and insults behind and beneath us, and rise to healing language and honesty, first with ourselves, and then extended to our kindred. Because we are them and they are us. We just mirror our better and worst selves to each other. If what we see as the worst in ourselves repel us and cause us to use unconscionable language and tactics, why would our kindred react differently?

        I’m not talking about crimes against things or even necessarily institutions, but about crimes against humanity. The most poignant rl illustration I can refer to is the attempted genocide to the Jewish people, to now the near complete genocide of the Palestinian people. It was wrong then and it’s wrong now.

    • @rainrain@sh.itjust.works
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      524 days ago

      Everybody appropriates.

      This language that you are speaking is appropriated from a bunch of other languages and cultures.

      • @Saleh@feddit.org
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        624 days ago

        Is it appropriation if you treat people and their culture with respect? Because i dont think the issue here is how the KKK dresses. It is what they stand for ideologically and what they do. That is what makes it appropriation imo.

      • True, but there are nuances. Stealing a symbol and giving it new meaning by using it for a different purpose is obviously a worse kind of appropriation than adopting language and culture.

        • @rainrain@sh.itjust.works
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          324 days ago

          So it’s not just regular appropriation, it’s the bad kind of appropriation. Because they’re bad.

          Have I got that right?

          • Appropriation implies a form of exclusivity and denying the original’s validity. As in:

            KKK took that symbol and forever changed everyone’s association with it to their own org.

            It’s not appropriation to use a thing, it’s appropriation to treat your use of the thing as the correct/real one.

          • Maeve
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            224 days ago

            Yes. Cause it’s different when I do it. I really have to sit with this.