Last week I made the stupid mistake of bringing up cultural appropriation on facebook. My status was, what I called, a “privilege confession” about stretched earlobes. I have stretched earlobes and they have no significance to me except looking nice when they are full of swirly clay. The confession was that at the time I started stretching them, I didn’t know anything about cultural appropriation and it inspired a lot of, “I’ll just pretend you didn’t say that” comments.