RE: CULTURAL REAPPROPRIATION: FROM CULTURAL OUTRAGE TO CULTURAL OUTAGE - A Satire
Thank you so much for the kind comment. I must say I am a little surprised that I have not received death threats or insults for the "racism", but there again I am not The Onion. You are probably aware of the flack it got for this article after Mondays' massacre
https://www.theonion.com/idf-soldier-recounts-harrowing-heroic-war-story-of-kil-1826048745
I notice you joined Steemit this month. Welcome. I am a relative newbie myself, and it has been encouraging to connect with people who get it, even if we don't always agree on all points with each other. As this network expands and intersects with other networks, and as each of us contributes as much as our skills and knowledge permit, I am hoping that we will reach critical mass and change the course of human history for the better.
I'm afraid that incident about The Onion completely eluded me. I didn't even know they published satire (and very sharp one at that)! Would you care to elaborate a bit on what transpired surrounding that article?
Thanks for the warm welcome. I followed you right after I read your thoughtful comment the other day on an article from a Zionist apologist. Your critical and balanced remarks clearly stood out in a comment section largely filled with people shilling for Israel and me trying to wake them up. I should refrain from doing that in the future. It's no use trying to appeal to someone's humanity with people who apparently are in support of massacres and poisoning a million children in Gaza who are cut off clean water supply.
However that article was the only one of its kind that I have come across so far. Just a few days on the platform and I am already overwhelmed by the level of critical thinking and positive change that is displayed by several users. All my life I was hoping for things to change but didn't have the brains nor the guts to get actively involved. I joined steemit because I just couldn't bear my passiveness any longer.
I'd like to point an excellent article out to you that I just read and commented on with an author and a comment section who I believe share a similar philosophy to ours:
https://steemit.com/life/@valued-customer/broken-paradigm-how-new-goals-make-old-ways-obsolete#@shadowboxer/re-iamstan-re-valued-customer-broken-paradigm-how-new-goals-make-old-ways-obsolete-20180519t185244806z
EDIT: I see what you mean about The Onion's article: https://www.vice.com/amp/en_nz/article/kzkwzy/the-onion-anti-israel-commentary-jokes
I love the quote from the Vice article: “Forty-eight hours after the May 16 battle, for example, Hamas now acknowledges that 50 of the 62 killed were its own gunmen.” I would have added that Palestinians start indoctrinating their young in utero and that the 8 month-old child who was so heroically killed was already an accomplished sniper and one of the Hamas gunmen!