# So wtf is cultural appropriation exactly?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [May 25, 2017, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wtf-is-cultural-appropriation-exactly/787423 "2017-05-25T17:26:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2017, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wtf-is-cultural-appropriation-exactly/787423/301 "2017-06-18T16:26:01Z")

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> [@Banquet\_Bear](#):
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> . . . But I do have to ask permission to use electricity. Not only do I have to ask permission: but I have to pay to be able to use it. Mr/Mrs/Miss/Ms Enfield: did you steal your car? Because I didn’t steal mine. I paid money for my car. . . .

So the fact that I paid money for a t-shirt with a picture of a Kokopelli figure on it makes it perfectly okay again. No “appropriation” because I paid money.

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**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2017, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-wtf-is-cultural-appropriation-exactly/787423/302 "2017-06-18T17:09:39Z")

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> [@John\_Stamos\_Left\_Ear](#):
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> Then maybe you shouldn’t post.

Stop stifling his culture!

Feel free to appropriate it, though, since “cultural copyright” is bullshit.

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