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What oppression?

Apr 28, 2023

I read Mattes' retort to Thi Nguyen and Strohl. He's arguing it's not intimacy, but oppression, that drives normativity around cultural appropriation. Undoubtedly, he's right. But what is oppression?

Honestly, it feels a bit vacuous, especially for such a topic. Cultural appropriation has a way of robbing you of your own essence. That it is tied to oppression is completely obvious and beside the point—it *is* oppression, and that is the reason why we even talk about it.

Philosophy is often a bit vacuous like that. Maybe the path to meaning is often through what feels like a bit of a void.

🏷 cultural appropriation

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