Cultural Appropriation Police

The following quote from a comment on a blog post about cultural appropriation has been lingering in my thoughts today. I think I think it's a very helpful take on the subject.

If you are not part of a culture, but have appointed yourself the guardian of that culture, you have committed the greatest appropriation of all. You've taken that culture as your own, for the purposes of moderating its use. That is a show of power over the culture itself, and implies that the people within the culture need your help.

[http://offbeatempire.com/2013/08/cultural-appropriation-police#comment-11586]