Post #1896942
2026-04-24 07:32 UTC
@Taskerland The perennial problem with anything that (for whatever origin) can be perceived as racist, colonial or pick your poison really, is that the moment they are magnetic cultures for anyone who wants a fig leaf for being awful. I have some sympathy with living folk traditions, but they do attract "my country my way" types like flies to vinegar. I just think you can put some traditions behind a piece of museum glass and go "we used to do that and then we stopped because it upset people"
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@Taskerland@dice.camp 2026-04-24 07:36
@Printdevil That is a big divide in Folk. The 'Tradition' in folk music backs quite neatly onto a lot of xenophobic politics. At the end of the day, some people see folk as a tradition that evolves and responds to lived experience and some people see folk as a way of saying that life was much better in the 1800s.