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Let’s Talk About Cultural Appropriation

Forget about climate change, countries invading their peaceful neighbors, and the obesity epidemic. What really truly matters is performative wokeness.

Allan Milne Lees
7 min readMar 22, 2023
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In recent years, as the Politically Correct set have embraced intellectual apartheid, the list of proscribed items for heterosexual white people has steadily grown ever-longer. It is nearly impossible to parody the absurdity of neurotic wokist pretentiousness because its over-reach is so pronounced. But if we were forced to choose the most intellectually barren, incoherent, risible, and utterly negative example of PC performative posturing, it would surely be the ludicrous concept of cultural appropriation.

According to Wikipedia, cultural appropriation can be defined as: the inappropriate or unacknowledged adoption of an element or elements of one culture or identity by members of another culture or identity. This can be especially controversial when members of a dominant culture appropriate from minority cultures.

This is, however, an inadequate definition because as we shall see it omits the vital elements of mindless racism and total ignorance.

According to those who comprise the lefty-trendy wokist brigade, a white female US citizen wearing a…

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Allan Milne Lees
Allan Milne Lees

Written by Allan Milne Lees

Anyone who enjoys my articles here on Medium may be interested in my books Why Democracy Failed and The Praying Ape, both available from Amazon.

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