COMMENT POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE GUARDIAN
It’s Halloween – time
to bring out the ‘cultural appropriation’ scare stories
Please, "cultural appropriation" is a term which
would be banned, had we any kind of authority looking after our powerful and beautiful
language.
But we don't have any authority, so a stream of idiocies
keeps creeping in, day by day. I'm not against new expressions, but they should
mean something.
I suppose the problem is not really grounded in
disintegrating language, but in disintegrating thinking of a large number of
people from the millennials.
"Cultural appropriation," like "conspiracy
theory," is one of those expression which work as a form of advertising,
words stuck together which seem to have substance at a glance but really carry
no more meaning than "gets clothes whiter than white."
