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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7852897" data-attributes="member: 4937">In practice, we always carefully pick and chose which upset person we care to listen to.Did the original person have the right to give that permission? How can you know? Again, why pick and choose the feelings of the person who gave you the permission over the person who is upset about it? Isn't that obviously self-serving?Fundamentally so much of this comes down to opinion though. It's like asking a Cajun what's the authentic way to make gumbo. The answer turns out to be, "However your mama made it." There may be things that are definitely not authentic gumbo, but the question of what is authentically gumbo isn't one that can be answered definitively because ultimately the culture was just making do with what they had.As for your link, I read it as one guy complaining how his opinion wasn't picked as the right one, while other Natives who were giving permission for this stuff by selling people the culture and the wares were treated as the right ones.  And the whole "It's the 2018 version of colonialism" is to me unintentionally funny.  Honestly, the whole thing reads like an Onion article.   If Natives selling goods in Germany to gullible Germans is the 2018 version of colonialism and "white supremacy", well either you are trivializing colonialism and white supremacy or yeah, you are trivializing colonialism and white supremacy.</blockquote>