queerkayla:

jfc its a school spirit day calm the fuck down??????

It’s bigger than you and your school. You are promoting racism against Native Americans and potentially influencing others to do the same by posting it online.

Cultural appropriation is dehumanizing because it takes an entire group of people (in this case an entire race) and reducing that entire group into a stereotype thereby turning that group into something comical, something subhuman. When a group is viewed as subhuman violence and oppression towards that group is inevitable.

Here is a link to a helpful tumblr that can explain why this is so harmful. This is a link to their resource page that has linked several articles written on the subject. Please give them a read.

http://this-is-not-native.tumblr.com/resources

Mon, Oct 21st 2013 at 22 PM