{"id":63137,"date":"2017-05-15T05:00:32","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T10:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63137"},"modified":"2017-05-14T20:42:18","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T01:42:18","slug":"appropriate-appropriation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63137","title":{"rendered":"Appropriate Appropriation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Aristotle explained the difference between dialectic and rhetoric.\u00a0 Higher learning has been a White Male tradition for thousands of years.\u00a0 White males in monasteries preserved the knowledge until White males at universities could share it with other White males.\u00a0 For anybody else <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cultural-appropriation-a-modest-proposal\/article\/2622055\">to go to college is cultural appropriation<\/a>and it\u2019s got to stop.<\/p>\n<p>I notice, by the way, that the author skips right over the historical context for the pasta he thinks his culture would claim. \u00a0That belongs to the Chinese. \u00a0He&#8217;ll have to go back to eating clams on sea weed or something more authentic.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If you&#8217;re reading English and are not descended from, well, the English, it&#8217;s time to go back to your own ancestral tongues.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a quarter Scots, so I&#8217;ll grandfather in. \u00a0Og jeg snakker lille Norsk, so jeg er OK..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Aristotle explained the difference between dialectic and rhetoric.\u00a0 Higher learning has been a White Male tradition for thousands of years.\u00a0 White males in monasteries preserved the knowledge until White males at universities could share it with other White males.\u00a0 For anybody else to go to college is cultural appropriationand [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63138,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63137\/revisions\/63138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}