Saturday, June 16, 2012

Not a costume

Spotted this in front of Urban Outfitters. notacostume.tumblr.com

3 comments:

  1. Few costumes are worn to comment on the subject of the costume. This guy isn't saying "hey, lookit how dumb injuns are!" He's saying "hey, lookit how dumb I can be!" Nobody thinks this guy is or is trying to appear as a 'real' native person.

    I think this tumblr, if its owner has native roots, is participating in the cultural genocide of the modern developed world by appropriating technology developed by non-native people (the internet, digital camera, etc.) to make fun of white people.

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  2. you lost me there, brah

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  3. this poster is awesome! good work, whoever put it up. especially outside of urban outfitters, a terrible company owned, incidentally, by a rich rick santorum supporter.

    commentator above: this great blog post written by an actual native american might help clear things up for you: http://nativeappropriations.blogspot.com/2010/04/but-why-cant-i-wear-hipster-headdress.html

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