Okay, so when the topic of a post is connected to cultural appropriation in some way, a lot of commenters seem to want to 1) try to discount the specifics ways that the specific example of cultural appropriation in the post is harmful by comparing it to some OTHER form of cultural appropriation (which has specifically been chosen to be benign as possible), or 2) ignore the topic of the post and just talk about cultural appropriation in general, usually in a very binary/simplistic way.Comments of Type 1 are things like "Most people agree that borrowing the idea of 0 as a digit from Indian mathematicians was a great idea, so why is it a big deal if someone puts rage into yoga?" or "I've eaten Mexican food mixed with Texan influences before and Tex-Mex is delicious, and that's a combination of two cultures, so why is it a big deal if someone puts rage into yoga?" or "In hip-hop music, you can change up music all different kinds of ways and it's still hip-hop, so why should yoga be any different?"If there's a post on Metafilter about Rage yoga, and someone says that it's cultural appropriation with harmful effects, it detracts from that conversation to base your comment around some OTHER form of cultural appropriation (which may or may not have harmful effects). Plus, it leads to people thinking that the conversation is open season and they can leave comments of Type 2, which steer a focused conversation about Rage Yoga into a boring conversation about how a few people don't understand cultural appropriation at all.Metafilter likes to pride itself on being a beacon of intelligent discourse on the internet. In posts concerning cultural appropriation, POC will invariably chime in to say that we don't get intelligent discourse in threads about cultural appropriation. I think cutting back on comments of Type 1 and Type 2 would help improve threads concerning cultural appropriation, and I can't see any downside to not leaving comments like these (but if you'd like to explain their benefit, please go for it.)I'm specifically calling on people who want to participate in threads connected to cultural appropriation to consider (before commenting) if their comment is connected enough to the specific case of cultural appropriation being discussed to be worth leaving in a thread. While this alone won't make those threads instantly great, I think it would help to improve threads concerning cultural appropriation.