Indigenous Rising

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anna-lindsay:

Got a bindi piercing today at studio 13!

I’m sorry you wasted your money lol.

that awkward moment when you embed cultural appropriation in your face

Bitch please, I look fabulous. And who’s to say it’s cultural appropriation? You don’t know what religion or culture I was brought up in ;)

Do white people even know how dumb they are tho

That’s a bit racist of you!

I’m laughing so hard you guys come here and look at this cracker bitch

I’m racist against white people oh yes I am so very racist yes.

You’ve just grouped together ‘white people’ and said they are dumb. You are an absolute headcase haha.

White people can’t experience racism.
White people can’t experience racism.
You are appropriating people’s cultures.
You are being racist.
I suddenly am compelled to take a pair of pliers and rip that shit out of your forehead .

White people can’t experience racism? Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha. What the fuck are you on babe? Cos something’s messing with your mind, clearly!

This entire fucking thing gave me cancer. let her do what she wants like who the fuck are you to tell her shit. I’m half white but I have brown skin if I got a bindi piercing your mouths would be shut. You don’t know what she is so shut the bloody fuck up jesus christ she looks cute.

Prime example of white appeasing bullshit.

i’m half white and I have brown skin…

STOP. Plain and simple, if you’re not south asian, then a bindi or anything else that emulates a bindi DOES NOT BELONG ON YOUR FACE. Non desi PoC are not excluded by this statement at all. 

READ MORE BELOW, OTHERWISE STAY THE FUCK OUT:

Why is cultural appropriation harmful?:

Cultural appropriation reinforces oppression because it invalidates and commodifies marginalised groups.

• Invalidates: the culture/society/the people
• Homogenizes: lets look at the white girls wearing warbonnets and mukluks. War bonnets are worn traditionally only by various Native plains tribes and mukluks are boots made of usually seal skin warn/made traditionally by Alaskan/Arctic natives. This haphazard and disrespectful throwing together different pieces of two completely different Native cultures which is portraying an image of homogeneity and reinforces the stereotype that there is just one Native American culture and they are all the same, which reinforces oppression and racism.
• Commodifies: putting a monetary value on something that should not be sold or purchased or marketed in any way, eg. spiritual practices.
• Reinforces stereotypes: which reinforce oppression and racism-a tool of colonisation.
• Distorts traditions into inaccurate and offensive caricatures
• Romanticises cultures: often this is something that results in entire groups of people being seen as ‘something that used to exist’ as opposed to people with lives and cultures that exist and flourish today. You get this a lot with Native American and Canadian culture.
• Eroticises/exoticizes people: this is incredibly dehumanising.

Why doesn’t racism against white people exist?

Racism =racial prejudice + systemic, institutional power. To say people of color can be racist, denies the power imbalance inherent in racism. Certainly, people of color can be and are prejudiced against white people. That was a part of their societal conditioning. A person of color can act on prejudices to insult or hurt a white person. But there is a difference between being hurt and being oppressed. People of color, as a social group, do not have the societal, institutional power to oppress white people as a group. An individual person of color abusing a white person – while clearly wrong, (no person should be insulted, hurt, etc.) is acting out a personal racial prejudice, not racism.

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