What Chinese Checkers Taught Me About Cultural Appropriation
<p>The gnats descended on the photo of a woman with a tattoo of a Yin Yang symbol with outstretched wings. Angry that what should have remained a piece of pale fleshy fruit was instead garnished with an emblem representing an ancient Chinese philosophy, these gnats swarmed and hurled insults into the cavity of social media outrage:</p>
<p>Offensive! Distasteful! Ignorant! Insensitive! ……Cultural appropriation!</p>
<p>With the integrity and survival of their species being hinged on a photogenic human arm, I did what any bystander would do in the midst of a moral crisis — I slugged pieces of dirt into the pit of wrath.</p>
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