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When Canines Commit Cultural Misappropriation What Does It Mean For Humans?

Pradeep Aradhya
3 min readJan 19, 2023

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So blackface is cultural misappropriation and an insult but if you wanted your dog to be black and white like a zebra or your cat to be a mini tiger or stegosaurus … does that somehow make you hip and leave you politically correct?

So can this dog …er dawg … now rap? If it can, will it be doggerell? WAIT DOES THIS MAKE HIM BLACK OR WHITE? Wasn’t he already a … er digger? Maybe now he is a dogger?

It’s interesting what us humans take umbrage over and what we condone with scant consideration.

Why shouldn’t straight actors play gay roles? Why shouldn’t fully able actors play disabled characters? It is after all called acting. How many other Halloween costumes need to be taken off the table? Blackface is frowned upon but is it merely ironic that…

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Pradeep Aradhya
Pradeep Aradhya

Written by Pradeep Aradhya

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