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The conversation around cultural appropriation has been so diluted by younger generations jumping onto social justice without a full synthesis of what it all means. It takes away from the conversations surrounding appropriation stemming from colonization 1/
and turns it into a horseshoe of segregation. It lends to volkisch ideas of "only this race can practice this thing" but to the extreme end, where it wraps around to the idea that only white people can practice norse paganism, only greek people can practice greek paganism 2/
Thus the conversation goes from the actually important "don't steal from Indigenous cultures/ATR/closed practices" conversations, and instead turns it into "everything is closed and you're a racist if you don't have X blood in you" as it related to greek/norse/etc paganism. 3/
Not only is it ahistorical to say that X paganism required X blood, as we know that non-white people were in scandanavia, and that being "Roman" wasn't based on skin/blood, it's also incredibly reductive to boil it down to blood ancestry. 4/
AGAIN, this is NOT the same as saying "you can totally worship ATR spirits/deities/etc even if your family owned slaves uwu" that is NOT what I'm saying at ALL. What I AM saying is that we need to synthesize what cultural appropriation means and refers to before jumping 5/
down peoples throats when they say they work with multiple OPEN pantheons that we know HISTORICALLY had a lot of cultural exchange. (Greek and Egyptian history has a LOT of this.) I'm begging you, stop trying to woke-police everyone. It's not helping. 6/6
