Poles Culturally Appropriate Metallica Song
Set yourself free from evil on #FreedomMusicFriday!
It’s #FreedomMusicFriday and I have a great song and beautiful video for you!
But first…
I have gotten a lot of new subscribers lately (thanks, y’all!), and so I would like to revisit a topic we have discussed here and there over the past year. I do not like the idea of you new folks being here and not knowing…
Just how much I hate the left’s doctrine of “cultural appropriation.”
Yes, I used the h-word. (Gasp!) It deserves to be hated.
If you really want to dive into that hot-hot hate, here are all the past pieces in which we have discussed the wickedness of saying that human beings are not “allowed” to engage in cultural exchanges, learning, sharing, and blending:
I Want You to Culturally Appropriate As Hard As You Can | Cultural-Appropriation Nachos on the Prairie | Chosen Destinies and Culturally Appropriated Breakfasts | Riding Horses Is Cultural Appropriation | Sorcery, Stupidity, and Nachos | American Rapper REACTS to Eivør's 'Trollabundin' | The Virtue-Signaling Industrial Complex
If you prefer a quicker tour, I have excerpted the most important bits below—just a few of the reasons why, of all the vile emanations from vile ideologies, few are as vile as the vile doctrine of cultural appropriation.
So read the excerpt and then enjoy the song, below, in which four beautiful women with beautiful voices do a really cool cover of “Nothing Else Matters” by Metallica. Y’know—viciously appropriating, all the way from Poland, the products of another culture.
And one more thing before we get to the excerpt… If you are a believer in this disgusting, anti-human doctrine, and you want to “educate” me as to the ‘fact’ that it’s not cultural appropriation because it’s “white people doing it to other white people,” you might want to look up “proving my point” in the dictionary. You may see your picture there.
Or you could just look in the mirror and ask your reflection why you allowed yourself to be seduced by this evil garbage.
Or you could set yourself free from it, and enjoy some beautiful music here on #FreedomMusicFriday!
Your choice.
Excerpt…
[I want you to] realize just how wicked it is to assail someone for “culturally appropriating.”
Then go out and do all the cultural appropriating you can…
Put some Bulgarian folk music on the stereo, don a pair of lederhosen, make a stack of French toast and Belgian waffles, cover ‘em in Georgia peaches, and pair it with a margarita and a Cuban cigar.
Because telling people that they are not allowed to learn and adopt from other cultures is just plain evil.
Yes, I said evil. Think about it…
Humans are an ultra-social species. All the progress we see around us required human cooperation—choosing to interact and trade rather than hiding in the trees and occasionally clubbing others and taking their stuff. Yes, some people still use the latter strategy, but most do not. If most did, we would not be where we are today.
So go back to the beginning. We were ultra-social, but only within the smallest of kin-bands. Then we widened that circle just a little. The river people started trading with the hill people. Larger clans formed. Then tribes, chiefdoms, city states, and ultimately, the large, multi-ethnic nations of today.
At every step along the way, we have been “appropriating” each other’s “culture.”
You put a barb at the end of your fishing spear? Wow, yeah, that must work way better!
How did you get that color blue? What the heck is “woad”? I want some!
What do you call it—penicillin? I’ll take 3,000 cases!
Everyone benefits from everyone else’s discoveries. Everyone benefits from everyone else’s cultures.
The internal combustion engine may have first been made by one genius person, but it also depended on previous inventions and discoveries—and the sharing thereof!—by many others from many different cultures. Contributions were made to the Enlightenment from philosophers and thinkers not only from many lands, but from many different time periods.
To attack any aspect of this natural human process—to say that it is wrong for people of different cultures to share—is evil. Plain and simple.
And this evil doctrine immediately raises so many obvious questions (or at least it should):
How granular do we get when defining a discrete “culture”?
Do we just go with the major racial groupings? Do we divide by country? By ethnic group? By tribe? Those can get pretty granular. Are the Iceni no longer allowed to trade with the Catuvellauni? Must the hill people forever stay in the hills? Must they stop using the spear-fishing techniques they learned from the river people? Are only white people allowed to use penicillin? Or only Scots? Or only people who can trace their lineage back to the same clan as Alexander Fleming?
Is there anything that can be traded back and forth among people, or is everything off limits?
Can I no longer put pepper on my food?
Do we apply the doctrine uniformly?
Does this apply to everyone equally? Do we tell the world’s most famous cellist, Yo-Yo Ma, that henceforward he can only play traditional Chinese instruments like the erhu? Do we have to check to see whether the erhu is Chin or Han in origin?
Or, is it only white people who are not allowed to “appropriate culture”?
What if it is a white person whose grandparents worked in a mining camp in Peru, and who grew up in Lima? Must she stop cooking the food she’s always cooked, speaking the languages she’s always spoken, and wearing the clothes she’s always worn? What “white” culture should she then adopt? English? German? Italian? Are the people around her “white”? Does a Peruvian of Spanish extraction who speaks Quechua have to stop?
Racial purity
How do we figure out who is what? What if someone is born of a black mother and white father? What culture must he stick to? What if someone is 1/8th Hopi, 1/8th Mexican, and the rest “white”? Do we apply racial purity tests? Do we have to dig even deeper, to find out whether the Mexican part is more Spanish or more indigenous?
Do we bring back the one-drop rule? If so, for whom? Is it to check to see if anyone is even “one drop” white—and thus not allowed to “appropriate”? Or to see if a person is “one drop” of another racial or ethnic group, and thus exempt? Or do we just judge people by what we see on their skin?
If the concept of cultural appropriation is supposed to apply to everyone, it is profoundly anti-human.
If it is only supposed to apply to whites, it is dangerously racist.
Either way, if the Devil himself were trying to think up evil new ways to sow chaos and hatred, cultural appropriation would be on his list.
Enjoy the freedom to enjoy! To share! To blend!
“Infinite diversity from infinite combinations.” That is real diversity.
The Lefties are always looking for ways to be somebody else's "hero," even when the "somebody else" doesn't want their damnable help. Jason Riley, a black Wall St Journal writer & commentator, wrote a fine book titled "Please Stop Helping Us" on this theme.
"Cultural appropriation" is the ultimate compliment to another culture -- it's not 'theft'.
Old aphorism: Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Absolutely agree with you! Cultural appropriation is evil and Harmful scam. We're enriching our lives by absorbing other cultures' products.
I love French music and Italian food, Chinese philosophy of Tao and yeah Mexican Day of the Dead, so the Left could stick their cultural appropriation where sun don't shine.