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Commentary: My nephew tried to school me on cultural appropriation. It didn't end well.
Chicago Tribune ^ | Jack VanNoord

Posted on 09/01/2018 10:49:41 AM PDT by bk1000

They got him. Just as I feared they would.

My nephew Kyle came to live with us this summer after his freshman year of college. Apparently he’s now a deputized member of the cultural-appropriation police.

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TOPICS: Education; Humor; Society
KEYWORDS: chicago; chicagotribune; illinois; jackvannoord
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Hilarious. The guy has provided his nephew a much needed education.
1 posted on 09/01/2018 10:49:41 AM PDT by bk1000
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To: bk1000

Should’ve sent him to basic training instead.


2 posted on 09/01/2018 10:52:07 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

lol

I’m 50. Tried to join Nat. Guard after 9/11 but at 5 10, 250, they said beat it fatso.

I wish i had gone into the military instead of college.

Would have given me much needed discipline and saved ME lots of GRIEF in life!!

Wouldn’t be the worst thing to reinstate mandatory.


3 posted on 09/01/2018 10:55:11 AM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: bk1000

Wish it were true.


4 posted on 09/01/2018 10:55:46 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: bk1000

Stupid article. No way it’s a true story.


5 posted on 09/01/2018 10:56:12 AM PDT by dinodino
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To: bk1000

ROFL/LOL outstanding! Sounds like that boy is ripe for becoming a conservative with the right counter-education.


6 posted on 09/01/2018 10:58:52 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #cishet #MyPresident #MAGA #Winning #covfefe)
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To: bk1000
🤣😂 (are emojis appropriated?)
7 posted on 09/01/2018 11:00:41 AM PDT by weston (As far as I'm concerned, it's Christ or nothing)
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To: bk1000

Very funny. Cultural appropriation is definitely one of the many places where the left has gone off the deep end.


8 posted on 09/01/2018 11:01:05 AM PDT by Behind the Blue Wall
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To: dinodino

Wait till the barrio finds out Tres Equis beer is the result of German brewers in Mexico.


9 posted on 09/01/2018 11:03:11 AM PDT by DaxtonBrown
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To: dinodino

I also doubt it’s true, but as a teacher, I’m sure this guy makes use of every opportunity to tease his students over the cultural appropriation nonsense.


10 posted on 09/01/2018 11:06:34 AM PDT by Twotone
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To: bk1000

Funny story!


11 posted on 09/01/2018 11:11:13 AM PDT by gattaca ("Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives." Ronald Reagan)
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“Cultural appropriation” might be a valid accusation for something like a middle-aged white woman paying $3,000 to be trained as a Native American “shaman” during a three-day course, but in most cases it’s absolute BS.


12 posted on 09/01/2018 11:12:16 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: dinodino

Lighten up Francis

https://youtu.be/C6cxNR9ML8k


13 posted on 09/01/2018 11:13:21 AM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Wisdom and education are different things. Don't confuse them.)
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To: bk1000

That is funny.

We’ve thought about pointing out to all of these aggrieved snowflakes that if they speak English, they are appropriating our culture (if they are not Anglo-Saxons). Plus, they are appropriating our culture any time they wear jeans, t-shirts, etc.

Humans take ideas from each other. We’ve always done it.


14 posted on 09/01/2018 11:20:46 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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Cultural appropriation is natural to our culture. We invent things, and after work we go eat Italian. Or Thai. Then we work out at the dojo.

We take the parts of your culture we like, and make them ours. Its how we are. If you don’t like it, tough.


15 posted on 09/01/2018 11:24:33 AM PDT by marron
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To: dp0622
Wouldn’t be the worst thing to reinstate mandatory.

Maybe not the worst but bad enough to not do it.

16 posted on 09/01/2018 11:25:17 AM PDT by xone
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I wish i had gone into the military instead of college.

Me, too. It's one of the great regrets of my life.

17 posted on 09/01/2018 11:26:00 AM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: dinodino

No.
Is joke.
Dave Barry did this sort of thing better though.


18 posted on 09/01/2018 11:33:17 AM PDT by buwaya
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To: Skooz

Regrets smegrets; it is not all that - and depending on the time of service you could very well have come out in a body bag, pieces no one ever finds, missing various bits and part of your body, psychologically injured/damaged and never recover, what you could have been gone forever from the trauma.

In any case, the you that went in would not be the you that comes back good or bad.


19 posted on 09/01/2018 11:35:05 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: marron

Any culture.
What is Hunan cuisine?
Where did their chilies come from?


20 posted on 09/01/2018 11:36:43 AM PDT by buwaya
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