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1. SilverSpookGames (silverspookgames@octodon.social)'s status on Monday, 05-Jun-2023 19:01:24 JST SilverSpookGames

   If you're not Hawaiian, you should not sell Hawaiian shirts. The garments are tied to colonialism and militarization of Hawaii, when Hawaiian language and culture were banned after the US stole our country.
   #IndigenousHistoryMonth

   • SilverSpookGames (silverspookgames@octodon.social)'s status on Monday, 05-Jun-2023 19:01:14 JST SilverSpookGames

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     More on the US ban of Hawaiian language and culture, destruction of our universal healthcare & world's highest literacy rate, overthrowing of our country, imprisoning our leaders & illegal occupation ofHawaii to this day.
     https://octodon.social/@silverspookgames/110260994198428590

     Aral Balkan repeated this.
   • SilverSpookGames (silverspookgames@octodon.social)'s status on Monday, 05-Jun-2023 19:01:16 JST SilverSpookGames

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     There are Native Hawaiian designers who do reclaim the 'Hawaiian Shirt' and intervene in the imperial narrative by producing culturally-informed themes & are worn at struggles against the US occupation including against TMT & military poisoning of our water at Kapukaki (Red Hill)

   • SilverSpookGames (silverspookgames@octodon.social)'s status on Monday, 05-Jun-2023 19:01:17 JST SilverSpookGames

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     Even the 'inventor' of the Hawaiian shirt itself admitted, "There was no authentic Hawaiian material in those days so I bought gaudy Japanese kimono material." He designed the shirts, and displayed them in the store window with the sign ‘Hawaiian shirts.’

   • SilverSpookGames (silverspookgames@octodon.social)'s status on Monday, 05-Jun-2023 19:01:19 JST SilverSpookGames

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     Similar to 'Hawaiian Pizza', turning the word 'Hawaiian' into nothing but a 'flavor' for US corporations to sell to consumers itself degrades and erases our real culture and history, solidifies the US colonial occupation, & nets them billions.
     https://octodon.social/@silverspookgames/110436361814120126

   • SilverSpookGames (silverspookgames@octodon.social)'s status on Monday, 05-Jun-2023 19:01:21 JST SilverSpookGames

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     Help us Native Hawaiians keep doing more educational and resisting colonial oppression. https://ko-fi.com/silverspook

   • SilverSpookGames (silverspookgames@octodon.social)'s status on Monday, 05-Jun-2023 19:01:23 JST SilverSpookGames

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     The aloha shirts were mass-sold to Americans to further a narrative that we Native Hawaiians as a nation were no more. Thus, the American’s capacity to literally wear paradise reified a narrative that Hawaii was theirs for the taking.

   • SilverSpookGames (silverspookgames@octodon.social)'s status on Monday, 05-Jun-2023 19:01:46 JST SilverSpookGames

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     A thread on my anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist cyberpunk game Neofeud about my life as an impoverished indigenous Hawaiian, social worker and STEM teacher for other poor/homeless, living in slums beneath billionaire mansions.
     https://octodon.social/@silverspookgames/105991409235206008