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Spaghetti is cultural appropriation too

Cultural appropriation’: Dartmouth Greek system bans Indian head from public display

Any reference to American Indians must be banned. Also, ban spaghetti, tacos, sushi, cornbread...ban everything. Well, not everything. The old totalitarian notion was "Everything which is not forbidden will be mandatory."

So what about Roast Beef? And what about the English language, appropriated from the British isles?

Posted by The Barrister in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 18:29 | Comments (13) | Trackbacks (0)

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Dartmouth was founded as a mission to the Indians! Are references to this now prohibited?

Is there any reason for an intelligent white boy to go to college? Perhaps engineering or the physical sciences, but they require high intelligence

#1 bob sykes on 2016-02-05 18:59 (Reply)

I have an in-law with a trace of Indian ancestry who also has an ancestor who was involved in the founding of Dartmouth College.

#1.1 Gringo on 2016-02-06 14:37 (Reply)

My ancestors for thousands of years have had a tradition of appropriating culture. Are you now repressing my culture of cultural appropriation?

#2 Jerryskids on 2016-02-05 19:09 (Reply)

Exactly. Very enjoyable counter.

It's not about cultural appropriation. It's about posers showing that they know more about Vietnamese food or Native religions or colonialist atrocities than you do. Which they sometimes don't, actually. But they get to virtue-signal to their own tribe and look down on you.

#2.1 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2016-02-05 23:20 (Reply)

re And what about the English language, appropriated from the British isles

Heh.

Well said Barrister.

Touche!

#3 feeblemind on 2016-02-05 20:16 (Reply)

What about the whole concept of representative governing bodies, individual liberties, private property.

The very idea they can speak of cultural appropriation is a cultural appropriation of freedom of speech.

#4 JK Brown on 2016-02-05 21:22 (Reply)

Vietnamese, Chinese,and Japanese immigrants appropriate each other all the time. Pho and lo mein on the same menu? Kung pau and sushi? Miso and egg rolls? And they all appropriate American culture, really. It's like a melting pot or something.

#5 Jack Walter on 2016-02-05 22:09 (Reply)

"Any reference to American Indians must be banned."

If any mention of them risks being viewed as "cultural appropriation", better to just say nothing about them at all.

Ultimately, the consequence of such actions will be that native North Americans will have to vanish entirely from public consciousness.

Not sure how that's supposed to be "progressive".

#6 JJM on 2016-02-05 23:52 (Reply)

One does not need to look far to see appropriation across all of America. So much for America being one of a kind, when you all now deep down inside it was built from bits and pieces of everywhere else, by people from everywhere else.

So in the spirit of un-appropriation, I would ask that you please return the town names of New Braunfels, and Greune from Texas and Stuttgart and Ulm from Arkansas.

And since we're on the subject, kindly return the following German items: the Diesel engine, blue jeans (Levi Straus), Schlitz, Bush, Budweiser and...okay, ALL the beer. Chicken fried steak (wiener schnitzel), and those hot dogs (wurst) you enjoy so much.

And please stop sending your children to our kindergarten.

Last one out, please turn off the lights. Oh, and we'll take the light bulb back too. It was actually invented by Heinrich Göbel, not Edison.

Danke! :-)

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#7 Karl Horst (Germany) on 2016-02-06 01:15 (Reply)

Sorry, can't do that, Karl. Those items of German culture were appropriated into America by the predominate German ancestors. That "fly-over" country the coastal elite are always dissing is made up of mostly those who trace their heritage to Germany. Even more, if we consider the origins of the Anglo-Saxon English.

https://upworthy-production.s3.amazonaws.com/nugget/5228fb810fe612794a001236/attachments/USethnicities2.jpg

#7.1 JK Brown on 2016-02-06 09:17 (Reply)

Sorry, can't do that, Karl. Those items of German culture were appropriated into America by the predominate German ancestors.

While those items were brought to America by German immigrants, many Americans not of German ancestry "appropriated" them. New Braunfels and Greune were founded by German immigrants.

One of the more blatant examples of "appropriation" of German culture occurred in Texas, where the Hispanic residents of Texas adopted German/Central European musical forms- such as the polka- and musical instruments, such as the accordion. For example, we have Flaco Jimenez plays Polka Viva Seguin. Flaco comes from an accordion playing family, with his father Santiago Sr. and brother Santiago Jr. also being accordionistas of note.

What in northern Mexico is called Music Norteña [music of the North] freely "appropriates" from Tejano music, which freely "appropiriated" from German music.Polkas con cabrito - Braveros del Norte [Polkas w Roast Goat. Wild Men of the North]

#7.2 Gringo on 2016-02-06 15:27 (Reply)

"On Monday, Dartmouth’s Greek Leadership Council passed a new rule which forbids Greek houses from displaying the Dartmouth Indian head." Wait, isn't the repeated offensive use of "Greek" in this article cultural appropriation of the worst kind?

#8 Gwynne on 2016-02-06 11:37 (Reply)

Circle-jerk children's rationales offered as politically correct "higher thinking" by spoiled brats who've never been disciplined the old-fashioned way! Guys, adopting that sort of BS policy will not get you laid any easier, trust me!

Their time is coming. Wonder how many of them will survive?
After all, the truly wise Alpha guys have all the good weapons.

#9 OLd Codger on 2016-02-06 14:43 (Reply)

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