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To: TimF who wrote (84677)	7/19/2018 12:27:16 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 364382

Shutting down campus in the face of riots is for safety- not PC. You can't object (I would think) to people freely organizing- and sometimes those people will be violent. When the violence becomes dangerous, colleges generally don't want the liability. That's a business decision, not PC. Cultural appropriation really is more of a discussion piece, and personal judgment than it is institutionalized- in which case, how could you object to personal decisions made by free people about what is cultural appropriation? And how is that not rude, at times. Some people have zero judgment- wearing a tattoo of a holocaust survivor on your wrist as part of your Halloween costume is cultural appropriation, for example- it's offensive and bad manners, as are other types of cultural appropriation (and it's usually a dominant culture appropriating the culture of a victimized culture). I think the Netflix rules are probably pretty good. There are a lot of different cultures working at Netflix and they're probably trying to avoid conflict- that's efficiency, rather than PC. Rather than telling all the men, "Hey, morons, don't harass women at work- most of them don't want to give you their phone number." They make a no phone number policy. Maybe you've never been hit on at work- if so, go you, what a privilege- but for women who have, and some get hit on a lot, it's a breath of fresh air not to have complete morons asking for your phone number, causing you to have that awkward think about, do I tell them no? Do I give them a fake one? Do I tell them I don't have a phone? You have a lack of imagination about this, maybe because (I'm guessing) as a white male and a privileged member of our society you've never really been victimized- except, perhaps, for being weird- and that's hardly a global issue but a personal one and you may feel it's unfair that groups get special treatment when odd individuals done, even if, as a life long carrier of a "white" card, you've already benefited your whole life- often not even realizing it. You also seem to have a predisposition to dislike "PC"- even when it really isn't PC- in many cases it's just a practical way to limit problematic behavior in the workplace because there are a lot of naive idiots out there. And the demonstrations against Weinstein is political, not really PC. Maybe you could give an example of someone being arrested for "PC" stuff- hopefully you're not talking about Germany and their holocaust rules, because that goes way beyond the level of what I would call "PC".

To: TimF who wrote (84677)	7/19/2018 12:27:17 PM
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Cultural Appropriation Column Costs Magazine Editor His Job Hal Niedzviecki said literature becomes “exhaustingly white and middle class” when writers are discouraged from writing about other cultures Jon Miltimore \| May 11, 2017 Via National Post: The editor of the Writers’ Union of Canada’s magazine has resigned after complaints over an article he wrote in which he said he doesn’t believe in cultural appropriation. Hal Niedzviecki, editor of Write — a publication for the union’s members — published an opinion piece in the spring 2017 issue titled “Writer’s Prompt.” In the article, in an issue dedicated to indigenous writing, Niedzviecki wrote: “In my opinion, anyone, anywhere, should be encouraged to imagine other peoples, other cultures, other identities. “I’d go so far as to say there should even be an award for doing so — the Appropriation Prize for best book by an author who writes about people who aren’t even remotely like her or him.” This apparently was too much for the Writer’s Union of Canada, who on Wednesday issued an apology for the piece and announced Niedzviecki’s resignation. We’ve written about cultural appropriation—defined as “the adoption or use of the elements of one culture by members of another culture”—on many occasions, noting that it’s getting a bit out of hand. As the New York Times has pointed out, “It’s a truth only selectively acknowledged that all cultures are mongrel.” In other words, cultures borrow from one another; they always have. Yet from hoop earrings to dreadlocks (see below), we’ve seen much ado when people of the “wrong” ethnic background choose to express themselves in a particular way. It has been argued that this particular type of political correctness has essentially destroyed the idea of America as a melting pot. Perhaps the greatest irony here is that Niedzviecki’s critique of cultural appropriation was motivated by his belief that it stifled racial, gender, and class diversity (the Holy Trinity of the New Left). As National Post points out, Niedzviecki complained in his article that Canadian literature is “exhaustingly white and middle class” since writers are discouraged from writing creatively from the perspective of other cultures. One might be tempted to relish the fact that a perpetuator of identity politics was eaten by his own. Alas, we should not. There are no winners in a cultural trend that smothers free expression and creativity. intellectualtakeout.org