[Quincy Lehr]

This is pretty weak. In the first instance, it never actually names its opponents, particularly on the apparently identitarian left, where the issue of "cultural appropriation" can result in a kind of cultural bantustan, but where Joel Chandler fucking Harris becomes the interlocutor (via Disney) of the black folk tradition and black musician after black musician had to watch white copycats take their creations to far higher chart placements, the idea has some real utility. More generally, if one is to tackle a political question, bellyaching about its political nature is at best disingenuous and at worst unforgivably naive.