It is. I'll elaborate. The neonazis in France, Germany, Hungary, and other places with a growing nazi problem are calling for ethnostates. One country per ethnicity. No cultural exchange, no learning from other cultures, no exchange and most of all absolutely no exchange of people.

Now if you take the idiotic idea of "cultural appropriation" to its natural conclusion, you arrive at very nearly the same idea. Hermetically closed cultures separate from each other, no exchange. Everyone only gets to enjoy the culture they happen to be born in.

This is why it is racist. Because the separation of peoples and cultures is a racist idea.

Humanity absolutely thrives when cultures mix. The whole is so much more than the sum of its parts. Racism and bigotry cease to exist the more cultures and peoples mix. And I mean mix, not live separate lives that just happen to be in the same geographic location, just to be clear.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (10 children)

Now if you take the ~~idiotic~~ idea of "cultural appropriation" to ~~its natural conclusion~~ a ridiculous extreme, you arrive at very nearly the same idea

Fixed that for you.

Opposition to cultural insensitivity and reducing cultures to exploitable stereotypes ≠ advocating for segregation and only idiots and people arguing in bad faith would ever claim anything of the sort.

[–] vormadikter@startrek.website 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

There was this white singer that got uninvited by fff here in Germany because she wore dreadlocks. Cant have that when you are white it seems. No logical reason necessary, too. Can just brand it "cultural appropriation" and you're good. Oh shit, there is prove that greeks or wikings had dreadlocks? Nae, just gonna ignore that cause it doesnt fit my stereotypical views of the world.

The argument might seem overstreched, but shit like this happens.

[–] ErwinLottemann@feddit.de 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

and yet Carola Rackete was a welcomed visitor of fff. i didn't understand the reasoning behind the singer thing.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

There is none, it's all signal politics, shibboleth juggling. The same people also unironically use the term "BIPOC" in a German context without realising that it means Black and say Vietnamese Germans, includes organic potatoes, but excludes e.g. Turkish or Italian-Germans as they're neither black, indigenous, or "of colour".

They simply heard that term online used by their ingroup and now parrot it to signal that they're part of that ingroup.

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