Oh, absolutely the power differential is an important part of the issue, and I thank you for pointing that out. But my point was to try to find a culturally/religiously meaningful story that someone might not want retold by an "outsider." It isn't the same thing for a minority to retell the stories of the majority (and in this case I'm using minority in terms of power, not numbers) as it is for the majority to retell the stories of the minority, and I understand that. I was simply trying to get people to imagine at least part of what their visceral response would be to seeing it happen to something they felt they owned and that was meaningful to them.
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But my point was to try to find a culturally/religiously meaningful story that someone might not want retold by an "outsider." It isn't the same thing for a minority to retell the stories of the majority (and in this case I'm using minority in terms of power, not numbers) as it is for the majority to retell the stories of the minority, and I understand that. I was simply trying to get people to imagine at least part of what their visceral response would be to seeing it happen to something they felt they owned and that was meaningful to them.