In the examples that occur to me, both sides agree that mocking the culture in question would be bad. They just disagree about whether the person accused of CA is doing that.
Do you have in mind a case in which the accused party defended themselves by saying that the appropriated culture should be mocked?
That seems like a different kind of dispute that follows a different rhetorical script, on both sides. For example, critics of Islam will be accused of Islamophobia, not cultural appropriation. And people accused of CA are more likely to defend themselves by saying that they’re honoring the culture. They will not embrace the claim that they are mocking it.
I’m not contesting the claim that mockery can be good in some cases. But that point isn’t at the crux of the arguments over cultural appropriation that I’ve seen. Disputes where the goodness of mockery is at the crux will not be of the kind that I’m considering here.
I think you need to make a stronger case that mockery is bad.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/presidential-alert-thousands-take-opportunity-to-mock-donald-trump-after-emergency-test-is-sent-out-a3952971.html
Cultures often have harmful dysfunctional components, which should be criticised—and mockery is one of the more potent forms of criticism.
In the examples that occur to me, both sides agree that mocking the culture in question would be bad. They just disagree about whether the person accused of CA is doing that.
Do you have in mind a case in which the accused party defended themselves by saying that the appropriated culture should be mocked?
That seems like a different kind of dispute that follows a different rhetorical script, on both sides. For example, critics of Islam will be accused of Islamophobia, not cultural appropriation. And people accused of CA are more likely to defend themselves by saying that they’re honoring the culture. They will not embrace the claim that they are mocking it.
I’m not contesting the claim that mockery can be good in some cases. But that point isn’t at the crux of the arguments over cultural appropriation that I’ve seen. Disputes where the goodness of mockery is at the crux will not be of the kind that I’m considering here.