Let’s go through the argument step-by-step. We’ll see that following progressive logic on cultural appropriation to its end, we end up reinventing white separatism and crushing all prospects for peaceful cooperation between people.
The latest political correctness outcry is a series of “white-owned appropriative restaurants” in Portland. But are white entrepreneurs really the culprits here, or is it a larger system of historic disadvantage that has created these differences in wealth? Which system should we rebel against?
Jonathan Kay’s resignation from the Walrus for his role in promoting a prize for a writer who engages in cultural appropriation is a relief for the magazine. But, Canada’s leading liberal magazine can’t say they didn’t know Kay was intolerant when they hired him to be editor-in-chief two years ago.
