(01-05-2017 12:37 PM)bullet Wrote:  Should Southerners sue the KKK for culturally appropriating the flag of the brave veterans of the Army of Northern Virginia?

Americans first

(01-05-2017 12:36 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(01-05-2017 12:01 PM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  

(01-05-2017 10:52 AM)miko33 Wrote:  

(01-05-2017 10:42 AM)Tom in Lazybrook Wrote:  

(01-05-2017 10:35 AM)miko33 Wrote:  The story is a myth and it's 100% wrong. According to the story though, God made a covenant with man that he would never destroy the earth thru water again thru the use of the rainbow as the reminder of the covenant.

So yes, the rainbow was used in religious stories prior to the LGBT ever utilizing it. The lesbian is ignorant. Ken Ham is also ignorant for trying to pass this myth off as fact.

But the rainbow was used for other purposes and a majority of the world's population doesn't believe that symbol is owned by Christians. Christians also use hundreds or thousands of other symbols too. Its not exclusively seen as a Christian symbol, like the cross is. They don't own it/they didn't create it...no one does.

Furthermore, the LGBT community did not come up with that symbol to co-opt the Christian symbolism or meaning of the rainbow either. No appropriation.

Tom, I never said those things. My point was that the lesbian in her letter to the editor was outraged that a Christian group used a rainbow decoration at their park. She's ignorant if for nothing more than failing to understand that the rainbow factors into the Ark story in Genesis. I don't care about the rest of the baggage you are carrying. The lesbian was ignorant and looks like a fool. I think Ken Ham looks like a fool too, but for different reasons.

I was responding to the others trying to claim that the LGBT community is culturally appropriating the rainbow.

I think the Lesbian should just sit down and let Ken Ham make a fool of himself. And confuse the bejeezus out of his followers.

The concept of cultural appropriation is absurd. That was the point of those comments, but the satire seemed to go over your head.

I'm not a fan of the concept of cultural appropriation, to be honest. If a white dude wants to rap...go for it. If he can do it better than a black person, then that's fine too.

There's a difference between that and someone like Shirley Q Liquor, a white drag queen who performs in black face and exaggerated 'black' speech (or what he thinks it is). If you're going to appropriate, and he is in this case, at least do it respectfully.

Me thinks Tom needs to start back at post #1.