…or at least disdain them (even [or especially] when practitioners insist that their practice is a “tribute”).
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How were little kids supposed to know which part to bite off first? At least with bunnies, the ears would be obvious.
Legs first. Otherwise they hop away.
Judge for yourself.
“Well…go on, what does it mean when you bite out the eyes and scream ‘STOP STARING AT ME???’”
It means you want to watch them ineffectually attempt to hop away. The best part is because you leave the ears intact they can hear you laughing maniacally as you close in for the kill. Easter was very disturbing at my house.
If you’ve not already read the 1969 Easter Mass Incident, you desperately need to read it. (Requires logging into Tumblr but 100% worth it)
I disagree, it’s the opposite. Taking culture very seriously is the sort of thing that leads to tyranny and mass murder; not taking it “unseriously”. People who take culture “seriously” are the sort who turn to violence on cultural issues, because it is a serious matter to them. “Unserious” people don’t care enough to bother.
“People who don’t live like me are evil and must be destroyed” is taking culture seriously.
Culture includes the shared beliefs and values of a people. Who the hell doesn’t take their values and beliefs seriously?
Lots of people, for certain values of “seriously”.
We’re just a teeniest tiny speck in this Universe.
A bunch of crap don’t matter, really. We just decide it matters to Us in that moment.
And that’s your prerogative.
If you continue to shrink your world and your circle, you’ll soon be all alone in your outrage.
No one wants to be around someone who cannot tolerate or even discuss their differences.
You don’t have to accept or believe. You don’t have to like.
Just like you want your veiws respected I’m pretty sure any human in half a mind wants theirs respected as well.
And, as noted upthread, not a tenet of Judaism.
Exactly no one in this thread is taking any of the issues discussed to that level. Nowhere near. DocCathode doesn’t like what Smapti is doing, but acknowledges that he is legally allowed to do it and is in no way (other than his own words) barring him from doing his “occult ritual”. That’s a big straw man you’re erecting.
Saying no one is allowed to take cultural issues seriously and/or object to mockery is just as bad as saying no one should take casually and blasphemy (however defined) should be severely punished. It still comes down to one person telling another person how to think or feel against that person’s objections.
Not my point. My point is, that’s the direction that "taking culture seriously " goes. As opposed to the claim that it’s not taking culture seriously that leads to murder.
The people who think culture is merely a difference in national dishes and festivals.
There’s possibly a correlation in that if you want to dehumanise a group of people, you won’t feel obliged to be respectful of their culture, and may indeed find it useful to mock it. I don’t think the converse is true: cultural borrowing/appropriation is most often done from benign motives.
@DemonTree makes my point: mockery and derision is often a step along the way to dehumanizing and abusing entire groups of people.
That doesn’t mean all less-than-serious treatments of culture are on that slope, just that the fact some of them are is one reason there are people who have a strong issue with mocking and disrespecting other cultures.
Mockery and derision is taking culture seriously. Just in a negative, hostile way.
And that is NOT a good thing, by and large. Particularly for minorities and/or groups with little wealth or power.