Bruno Mars Is the Latest Victim of PC Nonsense

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Yet this should come as no surprise. Just like safe spaces and marches on college campuses against free speech, cultural appropriation has become a segregation-pushing ideology disguised as social liberalism.

Accusations of cultural appropriation have led to such actions as the University of Ottawa’s elimination of a free yoga class for fear of offending people. It’s also forced other campuses to stop selling food items — such as sushi — for similar reasons.

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It’s frightening that this is what some “social liberals” are buying into today — a complete separation of various cultures. The melting pot of various cultures is what represents the very best of America. This anti-art mentality would deprive us of so much if it were applied as loosely as this Washington Post writer applies it. Everyone from Elvis to Eminem would not be allowed to make music if this individual had her way.

Popular movies such as “The Matrix” and “John Wick” would be big no-nos. It’s insanity that some on the Left have become such anti-art and anti-culture radicals.

People like this Washington Post writer may see Bruno Mars listening to funk music since his adolescent years and then putting his own music out there and constantly talking about the specific black artists who influenced him as wrong, but that is exactly everything that is right with America — there should be more of it.

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Perhaps an article published in her very own publication would help this writer understand how great culture comes together. Cathy Young, who comes from the Soviet Union, let Post readers know in a 2015 story that all culture is cultural appropriation.

“At one time, such critiques were leveled against truly offensive art — work that trafficked in demeaning caricatures, such as blackface, 19th-century minstrel shows or ethnological expositions, which literally put indigenous people on display, often in cages. But these accusations have become a common attack against any artist or artwork that incorporates ideas from another culture, no matter how thoughtfully or positively. A work can reinvent the material or even serve as a tribute, but no matter. If artists dabble outside their own cultural experiences, they’ve committed a creative sin,” she wrote.

She reminded people that cultural appropriation is exactly how societies progress. “Appropriation is not a crime. It’s a way to breathe new life into culture. Peoples have borrowed, adopted, taken, infiltrated and reinvented from time immemorial. The medieval Japanese absorbed major elements of Chinese and Korean civilizations, while the cultural practices of modern-day Japan include such Western borrowings as a secularized and reinvented Christmas. Russian culture with its Slavic roots is also the product of Greek, Nordic, Tatar and Mongol influences — and the rapid Westernization of the elites in the 18th century. America is the ultimate blended culture,” she wrote.

We should be embracing each other and helping to mix this great cultural melting pot called America more than ever. It’s sad that people disguising themselves as social liberals are calling for a prison-like system of segregation that would only take our culture and our society backwards.