Yeah, I realised I perhaps hadn't said quite what I needed to. Perhaps, "You don't need to excuse your outrage -- it's not as if people were abusing Jewish culture in the cause of genuine art, creating a true dilemma, they're abusing it in the cause of a tacky and pointless tourist trap."
I would have thought "cultural appropriation" would be when people pretended to participate in the culture, rather than just looking at it. The example I saw was if people who drank a glass of wine with dinner thought it was trendy to call it "communion", and have a little wafer with it, and pretend it had some spiritual significance. That they have a right to do that if they want, but it would be staggeringly insensitive to Christians.
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Date: 2008-11-12 02:41 pm (UTC)I would have thought "cultural appropriation" would be when people pretended to participate in the culture, rather than just looking at it. The example I saw was if people who drank a glass of wine with dinner thought it was trendy to call it "communion", and have a little wafer with it, and pretend it had some spiritual significance. That they have a right to do that if they want, but it would be staggeringly insensitive to Christians.