Cultural Appropriation?

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For good or for ill, the organization I'm working with does not have the option of simply dismissing the concern. If people are going to be offended, we cannot take the PR hit. As individuals, of course, we're free to choose to offend (and take whatever consequences come of that), but companies and non-profits need to tread carefully.

I'm hoping, personally, that this isn't something that's likely to offend, because I think kilting up in the organization's tartan would be pretty darned cool.

While I am fully on board with you doing what you want, I am going to pass on the best advice I have ever gotten...

"DO NOT base the decisions you make on how you think others will FEEL about them."

The world would be a lot better place if more people had this philosophy. Politicians operate under a completely reverse modus operandi. Those sycophantic braindead idiots can't even order a pizza without running all the available choices through an opinion poll first. And most people will agree they've pretty much cocked the whole world up.

The only people I have to please are myself, my family, my close friends, and my boss. And the last three on the list to a limit only. For those of a religious nature, feel free to add your god to the list -- this aetheist will not be offended.

If you think you might offend someone (and even if you don't), someone is GOING to be offended. Being offended has quickly become a cottage industry, and is rapidly making its way to being "big business". Some people go out of their way to find offense, and will make it up where none exists. Personally, I have better things to do than walk around perpetually aggrieved and slighted. I think contemplating the lint in my naval for hours on end would be time better spent. It's a pathetic existance but many choose it.

The framers of US Costitution listed what they believed to be natural rights of men (Don't get your Underalls in a twist, ladies. That is the plural of "man"... As in "MANkind", and "huMAN" -- the species you belong to.) NOT amongst those rights is a life free from offense, hate, or hurt feelings. But you DO have the right to walk away, think your own thoughts, and speak your own mind. That, of course, will probably "offend" someone else. But they have the right to do the same.

See how it works?

Wear your kilt. Who will it offend? Probably someone. And it'll come out of left field, like a card-carrying member of the North American Alliance of Militant Transvestites, who thinks you're making a mockery of his lifestyle. Or worse....

APPROPRIATING HIS CULTURE!!!

And for anyone who might be offended by my post...
Why the *%&# are you still reading it?! Get a life!