Culture Creatures

When appropriation isn't what they say it is:

activists insist that cultural appropriation can only go in one direction, i.e. by the dominant culture against "oppressed" cultures. And by that, they mean white people against minorities. They have no objection to white culture being appropriated, as it has been for centuries, around the globe. The aforementioned Helligar, who raged at Dumbo's caricatured black voices, doesn't object to the same movie's caricatured Italian voice in Timothy Q. Mouse, or the caricatured uneducated poor white voices in the circus clowns. The activists' argument, such as it is, is designed to make white people lose in either situation. If white people admire and adapt an aspect of minority culture, they're guilty of "appropriation." If white people dislike and resist aspects of minority culture, they're guilty of "xenophobia" and "white supremacy." Per leftist dogma, the whites must be the oppressors in every situation, and minorities must be the helpless victims.

Except when they aren't...