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    1 year ago

    Simple. He saw people make dark jokes, probably to deal with the grim reality they are stuck in, entirely misunderstood the complete process (reasoning, humorous device, etc), and decided to appropriate them anyway as he saw them as “one of the ways to get immunity”.

    As I always say: the real issue in appropriation isn’t the appropriation in itself; it’s that too many of the people who appropriate foreign (to them) cultures, ways, etc., do so with such unimaginable stupidity that it absolutely ridicules and insults the original cultural expression. And when they are done, they can revert to their former identity anytime, without damaging it in any way.