Some CA is seen as a kind of theft of intellectual property
It’s worth mentioning here that Intellectual Property is codified in law, that the version of it that is codified into law is restricted to a specific list of types of things, and that intellectual property existing at all is controversial, even within those codified categories. If “Cultural Appropriation is bad” is framed as an extension of the preexisting debate about intellectual property, it’s solidly outside the Overton window: it would mean drastically increasing the scope of things which can be IP.
It’s worth mentioning here that Intellectual Property is codified in law, that the version of it that is codified into law is restricted to a specific list of types of things, and that intellectual property existing at all is controversial, even within those codified categories. If “Cultural Appropriation is bad” is framed as an extension of the preexisting debate about intellectual property, it’s solidly outside the Overton window: it would mean drastically increasing the scope of things which can be IP.