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Here's a preview of today's mini episode featuring Glenn Washington,

the host of Snap Judgment, Heaven's Gate and Spooked.

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 gonna this is everyone tells you you're gonna 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

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