My daughter's public school in Indiana is having "Hawaiian Day" today. That's offensive, isn't it?

[Outdated, please look at pinned post] Casual Conversation@lemmy.world – 2 points – 10 months ago

I dropped her off this morning and saw girls (and boys) wearing grass skirts, some of them with coconut bras too. I'm not sure what else is going on, but it doesn't seem very respectful of a native culture that we have seriously fucked over. Would they have a "Native American Day" and let kids come in wearing feathered headdresses?

Or am I reading too much into it?

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I can see why you might not want to compare the suffering of individuals, but what's the problem with comparing the suffering of groups of people?

Who suffered worse: the native Americans during the trail of tears or those who suffered the holocaust?

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Because it will marginalize the suffering of one of them.

Because one was the victim of a genocide and the other wasn't?

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