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maxasaurus:

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themarmalade:

maxasaurus:

Ke$ha somehow got prettier….

hahah man my headdress is more awesome than I remember. if ke$ha looked like jodi I might actually like ke$ha.

im sure native americans living on reservations who are fighting to hold on to what few cultural symbols they have left are thrilled that this perfectly aryan girl is wearing a deeply significant religious symbol and posing in it for the internet. fuck. that.

not trying to start a fight or anything, but how is this acceptable? what’s going to be the next fashion hit, burkas or bindis?

maybe it’s because i grew up in oklahoma, the state that is the direct result of the treatment of native americans and one of the only states in the u.s. that is required to teach their state history, but this shit makes me so mad. maybe it’s all my native american friends. maybe it’s the time that ive spent visiting reservations and observing the religious rituals. it doesnt matter what it is- fashion and the pursuit of hipness is not an acceptable reason to parade around in highly meaningful cultural wear, especially when the wearer is from the culture responsible for the oppression of said previous culture!

have some goddamned common sense people.

1. It’s a Ke$ha costume. Read that again, COSTUME. If you missed that, the reference is going right over your head. The girl in said photo doesn’t go around wearing Native American outfits (at least not all the time).  
2.  You invalidate your (extremely lame) argument by asking what’s next, burqas or bindis. Well, if your whole argument is on the oppression of people, why bring up burqas? You realize they’re designed to promote modesty and keep women imprisoned. Yeah, you’re really culturally aware.
3. Girl in this photo actually teaches in inner city schools, dealing predominantly with poor black and hispanic students. I’m glad you have gone out with your Native American friends to observe their culture, but I hope you’ve done more? This girl is actually giving up most of her week year after to year to make a difference in society. I mean, let he who cast the first stone. 
4. So the wearer is responsible for the decimation of said culture because her ancestors caused said decimation? You’re in seventh grade, right? I mean, that can’t be how you think. If it is how you think, this is gonna fuck your brain up: I’m Puerto Rican, and my heritage is that of Spaniard and Taino Indian (Natives of the island). With that said and according to your logic, I decimated my own people. Should I not engage in social activities with my family? Are you white? Have you divvied up all of your land and property to your Native American and Black friends? To assume that her ancestors caused the decimation of the Native Americans, you’d have to know everything about her cultural history. If she were Australian in this get up, would you be furious? What if she were Swedish? Grow a brain, then use it.
5. Oh, and you’re right about being perfectly Aryan. She’s so perfectly Aryan that she’s virtually straight out of Germany. Seriously. Most of her genetic makeup would take you to Berlin. Her grandmother still speaks with the German accent and her mother is fluent. So, her Hessian family would send an appointed member to fuck with American Indians? Oh, and before you try to go with the Nazi angle, her great Grandfather was a POW during that period, and she’s not wearing a tzniut, so you can’t be angry.

Fucking A, Max. Epic win.