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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jim Jenkins" data-source="post: 6706106" data-attributes="member: 6774830">I don't know if the problem is so much the "bludgeoning" but the selective judgment in the theory in the first place. It's another manifestation of Tumblr Social Justice Theory: Life as anyone but a straight white cis male is fraught with microaggressions that need to be constantly called out. The result is a litany of double standards that, when called out, are met with "check your privilege." No one cared about cultural appropriation as long as the group being appropriated wasn't seen as "oppressed." The tremendous irony in this is the fantasy genre borrows from mythology prolifically. As a result, EVERY culture appropriated (which isn't a bad thing; yay appropriation!) has at various points of history been both oppressor and oppressed. This is why Tumblr Social Justice Theory simultaneously overcomplicates and oversimplifies everything by interpreting all of it through the lens of oppression (often with appallingly inaccurate understanding of oppression throughout human history). Mocking anyone's culture and heritage is bad. Simple, but treated as if it's complicated. Honoring anyone's culture and heritage is good. Still simple, but treated as if it's complicated. How oppression and privilege have played roles in anyone's culture and heritage? Really really complicated, but treated as if it's simple. If the Mwangi had been so thoroughly researched that you'd actually learn something about African history through playing one, it would STILL be treated as a microagression because you're still appropriating, and this is just... dumb.</blockquote>

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