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Hello, Daniel Mallory Ortberg, or Dear Prudence, here.

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mini episode featuring Glenn Washington, the host of Snap Judgment, Heaven's Gate and Spooked.

When you're talking about something like this,

what are you going to get on your body?

I would find the best artist I could.

Once I had the vision, I want someone who can do it right.

And make sure that when you choose that image,

that you're putting your values into it. Your value of appropriation

right now is going into that image. So you're not appropriating any one of the stuff. You've found an

image that best reflects you because you're going to, this is, everyone tells you, you're going to have to

live with it forever. Especially because any kind of a conversation about what cultural appropriation does

or doesn't mean would need to be a conversation that included things like respect, personal

relationships, context. The idea of a good place to have a conversation about this sort of thing

is to message strangers I don't know on the internet and demand that they explain their own cultural

or ethnic context to certain images that I've seen them draw. That just feels to me like that's not

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