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In lugnet.technic.bionicle, David Simmons writes:
> No more Bionicle?! Be still my breaking heart! That means TLG might have
> to get back to the business of making sets with bricks! What is the world
> coming to?!
Wow...talk about a delayed reaction. Dave, you might need to check your
newsreader...it's showing you articles long after the thread has been dropped...
> Seriously, cultural appropriation is not something to be treated lightly.
Read further, then post again. That's not what I was on about...and I've
already had my say.
> Having taken some classes at SF State on Native American culture, I was saw
> the potential for offense in the Bionicle theme from the very beginning.
> Matthew, you should consider taking a few classes on foreign cultures, you'd
> be surprised how often this happens and how degrading and insulting to the
> specific culture the appropriation can be.
You are a dangerous instrument then...someone who has taken modern college
classes on cultural rights and such. That's a subject for somewhere other
than LUGNET.
> Knowledge is never a bad thing.
Then aquire some by reading the rest of the thread, and it's resolution,
before accusing me of anything, or suggesting that I need to be taught
sensitivity for another culture, 'cause that's not what it was about...it
was about money, plain and simple.
Matt
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