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#390 "Stupid People, Stupid Ideas, and Stupid Solutions" w/ Douglas Murray

The Fifth Column

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Is There a Cultural Affiliation?

I tried to nuke the idea of cultural appropriation in the last chapter of one the West is because I just want us to get past this. It's too stupid an idea. If you put boundaries around culture, nothing happens. And if it doesn't belong to one person, you can't say you've got to pretend you didn't hear that thing you heard. That's a very pre-parbarians in the gates thing to do. But culturally stupid thing is right. It's a stupidest idea, but it allows stupid people to the ability to participate. The whole history of culture is sharing, listening, learning, appropriating, stealing, honoring, everything imaginable. We need

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