woke up to see that someone accused us of gatekeeping for explaining that a word is probably an example of cultural appropriation and you should probably use a different word
how does that remotely come across as gatekeeping
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@Felthry ...are they /in/ that culture? because gatekeeping feels like the wrong analysis if they're not
like, closed traditions are a thing - sometimes the language and markers of a community aren't there for other people
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@packbat we don't strictly know, but it's statistically very unlikely (the thing in question is Tibetan spiritual practices)
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@packbat and! we specifically said in the thing they're saying is gatekeeping, "you probably should avoid that word unless you're from that culture"
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@Felthry yeah, that's not relevant to a conversation about cultural appropriation
I'm sorry they're blowing up at you for talking about it
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@Felthry sorry - the entire concept of gatekeeping is not relevant in a conversation about cultural appropriation
if ia member of a colonizing culture takes pieces of a marginalized culture that were not open to them, that's appropriation
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