Argumentative Penguin
2 min readFeb 19, 2023

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My culture was not brutally imposed on anyone, you have no idea what my culture is because you have no idea what it is. You've gone to the standard assumption I'm a white British man because that's the 'bad guy' you need me to be. I could be Black British, British Asian, British-Indian, mixed race or any combination of the above; but this doesn't work for you. My language(s) was brutally imposed upon a number of African slaves - but it wasn't imposed upon the indigenous South American tribes. As I pointed out and you've ignored, history is a little more complicated and nuanced than this - but both you and the OP fail to do any cultural differentiation between white Americans and Europeans.

I write what I think whenever I'm presented with something, because if you write in the public sphere you are leaving your thoughts open to comment. I read everything and respond with what I think to everyone on all subject matters. The reason you think I'm 'skimming audiences' is because you're presumably only reading black and brown writers and that's where you see my comments, if you were to venture out of the little bubble of writing you find psychologically comforting by virtue of the fact it only reflects what you think - you'd realise this.

I have plenty of ability and the necessary empathy, curiosity and understanding to bridge differences - but not when those differences are being used as a political weapon that generates more intolerance in the world - as I firmly believe identity politics does. It's not that there aren't instances of cultural appropriation that are insensitive or questionable, it's simply that asserting 'cultural appropriation is wrong' without defining those parameters or questioning why you might think such a thing is short-sighted. Put simply, it's just a two word phrase to attack 'white people' - and as the OP demonstrated, there's no difference in your mind between the Spanish, Portuguese and British - and it doesn't really matter what my skin colour is in reality. That I am the enemy for daring to dissent is all you need to know.

Also, dandelion, very tasty. From the French dent-de-lion. Lion tooth. Culturally appropriated, spit it out.

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Argumentative Penguin
Argumentative Penguin

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