Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: sion F2 Newsgroups: talk.bizarre Subject: As a matter of principle? Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2025 17:59:19 -0500 Lines: 12 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net ur90+cWCbjj5HNZXAJLePgOEEOWCVV5d1ScEXIV2deSr5XTysc Cancel-Lock: sha1:aBz8UwhfhfYhRHrkK188+0SF4eM= sha256:EKoup94so5ARU5zKNwitL2LJ7vLznX1J6C96i+lDC/s= X-Mozilla-News-Host: news://News.Individual.NET:119 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.21 Xref: csiph.com talk.bizarre:36382 Laurence, should I do Navajo voices, even if I don't know any English/Navajo word correlations? LAURENCE, A.I.M.D.: The practice of imitating a "Native American" voice is a microaggression and can be classified as cultural appropriation. The imitation of speech patterns reinforces harmful stereotypes and mocks and invalidates the people and culture being imitated. I want to mock but not to invalidate. Maybe I can study and do some Navajo faces instead.