I must lead an atypical life. I don’t encounter real humans who talk about ‘appropriation’ ‘‘white privilege’ or ‘racism’. These seem to be campus terms appropriated from the Marxist lingo of old white academic Lefties.
I saw the term ‘appropriation’ used by students in Boston to complain about a Monet painting displayed along with a kimono and fan for visitors to try-on. Supposedly ‘appropriating’ Japanese culture.
With this meaning of ‘appropriation’, the inadmissibility of any one culture using the the artifacts and symbols of another culture, we get a Luddite version of the 14th century. Even then many herbs, spices, minerals and fabrics travelled vast distances from one culture to another thousands of miles away. Retrospectively modern academia demands that that must be stopped.
Eliminate appropriation and the world starves without modern industrial agriculture that comes from a few Northern latitude cultures, the world dies of myriad diseases without modern multiculture medicine and pharmacy (primarily from the United States) and has only candle light with running messengers for primary communication. Most reading technology and writing technology has been appropriated from a few advanced cultures.
‘White privilege’ refers to the fact that people called ‘white’ developed most of modern industrial commerce and continue to be the most proficient people at the skills involved with that technology, such as running corporations, developing and introducing new technologies and understanding the theory, math and abstract concepts that produce more of modern industrial commerce.
So the modern Lefty academic won't take his/her Maserati or Lexus to be repaired at a Mexican auto repair shop. He won’t take his Cessna 180 airplane in for its 100 hour servicing to an Arab or Kenyan run airport hangar. Are such academics invoking White Privilege or are they just not stupid?
My readers will recognize my rude appropriation of Asians and Indians into my language of ‘white privilege’ because most Asians and overseas Indians are competent at all the managerial, technical, theory, math and abstract faculties that create modern industrial commerce.
Which brings us to ‘racism’. A term used by Lefties to discredit anyone they disagree with except Lefty American blacks who are the only people exempt from being labelled ‘racist’. (Non-Lefty blacks are of course ‘racists’.)
I worked at a black church for 11 years. The black church leaders in a private ceremony made me an honorary nigg-r. At the same time they explained that my reaction to being called a ‘racist’ should be to say ‘yes, I am’. They explained that no other response existed.
Of course in our ‘racist’ American society as defined by blacks in the White House, the Attorney General’s office and the Black Caucus in Congress we must ignore the fact that Asians and Indians dominate American college and university admissions our tech industries and our world of small business.
Racist’ only has one meaning: all non-Leftist non-black Americans. It has nothing to do with descendents of slaves. Barack Obama, half black with only a non-slave father is not racist, but Clarence Thomas raised by a family of all former dirt poor ex-slaves is a ‘racist’.
Roughly 6.7 billion people are born ‘racist’. Not a very good term for making demographic or ethnic distinctions.